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It was a very complex system for launching missiles. Nearly as complex as our IKARA. They did a demo of how it loaded whilst alongside in Pearl in 1982 at RIMPAC. No wonder they changed them and ended up rebuilding the HURON Class DDHs with VLS and a 76mm OTO MELERA gun.
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JN Shikishima firing during the Battle of the Yellow Sea
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The 4th rate barquentine-rigged gunboat USS Petrel (PG-2) somewhere on the Asiatic Station in 1896.
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U.S. Navy Task Force 77 operating in the South China Sea after launching strikes against North Vietnam, March 1965.
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HMS Sheffield's crew attempt to put out the fire caused by an Argentine Exocet missile hit during the Falkland's War.
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Looking down on HMS Illustrious steaming in the Indian Ocean in bright sunlight.
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Italian WW2 battleship Littorio at speed.
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Ships of the British Pacific Fleet berthed at Wooloomooloo, c.1945. In the foreground is the destroyer HMS Wessex. HMS King George V can be seen berthed at the Finger Wharf in the background.
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Admiral Graf Spee anchored off Montevideo, Uruguay in mid-December 1939, following the Battle of the River Plate.
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Invincible-class battlecruiser HMS Inflexible at speed (perhaps during the Dardanelles campaign).
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County-class guided missile destroyer HMS Devonshire during firing trials of the ship-to-air medium range guided weapon Seaslug, May 1962.
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Tirpitz hiding in the fjords.
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HMS Edinburgh, HMS Hermione and HMS Euryalus escorting a Malta convoy during Operation Halberd. September 1941.
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HMS Vanguard breaks her tow and ran aground on her way to the scrapyard, Portsmouth August 4, 1960
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The French Alma-class ironclad Atalante was a wooden-hulled armored corvette built for the French Navy in the mid-1860s. Seen here high & dry at Fitzroy Dock, Sydney, 1873.
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HMNZS Endeavour (A11) refuelling HMNZS Waikato (F55) and HMNZS Wellington (F69).
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A rare on board shot on a Hunt Class destroyer in WW2 from the John Lambert Collection.
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The French fast battleship Richelieu.
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HMS Renown with HMS Ark Royal astern
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You cannot get enough photos of any Ark Royal. The post war old lady in 1960.
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The USS Iowa entering Majuro on 4 February 1944.
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Something that won't happen again. The RN's minehunter squadron in formation.
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Spanish Navy frigate Baleares (F-71), lead ship of her class, underway during exercise "Ocean Venture '81", on 1 September 1981
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Hermes heading south for the Total Exclusion Zone in the teeth of an Atlantic gale
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The Royal Canadian Navy with their Carrier Task Group in 1966
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Canadian Flower-class corvette HMCS Kitchener (K225) in the Northern Atlantic, ca.1942
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HMS Ramillies (one of five Revenge-class dreadnoughts built for the RN in WW1) leading some Town class light cruisers and a County class heavy cruiser, 1930s.
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Blake class all gun light cruiser HMS Tiger between 1959 and 1968
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Kirov class hah! See the power of our guided missile battleship!
USS Mississippi BB-41 firing an SAM-N-7 (later RIM-2) Terrier missile in 1954
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USS Mississippi BB-41 firing an SAM-N-7 (later RIM-2) Terrier missile in 1954
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