Destination Normandy. HMS Cattistock, HMS Dasher and HMS Trumpeter, plus wartime motorboats and tugs escorted veterans on the Brittany Ferries ‘Mont St Michel’ out of Portsmouth today for D Day 80 events. Yesterday veterans reminisced with men of 47 Cdo RM.

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In 1988, an Iranian M-08 mine made a 25-foot (8 m) hole in the hull of the frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts, forcing the ship to seek temporary repairs in a dry dock in Dubai, UAE.

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German Navy Kalkgrund-class auxiliary vessel FGS Kalkgrund (Y898) coming into the Brunsbuttel Locks on the Kiel Canal in Germany – September 27, 2024.

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On this day in 2013 the sixth, and final Type 45 Destroyer, HMS Duncan was commissioned in HMNB Portsmouth. A relative nozzer in British Warship terms, she is currently the last escort commissioned for the RN until HMS Venturer or HMS Glasgow are commissioned.

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