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USS LST-755 was a LST-542-class tank landing ship in the United States Navy during World War II. She was commissioned in 1944 and participated in the Philippines campaign before being decommissioned in 1946. That year, she was transferred to the Republic of China Navy as ROCS Chung Hai, was deccommissioned yesterday after 82 years service.

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On this day, HMS Gloucester, the first ship to shoot down a missile, was in action. It was fired at USS Missouri, which deployed chaff, but painful lessons from the Falklands instructed the RN to shoot it down to avoid target reacquisition.

HMS Excellent, a historic Royal Navy shore establishment located on Whale Island in Portsmouth, Hampshire. Bottom right at her mooring is the Royal Yacht Britannia where she was always located when not in use. The grey ship to the left is HMS Rame Head. She was a training ship later followed by HMS Bristol.

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RFA Argus has served the United Kingdom with distinction for more than 40 years, sailing around the world to support Royal Navy operations. She is also the last active ship to have served in the Falklands conflict. Her other service includes delivering vital humanitarian aid, enabling aviation training and providing lifesaving medical care to those in need. On Monday (23 February) she will leave HMNB Portsmouth for the final time following four decades of loyal service to this country and our allies.

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On December 1961, off the coast of California, USS Scamp (SSN-588), was performing sea trials at a depth of 400 ft when her shaft snapped just 11 inches outside of the pressure hull. She lost her screw and had to be towed back to Mare Island by USCGC Comanche.

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A photograph from February 1974 shows HMS Tiger (C20) at Portsmouth Dockyard, with HMS Blake (C99) alongside. Both were Tiger-class cruisers, originally laid down during the Second World War but completed much later. By the early 1970s they had been converted into helicopter cruisers, their aft gun turrets replaced with a flight deck and hangar to operate Westland Wessex helicopters. It was an attempt to adapt ageing gun cruisers to a navy increasingly shaped by aviation and anti-submarine warfare. Tiger and Blake represented the last gun cruisers to serve with the Royal Navy. Their mix of automatic 6-inch guns forward and helicopter capability aft made them distinctive, though expensive to operate. By the late 1970s both would be decommissioned as defence cuts and changing priorities reshaped the fleet.

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