Devonport Naval Base
Royal Navy Type 22 'Broadsword' and Type 23 'Duke' Class Frigates, including HMS Argyll F231, HMS Cornwall F99 and HMS Cumberland F85 are seen at Devonport Naval Base (viewed from the Torpoint Ferry) on 26th June 2011. How rapidly our navy changes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9UHTeDtjk
HMS Cornwall F99
Past Warships! Royal Navy Type 22 'Broadsword' Class Frigate HMS Cornwall F99 is seen at Devonport Naval Base on 26th June 2011. She had returned to her home port of Devonport on 26th April, and just four days after this was filmed, she was decommissioned, and later towed to Swansea for scrapping in October 2013, after being stored at Portsmouth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MZR0inFtec
HMS Cumberland F85
Having entered her home base of Devonport on 18th April 2011, Royal Navy Type 22 'Broadsword' Class Frigate HMS Cumberland F85 is seen at Devonport on 26th June 2011, having been decommissioned just 3 days earlier. Hard to believe that this mighty frigate had been involved in evacuating British civilians from Libya effected by the civil war just a few months earlier. Launched in 1986, HMS Cumberland was a victim of the 2010 Defence Review, and in July 2013 was sold to Leyal Recycling in Turkey for scrapping, a warship that certainly had years of life still ahead of her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADHoalkcJMY
HMS Illustrious R06
Viewed from Torpoint, the Royal Navy's last 'Invincible' class aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious R06, makes a final visit to Devonport Naval Base as part of FOST on 1st June 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBbUblULs0c
HMS Kent F78
Filmed from the Torpoint Ferry, HMS Kent F78, a Type 23 'Duke' Class Frigate of the Royal Navy, is seen looking splendid whilst undergoing the latter stages of her refit at Devonport Naval Base on 24th June 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUKggRQr9vA
PHM Atlantico A140 (Ex HMS Ocean)
Ex Royal Navy, and now Brazilian Navy Landing Platform Helicopter PHM Atlantico A140 (Ex HMS Ocean) is seen under-going preperations at Devonport Naval Base on 10th June 2018 prior to her sailing to her new home in Brazil, following her sale to the Brazilian Navy for £84 million. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=026EsZPmvKc
A video update on the former HMS Ocean at Devonport Naval Base on 19th June 2018. Filmed from a 'Warship Tour,' the former HMS Ocean, the Royal Navy's former flagship which has been sold to the Brazilian Navy and now renamed PHM Atlantico A140, is seen looking very smart with her large pennant number 'A140' on the bow and displaying her new name 'Atlantico,' with her being scheduled to be officially re-named on 29th June 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c18pyUmdKo
A further update on the transformation of HMS Ocean. Now adorned and renamed as PHM Atlantico, with the pennant number of A140, the former HMS Ocean looks very ship-shape as she sits in 'Frigate Alley' at Devonport Naval Base on 24th June 2018. At least she is assured of a further 20-30 years life with the Brazilian Navy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKEdAUKGfMI
HMS Protector A173
HMS Protector A173, the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol Ship which is normally based in the South Atlantic surveying areas like the Antarctic, makes a rare visit to Plymouth (UK) at Devonport Naval Base on 18th January 2020.
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RV Triton
When I photographed this warship, I didn't realise just how important to Royal Navy design evolution she was!! RV Triton (never HMS Triton as she was never part of the fleet) was a trimaran concept research vessel for the Royal Navy, that was intended to test the trimaran concept for large warships, and at 2236 tons with a length of 318 feet and a beam of 73 feet was similar in size to a Type 12 or 'Leander' class frigate. RV Triton is seen alongside at Devonport Naval Base on 17th February 2001, shortly after delivery and whilst being evaluated by the RN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5zgHrJTcTw
USNS Big Horn T-AO-198
United States Navy 'Big Horn' T-AO-198 is a 'Henry J. Kaiser' Class Fleet Replenishment Oiler and is seen leaving Devonport Naval Base at Torpoint on 23rd September 2018. Named after the Big Horn River in Wyoming, USNS Big Horn is the twelfth ship of the Henry J. Kaiser class and was built at Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana and launched on 2nd February 1991. She entered non-commissioned U.S. Navy service under the control of the Military Sealift Command with a primarily civilian crew on 21 May 1992. Manned by a mixture of US naval and merchant navy personnel, USNS Big Horn has a maximum displacement of almost 43,000 tons and is powered by two medium-speed Colt-Pielstick PC4-2/2 10V-570 diesel engines which give the ship a maximum speed of 20 knots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-XzJzw_I0g
USS Donald Cook DDG-75
Viewed from the Torpoint Ferry, USS Donald Cook DDG-75, an Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer of the United States Navy heads up the River Tamar and passes Frigate Refit Complex (the largest covered dock in Europe) as she leaves Devonport Naval Base and heads from base to sea at 1830 on 15th September 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNivjyZ__xY
Devonport Navy Days - 1991
A review of Devonport Navy Days 1991. Held over 24th-26th August 1991, this review includes HMS Ark Royal V R07, HMS Illustrious R06 (undergoing refit), HMS Marlborough F233, HMS Battleaxe F89, HMS Brazen F91, HMS Brave F94, HMS Campbeltown F86, HMS Cumberland F85, HMS Sovereign S107, HMS Trafalgar S108, RFA Olwen A122, FGS Hamburg D181, FGS Breydel M906, FGS Ulm M1083 & FGS Volkingen M1087. What a marvellous display of warships from 27 years ago!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLqDFxJWoqw
Filmed from the Torpoint Ferry, we see warships berthed at Devonport Naval Base on 24th June 2018 with representatives from the Royal Navy, Brazilian Navy and German Navy including soon to leave for Brazil, Helicopter Carrier PHM Atlantico A140 (Ex HMS Ocean), and frigates FGS Augsberg F213, HMS Somerset F82, HMS Monmouth F235 & HMS Kent F78 (undergoing the final stages of refit). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYOjbfawkfI