Battlecruiser Congo, being commissioned into the Japanese Navy, after build in Barrow in Furness, August 1913. The last ship built in the UK for Japan.

 

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During the Cold War, U.S. submarines such as USS L. Mendel Rivers would torment the Soviet spy trawlers tracking them by getting close and then blowing the sanitary tanks. Blowing the tanks caused a huge roaring noise and enveloped the Soviet ships in waste.

 

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British warships in show of force to Russian vessel. The Royal Navy closely monitored a Russian naval task group, consisting of two landing ships and four other vessels, as they transited the English Channel this week, according to a press release.

 

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Schleswig-Holstein (German battleship, 1908), in the foreground Photographed 1930. Battleship Schlesien is on the left, and battleship Hessen is on the right background.

 

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