Warships around the World

Patrol vessel H.M.S. Explorer (P164) off Battery Point, Portishead on 14th July 2021.

Patrol vessel H.M.S. Explorer (P164) off Battery Point, Portishead on 14th July 2021.

Patrol vessel H.M.S. Explorer (P164) off Battery Point, Portishead on 14th July 2021.She is an Archer-class P2000-type patrol and training vessel commissioned in 1986.Explorer, along with the other 13 URNU-assigned Archer class vessels, is assigned to the 1st Patrol Boat Squadron (1PBS) under the operational command of Commander 1PBS. As such, they are assigned to the Portsmouth flotilla, although in practise most vessels are based elsewhere.

Point Class sea-lift ship Hurst Point arriving in Southampton on 19th July 2019 inbound for Marchwood Military Port.

Breeches Buoy from SMS Breslau which was a Magdeburg-class cruiser of the Imperial German Navy,built in the early 1910s she and the battlecruiser Goeben were assigned to the Mediterranean Division in response to the Balkan Wars.She reached Constantinople,and with Goeben were transferred in 1914 to the Ottoman Empire.The two ships,with other Ottomanan vessels, raided Russian ports in October 1914, prompting Russia to decare war.They were renamed Midilli and Yavûz Sultân Selîm and saw service with the Ottoman fleet,mainly in the Black Sea against the Russians.Midilli was active in laying minefields off the Russian coast, bombarding Russian ports etc.They also transported troops and supplies to the Black Sea ports supplying Ottoman troops fighting in the Caucasus Campaign.She was lightly damaged several times by Russian ships, but the most serious damage was inflicted by a mine in 1915 The ship was mined and sunk in January 1918 during the Battle of Imbros, with the loss of the vast majority of her crew.

Type 45 Destroyer D32 H.M.S.Daring in Portsmouth Harbour on 8th August 2015.

Portsmouth Harbour,27th August 2014.Type 45s H.M.S.Duncan with H.M.S.Daring on the inside.

County Class destroyer D02 H.M.S.Devonshire at the 1977 Silver Jubilee Spithead Review.Devonshire was decommissioned in1978.Laid up in Portsmouth harbour for six years, the ship was used as a target, first for testing the new Sea Eagle Air-Launched Cruise Missile, then sunk by HMS Splendid as a target on 17 July 1984 (two days after the Sea Eagle test) in the North Atlantic, whilst testing the Mark 24-Mod-2 Tigerfish torpedo

Tribal Class Type Frigate,F133 H.M.S.Tartar at the 1977 Silver Jubilee Spithead Review..After being decommissioned in 1984, Gurkha was sold to Indonesia. She was renamed Hasanuddin. She is was in 1984, Gurkha was sold to Indonesia. She was renamed Wilhelmus Zakarias Yohannes After being decommissioned in 1984, she was sold to Indonesia.and renamed Hasanuddin.She is now decommissioned.