HMS M1 Submarine Monitor armed with a single 12-inch Mark IX gunThe vessel was lost with all hands #otd a century ago in 1925 after colliding with the Swedish SS Vidar.
ITS Cavour seen here undertaking carrier operations with HMS Prince of Wales and F-35B aircraft. Italian Navy photo.
Town-class destroyer HMS Ripley with the pennant number G79.Originally built for the US Navy as the Clemson-class destroyer USS Shubrick (DD-268), the ship was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940 as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
RFA Lyme Bay, HMS Dauntless, RFA Tideforce and HMS Richmond alongside in Gibraltar. HMSPWLS is on the Western Arm jetty out of shot. Taken before leaving for home bases.
USS Springfield (CL-66, later CLG-7), a United States Navy cruiser, in a dry dock.The ship was a Cleveland-class light cruiser, commissioned in 1944.Between 1957 and 1960, the vessel was converted into one of the Navy’s early guided-missile cruisers, carrying the Terrier surface-to-air missile system.It was redesignated as CLG-7 after the conversion.The ship served until it was decommissioned in 1974.
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