Photos Navies Of All Nations

Russia:
Project 20380 corvette Soobrazitelny, Kaliningrad 2017
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Battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy and Typhoon Class Dmitriy Donskoi ,Saint Petersburg, 2017
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Kirov class battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy, 2019
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Project 956 Sarych (Buzzard) Bystry
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Pr. 22800 corvettes Tsiklon and Askold at the Zaliv shipyard in Crimea. They are expected to enter service this year.
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RN:
HMS Renown, photographed in Waitematā Harbour during Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales' visit to New Zealand. 1920
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Sweden:
Tre Kronor class light cruiser Göta Lejon, likely around 1950
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India:
Project 17 frigate 'INS Shivalik' under construction at Mazagon Dockyard, Mumbai, early 2000s
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INS Delhi, Indian Ocean
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Imperial Japan & RN:
IJN sailors from the armoured cruiser Ibuki (left) in Wellington Harbour, the ship on the right is HMS Minotaur. Circa 1914
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Germany:
15 December 1939, Blohm&Voss shipyard, Hamburg. Bismarck during the 42th month of her construction; 8 months more are required.
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USN:
Arleigh Burke-class USS Jason Dunham conducts sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean, Nov 2010
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Nov. 23, 2019) The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Detroit (LCS 7) sinks a vessel as a hazard to navigation in the Atlantic Ocean, Nov. 23, 2019. During its deployment to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility USS Detroit, with embarked helicopter and U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachments, will support Joint Interagency Task Force South's mission, which includes counter-drug patrols and detection and monitoring of illicit traffic in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Devin Bowser/Released)
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11 mar 2020. USS Normandy (CG 60) approaches USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), left, and USNS Supply (T- AOE 6) for a replenishment-at-sea
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USS Little Rock (LCS 9) and the 1900 vintage fireboat Edward M Cotter
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Australia:
Light cruiser HMAS Shropshire in 1944
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France:
Frigate FS Forbin (D620) during Formidable Shield 2021
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PLA(N):
30 Years of PLAN development. 053H1 frigate Shaoguan (553), c. 1985, full load displacement ~1700 tons. 052D destroyer Hefei (174) c. 2015, full load displacement ~7000 tons.
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Italy:
Submarine Antonio Sciesa at Capetown, 8 December 1933
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The Balilla-class submarine Antonio Sciesa sailed on 14 September 1933 from La Spezia, together with the sister ship Enrico Toti, for a circumnavigation of Africa, to try out these boats in tropical waters, fly the flag and, also, get some information on French bases such as Diego Suarez.


Damage to the aft section of submarine Galileo Ferraris, suffered during the cruise between Massawa (Italian East Africa) and Bordeaux (German-occupied France), 9 May 1941
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In February 1941 the four surviving Italian submarines in the Red Sea were prepared to set sail from Italian East Africa (whose Red Sea ports were threatened by the British and Commonwealth advances), towards Bordeaux, base on the Atlantic Oceans for the Italian submarines operating in that theater.

The Galileo Ferraris, an Archimede-class submarine, departed Massawa on 3 March, under the command of Tenente di Vascello Livio Piomarta; by the end of the month, it had to deal with a violent storm, likely the cause of the damages visible in the picture.

In the evening of 10 April, the boat was spotted by the British submarine HMS Severn, as the operation had been discovered by ULTRA and therefore the British had organized Operation Grab, to intercept the Italian submarines and the German ships meant to refuel them. Although the Severn fired a total of four torpedoes at the Italian submarine, the Ferraris sailed on, not even noticing the attack. Between 16 and 17 April, the Ferraris met with the German tanker Nordmark as planned, to the northwest of Tristan da Cunha, and was duly refuelled.

The submarine finally reached the destination on 9 May 1941, after completing a 14'000 nm cruise in 68 days. Her captain was decorated with the Medaglia d'Argento al Valor Militare for this deed.

