Photos Navies Of All Nations

USN:
"USS Missouri (BB-63) under attack by Iraqi Silkworm". Painting, oil on canvas board by John Charles Roach, 1991.

While providing gunfire support to harass the Iraqi troops in Kuwait in preparation for a possible amphibious landing, USS Missouri (BB-63) was fired upon by an Iraqi silkworm anti-ship missile. By the use of infrared flares and chaff, the missile's guidance was confused. It crossed close astern of Missouri and was engaged and shot down by HMS Gloucester (D-96).

USN:
Battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan, 14 October 1989. Followed by battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9) and other screening vessels following astern of the cruiser

USN & RN:
"Battle of Lake Erie" By Patrick Lyons O’Brien

The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, on Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the war, which in turn allowed the Americans to recover Detroit and win the Battle of the Thames to break the Indian confederation of Tecumseh. It was one of the biggest naval battles of the War of 1812.

USN & USSR:
USS Truett FF-1095 has a close encounter of the Soviet kind with Moskva, 1978.

RN:
Aircraft carrier HMS EAGLE enters Portsmouth Harbour, 1970

RN:
Aircraft carrier HMS Formidable at Alexandria, May 1941. The black void on the starboard bow is a hole approximately 52 ft x 14 ft, caused by a 2,200lb SAP bomb

There were nine ratings killed and eight wounded as a result of the bombing. Of the latter two subsequently died from wounds received.

Revenge-class super-dreadnought battleship HMS Ramillies during WW2

USN:
USS Aaron Ward, a Smith-class destroyer minelayer (Sumner-class destroyer minus torpedo launchers) having endured six kamikaze hits, including a bomb to each fireroom, as a radar picket at Okinawa, May 5 1945; note an aeroplane propeller stuck in the superstructure behind the aft turret

"Now began the nightlong fight to save the AARON WARD and her crew by the damage control parties and Medical Department. The ship was dead in the water. Fires raged in the after officers' and chief's quarters, both 40mm clipping rooms, and the after engine room. The superstructure deck from the midships passage aft was a mass of twisted flaming steel. The forward fire room, the after fire room, the after engine room, living compartment C203-L, after diesel engine room, machine shop and shaft alleys were completely flooded. There was no pressure in the fire and flushing mains.

Complete darkness, except the light of our fires had set in. Enemy planes were still in the vicinity, and were being constantly reported by Combat.

During the entire time, men constantly braved exploding ammunition and the blazing inferno to rescue and render first aid to their injured shipmates. Acts of heroism and bravery above and beyond the call of duty were common occurrences rather than the exception. Men who were injured aft had to be carried along the starboard passageway through exploding ammunition and flames, in order to reach the remaining battle dressing stations. Men constantly performed this act as a matter of course and gave it no further thought."

Imperial Russia:
Battleship Petropavlovsk, 1916-7, with her twelve 305 mm guns trained to starboard


A triple 305 mm Pattern 1907 turret on a Gangut-class battleship


The Gangut-class battleships, also known as the "Sevastopol class", were the first dreadnoughts begun for the Imperial Russian Navy before World War I. They had a convoluted design history involving several British companies, evolving requirements, an international design competition, and foreign protests. Four ships were ordered in 1909, Gangut, Poltava, Petropavlovsk, and Sevastopol. Construction was delayed by financing problems until the Duma formally authorized the ships in 1911. They were delivered from December 1914 through January 1915, although they still needed work on the gun turrets and fire-control systems until mid-1915. Their role was to defend the mouth of the Gulf of Finland against the Germans, who never tried to enter, so the ships spent their time training and providing cover for minelaying operations. Their crews participated in the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet after the February Revolution in 1917, and joined the Bolsheviks the following year.

RN:
HMS Unicorn arriving at Kure, Japan, August 1950

RN:
June 2017, HMS Queen Elizabeth at anchor, having just sailed for the first time from Rosyth dockyard, where she was built. The two T23s, HMS Iron Duke (F234) and HMS Sutherland (F81) are conducting a sailpast before acting as her escorts during part of sea trials and also providing a Merlin HM2 to be the first to land on the new aircraft carrier.


HMS Duncan Arriving in Cardiff for NATO Summit, Sept 16, 2014

5th December 2012. Astute class submarine HMS Ambush is pictured during sea trials near Scotland. Ambush, second of the nuclear powered attack submarines, was named in Barrow on 16 December 2010 and launched on 5 January 2011.

