‘The Fighting G’ – HMS Gloucester seen in her final years of service. In 1991, acting on British experience from the Falklands War, she was the first ship to shoot down a missile with her own.
In 1982, the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious (R06) was seen passing HMS Ark Royal (R09), which was then under construction in Tyneside, England. This moment captured two British aircraft carriers of different generations in a single view: HMS Illustrious was entering service, while HMS Ark Royal was still being built.HMS Illustrious was the first ship of the Invincible class, entering service in 1982. Meanwhile, HMS Ark Royal was built as the third and final ship of the same class, officially entering service in 1985. Both vessels played a vital role in the evolution of the Royal Navy’s naval aviation capabilities during the Cold War era.
The launch of the monitor HMS Admiral Farragut, with a good view of the nameplate, renamed HMS M1, HMS General Abercrombie, and finally HMS Abercrombie, on 15 April 1915.
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) entered dry dock at the Navantia Shipyard in Cadiz, Spain, on October 7, 2026, for planned maintenance and modernization.This marks the first time a forward-deployed U.S. Navy warship has undergone dry-docking maintenance within the U.S. 6th Fleet’s area of operations since destroyers were permanently stationed in Europe, rather than returning to the United States
The retired Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose (F236) arrived in Aliaga, Turkey, after a 25-day tow to be dismantled and recycled by the Turkish firm Leyal Ship Recycling.
Historic first as the Royal Navy launches a torpedo from an uncrewed submarine. For the first time, a Royal Navy robot submarine has successfully fired a torpedo in a milestone trial, pushing the boundaries of undersea warfare. https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2026/september/30/20260930-historic-first-as-royal-navy-launches-torpedo-from-uncrewed-submarine
HMS Portland unleashes new ship-busting missiles as ex-US Navy frigate (USS Klakring) is sunk. https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2026/september/29/20260929-royal-navy-unleashes-new-ship-busting-missiles
Soviet space monitoring ship, “Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin” It served as the flagship for a fleet of ships dedicated to tracking and communicating with spacecraft, including missions like the Apollo-Soyuz joint test program.
HMS Warspite after a brutal mauling at Jutland. 15 direct hits, and she lived to fight many more days. I’ll put it out there: if Warspite or Royal Sovereign had been with the Prince of Wales that day against Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, the battle would have had a different outcome.
