Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Iowa pictured at League Island Navy Yard c1900..In the left foreground are the two Passaic Class Monitors USS Montauk and USS Lehigh.

 

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USS Cowpens (CG-63), a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, in a dry dock, 2004. The ship was decommissioned on August 27, 2024, at Naval Base San Diego, marking the end of its 33-year service.

 

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Decommissioned from the Irish Naval Service: offshore patrol …”Irish corvette 02″ refers to LÉ Maev (formerly HMS Oxlip), a Flower-class corvette that served in the Irish Naval Service from 1946 to 1970 and was sold for scrap

 

Vessels at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington – September 22, 2025 USS Bunker Hill (CG 52), USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) and USS Lake Champlain (CG 57).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The UK’s nuclear deterrent programme reached another milestone on Monday as steel was cut for HMS King George VI, the fourth and final Dreadnought-class submarine.

 

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King commissions Royal Navy’s newest attack submarine. His Majesty King Charles has officially commissioned HMS Agamemnon, the Royal Navy’s sixth Astute-class attack submarine, during a ceremony at BAE Systems’ Barrow-in-Furness shipyard.

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USS Port Royal (CG-73) after running aground on a coral reef off Oahu, Hawaii, on February 5, 2009.

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On this day 10 years ago in 2015, the last Type 42 Destroyer still afloat, HMS Gloucester, left HMNB Portsmouth to be scrapped at the Turkish yard that dismantled all but one (Birmingham) of her sisters. The departure is witnessed by the Type 42 successor, a Type 45 Destroyer.