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Warship Wednesday, May 31, 2023: USS Fallout
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‘Just’ 11,400 Hours
The last Norwegian Lockheed P-3 Orion mission is planned for the end of the month, ending a 54-year-long era of the converted Electra airliners turned sub-busters. The service still has six airframes,...
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Warship Wednesday, June 7, 2023: Shutterbug SSK
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Coast Guard Welcomes Back an Old Name, Retires Another
One thing I like about the USCG is that they ditch a lot of the political rhetoric when it comes to cutter naming conventions, and make sure they salute their heroes and storied past vessels. For...
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Triumph, located
British T class submarine HMS Triumph (N18) underway, circa 1940. IWM FL 5477 HM Submarine Triumph (N 18), a Royal Navy T class boat, was ordered from Vickers in 1936 just after Hitler ordered the...
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Welcome Back, Iowa
The future USS Iowa (SSN 797) was officially christened by Christie Vilsack, the ship’s sponsor and former first lady of Iowa, during a ceremony at the Electric Boat shipyard facility in Groton,...
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Getting back in the game after 3 years in the penalty box
80 years ago today, several French Navy warships that had been interned at Alexandria from June 1940 to June 1943 were rearmed, saluted, and welcomed back to the war. Among these was the cruiser...
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Incident #3658
80 Years ago today: Attack on the Type VIIC German submarine, U-134 (Kptlt. Hans-Günther Brosin), by a PBM Mariner of the “Flying Tigers” of VP-201, lat 27-04W, Long 59-48W, the pilot was LT John T....
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Warship Wednesday, July 19, 2023: Red Sub Circumnavigator
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Navy’s new SEAL Mini Sub Finally Reaches IOC
Lockheed Martin’s Dry Combat Submersible– the Navy’s long-promised minisub for SEALs News coming out of Lockheed: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 24, 2023 — U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023: The Lost Desert Wind
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The Great Submarine Mess Decks Utensil Heist
180202-N-ND254-0451 BANGOR, Wash. (February 2, 2018) The Gold Crew of the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Alabama (SSBN 731) returns home to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor following a routine...
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Death of a U-boat, Williams vs Maus
Some 80 years ago this week, in the North Atlantic west of the Canary Islands, the German Type IXC/40 U-boat, U-185 (Kptlt. August Maus), with 31 waterlogged survivors of the lost U-604 aboard, met...
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Batfish evicted?
The Balao-class submarine USS Batfish (SS/AGSS-310), is a famed “sub-buster,” credited with sinking no less than three Imperial Japanese Navy submarines– RO 55, RO 112, and RO 113— in only four days...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023: Weaving the Falls
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Two Great War U-boats Found, Still on Eternal Patrol
A group of wreck hunters, working off the Belgian coast, have discovered a pair of German U-boats that have been lost since World War I. The wrecks include the Kriegsmarine’s German Type U 5 submarine...
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The Rockets Red Glare…
On the morning of 14 September 1814, it became obvious to Admiral of the Blue, Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief, North American Station, that the failed 25-hour bombardment of Fort...
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Down Courageous
A stirring depiction of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier, HMS Courageous (50), after being torpedoed by German submarine KMS U-29 under Kptlt. Otto Schuhart, on 17 September 1939, some 84 years ago...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday), Sept. 21, 2023: The Ajaccio Express
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Grendel in its Cave, 80 Years Ago
Here we see the Kriegsmarine battleship Tirpitz at Kåfjord in German-occupied Norway, in September 1943. Note the triple torpedo nets surrounding the beast and the flotilla of attending patrol and...
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