'Duke' Class Type 23 Frigate. Outbound from Clyde, 11th May, part of Joint Warrior 2009. The Lynx was performing take-offs and landings while the ship was under way.
Lead ship of the Arleigh Burke-Class guided missile Destroyers, outbound from the Clyde, to take part in 'Joint Warrior 2009', which began on 11th May.
HMS Dragon, the Royal Navy's latest Type 45 Destroyer, was launched on Clydeside yesterday. It was a wet and miserable day, but there was still a good turnout of spectators for the launch.
The painted dragon on the bow is to represent her affiliation with the city of Cardiff.
Some of the ships of the navies that took part in NATO exercise 'Joint Warrior', at anchor today. This is a small indication of what this anchorage may have looked like in wartime, with naval ships and merchant convoys forming up.
The wartime anchorage on the Firth of Clyde, between Gourock and Greenock, known as the 'Tail of the Bank', because it was downriver from the last of the large sandbanks in the Clyde.
This was where many wartime convoys began and ended and where some 1.3 million American troops were landed in...
Not sure if this should be under 'equipment' or 'places', but I'll upload it here.
On 26 June 2006 the first concrete was poured signifying the start of construction of the Royal Navys new 150m floating jetty.
Named the Valiant jetty after the first UK designed and built nuclear powered...
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