Photos Navies Of All Nations

RN:
July 1906, Shutter Rock, Lundy Island. An epic effort is made to salvage battleship HMS Montagu which ran aground on May 30, but the tides will ultimately damage the ship beyond repairs.
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USN:
USS Halyburton (FFG-40) refuels from USS Iowa (BB-61) in the North Atlantic, 6 Sept 1985
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USN:
Arleigh Burke class destroyers USS The Sullivans, USS Roosevelt, USS Carney and Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Vicksburg launch a salvo of SM-2MR SAMs during VANDALEX 2003
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USN:
Light cruiser USS Atlanta coming alongside heavy cruiser USS San Francisco for refueling, 16 Oct 1942
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PT-170, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 10 (MTBRon 10), painted in “zebra” pattern, c. 1942
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19 December 1944, East of Luzon Island, Philippines. Stricken by Typhoon Cobra, aircraft carrier USS Monterey (CVL-26) survives a massive fire on her hangar deck which broke after several Grumman TBM-1C Avenger torpedo bombers have slammed into one another.
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USS North Carolina (BB-55) transiting the Panama Canal, 11 Oct 1945
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Italy:
Heavy cruisers sailing in a line-ahead formation: Trieste, Bolzano and Trento of the same class, followed by Zara, Fiume, Pola and Gorizia (Zara-class)
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Light cruiser Armando Diaz
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Light cruisers Armando Diaz and Luigi Cadorna during the Battle of Punta Stilo (Calabria), 9 July 1940
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Light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni at Taranto in 1936 - colourized by irootoko_jr
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Imperial Japan:
IJN Kirishima (L) and IJN Akagi (R) in Tsukumowan Bay, April 27, 1939
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Italy:
Horizon-class destroyer (L) Bergamini class FREMM variants (C & R) and a Ninfe-class research vessel at the end of the wharf.
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Russia:
RFS 375 'Dmitriy Rogachev', a patrol ship of Project 22160 (Vasiliy Bykov Class) arriving in Sevastopol on 23 May 2021. Photo from Novic1975
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RN:
On May 25th, 1982 the Bristol Group arrives in the Falklands with eight ships. More than replacing losses so far. Pictured are HMS Bristol, HMS Cardiff, HMS Active, HMS Avenger, HMS Andromeda, HMS Minerva, HMS Penelope and RFA Olna.
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Germany:
Spring 1946. Location: Port of Gdynia, Poland. Former battleship Gneisenau lies scuttled as a blockship.
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USN:
A pair of F-14D Tomcats perform a high speed fly-by over the USS John C. Stennis in 2004
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RN:
May 25th: As Skyhawks dive in, one 1,000lb bomb strikes the water, as the second bounces from the waves onto HMS Broadsword's flight deck, gouging a hole in the flight deck and ripping the nose from her Lynx helicopter
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May 25th: The last of HMS Coventry, rolled completely over with her propellers visible and lifeboats around her. Waiting for pickup, the crew now gave a stirring rendition of that great anthem, "Always look on the bright side of life."
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Imperial Germany:
U-boat U155 in display at the river Thames after the surrender of Germany, December 1918.
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France:
Battleship Richelieu in Corsica, 1950s
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Richelieu class battleships Richelieu leading and Jean Bart trailing off Toulon, January 1956
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The picture was taken from the escort ship Guichen (ex-Scipione Africano)

Left to right, the battleship Jean Bart, the cruiser Suffren (disarmed), Montcalm, and behind, the still active Colbert, Toulon in the early 1960's
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Cruiser Océan (ex-Suffren), sold for scrap on November 5th 1975
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She would leave Toulon on February 22th 1976, to be scrapped in Valencia, Spain.
 
USN:
2012. Decommissioned aircraft carriers docked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. From left: USS Independence, Kitty Hawk, Constellation and Ranger.
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Kitty Hawk is the only one left and soon to be towed for scrapping
 
USN:
CV-22 Osprey lands on USS Gerald R. Ford flight deck, 2017
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Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) collect pallets of supplies during a replenishment-at-sea with the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE 8) in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, Oct. 30, 2020. Winston S. Churchill is deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and Pacific through the western Indian Ocean and three critical chokepoints to the free flow of global commerce. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Louis Thompson Staats IV)
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USS Mustin (DDG-89) a Burke class Flight IIA destroyer and an improved Los Angeles class submarine
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Russia:
Aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and a tanker off the coast of Tartous,Syria
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Italy:
F-35 test pilots perform night lighting evaluation flights aboard aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (CVH 550)
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