USN & Australia:
The first battleship battle group to deploy to the Western Pacific since the Korean War underway. July 1986
The ships are, clockwise from bottom left: Nuclear powered cruiser USS
Long Beach (CGN-9), Spruance class destroyer USS
Merrill (DD-976), River class (Type 12) frigates HMAS
Swan (D-50), HMAS
Stuart (D-48), HMAS
Parramatta (D-46), Ashtabula-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS
Passumpsic (T-AO-107), Wichita-class replenishment oiler USS
Wabash (AOR-5), River class (Type 12) frigate HMAS
Derwent (D-49), Knox-class frigate USS
Kirk (FF-1087), Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate USS
Thach (FFG-43), Charles F Adams class destroyer HMAS
Hobart (DDG-39) and Iowa class battleship USS
New Jersey (BB-62), center.