Pictured: HMS Prince of Wales leads the fifteen ship formation as jets fly past.Front row: HMS Prince of WalesRow 2 (L-R): USS Paul Ignatius, ESPS Almirante Juan de Borbon, Row 3 (L-R): HMS Portland, HNLMS Karel Doorman, HNOMS Magnus Lagabote, RFA Tidespring, HNOMS Olav Tyrggvason, ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi, FS NormandieRow 4 (L-R): RFA Mounts Bay,Continue reading “HMS Prince of Wales – Exercise Steadfast Defender”
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Training with Kiwis bears fruit for HMS Tamar
Patrol ship HMS Tamar geared up for an intensive period safeguarding vital fishing stocks in the South Pacific through training in New Zealand. Making use of their hosts – both personnel and ships – the crew of the Portsmouth-based vessel made use of the waters of the Hairaki Gulf, just off Auckland on the NorthContinue reading “Training with Kiwis bears fruit for HMS Tamar”
RFA Gold Ranger (A130) was a Ranger-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary which first served in World War II.
In December, 1949, she supported Operation Corkscrew by providing aviation fuel at Deception Island for aircraft which helped relieve men of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey at Base E on Stonington Island. She later served in the Korean War, and in support of the atomic tests at Mauro Atoll. She was later employed as aContinue reading “RFA Gold Ranger (A130) was a Ranger-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary which first served in World War II.”
Abercrombie-class monitor HMS Havelock https://ift.tt/KTaUpsy
HMS Havelock at the T.W. Wards Shipbreakers at Preston, 1927 HMS Havelock 1915 HMS Havelock was an Abercrombie-class monitor of the Royal Navy that saw service in the First World War. Background[edit] On 3 November 1914, Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel offered Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, the use of four 14 in (356 mm)/45cal BL MK II twin gun turrets, originally destined for the Greek ship Salamis. These turrets could not beContinue reading “Abercrombie-class monitor HMS Havelock https://ift.tt/KTaUpsy”
RAS in the South Indian Ocean near the Cocos Islands.RFA Retainer (A329), HMS Galatea (F18), RFA Reliant (A84), RFA Tideflow (A97) With HMS Hermes (R12), and HMS Minerva (F45)Date unverified as Q4-1967, part of TF 318 – the Aden Task Force – which was formed to cover the final British military withdrawal from that area code named Operation Magister along with 9 other RFA’s and was engaged in the final Fleet Review with 5 of the other RFA‘s involved (Source HRFA). https://ift.tt/mbWtMF0
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