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Never realised how big this aircraft was until I saw this
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Never realised how big this aircraft was until I saw this.
Never realised how big this aircraft was until I saw this
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French aircraft carrier " Charles de Gaulle (R91) "
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French aircraft carrier " Charles de Gaulle (R91) "
French aircraft carrier " Charles de Gaulle (R91) "
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Ship Photos of the Day – Russia’s Newest Icebreaker, MV Murmansk – gCaptain
Arctech Helsinki Shipyard marked Christmas Day with the delivery of the Baltic Sea icebreaker Murmansk at Vyborg Shipyard in Russia. Murmansk is the second in a series of three diesel-electric icebreakers ordered by Rosmorport and the Russian Ministry of Transport in 2012. The basic design of the vessel and purchasing of major components was provided by Vyborg Shipyard, while Arctech Helsinki was …
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Maritime Journal | Moroccan interceptors
In a third recent construction contract with Netherlands-headquartered Damen Shipyards Group, the Royal Moroccan Navy has ordered five Interceptor 1503 vessels. The vessels will be mobilised to combat illegal activities such as terrorism and smuggling in Moroccan waters.
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China Challenges Student Occupation In South China Sea
Chinese military forces in the South China Sea amped up the dispute over the Spratlys with a firm challenge to a Philippine aircraft approaching
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Oh dear
Oh dear……
Top tank is ‘too big’ to carry by plane
BUNGLING civil servants ordered a new “super tank” that is too big to fit inside transport planes.
Oh dear
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The Hulk
The Hulk…
The 1,400-ton timebomb that could wipe out Kent port at any moment
Loaded with enough explosives to level a town, this is the Second World War ticking timebomb ship that lies on the seabed just off the coast of Kent that sank in 1944 after the vessel tore in two.
The Hulk
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Rugby campaign a learning experience
The Australian Services Rugby Union’s International Defence Rugby Competition campaign came to an abrupt but gallant end in the quarter final at Portsmouth on 19 October when the team faced the competition winners, Republic of Fiji Military Forces team.
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And 120 years later
And 120 years later……
Wreck of French ship exposed off Cornish coast after storms
The Jeune Hortense, a French brigantine, was swept onto the beach at Long Rock in Cornwall on May 17, 1888 and usually remains covered by sand but was exposed in the recent stormy weather.
And 120 years later
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USS Bon Homme Richard 1970
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Border Force Vessel VIGILANT
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USS Bon Homme Richard 1960
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HMNZS Canterbury - Wellington 1973
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HMS Blake was a light cruiser of the Tiger class of the Royal Navy, the last of the (traditional) Royal Navy gun-armed cruisers in the 20th century
HMS Blake was a light cruiser of the Tiger class of the Royal Navy, the last of the (traditional) Royal Navy gun-armed cruisers in the 20th century. She was named after Admiral Robert Blake, a 17th-century admiral who was the "Father of the Royal Navy". She was ordered in 1942 as one of the Minotaur class of light cruisers.
HMS Blake was a light cruiser of the Tiger class of the Royal Navy, the last of the (traditional) Royal Navy gun-armed cruisers in the 20th century
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USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy
USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy.
USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy
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USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. She was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, the first one being named for John Paul Jones's famous Revolutionary War frigate by the same name. Jones had named that ship, usually rendered in more correct French as Bonhomme Richard, to honor Benjamin Franklin, the American Commissioner at Paris, whose Poor Richard's Almanac had been published in France under the title Les Maximes du Bonhomme Richard
Bon Homme Richard was commissioned in November 1944, and served in the final campaigns of the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning one battle star. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA). In her second career she operated exclusively in the Pacific, playing a prominent role in the Korean War, for which she earned five battle stars, and the Vietnam War. She was decommissioned in 1971, and scrapped in 1992.
USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. She was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, the first one being named for John Paul Jones"s famous Revolutionary War frigate by the same name. Jones had named that ship, usually rendered in more correct French as Bonhomme Richard, to honor Benjamin Franklin, the American Commissioner at Paris, whose Poor Richard"s Almanac had been published in France under the title Les Maximes du Bonhomme Richard
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USS BON HOMME RICHARD 1970
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Italian Hospital Ship, California
SS Albania was a cargo liner built in 1920 by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd. Greenock, Scotland for the Cunard Line. Designed to maximize cargo capacity, passenger accommodations were limited to the shelter and "tween" decks. Originally intended for the Liverpool New York run, she was transferred in April of 1922 to the Canadian route. Ultimately the vessel proved a disappointment for Cunard and was laid up in 1925 until purchased in 1930 by the Italian company Liberia Triestina who renamed her California.[1][2] She was converted in a hospital ship in 1935.
Loss[edit]
California was sunk by Fairey Swordfish torpedo aircraft of 830 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm off Syracuse on 11 August 1941.
Italian Hospital Ship, California
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