Photos Navies Of All Nations

BravoZulu · Jul 25, 2021

USN:
Heavy cruiser USS New Orleans (CA-32) camouflaged at Tulagi, Solomon Islands, some days after she was torpedoed during the Battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942. Note that her stern is riding high, and that her forward end is low in the water. The torpedo and subsequent explosion had severed her bow between No. 1 and No. 2 eight-inch (203 mm) gun turrets.

USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) in Adak Bay, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, on 12 August 1943, just prior to the Kiska operation. An LST is in the left background.

BravoZulu · Jul 25, 2021

Ecuador, USN & Peru:
PANAMA, CIUDAD DE, PANAMA 17th Aug 2011
The Ecuadoran frigate BAE Moran Valverde (F02), flanked by the guided missile frigate USS Thach (43), and followed by the Peruvian corvette BAP Herrera (24), move into formation to their patrol stations in the Pacific Ocean, part of the sea phase of PANAMAX 2011. PANAMAX is an annual multinational training exercise sponsored by U.S. Southern Command focusing on the security of the Panama Canal. Involving 16 nations from the Western Hemisphere and more than 3,500 civil and military personnel, the 12-day exercise takes place off the coasts of Panama and the United States, including Fort Sam, Texas; Naval Station Mayport, Florida; and Stennis, Mississippi, among others Aug 15-26. (Photo by Chilean navy Cpl. Job E. Suarez) Photo by Lance Cpl. Kris Daberkoe

BravoZulu · Jul 25, 2021

USN:
USS Wisconsin (BB-64). Underway at sea, circa 1988-91

BravoZulu · Jul 25, 2021

Germany:
Light cruiser Emden during her West Coast (US) visit, in 1930.

BravoZulu · Jul 25, 2021

USN:
Heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) view taken at Manila, 26 February 1931

BravoZulu · Jul 25, 2021

RN:
January 1918, off Scapa Flow. Battlecruiser HMS Tiger launches Sopwith 2F.1 Camel biplane from the top of her turret Q to provide aircraft spotting during long-range gunnery exercises.

morris · Jul 25, 2021

Navy parade in Saint Petersburg live

Quiet a show, ships are sailing in the river Neva.
Just saw India, Iran and Pakistan ships.

BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

USN:
15 March 1945. Balao-class submarine USS Lancetfish (SS-296) had the shortest service history among all commissioned U.S. Navy vessels, lasting just 41 days. Before ever going to sea, Lancetfish flooded and sank at the Boston Navy Yard after a worker opened a torpedo tube.

Lancetfish (SS-296) is finally on a level keel, Mar. 23, 1945, eight days following her accidental sinking at Pier 8 East of the Boston Navy Yard. She would be decommissioned the following day, 24 March

"Lancetfish (SS-296) was laid down 15 December 1942 by Cramp Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; launched 15 August 1943; sponsored by Miss Beatrice P. Barker; towed to Boston Navy Yard 19 May 1944 for completion; and commissioned 12 February 1945, Comdr. Ellis B. Orr in command. While tied up alongside Pier 8, Lancetfish flooded through her after torpedo tube and sank 15 March. She was raised 8 days later and decommissioned 24 March. Assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet in uncompleted condition, she was transferred to the 1st Naval District 27 February 1947 and was assigned to the New London Group 9 December 1962. Her name was struck from the Naval Register 9 June 1958."

BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

RN:
HMS Queen Elizabeth transits the Singapore Strait, 26 July 2021.

BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

USN:
Elements of Task Group 38.2 underway from Ulithi on 30 December 1944. Aircraft carriers, from front to back, are USS Independence (CVL-22), USS Hornet (CV-12) and USS Lexington (CV-16). Cruisers on the right are USS San Juan (CL-54) followed by CruDiv 17.

Fletcher class destroyer USS Sigsbee (DD-502) photographed from USS MIAMI after a Kamikaze cut off her stern, off Okinawa, on 14 April 1945. She was towed to port and repaired.

On 16 February, the task force launched air strikes against Japan and Okinawa in support of the landings on Iwo Jima. On 14 March, the fast carriers and Sigsbee again steamed out of Ulithi for air strikes against the Japanese home islands to neutralize the airfields in preparation for the forthcoming assault on Okinawa. The destroyer then joined the radar picket ships off that island and remained there until 14 April. On that date, the destroyer was struck aft of her number five gun by a kamikaze suicide plane. The port engine was knocked out of commission, the starboard engine could only be run at five knots, steering control was lost, and the ship began to take on water. Commander Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon in command of Sigsbee continued to fight his ship and direct anti-aircraft fire, while at the same time directing damage control parties that saved his ship. Twenty-three sailors were killed in the attack.

Sigsbee was towed south to Guam (out of the battle area) where she was sufficiently repaired for the long tow back to Pearl Harbor (via Eniwetok). The destroyer arrived there on 7 June 1945 and had a complete new 60-foot stern installed. Ready for sea again, the ship sailed out of port on 28 September en route to the east coast of the United States. On 22 October, she arrived at Philadelphia. The following week, the ship moved to Charleston to prepare for inactivation.

BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

RN:
Battlecruiser HMS Repulse at anchor 5th July 1941

HMS Formidable berthed at the Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia, Jan 1945

HMS Tireless at sea. May 1945

Due to her late commission, Tireless was still undergoing work-up trails when WW2 ended.
She would be streamlined in 1951, receiving another modernisation later that decade. Ultimately she was decommissioned in 1963 and broken up five year later.

BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

USN & France:
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) with frigate FS Languedoc (D653) 25 July 2021

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BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

USN:
A Photographer's Mate is harnessed to the hull of USS Woodrow Wilson, preparing to take video of a Navy SEAL team during lockout procedures. Pre 1994 when Woodrow Wilson was decommissioned

BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

Australia:
HMAS Perth (FFH-157) is lowered out of the dry dock at the Australian Marine Complex at Henderson, WA, after completion of a major part of the Anzac Midlife Capability Assurance Program upgrades, July 2021

BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

Germany:
Battleship KMS Scharnhorst

Type IX submarine U-108 docking at Tromso, Norway

U-108 carried out eleven war patrols, during which she sank 25 ships, a total of 118,722 gross register tons (GRT) and one auxiliary warship of 16,444 tons. She was a member of seven wolfpacks.

In her last operational patrol, she departed Lorient on 1 April 1943. On 19 April 1943 U-108 sank the American Robert Gray from Convoy HX 234. The Liberty ship had straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 62 crew. U-108 was attacked by a destroyer on the 22nd but continued to shadow Convoy ON (S) 4 southeast of Greenland. She arrived at Stettin in modern-day Poland on 16 May. Bombed and sunk there 11 April, raised and decommissioned 17 July 1944. Scuttled there 24 April 1945

BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

USN:
USS Florida (BB-30) off the coast of France in late 1918.

Stern view of USS Connecticut (BB-18) at the Philadelphia navy yard.

BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

Italy:
Ammiragli class submarine Cagni at the works dock of the Monfalcone shipyard. Note the accumulators of the batteries lined up on the dock to be embarked

Battleship Vittorio Veneto leading the Italian fleet to Alexandria for internment, 14th Sept 1943

BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

RN:
L class destroyer HMS Lightning at anchor.

During late February and March 1943 Lightning was escorting troop and supply ships between Algiers and Bône in the day and attacking enemy convoys at night. When in harbour she was attacked every day by enemy aircraft and acted as an anti-aircraft ship. On her last voyage, Lightning left Bône alone at 1745 hours on the evening of Friday 12 March 1943 and after joining Loyal provided flanking screening cover to the cruisers Aurora and Sirius. The plan was to attack a German convoy out of Sicily bound for Tunisia. But when the convoy heard Lightning had left port, they returned to harbour. At 1851 hours Lightning was attacked by twelve German torpedo bombers. Lightning shot down one of the bombers and the attack itself failed to do any damage.

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At about 2200 hours interpreters on board Lightning intercepted a radio message in German, stating that they were about to attack Lightning. At about 2215 hours the German motor torpedo boat (Schnellboot) S-158 of the 7th S-Boat Flotilla (First Lieutenant at Sea Schultze-Jena) fired the first torpedo, disabling Lightning. The ship's company had no time to return fire: they were not operating RDF, ASDIC or HF-DF and were not at full fighting condition due to heavy fighting that had been almost continuous during the past few days. The captain turned the ship hard to port to comb the track of the torpedo, but Lightning was too slow and was hit on the port bow, blowing it clean off. Then a second E-boat, S-55 of the 3rd S-boat flotilla (Kommandant Horst Weber), circled the ship and moved round to the starboard side. The German torpedo boat fired a second torpedo that hit beneath the funnel, destroying both boiler rooms, the pom pom and forward torpedo tubes on the upper deck. Moments later Lightning was abandoned – she had begun sinking almost immediately after the second torpedo hit. One survivor was picked up by S-158 and the remaining 180 survivors (including the captain, Commander Hugh Greaves Walters DSC) were picked up some hours later by sister ship Loyal, arriving Bone 0500 13 March. Survivors transferred to Sirius. The ship's company disbanded, transferred to other ships and shore base HMS Hannibal in Algiers. Lightning was replaced in Force Q by the Polish destroyer ORP Blyskawica. The ship's name is Polish for lightning.

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BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

RN:
HMS Hood in American waters, June-July 1924. Note Vice-Admiral's flag flying from her foremast.

BravoZulu · Jul 26, 2021

France:
FS Courbet, the first La Fayette class frigate to undergo the mid-life refit which installed a bow mounted sonar, torpedo countermeasures, Exocet SSM of the latest Block 3C configuration, 2 Sadral launchers each with 6 Mistral Mk3 SAM/SSM, replacing the obsolete Crotale launcher. June 2021

Tripartite class minehunter l'Aigle being pulled out of the water after coming back from deployment, July 2021

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