An image from last month shows dry dock maintenance being done at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia, which will ensure that the ship can continue serving as a museum!
Berthed in the Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL, before a series of early aviation tests, USN armoured cruiser North Carolina had a catapult prototype installed on her afterdeck. Current status: Scrapped in 1930-32, lifespan of 27 years. September 1915.
HMS Dauntless Phalanx CIWS undergoing pre-deployment checks with radome removed. Upper Ku-band moving track indicator (MTI) radar aerial visible rotating.
On this day in 1943, U.S. Naval Intelligence decrypted a message that revealed the travel schedule for ADM Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet. Four days later, P-38s flew 600 miles and shot down the plane carrying the man who had planned the attack on Pearl Harbour.
Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) 31, heads into the well deck of USS Comstock (LSD 45) in the Bay of Bengal during Tiger Triumph 2025.
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