Images Dated 24th September 2013

It pays to be adventurous ? Territorial and Army Volunteer R

It pays to be/ adventurous/ ...Do yourself a/ power of good/ in the/ Territorial/ and/ Army/ Volunteer/ Reserve.Colour photolithograph recruiting poster, 1975 (c).Prepared for the Ministry of Defence (Army) by the Central Office of Information.Published by the Ministry of Defence, 1975 (c).Associated with the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve. Date: circa 1975

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

Echinoderms, Jellyfish and Cnidarians, hand-colored lithograph, published in 1880

Echinoderms, Jellyfish and Cnidarians: 1) Sea cucumber (Pentacta frondosa), 2) European edible sea urchin (Echinus esculentus), 3) Phyllacanthus imperialis, 4) Common Sea Star (Asterias rubens), 5) Red cushion sea star (Oreaster reticulatus), 6) Moon jelly (Aurelia aurita), 7) Rhizostoma cuvieri, 8) Green hydra (Hydra viridissima), 9) Sea anemone (Actiniaria), 10) Table Coral (Madrepora abrotanoides), 11) Precious coral (Corallium rubrum), 12) Red sea feather (Pennatula rubra). Hand-colored lithograph, published in 1880

© ZU_09

Periscope of USS Dallas and HMS Illustrious

The periscope of the American submarine USS Dallas cuts through the surface as HMS Illustrious sails past in the morning haze.
HMS Illustrious, RFA Fort Victoria, RFA Fort Austin, USS Bulkeley and the American Los Angeles Class Submarine USS Dallas took part in a joint anti submarine exercise in the Middle East.
The aims of the exercise is to develop maritime interoperability by exercising Anti-Submarine Warfare tactics with US allies in the challenging sonar environment of the warm and shallow waters of the Gulf region.
The exercise was broken down into three phases. The ships and submarines initially tested acoustic and non-acoustics sensor performance against known positions, gaining useful real life data for the region.
The second phase relied on the ships escorting HMS Illustrious as the Mission Essential Unit (MEU) along a passage whilst evading detection and simulated torpedo attacks by USS Dallas.
In the final phase USS Dallas tried to locate and destroy RFA Fort Austin as the MEU, in a holding box which simulated an anchorage, as the UK and US naval ships provided protection. Additional helicopter support to the ships was ably provided by the Anti-Submarine sonar dipping Merlins embarked in HMS Illustrious and USS Bulkeley's Seahawk, with Westminster's Mark 8 Lynx helicopter providing an additional surface search and weapon carrying capability