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Monday 26 April 2010
Jupiter
MV Jupiter heading back to Gourock passes some navy ships that were on the Joint Warrior exercise 2010.
Sunday 25 April 2010
Saturday 24 April 2010
RMS Empress of Asia
RMS Empress of Asia was an ocean liner built in 1912-1913[1] by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships. She was distinguished by the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) prefix in front of her name because the British government and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) had decades earlier reached agreement on a contract for subsidized mail service between Britain and Hong Kong via Canada.
As well as being a passenger liner in peacetime, Empress of Asia served as an armed merchant cruiser and a troopship in wartime. She was sunk during World War II by Japanese aircraft while transiting from Bombay to Singapore.
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Friday 23 April 2010
Thursday 22 April 2010
Wednesday 21 April 2010
Monday 19 April 2010
USS Laboon (DDG-58)
Saturday 17 April 2010
Friday 16 April 2010
USS Vicksburg (CG-69)
Thursday 15 April 2010
USS Barry (DDG-52)
USS Barry (DDG-52) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, commissioned in 1992. Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Barry is homeported at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.
Barry is named after the "Father of the American Navy", Commodore John Barry (1745-1803). Born in County Wexford, Ireland, in 1745, John Barry was appointed a Captain in the Continental Navy 7 December 1775. He commanded Lexington and Alliance during the Revolutionary War. He was seriously wounded 29 May 1781, while in command of the Alliance during her capture of the British ships HMS Atalanta and HMS Trespassy. Appointed Senior Captain upon the establishment of the US Navy subsequent to the ratification of the US Constitution in 1788, Captain Barry commanded the frigate United States in the Quasi-War with France. Commodore Barry died on 13 September 1803, at Strawberry Hill near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
She was on the Clyde for Joint Warrior 2010.
Wednesday 14 April 2010
USS Vella Gulf CG 72
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