Photos Navies Of All Nations

USN & Australia:
July 2019. (L-R) USS Key West (SSN-722), USS McCampbell (DDG-85), HMAS Canberra (L02) and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) sail off the coast of Queensland during Exercise Talisman Sabre.
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Italian FREMM class frigates "ITS Luigi Rizzo (F-595)" and "ITS Virginio Fasan (F-591)" escorting the aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi (C-551). They are multipurpose frigates resulting from the most ambitious European naval cooperation program of France and Italy. This frigates with ASW, ASuW, AAW and ground attack capabilities. The Italians have a length of 144 meters, a full load displacement of around 6,700 tons, a maximum speed of more than 27 knots and accommodation for 200 people.
 
Black Sea Fleet’s Project 636.3 Varshavyanka class (NATO Improved Kilo) diesel-electric submarine Kolpino (B-271)
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Imperial Japan:
Battleship Haruna undergoes trials after her second reconstruction at Kure Naval Arsenal, 1934
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RN:
HMS Nelson entering Portsmouth Harbour before 1936. The tram, well camouflaged down in Old Portsmouth, gives us the date clue. That was the year the last tram ran in the city. The tram also gives you some idea of the scale of Nelson.
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K class destroyer HMS Kelvin manoeuvring to attack a submarine, seen from HMS Dido. Date unknown
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Heavy cruiser HMS Sussex as modernised for the Pacific war, 5 May 1945.
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Sussex was refitted at Sheerness between June 1944 and March 1945. She landed X turret and her torpedo tubes. In return her radar suite was modernised and she was fitted with no less than 6 Octuple Pom Pom mounts, as well as 4 twin and 6 single 20mm Oerlikons.

Sussex is known for taking a kamikaze hit to her hull.
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It should be noted that she had no armour belt (although her hull had been thickened to 1" to provide some limited protection against splinters and destroyers).
 
France:
Horizon-class anti-air frigate FS Forbin on patrol off the Syrian coast, July 2021.
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FREMM Aquitaine-class ASW frigate Provence during replenishment-at-sea, May 2021
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USSR:
Border patrol cutter Project 133, PSRK100
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RN:
Fiji class cruiser HMS Bermuda after her 1950s extended refit/modernisation
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In this refit she was given a covered bridge, her 4-inch guns were given US Mk 63 gun control systems, and her light anti-air was revised to be 7 x twin 40mm Bofors mounts, each with a Simple Tachymetric Director. The aircraft facilities and X turret had been removed during the Second World War.
 
India:
Kolkata-class guided-missile destroyer INS Kolkata on its way to china for IFR( International fleet review) on the occasion of PLAN's 70th anniversary, 2019.
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Italy:
Battleship Conte di Cavour firing with her 305 mm (12 inch) guns, during an exercise, around 1915
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Launch of submarine N 1, Ansaldo Sestri Ponente shipyard (Genoa), 6 September 1917
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USN:
Heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), likely 1930's
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USS Drayton (DD-366) underway off the West Coast, circa October 1941. Photographed from a SNJ Texan aircraft, whose wing is visible. Note that the Drayton is decked out in Measure 11 camouflage, where its nickname ''the Blue Beetle'' came from.
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An aircraft nosed over on the flight deck of training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1944.
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USS Saratoga (CV-3) underway in Puget Sound, 7 September 1944. Saratoga wears her single Camouflage Measure 32 Design 11A.
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USN:
Monitor USS Amphitrite (BM-2) at the Boston Navy Yard, some time in the 1890s
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USS Ohio (BB-12) at Norfolk Navy Yard, March 10, 1918.
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View of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey (USA), in May 1919. Seven Wickes-class destroyers and a Clemson-class destroyer are fitting out. These ships are (from left to right):
  • USS Dickerson (Destroyer # 157, builder's hull # 216);
  • USS Leary (Destroyer # 158, builder's hull # 217);
  • USS Schenck (Destroyer # 159, builder's hull # 218);
  • USS Herbert (Destroyer # 160, builder's hull # 219);
  • USS Brooks (Destroyer # 232, builder's hull # 221);
  • USS Hatfield (Destroyer # 231, builder's hull # 220);
  • USS Babbitt (Destroyer # 128, builder's hull # 213) and
  • USS DeLong (Destroyer # 129, builder's hull # 214).
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USN:
USS Rooks (DD-804) underway off Newport, Rhode Island, on 29 July 1955
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Transferred to Chile 26 July 1962 as Cochrane (D-15) and was ultimately stricken and broken up for scrap in 1983.
 
USN:
USS Kidd (DDG 100) with a PLA(N) Type 052D destroyer shadowing in the South China Sea
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A US Army UH-60 Black Hawk prepares to land on Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) in the Sea of Japan, October 9, 2019.
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USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) second Full Ship Shock Trials (FSST) July 2021
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USN:
USS Bunker Hill CV-17, Scene on the carrier's flight deck, looking aft, while her crew was fighting fires caused by (2) Kamikaze hits, off Okinawa on 11 May 1945. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Catalog # 80-G-323712
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USS Portsmouth (CL-102) on her shakedown cruise, Gunnery practice, Anti-Aircraft Batteries. 1945
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Germany:
A sinking freighter taken from the deck of U-123. WW2
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Deutschland-class heavy cruiser (panzerschiff) Admiral Scheer in September 1941.
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Netherlands:
De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate HNLMS Evertsen (F805) conducts pre-wetting test in the Indian Ocean. (A series of salt water sprinklers built into the superstructure that can wash down the upper deck to remove nuclear, biological or chemical contaminants)
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Spain & Austro-Hungary:
Battleship Pelayo at Genoa, Italy, in October 1892, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to America. The Austro-Hungarian battleship Kronprinzessin Erzherzogin Stephanie (1887-1926) is in the left background. Photo #: NH 88731
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Pelayo was a battleship fleet from 1888 to 1925. Pelayo fired her guns in anger only once, when she bombarded Moroccan insurgents in 1909 during the Second Rif War
 
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