Imperial Germany:
Dreadnought battleship SMS Kaiser, 1915


Battlecruiser SMS Lützow as completed. She was Hipper's flagship at Jutland, and sunk HMS Invincible, but took 24 hits from heavy calibre guns and was later scuttled.


Battleship SMS Baden scuttled/beached in Scapa Flow, 1919. For a scuttled ship, she had a relatively exciting following two years.

Once pumped out at Scapa, she was towed to Invergordon and docked in floating dock AFD.5. […] An inspection was also carried out by the British naval constructor Stanley Goodall (later a Director of Naval Construction), who produced a critique of her design. This noted a number of flaws in protection from the British point of view, including the retention of the after torpedo room adjacent to a 38cm shell-room […], together with bulkheads judged to be 25 per cent less strong than their British equivalents. It was also noted that accommodation was below British standards.

Pronounced as ‘cleared of free water and rubbish and … watertight’ and ‘fit to be towed’ on 8 October 1919, Baden was then taken to Portsmouth and used for trials, both of mechanisms (e.g. the main-battery loading arrangements: ‘A’ turret was removed for further examination) and of structures. Thus, charges were ignited within the superimposed turrets to test flash-tightness, before the ship was employed in live-firing tests. […] Baden was subject to firings that began on 2 February 1921, using an updated version of the new British 15in (380mm) shell that had been developed following the shell failures at Jutland. As the trials were carried out at short range (500m), the ship was heeled by ballasting to simulate plunging shellfire. The tests confirmed the enhanced effectiveness of the new British shells, one penetrating the upper belt, armoured deck and inner bunker bulkhead and bursting in the forward boiler room. Leaking badly, the ship foundered the following day in bad weather, albeit in shallow water, with a 10 degree list to starboard.

Three months later, Baden was refloated (for the second time in her short career) and patched up for the next trial, on 10 August 1921 and with Terror’s sister Erebus as firing ship. As well as more 15in shellfire (fourteen hits), six aerial bombs were placed aboard and detonated. On 16 August 1921 Baden was scuttled in the Hurd Deep, mid-way between Weymouth and Jersey, coming to a rest on her side in 180 metres of water, her turrets having apparently f

USN:
USS America (CV-66) underway in the Indian Ocean, 24 April 1983. America, with assigned Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1), was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean from 8 December 1982 to 2 June 1983.


13th June 1993, Six vessels of Patrol Combatant Missile Hydrofoil squadron 2 travel in formation en route to Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Va. for decommissioning. The formation includes the USS PEGASUS (PHM-1), USS HERCULES (PHM-2), USS TAURUS (PHM-3), USS AQUILA (PHM-4), USS ARIES (PHM-5) and USS GEMINI (PHM-6)

Greece:
The flagship, Pisa-class armoured cruiser Georgios Averof, Launched 12 March 1910. Now a floating museum in Palaio Faliro, Athens.

USN:
Lithograph of USS Massachusetts (BB-2), one of America's first pre-dreadnought battleships.

USN:
USS Nevada (BB-35) painted Red-Orange for the Crossroads Nuclear Test 1946

USN:
USS Saratoga (CV-3) dressed with flags on Navy Day, 27 October 1932

Germany:
U-660 from the HMS Starwort, just after the submarine had been blown to the surface.

Sunk on 12 November 1942 in the Mediterranean Sea north of Oran, in position 36.07N, 01.00W, by depth charges from the British corvettes HMS Lotus and HMS Starwort. 2 dead and 45 survivors.

USN, RN, France & Italy:
Naval vessels from four nations fall into position off the bow of Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN-74) for a parade formation and a rare photographic opportunity in the Arabian Sea during Operation Enduring Freedom, February 2002

Other ships include the Royal Navy Type 42 Class Destroyer Her Majestys Ship (HMS) SOUTHAMPTON (D-90) (left), Invincible Class (CV) Aircraft Carrier HMS ILLUSTRIOUS (R 06) (right), French Cassard Class Destroyer JEAN BART (D 615) (center), Charles de Gaulle Class Aircraft Carrier CHARLES DE GAULLE (R 91) (center right), Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71) (rear left), and Italian Navy (Marina Militare) ship Garibaldi Class Aircraft Carrier MM GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI (C 551)

USN:
USS George Washington (CVN-73) 2013

TRNC CG (KKTC SG)

TRNC ( Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ) Coast Guard Command

Total : 238 Staff 36 Coast Guard Boats for a quarter million populated nation..