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HMS Unicorn was a UK maintenance aircraft carrier and occasional light fleet carrier that saw war service in World War II from 1943 until the Japanese surrender and again during the Korean War. She was the only ship of her class, her design influenced by the Ark Royal class. She was used in war service in the Atlantic and Mediterranean in 1943, East Indies in 1944-1945, Pacific in 1945, and Korea 1950 to 1953.

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Laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility are the guided missile destroyer USS JOHN PAUL JONES (DDG 32), the guided missile destroyer USS DECATUR (DDG 31) and the destroyer USS TURNER JOY (DD 951). In the background at left is the attack aircraft carrier USS BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA 31). 1990.

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The Royal Navy’s last single role minesweepers…… A forgotten flottilla are the twelve River class minesweepers built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1980s and largely crewed by the RNR. The end of the Cold-War and a downsizing of the RNR saw them sold in the 1990s.

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Georgios Averof is a modified Pisa-class armored cruiser built in Italy, with significant French, German and British components for the Royal Hellenic Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship served as the Greek flagship during most of the first half of the century.

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