Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) replenishment tanker RFA Tidespring, which has a small Christmas tree attached to its mast. The RFA Tidespring is the first of four Tide-class tankers in the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
RN QF 5.25-inch naval gun turret being installed or prepared for installation at a shipyard on HMS Argonaut. The photo was taken at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California in late 1943 or early 1944, where the ship was undergoing extensive repairs after being severely damaged by two Italian torpedoes in December 1942.
Future USS Idaho (SSN 799), moving from Electric Boat to Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, on December 15, 2025.
HMS Somerset successfully conducted the Royal Navy’s first firing of the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) in Norway and has returned home to Plymouth – ending a busy year with a total of over eight months away from her home port on national tasking.
HMS Tiger (C20) was the lead ship of the Tiger-class cruisers, the last all-gun cruisers of the Royal Navy, and entered service in 1959.
Engineers at BAES Maritime fired up the mighty diesel generator of the Type 26 frigate HMS Glasgow for the first time, as work on the sub hunter begins to shift from construction to testing and commissioning her systems.
HMS Protector returned home to Devonport last week following refit on Teesside.

RN QF 5.25-inch naval gun turret being installed or prepared for installation at a shipyard on HMS Argonaut. The photo was taken at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California in late 1943 or early 1944, where the ship was undergoing extensive repairs after being severely damaged by two Italian torpedoes in December 1942.


The Atlas advanced floating dry dock, which was christened by Bollinger Shipyards and General Dynamics Electric Boat.It is designed to support the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class submarine program.Floating dry docks are used to lift vessels out of the water for maintenance and repairs, providing access to their hulls and undercarriages.


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