HMS Myngs (R06) picking up the pipe-line from the escort carrier HMS Trumpeter (not visible) as the former is about to be refueled whilst she is on patrol.
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Seafires take off from the deck of the escort carrier HMS STALKER
The British Flower class corvette HMS HONEYSUCKLE coming alongside the aircraft carrier HMS TRUMPETER (from which the photograph was taken) in Kola Inlet, which is full of pack ice.
A Fairey Barracuda about to take off from HMS RAVAGER whilst she is at sea.
Meanwhile the RN is putting together a flotilla built around the dreadnought HMS I Should Have Been Paid Off in 1919 and the interwar carrier HMS I Used to Be a Battlecruiser, supported by HMS Obscure Minor Character in the Aeneid and HMS Sexual Innuendo.
every Pacific naval encounter from late 1943 onward is like the IJN Golden Kirin, Glorious Harbinger of Eternal Imperial Dawn versus six identical copies of the USS We Built This Yesterday supplied by a ship that does nothing but make birthday cakes for the other ships
Three sailors wearing just caps and shorts carrying rocket projectiles over to a Fairey Swordfish aircraft of 834 Squadron, FAA prior to it taking off on anti-submarine patrol from the escort carrier HMS BATTLER.
British escort aircraft carrier HMS Activity underway in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, United Kingdom, Oct 1942
A Royal Navy Vought Corsair Mk.II on an outrigger aboard the escort carrier HMS Khedive (D62) in the Indian Ocean in 1945.
Silhouette of a Chance-Vought Corsair as she comes in to land on board HMS ILLUSTRIOUS whilst she is sailing in the Indian Ocean. Photo taken from under the flight deck.
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HMS Kelvin passing a message by line to the heavy cruiser HMS Kent.
A Fairey Swordfish of No 824 Squadron Fleet Air Arm takes off from the escort carrier HMS STRIKER during an anti-submarine sweep.
HMS BITER and HMS AVENGER underway in line astern from HMS VICTORIOUS. Two Supermarine Seafires of No 884 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm can be seen at the far end of the flight deck of HMS VICTORIOUS.
6/3 1940. The German cargo ship SS Hannover was intercepted off the Dominican Republic by the cruiser HMS Dunedin and destroyer HMCS Assiniboine. Despite attempts to scuttle her, she was boarded and salvaged. Hannover would become HMS Audacity, the Royal Navy’s first escort carrier.
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Describing Penny Mordant as “HMS-Sword-Carrier” is worthy of John Crace. Think I’ll call her that from now on.
I read a lot of right wing nonsense to keep abreast of thinking and so others don’t have to, but this is worth a look. It’s a well-written piece from the site of Conservative members and shows that the scales may finally be falling from eyes about the fast-approaching electoral cataclysm.
Goodbyeee | Conservative Home
Are the local election results sufficiently terrible that Rishi Sunak has earnt the right to march us slowly towards the guns later this year?
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After HMS Thrasher (📸 IWM Q 67716), their carrier sub, waits in vain at the main rendezvous offshore, responsibility for rescue attempts is handed to HMS Torbay, which has been working with COPP 3 slightly to the north. Thrasher departs to carry out a standard war patrol.
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Quincy (CA-39) in New York harbour, following her last overhaul. In the left background is the British escort carrier HMS Biter (D97). 23 May 1942
Waves crashing over the bow, HMS Duke of York steaming at 20 to 25 knots during an Arctic convoy to Russia (photographed from the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious). 2 - 9 March 1942
HMS Unicorn surrounded by the escort carriers of Force V off Salerno
HMS (Her Majesty’s Sushi)
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She sails on the wasabsea by harrym93
An aircraftsman on the chocks as a Grumman-Martlet of No.FN-144 is warmed up on board HMS Formidable.
