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Royal Navy fends off Iranian seizure of British oil tanker in Persian Gulf The Royal Navy has fended off the attempted seizure of a British oil tanker by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf, in an apparent tit-for-tit response to the arrest of one of Iran’s own vessels. The British Heritage, owned by BP Shipping and registered to theContinue reading “Royal Navy fends off Iranian seizure of British oil tanker in Persian Gulf”

Battlecruiser HMS Invincible on the Hudson River. from JC’s Naval, Maritime & Marine News https://ift.tt/2XGL9Bp via IFTTT Follow our main blog here https://ift.tt/31Xfdac

Battlecruiser HMS Invincible on the Hudson River. from JC’s Naval, Maritime & Marine News https://ift.tt/2XGL9Bp via IFTTT

HMAS VAMPIRE 60’s HMAS VAMPIRE 60’s HMAS Vampire was the third of three Australian-built Daring class destroyers serving in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). One of the first all-welded ships built in Australia, she was constructed at Cockatoo Island Dockyard between 1952 and 1959, and was commissioned into the RAN a day after completion. VampireContinue reading “HMAS Vampire (D11)”

HMAS SEAL (Ex HMS Wintringham) 1980’s HMS Wintringham (M2777/IMS77) was a Ham-class minesweeper for the Royal Navy. Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Wintringham. She remained in operational reserve in a land cradle at Rosneath on the Clyde until 1963. She was transferred to the Royal AustralianContinue reading “HMAS SEAL (Ex HMS Wintringham) 1980’s”