Units of the Southern Patrol Division (DVPU) carried out naval training and coastal reconnaissance in the waters of the Beagle Channel. The fast boat ARA “Indómita” and the patrol boats ARA “Baradero” and ARA “Concepción del Uruguay” participated.

 

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On this day 150 years ago in 1875 the Royal Navy Corvette, HMS Challenger discovered the deepest point of the earth’s ocean in the Mariana Trench. Named the Challenger Deep, the depth was measured by line at 26,850 ft, and in 1952, the survey ship HMS Challenger measured it at 35,760 ft.

 

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PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 31, 2016) Sailors aboard the Whidbey Island-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42) gather on the port bridge wing as the ship prepares for a replenishment-at-sea. Germantown, attached to Expeditionary Strike Group 7, is underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operation in support of security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific.

 

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A tired looking Italian Navy Maestrale-class anti-submarine frigate ITS Grecale (F571) in Valletta, Malta – March 16, 2025.

 

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USS Kitty Hawk and its Battle Group. Front row, left to right: frigate USS STEIN (FF-1065), guided missile cruiser HALSEY (CG-23) frigate USS BARBEY (FF-1088); second row, guided missile destroyer USS CALLAGHAN (DDG-994), ammunition ship USS MOUNT HOOD (AE-29), KITTY HAWK, combat stores ship USS MARS (AFS-1), and guided missile frigate USS VANDEGRIFT (FFG-48) with the fleet oiler USS WILLAMETTE (AO-180) following. Late 1980’s.

 

 

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The crew of the British Colossus-class light aircraft carrier HMS Ocean (R68) on deck for an inspection by Field Marshal Earl Alexander, the British Defense Minister, on 14 June 1952. Ocean was at the time off the Korean coast– a peninsula where she was highly active some 70 years ago– and she has Hawker Sea Furys of 802 Squadron and Fairey Fireflys of 825 Squadron aboard. It looks like the light cruiser HMS Belfast (C35) is off her stern.

 

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The Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Belfast (C35) approaching the aircraft carrier HMS Ocean (R68) off Korea, before the transfer of RADM Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Flag Officer, Second in Command, Far East Station from his flagship Belfast to Ocean to observe air operations against targets in north-west Korea. Served on Belfast 61/62.

 

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