The Ukuru-class frigate/coast defense ship Ikuno—swum under by Godzilla—was completed post-war and given to the Soviet Union as a war reparation. One of the four disarmed destroyers depicted in the final battle is the illustrious Yukikaze—the only Kagerōu-class...
Another theory has it that it is the frigate Charlotte, which foundered in 1737, in about this location, but her length is believed to have been 36 to 40m, and armed with six-pounder cannons, so it is probably not her either. Fløte Træ Vrag (Dutch Fluyt), Øresund. Photo by...
(frigate) and HMAS Warrego (sloop) carried out survey operations and escort duties in Lingayen Gulf whilst under attack from both enemy aircraft and shore artillery batteries.Three former passenger ships that had been requisitioned into the Royal Australian Navy as armed merchant cruisers and ...
The Stettler having sailed without them, the bemused sailors reported to naval authorities. They were promptly assigned to the Gibraltar-bound Royal Navy frigate HMS Kent. Segal was to rue his misadventure to Folkestone. “We had been at sea about ten hours and I had just come off watch and...