Naval Warfare – Combat Rated

Naval Warfare, Submarines, U.S. Navy

David Patrick
5:00 am

How USS Tang was credited with sinking 31 ships on five patrols before one of her own torpedoes circled back and sank her on Oct. 24, 1944

The last torpedo USS Tang (SS-306) fired on her fifth war patrol did not run

Naval Warfare, Warships

David Patrick
11:28 am

India commissioned INS Samarthak on Oct. 16, the first of its multi-purpose vessels and the first major warship built by an Indian private shipyard

INS Samarthak has joined the Indian Navy as a ship built for a job most

Naval Warfare, Submarines

David Patrick
6:24 am

France’s fifth Suffren-class nuclear attack submarine, Rubis, left Naval Group’s construction hall in Cherbourg on Oct. 16 on its way to its first launch, France’s arms agency says

CHERBOURG, France — The fifth boat of France’s Suffren class, the nuclear attack submarine Rubis,

Naval Warfare, Warships

David Patrick
6:49 am

Germany will buy eight identical MEKO frigates after pulling out of its Damen contract for the F126, the frigate it had planned for submarine hunting, over significant performance problems

Eight frigates of one design will now carry the German Navy’s submarine hunt, the job

Naval Warfare, U.S. Navy, Warships

David Patrick
5:33 am

Over 12 days in May 1944, the destroyer escort USS England sank six Japanese submarines, a feat the Navy’s history office calls never duplicated

Six submarines in 12 days. That was the tally the destroyer escort USS England (DE-635)

Naval Warfare, U.S. Navy

David Patrick
2:30 pm

Of the 46,000 ships convoyed across the Atlantic from late 1939 to VE Day, about one in 174 was sunk, the Navy’s 1945 convoy history found

One ship in 174. That is the ratio of ships torpedoed and sunk that the

Carriers, Naval Warfare

David Patrick
12:00 pm

HMS Queen Elizabeth has left Belfast after the first visit by a Royal Navy aircraft carrier to Northern Ireland’s capital in more than 60 years

HMS Centaur, in the summer of 1965, was the last aircraft carrier to stop in

Naval Warfare, Warships

David Patrick
11:00 am

Ukrainian Navy minehunters Chernihiv and Cherkasy fired Seafox mine-disposal drones live as five Portsmouth-based Ukrainian ships finished seven days of training

Live charges, not drills, ended the week for two Ukrainian Navy minehunters off England’s south

Naval Warfare, U.S. Navy, Warships

David Patrick
1:30 pm

How the nuclear-powered frigate USS Bainbridge steamed 30,565 miles around the world in 65 days during Operation Sea Orbit without a single refueling or replenishment

Two pressurized water reactors carried the guided-missile frigate USS Bainbridge (DLGN 25) around the globe

Naval Warfare, Submarines

David Patrick
11:30 am

Japan has launched Shogei, the seventh Taigei-class submarine, a 3,000-ton-type boat built at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Kobe shipyard, with delivery planned in fiscal 2027

Kobe’s shipyard has sent another Taigei-class submarine down the ways. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries held the