Unfortunately, once repaired to be employed in the Atlantic Ocean, the Galileo Ferraris would be sunk in her first Atlantic patrol, at 1223h of 25 October 1941, to the east of the Azores, by HMS Lamerton.
 
France:
Oiler Le Mékong, light cruisers Montcalm and Gloire moored at Pier 32 for New York's World Fair, July 1939
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Group picture next to the turret "Oran" of cruiser Algérie, probably Toulon, post 1940
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Algérie had names for her turrets (from I to IV) : Alger, Oran, Constantine and Kara Mustapha.
 
USN:
Two Vought OS2N-1 Kingfishers on their catapults on board the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63. Summer 1944). Crew with pink dixie cup hats are the air support personnel.
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USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) underway, Monday, 8 May 1944, the day she went into commission.
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USS Ticonderoga after sustaining a hit from a kamikaze on January 1945.
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RN:
HMS Dragon launches a Sea Viper missile during Ex Formidable Shield 21
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Imperial Japan:
Battleship Musashi under way, date unknown
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Sailors practice Kendo aboard the cruiser Kashima, Truk Islands, 1 May 1942
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Wrecks of Japanese destroyers Aoi & Hagi (Patrol Boat No.32 & 33) ran aground on Wake Island, 2 April 1942
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Completed in 1920, the Japanese destroyer Aoi was the 10th of 21 Momi-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. In 1940, along with several of her sister ships, she was converted a patrol vessel as part of the No.31-class of patrol boats, and was renamed Patrol Boat No.32. On 23 December 1941 she participated in the Second Battle of Wake Island, during which she was deliberately ran aground to land a contingent of Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces marines on the island. Following this, she was the target of US Marine anti-aircraft fire and was set on fire, and was left there following the Japanese capture of the island. She is photographed here on 2 April 1942, during the Japanese occupation of the island.

Visible behind her is the wreck of the destroyer Hagi, another of the Momi-class destroyer that was converted to a patrol vessel, being renamed Patrol Boat No.33. She was used in an identical action as Aoi in the Second Battle of Wake Island and suffered the same fate.


Flagship of the Combined Fleet, cruiser Ōyodo being broken up at the Kure Naval Arsenal, which ironically were also her builder. December 1947.
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RN:
FSR.1 Sea Harrier prepared for a sortie on the flight deck of HMS Hermes, Falklands 1982
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Type 42 Destroyer D97,HMS Edinburgh passes a yacht off the coast of Devon
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RN:
HMS Rodney (left) and HMS Manchester (right) beneath a heavy anti-aircraft barrage during Operation Pedestal, 11 August 1942.
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USN:
210525-N-ZZ513-1017 SAN DIEGO (May 25, 2021) Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) returns to Naval Air Station North Island. Theodore Roosevelt, lead ship of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, returned to Naval Air Station North Island May 25 after a deployment to U.S. 7th Fleet in support of maritime security operations to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Natalie M. Byers)
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Italy:
Submarines Archimede, left, and Leonardo da Vinci, right, at Bordeaux in February 1943
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The Archimede (commanded by Tenente di Vascello Guido Saccardo) would sail on 26 February 1943, towards it assigned patrol area (between Pernambuco and the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago). On 15 April, the submarine was spotted and attacked by American Catalinas, and sank at 1625h at 03°23’ S, 30°28’ O. While roughly twenty men survived the sinking, only one (Giuseppe Lo Coco) survived long enough to be picked up by Braziliam fiserhmen.

The Leonardo da Vinci (commanded by Tenente di Vascello Gianfranco Gazzana-Priaroggia) likewise sailed from Bordeaux on 20 February, making for the Indian Ocean. During the patrol it sank six ships, including the liner Empress of Canada, becoming the most successful Italian submarine of the war (not to mention, for tonnage sunk, the most successful non-German submarine). As it made for home, on 23 May it chanced upon a convoy, and the destroyer HMS Active and the corvette HMS Ness attacked and sank her with all her crew.
 
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