UK Docks Marine Services and Marunda Private Ltd recently completed the removal, overhaul and replacement of bothHMS_Spey anchor capstans in Singapore.
The RM Band Service of HMS Collingwood gave a fitting finale in Bahrain, performing Sunset as the crew of HMS Lancaster marked an emotional day.After 34 years of exceptional service, the Royal Navy’s longest-serving frigate has now been decommissioned.
Royal Navy teams joined French and Norwegian specialists in Scotland to test NATO’s Submarine Rescue System.RN in Scotland. https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2025/november/24/20251124-royal-navy-experts-test-their-ability-to-save-stricken-submarines
USS Kidd (DD-661), a Fletcher-class destroyer preserved as a museum shipunder tow returning from docking and painting.
U-475 Black Widow decaying in the River Medway in Strood, Kent, uk. Black Widow was built at Sudomekh shipyard in Leningrad and commissioned in 1967.It was based at Riga and served with the Soviet Baltic Fleet before being used as a training vessel for crews from overseas who would be operating Foxtrot-class subs in their own navies.It was decommissioned in 1994 and sold. In 2004 it was moved to her present location, in a state of disrepair, and is currently awaiting restoration.
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.
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