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The British destroyer HMS Duncan replenishing from the German oiler Frankfurt am Main as part of SNMG2.

HMS Eskimo (F119) was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy in service from 1963 to 1980. She was scrapped in 1992.

Eskimo was built by J. Samuel White, of Cowes,[1] at a cost of £4,670,000.[2] The frigate was launched on 20 March 1960 and commissioned on 21 February 1963.[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Eskimo_(F119)

HMS Active, the tenth Active, launched in 1929, was an A-class destroyer. She served in the Second World War, taking part in the sinking of four submarines. She was broken up in 1947

HMS Active (H14) Active was ordered on 6 March 1928 as a part of the first class of destroyers for the Royal Navy to be built after the First World War.[2] The ship was laid down on 10 July 1928 at Hawthorn Leslie in Hebburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, was launched on 9 July 1929 andContinue reading “HMS Active, the tenth Active, launched in 1929, was an A-class destroyer. She served in the Second World War, taking part in the sinking of four submarines. She was broken up in 1947”

HMS Indefatigable (R10) in Wellington Harbor- New Zealand, during November 1945.

HMS Undine (R42) was a U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II.In 1954 Undine was converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, by John I. Thornycroft & Company and allocated the new pennant number F141.

After the Suez Crisis she was part of British 6th Frigate Squadron in the Mediterranean between 1957 and 1958. In the years 1958/59 she undertook bombardments of EOKA’s positions in the Cyprus mountains.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Undine_(R42)