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List Of Ships Present At International Fleet Review, 2005
List of ships present at the International Fleet Review, Portsmouth, July 2005. None of the photographs were taken at the Review unless otherwise noted. Navy representatives Royal Navy Aircraft carriers * HMS ''Invincible'' * HMS ''Illustrious'' Amphibious landing ships * HMS ''Ocean'' * HMS ''Albion'' * HMS ''Bulwark'' * RFA ''Sir Galahad'' * RFA ''Sir Tristram'' * RFA ''Sir Bedivere'' Submarines * ** HMS ''Trafalgar'' ** HMS ''Turbulent'' ** HMS ''Trenchant'' Destroyers * Type 42 ** HMS ''Exeter'' ** HMS ''Southampton'' ** HMS ''Nottingham'' ** HMS ''Gloucester'' ** HMS ''Cardiff'' Frigates * Type 22 ** HMS ''Chatham'' ** HMS ''Cumberland'' * Type 23 ** HMS ''Grafton'' ** HMS ''Lancaster'' ** HMS ''Iron Duke'' ** HMS ''Marlborough'' ** HMS ''Montrose'' ** HMS ''Westminster'' ** HMS ''St Albans'' Survey vessels *Coastal survey vessels ** HMS ''Roebuck'' ** HMSML ''Gleaner'' *Ocean survey vessels ** HMS ''Scott'' * ** HMS ''Enterprise'' Antarctic pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Fleet Review From Gosport
International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The Three Degrees album), 1975 *''International'', 2018 album by L'Algérino Songs * The Internationale, the left-wing anthem * "International" (Chase & Status song), 2014 * "International", by Adventures in Stereo from ''Monomania'', 2000 * "International", by Brass Construction from ''Renegades'', 1984 * "International", by Thomas Leer from ''The Scale of Ten'', 1985 * "International", by Kevin Michael from ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * "International", by McGuinness Flint from ''McGuinness Flint'', 1970 * "International", by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from '' Dazzle Ships'', 1983 * "International (Serious)", by Estelle from '' All of Me'', 2012 Politics * Political international, any transnational organization of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type 42 Destroyer
The Type 42 or ''Sheffield'' class, was a class of fourteen guided-missile destroyers that served in the Royal Navy.Marriott, Leo: ''Royal Navy Destroyers since 1945'', , Ian Allan Ltd, 1989 A further two ships of this class were built for and served with the Argentine Navy. The first ship of the class was ordered in 1968 and launched in 1971. Two of the class (''Sheffield'' and ''Coventry'') were sunk in action during the Falklands War of 1982. The Royal Navy used this class of destroyer for 38 years between 1975 and 2013. No ships of this class remain active in the Royal Navy and one remains in the Argentine Navy. The Royal Navy has replaced them with Type 45 destroyers. History The class was designed in the late 1960s to provide fleet area air defence. In total fourteen vessels were constructed in three batches. In addition to the Royal Navy ships, two more ships were built to the same specifications as the Batch 1 vessels for the Argentine Navy. ''Hércules'' was built i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type 23 Frigate
The Type 23 frigate or Duke class is a class of frigates built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. The ships are named after British Dukes, thus leading to the class being commonly known as the Duke class. The first Type 23, , was commissioned in 1989, and the sixteenth, was commissioned in June 2002. They form the core of the Royal Navy's destroyer and frigate fleet and serve alongside the Type 45 destroyers. They were designed for anti-submarine warfare, but have been used for a range of uses. Twelve Type 23 frigates remain in service with the Royal Navy, with three vessels having been sold to the Chilean Navy, and one being retired in 2021. The Royal Navy's Type 23 frigates will be replaced by the Type 26 Global Combat Ship and the Type 31 frigate. it is anticipated that HMS ''St Albans'' will be the last to retire from the Royal Navy, in 2035. Development When first conceived in the late 1970s, the Type 23 was intended to be a light anti-submarine frigate with a towed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Cumberland (F85)
HMS ''Cumberland'' was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the British Royal Navy. She was launched in 1986 and commissioned on 10 June 1989. The frigate was on station during the First Gulf War and was part of the Devonport Flotilla based at Devonport Dockyard. ''Cumberland'' was decommissioned on 23 June 2011. History On commissioning she became part of the 8th Frigate Squadron. Her first commanding officer was Captain Mike Gregory. Captain Gregory, a submariner, was previously awarded the OBE for the longest continuously submerged patrol in Royal Navy history. The ship's first two deployments were to the US and Canada, in 1989 and 1990 respectively. The first in 1989 called at both Fort Lauderdale and Baltimore where the ship became the focus of an anti-nuclear protest over suspicions that the ship carried nuclear weapons. In 1990, she again crossed the Atlantic to visit New York, before sailing North to the St Lawrence Seaway with a brief stop in Montreal followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Chatham (F87)
