Although not a dockyard, the military port of Cairnryan in SW Scotland was built in the 1939/45 was as a back up facility in case Dockyards were damaged. Used as a major shipbreaking centre 1947/50 and then 1970/91. Here is HMS Ark Royal arriving for break up in November 1980. On the beach seaping oil is her half sister Eagle two years after her arrival. On the jetty is the former trawler Ross Revenge which escaped break up and became and still is the Radio Caroline ship and after an incredible career, she is broadcasting on occasions from the Blackwater estuary Essex.

 

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On this dsy in 1953, USS Leyte suffered an explosion in her port catapult machinery room while under conversion to an antisubmarine carrier in Boston. 37 men died and 28 were injured in the accident. It remains the largest loss of life ever on Boston’s waterfront.

 

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Congressman Rufus Rodriguez apparently asked the US Government, through Amb. Carlson, Defense Sec. Austin, and State Sec. Blinken, to donate the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Philippine Sea to the PH Navy once it has been retired from the US Navy.

 

 

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On this day 60 years ago in 1964, HMS Lynx arrives at the Falklands as a response to an illegal landing by an Argentine light aircraft claiming sovereignty. HMS Lynx was launched in 1957 and sold to Bangladesh in 1982 where she remained in active service until 2014.

 

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Northern Fleet Project 949A Antey/Oscar II-class SSGN Orel (K-266) in the Project 7454-class floating dry dock PD-50.

 

 

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