His Majesty’s Australian Submarine AE1 was launched in the yard of Vickers Ltd at Barrow-in-Furness, England on 22 May 1913. She commissioned at Portsmouth on 28 February 1914 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Thomas Fleming Besant, RN. She was the first of two E Class submarines built for the fledgling Royal Australian…
03/25/2015: In its around the world deployment, the USS Theodore Roosevelt has anchored off of Portsmouth on its round the world deployment. According to a story published on the UK Ministry of Defence Website on March 22, 2015: The giant aircraft carrier and her escort, the destroyer Winston S Churchill,…
03/11/2013: The Coast Guard Cutter Forward returns to homeport in Portsmouth, Va., Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, after a 45-day patrol in the Caribbean Sea in support of Operation Martillo. The law enforcement crews aboard the Forward teamed with crew members from the Coast Guard Cutter Confidence and an embarked aviation…