HMS ''Chatham'' was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the British Royal Navy. She was decommissioned on 8 February 2011. Chatham had the rare honour of a motto in English; ''Up and at 'em'', being the rallying cry of the Medway town football and rugby teams. The motto has subsequently been translated back into Latin as ''Surge et vince''. Operational history 1990–1999 ''Chatham'' joined Operation Sharp Guard to enforce the embargo against the former Yugoslavia in 1993. Her most notable action was on 1 May 1994 and the capture of the Maltese freighter ''Lido II'', which was suspected of smuggling fuel to Montenegro. The British frigate assisted the Dutch frigate , who had forced the merchant to stop. Three Yugoslav missile boats challenged the NATO operation and one of them attempted to ram ''Chatham''. The corvettes were driven off by the actions of the British warship, supported by Italian Tornado aircraft which scrambled from an airbase at Gioia Del Colle. ''Lido II'' underw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type 22 Frigate
The Type 22 frigate also known as the ''Broadsword'' class was a class of frigates built for the British Royal Navy. Fourteen were built in total, with production divided into three batches. Initially intended to be anti-submarine warfare frigates as part of NATO contribution, the ships became general purpose warships. HMS ''Cornwall'' was the last Royal Navy Type 22 frigate, retired from service on 30 June 2011. Five Type 22s were scrapped and two more were sunk as targets. The seven other vessels were sold to the Brazilian, Romanian and Chilean navies; five of these remain in service, one was sunk as a target and one sold for scrap. Ship naming ''Broadsword'', ''Boxer'' It was originally envisaged that all Type 22s would have names beginning with 'B' (''Broadsword'', etc.), following the 'A' names used for Type 21 frigates (''Amazon'', etc.). This changed after the Falklands War when two replacement ships were ordered for the destroyers sunk ( ''Sheffield'' and ''Cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Cardiff (D108)
HMS ''Cardiff'' was a British Type 42 destroyer and the third ship of the Royal Navy to be named in honour of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff. ''Cardiff'' served in the Falklands War, where she was involved in the 1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident. She also shot down the last Argentine aircraft of the conflict and accepted the surrender of a 700-strong garrison in the settlement of Port Howard. During the 1991 Gulf War, her Lynx helicopter sank two Iraqi minesweepers. She later participated in the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq as part of the Royal Navy's constant Armilla patrol, but was not involved in the actual invasion. ''Cardiff'' was decommissioned in July 2005, and sent for scrapping despite calls by former servicemen for her to be preserved as a museum ship and local tourist attraction in Cardiff. Construction The Type 42 destroyers (also known as the ''Sheffield'' class) were made in three batches; ''Cardiff'' was built in the first. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Gloucester (D96)
HMS ''Gloucester'' was a Batch 3 Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, built by Vosper Thorneycroft at Woolston, Southampton and launched on 2 November 1982 by The Duchess of Gloucester. ''Gloucester'' was one of the modified last four of the class to be built, having a lengthened hull design giving better seakeeping qualities, greater endurance and an external 'strake' to counter longitudinal cracking, seen on earlier ships of the type. The flight deck recognition letters worn by ''Gloucester'' were GC, and her international callsign was GBBF. History In January 1987 ''Gloucester'' sailed for her first deployment; Armilla patrol, protecting civilian ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Port visits included Djibouti City; Sharjah; Manama; Karachi; Mombasa and Naples, returning to her homeport in June 1987. In January 1988 the ship again deployed to the Gulf for an Armilla patrol. Port visits this time included Bahrain; Dubai; Mombasa and Rhodes. Further visits were planned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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