Germany:
Type VIIC U-69 was very successful, sinking over 72,000 gross register tons (GRT) of Allied shipping in a career lasting two years, making her one of the longest surviving, continuously serving, U-boats. Her most notable attack was on the civilian ferry SS Caribou, which sank off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1942, killing 137 men, women and children. She was rammed and sunk by F-class destroyer HMS Fame on 17 February 1943.
Tirpitz in Kafjord, Alta photographed by a Mosquito. July 12th 1944
USN:
PT-196, an Elco 80-foot motor torpedo boat, in an experimental paint scheme, Bayonne, New Jersey, 3 May 1943.
Lead ship of her class, escort carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) at anchor at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 13 July 1943
Iowa class battleship USS Missouri (BB 63) looking towards the bow from the top of the conning tower and fire control tower whilst in dry dock in Bayonne, NJ. July 23 1944
USN:
Spruance class destroyer USS Caron (DD-970) in Norfolk, Virginia, 2001
The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Bataan (LHD5), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) plus 3 other LHD's, LPD's and other amphib forces at Naval Station Norfolk, 20 December 2012
RN:
Invincible class light aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R07) participating in an amphibious exercise off the eastern coast of the United States in 2008
USN:
Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) at Pearl Harbor. The Big E, with assigned Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11), was on her world cruise from 11 January to 13 August 1986.
India:
USMC CH-53E Stallion landing on Austin class amphibious transport dock INS Jalashwa (L41) (ex-USS Trenton (LPD-14)) during Exercise Tiger Triumph 24. 28 March 2024
Thanks @Chazman Australia & USN:
Majestic class HMAS Melbourne (R21) breaks away from the carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) during exercises.
In 1978, the Australian and United States Navies participated in RIMPAC 78. During this time, Melbourne and Enterprise operated together, the smallest and largest aircraft carriers in operation at the time.
Melbourne was nicknamed "Little M" as a joke in regards to Enterprise's popular nickname of "Big E".
The USS New Jersey is actually bigger than German Battleship Bismarck.
The Bismarck had a lenght of 251 Meters and a weight of 50,300 tons when fully loaded. While the New Jersey had a lenght of 270 meters and weighed 58,132 tons when fully loaded in 1943. Increasing to 60,000 tons when she was reactivated in 1968.
USS Gyatt (DD712) the only DDG gearing conversion for the US Navy. In 1955 the Gyatt received a Terrier launcher aft along with a new structure to house the missiles. It also received a Denny-Brown stabilization system, another first. The Gyatt re-entered service in 1957 as DDG-1 and deployed to the Mediterranean. In 1962 it was once again converted into a DD, dismantling the Terrier system and becoming a ship for testing with the Operational Test and Evaluation Force. The Gyatt was decommissioned in 1969 and sunk as a target in 1970.
Thanks @Redav Portugal:
Tridente (U209PN) class diesel-electric/AIP attack submarine NRP Arpão (S-161) leaving the Lisbon Naval Base in the early morning of April 3, 2024 for NATO's multinational mission "BRILLIANT SHIELD".
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