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Cuba’s beleaguered navy, the Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba (FAR), continues to field locally produced vessels. The latest type of note, first observed in 2021, is a torpedo boat. Recent photos provide new details of this unique craft.

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Former crew of HMS Swiftsure were invited to take a last look at the boat before the breakers move in. The S-boat, which left service is 1992, is the first RN nuclear-powered submarine to be dismantled and recycled.

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The U.S. Navy achieved a breakthrough in combat readiness today as it successfully demonstrated the Transferrable Reload At-sea Method (TRAM) on an underway warship in open ocean for the first time. Sailors aboard the Ticonderoga-class cruiser Chosin (CG 65) used the hydraulically- powered TRAM device to load an empty missile canister into the ship’s MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) while off the coast of San Diego on Oct. 11.

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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.

Although not a dockyard, the military port of Cairnryan in SW Scotland was built in the 1939/45 was as a back up facility in case Dockyards were damaged. Used as a major shipbreaking centre 1947/50 and then 1970/91. Here is HMS Ark Royal arriving for break up in November 1980. On the beach seaping oil is her half sister Eagle two years after her arrival. On the jetty is the former trawler Ross Revenge which escaped break up and became and still is the Radio Caroline ship and after an incredible career, she is broadcasting on occasions from the Blackwater estuary Essex.

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On this dsy in 1953, USS Leyte suffered an explosion in her port catapult machinery room while under conversion to an antisubmarine carrier in Boston. 37 men died and 28 were injured in the accident. It remains the largest loss of life ever on Boston’s waterfront.

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