The Royal Navy’s anti-submarine sentry – the Towed Array Patrol Ship's, Type 23 and Merlin .

 

Merlin of 814 NAS on board HMS Portland, a Towed Array Patrol Ship.

 

The Blackburn B-54 was a post war prototype ASW aircraft built for Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy.

 

On this day in 1966 the first Royal Navy F4-K Phantom made its first flight at the McDonnell Douglas factory in St. Louis. The Phantom would become the FAA interceptor throughout the 70s until HMS Ark Royal was retired. You can still see the exact same aircraft on display Fleet Air Arm Museum.

 

Agusta Westland AW159 Wildcat of the Royal Navy Commando Helicopter Force.

 

A Fairy Swordfish floatplane taxies past two famous ships which were lost early in WW2. The destroyer HMS GLOWWORM was lost to the Admiral Hipper 8 Apr 40 while the battlecruiser HMS HOOD was lost to the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen 24 May 41.

 

HMS Vanguard flight.

 Exercise Mariner 3, 1953. And HMS Vanguard would go on to operate both RN FAA Westland WS-51 Dragonflies and USN Piasecki HUP-2s on occasion in the 1950s.