Darwin exercises with Chinese Navy off Queensland
HMAS Darwin has conducted a passage exercise with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) Escort Task Group 152 off the coast of Queensland.
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Above water at last
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Argentine warship Santisima Trinidad re-floated
The destroyer has been re-floated in port after three years underwater.
Above water at last
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Incredible pictures show largest container ship ever to visit the U.S.
The quarter-mile-long Benjamin Franklin, which is bigger than the Empire State building without its spike, set sail from China and stopped in San Pedro, Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve.
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Bismarck guns
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Bismarck - Bruno turret
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Bismarck - Anton and Bruno Turrets
Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany"s Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the primary force behind the unification of Germany in 1871, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched in February 1939. Work was completed in August 1940, when she was commissioned into the German fleet. Bismarck and her sister ship Tirpitz were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power.
In the course of the warship"s eight-month career under its sole commanding officer, Capt. Ernst Lindemann, Bismarck conducted only one offensive operation, in May 1941, codenamed Rheinübung. The ship, along with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, was to break into the Atlantic Ocean and raid Allied shipping from North America to Great Britain. The two ships were detected several times off Scandinavia, and British naval units were deployed to block their route. At the Battle of the Denmark Strait, Bismarck engaged and destroyed the battlecruiser HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy, and forced the battleship HMS Prince of Wales to retreat; Bismarck was hit three times and suffered an oil leak from a ruptured tank.
The destruction of Hood spurred a relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy involving dozens of warships. Two days later, while heading for the relative safety of occupied France, Bismarck was attacked by obsolescent Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal; one scored a hit that rendered the battleship"s steering gear inoperable. In her final battle the following morning, Bismarck was neutralised by a sustained bombardment from a British fleet, was scuttled by her crew, and sank with heavy loss of life. Most experts agree that the battle damage would have caused her to sink eventually. The wreck was located in June 1989 by Robert Ballard, and has since been further surveyed by several other expeditions.
Bismarck - Anton and Bruno Turrets
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HMAS Adelaide (L01) is the second of two Canberra-class landing helicopter dock (LHD) ships under construction for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
HMAS Adelaide (L01) is the second of two Canberra-class landing helicopter dock (LHD) ships under construction for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Construction of the ship started at Navantia"s Spanish shipyard with steel-cutting in February 2010. The ship was laid down in February 2011, and launched on 4 July 2012. Delivery to Australia for fitting out at BAE Systems Australia"s facilities in Victoria was scheduled for 2013, but did not occur until early 2014. Despite construction delays and predictions that the ship would not be in service until 2016, fitting out progressed faster than expected, and the ship was commissioned in December 2015.
HMAS Adelaide (L01) is the second of two Canberra-class landing helicopter dock (LHD) ships under construction for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
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HMS Bulwark
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HMAS Brisbane 1979
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Navy News – Reporting from the Fleet
The official Royal Navy newspaper, reporting on all that happens since 1954.
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Pirate Leader Arrested in Philippines
Authorities in the Philippines have arrested the alleged leader of a gang of pirates who hijacked the tanker Rehobot earlier this year.
Indonesian
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RFA BLACK ROVER
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HMS BLYTH
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HMAS Adelaide
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I was just one year old when this happenedA Humber Mk II armoured car and crew of ‘B’ Squadron, 11th Hussars – the first vehicle to enter Tripoli, photographed on 2 February 1943
Originally shared by +Dave Lamberson
A Humber Mk II armoured car and crew of ‘B’ Squadron, 11th Hussars – the first vehicle to enter Tripoli, photographed on 2 February 1943.
I was just one year old when this happenedA Humber Mk II armoured car and crew of ‘B’ Squadron, 11th Hussars – the first vehicle to enter Tripoli, photographed on 2 February 1943
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A Bishop 25-pdr self-propelled gun in the Western Desert, 25 September 1942
Originally shared by +Dave Lamberson
A Bishop 25-pdr self-propelled gun in the Western Desert, 25 September 1942.
A Bishop 25-pdr self-propelled gun in the Western Desert, 25 September 1942
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Two wrecked World War II tanks outside the villa Sfacciata, on the road between Giogoli and Galuzzo, south of Florence, Italy
Originally shared by +Dave Lamberson
Two wrecked World War II tanks outside the villa Sfacciata, on the road between Giogoli and Galuzzo, south of Florence, Italy. Shows a German Tiger tank from schwere Panzer-Abteilung 508, and a New Zealand Sherman tank, probably from 20th Armoured Regiment. Photograph taken on 4th August 1944 by George Kaye.
Two wrecked World War II tanks outside the villa Sfacciata, on the road between Giogoli and Galuzzo, south of Florence, Italy
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