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Indian carrier Vikrant played a key role in enforcing a naval blockade over East Pakistan Pakistan’s Ghazi was the only long range submarine operated by either of the warring nations in 1965. The sinking of PNS Ghazi played a point of turning role in Indian Naval operations in East Pakistan INS Khukri was a British Type 14 (Blackwood-class) frigate of…
The Galley ‘Dvina’ (The galley – A unique in the Russian fleet 25- banked (50-Oared) three-masted vessel ) This is specially designed with a rosewood double plank on the hull. Truly a masterpiece! Meticulously crafted figurehead and head rails in quality material, size scale and color all according to the…
A Russian Galley of 1719 Campaign: these big beasts were 40m (130ft) in length, 7m (23ft) abreast and 1.5m (5ft) deep, and included 25 pairs of oars, 2-4 guns, 90 crew and 200 soldiers. They could make five knots by oar. By the spring of 1713, the galley fleet was…
The expansion of Coastal Forces activity into the Aegean and Adriatic made it necessary for boats to be transferred to these areas from Malta and Messina, with an inevitable falling off in the number of operations that could be carried out along the west coast of Italy. After the landings…
The first imperative was to staunch the losses, and convoy was the principal instrument. To Admiral William Sims, who commanded American naval forces in European waters, a convoy ‘seemed to be a rather limping, halting procession. The speed of a convoy was the speed of its slowest ship … The…
As the menace from Flanders receded, the burden of the campaign in British waters fell to the North Sea submarines based with the German surface fleet in the Ems, Jade, Weser, and Elbe estuaries. But here too more mines facilitated countermeasures. The Allies laid some 15,700 mines offshore during 1917;…
A striking shot of a Sea Fury being moved. The chockmen so close to the undercarriage and the very reduced team numbers pushing it off the lift suggests the aircraft had no brake pressure. That, and the close-by Doggy, indicates it may have been a hangar reshuffle after flying was completed…
The Monitors were the battleships of the Mobile Riverine Force. They were equipped with varied…
The Royal Navy acquired large numbers of F4Fs as Grumman Martlets and made extensive use…
Known popularly as PT boats, World War II–era patrol-torpedo boats were the American equivalent of…
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