QuoteNuclear icebreaker '50 Let Pobedy' en route to North Pole, 2013
Nuclear icebreaker '50 Let Pobedy' en route to North Pole, 2013
French destroyer Le Fantasque on trials after refitting and requalification as a light cruiser, Casco Bay, 13 June 1943
Barracks ship USS Benewah (APB-35) in the Mekong Delta. Built in 1945, she would earn eleven battle stars during the Vietnam War.
Benewah reached Vietnam on 22 April. Upon arrival, she became flagship for the Commander Task Force (CTF) 117, the Mobile Riverine Force operating in the Mekong Delta. Except for an occasional trip to Japan for repairs, Benewah spent the next 44 months at various locations in the Mekong Delta. In 1968-69, "Benewah" spent most of its time in the Mekong River near the Ninth Infantry division base at Đồng Tâm or an alternate anchorage near Ben Tre. In addition to serving as headquarters, she provided barracks space, medical facilities, stores issue, and a myriad of other services to the sailors and soldiers operating with the Mobile Riverine Force and with the similar formations that succeeded that organization when it was disestablished late in August 1969. The barracks ship frequently suffered enemy fire, and her guns went into action on numerous occasions. In May and early June 1970, Benewah participated in the incursion into Cambodian territory to support forces interdicting the Viet Cong supply lines running through that country. On 26 November 1970, the ship departed Vietnam and headed for the Philippines. After a visit to Singapore between 28 November and 5 December, she arrived at Subic Bay on 11 December. There, Benewah underwent an inspection by a board of inspection and survey. That board determined that she was unfit for further active naval service. She was decommissioned there on 26 February 1971 and was turned over to the Naval Station, Subic Bay, to serve as station ship. Though decommissioned, Benewah remained on the active list in an in-service status. She was also redesignated a miscellaneous auxiliary, IX-311, two days after her decommissioning on 28 February 1971. She served at Subic Bay until 1 September 1973 on which day her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. In May 1974, she was transferred to the Republic of the Philippines.
HMS Fury leading a flotilla of destroyers during manoeuvres at Scapa Flow.
HMAS Melbourne (R-21) on a port visit to Pearl Harbor, 1958.
Russian Slava class cruiser Varyag
Imperial Russian battleship Oryol at Kronstadt, August 1904
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