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USS Nimitz (CVN-68) departing Bremerton, WA, was passing the Washington State Ferry M/V Walla Walla (Super Jumbo Ferry). Not so “Super Jumbo” next to the massive Navy “Super Carrier”!

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In UK Naval Bases sailors get to ships at sea via a PAS Boat. Named after the Port Auxiliary Service which ran the service until 1976 the service is now provided by Serco Group. Sailors still call them PAS boats and in HMNB Devonport they usually bear the FOST name Seariders.

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On this day in 1982, HMS Illustrious became the first Royal Navy warship to be commissioned at sea, on her way to HMNB Portsmouth from the builders where she had been rushed through to relieve HMS Invincible was providing air cover to the Falklands after the war, arriving in late August.

German U-Boat U 534 was raised from the sea bed in 1996, and the wreck and the artefacts, including an enigma machine, were saved. U-534 was attacked and sunk by two Royal Air Force Liberator bombers in the Kattegat sea between Denmark and Sweden on 5 May 1945. Discovered by a Danish wreck diver in 1986 and raised from the seabed by a Dutch salvage company in 1993, she later was moved to Birkenhead, England, where she became a star exhibit at the Warship Preservation Trust’s Birkenhead Docks Museum.

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