It's not every day you see an Aegis Guided Missile Cruiser sailing past a New England forest! This is the former USS Thomas S. Gates (CG-51), a massive Ticonderoga-class cruiser, making a tight transit. Likely on the Kennebec River during her sea trials from Bath Iron Works. #USNavy #GuidedMissileCruiser #NavalVessel #CG51 #WarshipPorn #ShipSpotting | Phanith Media

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43K views · 227 reactions | #OTD in 1958, USS Nautilus (SSN-571) became the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole. Due to the success of the mission, the crew of the Nautilus was also the first to be awarded a Presidential Unit Citation during peacetime. | U.S. Naval Institute | Facebook

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This is a battle for the movie screen! The battle between USS Buckley (DE-51) and U-66 on May 6, 1944, was one of the most intense and unusual naval engagements of World War II. It took place in the mid-Atlantic, about 500 miles off the coast of Cape Verde, and resulted in a rare hand-to-hand combat scenario between an American warship and a German U-boat. USS Buckley, a Buckley-class destroyer escort, was part of Task Group 21.11, a hunter-killer group assigned to track and destroy German U-boa