In 1975, the Leander-class frigate, HMS ACHILLES, collided with the Greek tanker Olympic Alliance in the Dover Strait. The 5-year-old frigate was recovered to HMNB Devonport for repair. She remained in service until 1990, when she was sold to Chile.
August 12, 1986 A port bow view of the destroyer USS STUMP (DD 978) undergoing refitting in a floating dry dock Norfolk Naval Shipyard ,VA.
After carrying out intelligence work and maritime and air patrols, and the expertise of tactical personnel, the Panamanian Naval Air Force seized 11,562 packages of drugs that were being transported in a tugboat southwest of San José Island, Central Pacific, bound for Central America and Mexico.
HMS Tyne and HMS Cattistock held Remembrance Day service while at anchor together in Scapa Flow, close to the wreck of HMS Royal Oak, sunk by a German U-Boat in 1939, with loss of 835 sailors.
Royal Navy remembrance. In focus: HMS Turbulent lost in 1943.
Royal Navy mine countermeasures vessel HMS Cattistock (M31), passing under the Skye road bridge, Scotland.
After USS White Sands was decommissioned in 1974, it was bought by a company that needed to move the ship with an 81′ beam through the 80′ wide Ballard Locks. It was done by weighting down one side of the ship and then transiting the locks while tilted 38 degrees.
