HMS Sutherland floated out of the dry dock at Babcockplc Devonport this week as her approx 42-month LIFEX refit nears completion. She is the last T23 to receive Sea Ceptor and is the third to have PGMU (engine upgrade). Remedial work on the hull involved 700 steel inserts and 11,500 welding repairs.

On this day in 1942, Royal Navy launched its first midget submarine, X3 on the River Hamble. The X Craft were tested and operated from HMS VARBEL in Scotland and took part in numerous operations over WWII including the famous attack that crippled the German battleship Tirpitz.

HMS CONQUEROR returning to Faslane on 3 July 1982 after her deployment to the South Atlantic during which she sank the Argentine cruiser GENERAL BELGRANO on 2 May 1982.

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The largest warship to ever transit the Great Lakes. The 8-inch gun Heavy Cruiser USS Macon came through the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959 to officially open the new waterway. She is seen here in the Eisenhower Lock.

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