http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/...george_v-1.jpg
HMS King George V in Tokyo in 1945. USS Missouri is visible in the background.

On a wing and a prayer

http://www.topdesignmag.com/wp-conte...1_G.sized_.jpg

HMCS Sackville. The last remaining Flower Class corvette.

Now a museum ship, she is tied up at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

http://www.hnsa.org/ships/img/sackville1.jpg

http://www.topdesignmag.com/wp-conte...1_G.sized_.jpg


Bluebird 1 to Bluebird base

Yes, I can confirm sharks in the area.

Returning to base.

Somewhere I hope to visit in the future :cool:

LOL :)


Doolittle Raid; April 18, 1942
http://www.topdesignmag.com/wp-conte...tle_launch.jpg

http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/...e1/8406362.jpg
USS New Jersey Fires a salvo from her 16"/50 guns during a deployment off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon, 9 January 1984

Beach Landings

http://www.topdesignmag.com/wp-conte...2010/12/aa.jpg

HMS King George V, Halifax Jan. 1941.

http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/att...p-1939-kgv.jpg

Blücher is sinking

http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/571108-4/790px-BildeB3

The German cruiser Blücher listing heavily to port after being hit by cannon fire and torpedoes from the Norwegian coastal fortress Oscarsborg. She sank a short time later.

9 April 1940

Blücher is sinking.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...er_sinkend.jpg

German armored cruiser Blücher capsizing to port after being shelled by British battlecruisers at Dogger Bank.

24 January 1915

http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/...ought_best.jpg
H.M.S. Dreadnought - 1906

Ha you nearly got me there until I checked the dates :)

The moral being....never sign up for a ship named Blucher :03:










*and I've been online with Skype for a few hours ya bugga

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After being torpedoed on the 13th November 1941 HMS Ark Royal rapidly developed a severe list
The destroyer HMS Legion came alongside and took off almost 1500 men whilst a group stayed on board attempting to prevent her sinking.

Her successor

http://www.blogcdn.com/travel.aol.co...12/01/hms1.jpg

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HMS Royal Oak

British R class battleship, built between 1914 and 1916, sunk at her moorings in Scapa Flow, on 14 october 1939, by the German U-boat U47
The wreck, seen in the lower view, still lies upside-down at the bottom of Scapa Flow, and still holds the remains of over 800 of the crew who perished in the sinking.