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Home for christmas. USS John Finn (DDG 113), USS Shoup (DDG 86) and USS Howard (DDG 83) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyers surrounding USS Milius (DDG 69) Arleigh Burke-class Flight I guided missile destroyer in Yokosuka, Japan – December 21, 2025.

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HMS Monmouth & HMS Trenchant In Feb 1996 they were deployed on OP SHARPSHOOTER – a secret mission tracking a Russian VICTOR 3 SSN off the UK coastline, which ended with RN personnel boarding the Russian boat. A sailor aboard the Victor III/project 671RTM b-448 Tambov developed symptoms of appendicitis. The Royal Navy evacuated the sailor by helicopter and provided medical treatment.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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