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The SV Carl was a fully rigged Hamburg, Germany registered sailing vessel built in Maryport, Cumbria in 1893 It was impounded at the outbreak of the First World War and sent from Cardiff docks to London for scrapping While being towed to London it ran aground during a storm in October 1917 and broke apartContinue reading “Ghostly remains of a First World War German shipwreck that ran aground in Cornwall more than a century ago are revealed at low tide after storms batter the coast”

The billion-pound aircraft carriers could be left vulnerable to attack due to problems with their radar system Crowsnest, an early warning sensor built for the Royal Navy and worth £269m, said to be ‘too sensitive to use’ Software difficulties were reported following a test of the radar system just before Christmas, insiders claim Queen Elizabeth-class carriersContinue reading “Royal Navy’s new aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and Prince Of Wales hit new problems as £269m state-of-the-art radar is ‘too sensitive to use’”

HMS Ark Royal was a light aircraft carrier and former flagship of the Royal Navy.[7] She was the third and final vessel of Invincible-class. She was built by Swan Hunter on the River Tyne and launched by them in 1981. Ark Royal was named by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. She followed sister ships HMSContinue reading “HMS Ark Royal 2003”

HMS New_Zealand 1914 – HMS New Zealand was one of three Indefatigable-class battlecruisers built for the defence of the British Empire. Launched in 1911, the ship was funded by the government of New Zealand as a gift to Britain,[2] and she was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1912. She had been intended for theContinue reading “HMS New Zealand”

USS Chattanooga (C 16; ex PG 3; ex Cl 18) the United States Navy during World War I. She was the second Navy ship named for the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. https://ift.tt/2sNYbPi from Blogger https://ift.tt/2G94XSH via IFTTT from Tumblr https://ift.tt/38oBgJf via IFTTT