France:
Vauquelin class destroyer Vauquelin in 1934
Bretagne-class battleship Lorraine firing at the Cépet shore battery, near Toulon, made up with the guns of her sister-ship Provence. Operation Dragoon, 1944.
RN:
116 years ago. Battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched inaugurating a new era in warships. Here HMS Victory and HMS Dreadnought together, their designs 100 years apart.
1906, battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched, representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships.
RN:
Heavy cruiser HMS Exeter after repair and modernisation, early 1941
KGV class battleship HMS Prince of Wales, 1941
Quarter view of KGV class battleship HMS Anson, July 1946. Note her 2 quadruple Bofors mounts. Anson was the most heavily modernised member of the class during WWII.
Photo likely taken shortly after her modernization in 1896 when her central barbette was removed and replaced with four 163mm guns. The remaining two 370mm (14.6") guns (in open mounts, fore & aft) took well over 10 minutes to reload.
USN:
The hatches of the 12 vertical-launch Tomahawk missile tubes stand open on the bow of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Oklahoma City (SSN-723). | Location: offshore, Naval Station, Norfolk, Virginia, USA Feb 1, 1991
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