Last surviving dreadnaught in the world. Played a roll in WWI and WWII, firing her guns on D-day at Normandy, 255 shells in 34 minutes.

 

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Thornycroft Seaplane Lighter, the world’s oldest aircraft carrier, discovered rusting by the river Thames, London, built 1918.

 

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U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro that HHI Newport News Shipyard made faulty welds on submarines Hyman G Rickover and New Jersey as well as aircraft carrier George Washington. These are the only names of 26 ships so far.

 

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U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro that HHI Newport News Shipyard made faulty welds on submarines Hyman G Rickover and New Jersey as well as aircraft carrier George Washington. These are the only names of 26 ships so far.

Wreck of HMS Trooper finally found – RN submarine lost with 64 men in October 1943 located in the Icarian Sea off the Cyclades Islands, Greece.

 

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On this day 1996, HMS Scott, the largest survey vessel ever built for the Royal Navy was launched at Appledore in Devon. The survey work she conducts is critical to the UK’s defence and her small crew work hard to keep her mapping the ocean floor.

 

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On this day 1996, HMS Scott, the largest survey vessel ever built for the Royal Navy was launched at Appledore in Devon. The survey work she conducts is critical to the UK’s defence and her small crew work hard to keep her mapping the ocean floor.