Spanish Navy’s first F-110-class frigate, the Bonifaz (F-111).The launch occurred on September 11, 2025, at Navantia’s shipyard in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain.The Bonifaz is the lead ship of a new class of five multi-purpose frigates designed for anti-air, anti-surface, and anti-submarine warfare.
Insect class river gunboat nHMS Tarantula (T 62): Launched Wood Skinner & Co. Ltd. Newcastle, England 08.12.15.Stationed at Trincomalee as a repair/accommodation ship. She briefly served as Admiral Bruce Fraser’s flagship of the British Pacific Fleet.Sunk as a gunnery target in the Bay of Bengal off Trincomalee by the destroyers HMS Carron and HMS Carysfort on 01.05.46.
On this day in 1941, USS Ward fired the first American shots of the war in the Pacific when the destroyer sank a midget sub trying to enter Pearl Harbour. The 14th Naval District HQ believed the action was a false report, not recognising that the sub was part of an incoming Japanese attack.
USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), an Arleigh Burke-class Flight I guided missile destroyer, coming into Maizuru, Japan – December 4, 2025.
HMS Lancaster (F229), a Type 23 Duke-class frigate of the Royal Navy, arriving in Bahrain, for decommissioning, which leaves only 7 of these frigates. This is the first time a decommissioning has taken place overseas since HMS Peacock, HMS Plover & HMS Starling decommissioned together in Hong Kong before hand over to Philippine Navy, Aug 1997.
HMS Bangor floated off heavy lift vessel MV Mighty Servant 3 in the Firth of Forth and towed into Rosyth last week.
U.S. Navy Sailors shoot a pair of boots off the flight deck. It is a tradition to shoot a pair of boots off the flight deck after a shooter completes the last catapult shot of their career.
HMS Bangor floated off heavy lift vessel MV Mighty Servant 3 in the Firth of Forth and towed into Rosyth last week.
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