HMNZS Tui-1944 Tui was the first of two ships with this name to serve in the Royal New Zealand Navy and was named after a native bird from New Zealand. Her fate Tui was finally decommissioned on 22 December 1967. She was stripped of her equipment and sold in December 1969 to Pacific ScrapContinue reading “HMNZS Tui (T234) was a Bird class minesweeper of the Royal New Zealand Navy. She was commissioned in 1941 for minesweeping and anti-submarine roles.”
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USS Alaska (CB-1) photographed underway on 11 September 1944.[
USS Alaska (CB-1) was the lead ship of the Alaska class of large cruisers which served with the United States Navy during the end of World War II. She was the first of two ships of her class to be completed, followed only by Guam; four other ships were ordered but were not completedContinue reading “USS Alaska (CB-1) photographed underway on 11 September 1944.[“
French helicopter cruiser Jeanne d’Arc (R97)
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USS Oriskany was laid down in 1944 and sunk in 2006 to create an artificial reef.
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Flagship enters dock for maintenance – The flagship of the Royal Australian Navy, the landing helicopter dock HMAS Canberra, has entered the Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island, Sydney.
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