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Automated account by JD Media, LLC. Warships twice a day, from battleships to carriers, destroyers and submarines: what it is, where it served, and one piece of history worth knowing. Public-domain photos, credited. Not affiliated with the DoD.
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⚓ Military Ship Daily: a warship twice a day, from battleships to carriers and submarines: what it is, where it served, and one piece of history worth knowing. The full story follows in the thread.
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USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)
A Wasp-class assault ship launched in 1997, USS Bonhomme Richard returned to San Diego on 6 June 2005 after a six-month deployment.
📷 Department of Defense. American Forces Inform (public domain) · Wikimedia Commons
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A large gray Wasp-class amphibious assault ship approaches a pier with sailors lining the flight deck in white uniforms, while a large crowd of families below waves signs, flags, and balloons welcoming them home. AH-1W Cobra attack helicopter, rotors spinning, lifting off the flight deck of USS Bonhomme Richard with deck crew in yellow jerseys signaling below. MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft in flight over open ocean, rotors angled for forward flight, another helicopter visible in the distant sky. Amphibious assault vehicle driving through the flooded well deck of USS Bonhomme Richard at night, wake trailing behind, more vehicles waiting on the ramp.
October 7, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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⚓ Military Ship Daily: a warship twice a day, from battleships to carriers and submarines: what it is, where it served, and one piece of history worth knowing. The full story follows in the thread.
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October 7, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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USS Bunker Hill (CG-52)
USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), a Ticonderoga-class Aegis cruiser built by Litton-Ingalls and launched 1985, left San Diego Dec. 6, 2004 for deployment.
📷 U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Cl (public domain) · Wikimedia Commons
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A gray Navy guided-missile cruiser is escorted by two red-and-yellow tugboats as it gets underway from a naval base, under an overcast sky on calm water. Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) anchored in the Pacific Ocean, full starboard profile under overcast sky. USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) cruising up a river into Portland for Fleet Week, full port side view with city skyline and bridge in background. USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) departing Naval Station San Diego for deployment, full bow-to-stern starboard view with city skyline behind.
October 6, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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USS New Jersey (BB-62)
USS New Jersey (BB-62), an Iowa-class battleship commissioned in 1943, was tugged down the Delaware River from Camden to Paulsboro, NJ for maintenance on March 21, 2024.
📷 QuincyMorgan (CC0) · Wikimedia Commons
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A gray battleship, USS New Jersey, is towed by tugboats down a river beneath a large suspension bridge, with a city skyline in the background under a hazy sky. USS New Jersey battleship under tow by two tugboats, full hull visible, American flag and signal flags flying, clear blue sky USS New Jersey battleship with bow flag flying, escorted by tugboats on the river, two small boats in foreground Head-on view of USS New Jersey's forward 16-inch gun turrets with star insignia, deck and superstructure beyond, cloudy sky
October 6, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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USS Kansas (BB-21)
USS Kansas (BB-21), a pre-dreadnought battleship, joined the Great White Fleet's 1908–1909 world voyage that demonstrated American naval power.
📷 National Museum of the U.S. Navy (public domain) · Wikimedia Commons
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A sepia-toned photograph of an early 20th-century battleship underway at sea, painted white with four tall smokestacks emitting dark smoke, seen from a slight angle showing its full length from bow to stern. USS Kansas battleship underway at sea, broadside view with smoke billowing from three funnels and cage masts against open water. USS Kansas steaming at speed with full bow wake, cage masts and funnels smoking, a smaller vessel nearby in open water. USS Kansas battleship at anchor, full broadside view with masts and multiple funnels reflected on calm water.
October 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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USS Constitution
USS Constitution, a wooden frigate launched in 1797 and designed by Joshua Humphreys, is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat, now berthed in Boston.
📷 Benoît Prieur (CC0) · Wikimedia Commons
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The three tall masts and rigging of a historic wooden sailing warship, USS Constitution, silhouetted against a dusk sky with a snowy dockyard and city skyline in the background. USS Constitution firing a 21-gun salute in Boston Harbor, smoke rising, flags and pennants flying from its masts, tugboats and a fireboat spraying water nearby. USS Constitution under full sail in Boston Harbor with the city skyline in the background on a clear day. USS Constitution with full rigging and signal flags sailing past the Boston skyline, escorted by small boats.
October 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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USCGC Eagle (WIX-327)
Built in 1936 as the German training ship Horst Wessel, this barque was taken by the U.S. as war reparations and became USCGC Eagle; here she sails the Elbe near Cuxhaven, Germany, in 2011.
📷 Tvabutzku1234 (CC0) · Wikimedia Commons
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A three-masted tall ship with furled sails, painted white with a red, white, and blue diagonal stripe reading U.S. Coast Guard, underway on calm blue water under a partly cloudy sky. USCGC Eagle full broadside view under sail in Chesapeake Bay, tall ship with bare masts and red-white-blue hull stripe against blue sky and calm water. USCGC Eagle underway on the East River with full rigging, flags flying from the masts, New York skyline visible in background. USCGC Eagle sailing toward Brooklyn pier, bow-on angled view showing entire hull and three masts with colorful signal flags strung between them.
October 5, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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Virginia-class submarine USS Delaware (SSN-791)
USS Delaware is a Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine; this photo shows it running sea trials in the Atlantic in August 2019.
📷 Ashley Cowan/United States Navy/Huntington In (public domain) · Wikimedia Commons
A dark gray submarine with raised sail cuts diagonally through blue ocean water, leaving a wide white wake, under a clear sky. Virginia-class submarine USS Delaware surfaced and underway in a Faroe Islands fjord, green mountains and small town in the background. USS Delaware submarine moored pierside in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, with steep green mountains rising behind the harbor. Virginia-class attack submarine surfacing with a bow wave breaking over the hull, sailors on the sail, coastline in the distance.
October 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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⚓ Military Ship Daily: a warship three times a day, from battleships to carriers and submarines: what it is, where it served, and one piece of history worth knowing. The full story follows in the thread.
Public-domain photos, credited. Not affiliated with the DoD. Automated by JD Media, LLC.
October 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM