On this day 1971 the Ton Class Minesweeper HMS Belton, who was part of the Fisheries Protection Squadron, dragged her anchor in a gale at Lochmaddy, Scotland. Due to 50 Ton Class still being in service she was declared a total loss and cannibalised for spares.
HMS Swiftsure the first ex-Royal Navy nuclear submarine to be disposed of enters the final dismantling phase.
The White Ensign ‘flies’ again on destroyer HMS Exmouth after a team of divers surveyed the wreck.Exmouth was the first RN surface ship lost with all hands in WW2, torpedoed off Wick in Scotland in January 1940.
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) sails alongside the fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8) during a replenishment-at-sea in the Atlantic Ocean, Oct. 3, 2024.
Chilean Navy Adelaide-class anti-aircraft frigate Almirante Latorre (FFG 14) (Ex-HMAS Melbourne), Type 22 Broadsword-class frigate Almirante Williams (FF-19) (ex-HMS Sheffield (F96)) and Duke-class frigate Almirante Cochrane (FF-05) (ex. HMS Norfolk) in Puerto Williams, Chile – October 9, 2024
Last surviving dreadnaught in the world. Played a roll in WWI and WWII, firing her guns on D-day at Normandy, 255 shells in 34 minutes.
Thornycroft Seaplane Lighter, the world’s oldest aircraft carrier, discovered rusting by the river Thames, London, built 1918.
U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro that HHI Newport News Shipyard made faulty welds on submarines Hyman G Rickover and New Jersey as well as aircraft carrier George Washington. These are the only names of 26 ships so far.
Wreck of HMS Trooper finally found – RN submarine lost with 64 men in October 1943 located in the Icarian Sea off the Cyclades Islands, Greece.
On this day 1996, HMS Scott, the largest survey vessel ever built for the Royal Navy was launched at Appledore in Devon. The survey work she conducts is critical to the UK’s defence and her small crew work hard to keep her mapping the ocean floor.
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