The Beginnings of the Undersea Arms Race - Published OTD in 1896 in the Saint Paul Globe: "Fighting Under Water: Every Naval Power Possesses or Is Building a Submarine Navy." Caption: "Naval authorities declare the battles of the future will all be fought beneath the waves."

Borea at high speed

Submarines SS #RsmgOtaria (1935-1948) Glauco Class 📷 #WW2 #BETASOM #Bordeaux Marina Militare 🇮🇹

HMS Vanquisher (D54) V-class Destroyer Builder: John Brown & Company, Clydebank (1917-1945) Sold for scrapping 4 March, or 4 May, 1947. Vanquisher took part in history's first deployment of operational magnetic bottom mines when she joined Abdiel, Telemachus, and the

Destroyers DD #HSLonchi 56 (1960-1990) ex #USSHall DD583 Fletcher Class 📷 Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy Πολεμικό Ναυτικό 🇬🇷

Loch class frigate HMCS Loch Achanalt (K 424): Laid down 13.09.43.

Renown in Pedro Miguel Lock, Panama Canal, 13 Sep 1920

„Piękna pogoda to nie tylko słońce, ale również wiatr i deszcz” – Vincent Van Gogh źródło:Navy General Board

#OTD 1944 5thMSF deploys from Malta to sweep Kithera Strait. (HMS LARNE (pic), SYLVIA, OCTAVIA, CLINTON, OCTAVIA, STORMCLOUD & WELFARE with danlayers HASCOSAY & STROMA and 5 MLs. Over the next 3 weeks the Kithera Strait is swept, plus approaches to Poros & Piraeus #Sweepers80

76mm anti-aircraft gun aboard ORP Blyskawica, Britain, 13 Sep 1940

HMS Centaur (R06) Centaur-class fleet carrier⚓️

Smoke rising from ammunition ship Mary Luckenbach of Allied convoy PQ-18, 13 Sep 1942; seen from flight deck of carrier, possibly HMS Avenger

Enterprise making 20 knots during post-overhaul trials, Puget Sound, 13 Sep 1945

USS Intrepid in the South China Sea, 13 Sep 1966

T class destroyer HMS Teazer (R 23) Lt.Cdr. Arthur Allison FitzRoy Talbot, DSO, RN: Commissioned 13.09.43.

Destroyers #USSButler DD 636 (1942-1945) Gleaves Class 📷 #WW2 Atlantic convoy duty in 1944 From #USSLiddle DE206 U.S. Navy 🇺🇸

USS Portland (CA 33) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California (USA), 30 July 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 32, Design 7d. She’d been at Mare Island for amajor extensive overhaul, and returned to the Pacific in time to join the shore bombardments of Peleliu from 12 to 14

#OTD 1944 in NW Europe the battle to defeat the ‘oyster’ (pressure) mine continues. Coastal Command aircraft have been dropping depth charges along the approach channel to Le Havre with little success. (1/3) #InstantSunshine #IYKYK