Photos Navies Of All Nations

RN:
June 24, 1914, a Royal Navy squadron including the four King George V-class battleships, three of which are in this picture, visited Kiel to attend the re-opening of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal. A few days after on June 28, Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated.
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RN:
Fairmile D MTBs, KGV class battleship HMS Howe, Town class light cruiser HMS Belfast and Dido class light cruiser HMS Euryalus in reserve at Devonport, 1950s
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RN:
Battleship HMS Duke of York, with the battleship HMS Nelson, the battlecruiser HMS Renown and the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable astern, November 1942
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Imperial Japan:
On May 7th, 1942, during the Battle of the Coral Sea, light aircraft carrier Shoho was sunk by carrier-based planes from USS Lexington and USS Yorktown. She was the first Japanese carrier to be sunk.

Shoho at Yokosuka, December 22, 1941.
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A 1,000 lb bomb strikes Shoho
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USN:
Aircraft carrier USS Ranger's (CV-4) .50 calibre machine gun crews firing, October 8, 1935.
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Admiral Makarov, a Russian Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate. The Makarov is also a Kalibr cruise missile platform
 
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The North Carolina-class battleship USS Washington (BB+56). Designed in the 1930s with a Washington displacement of 35,000 tons, she entered service in 1941 and in 1945 she displaced approximately 45,000 tons although she maintained her top speed of 28 knots and could act as an escort for aircraft carriers bristling with anti-aircraft artillery.
 
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Old school nuclear-powered cruisers of the US Navy.

Two California class, USS California (CGN 36), USS South Carolina (CGN 37) and four Virginia class, USS Virginia (CGN 38), USS Texas (CGN 39), USS Mississippi (CGN 40) and USS Arkansas (CGN 41).
 
ROU-01 URUGUAY in 2018
Built in the late 60s for Portugal where she served as the NRP Comandante João Belo F-480 until 2008 when she was sold to Uruguay.
The last of her type in the world still in service.

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#OTD in 1945, U-858 was taken over by a U.S. Navy crew. The German captain had surrendered the sub at sea four days earlier and was then ordered to proceed to Fort Miles, Delaware. The transfer was watched over by a Sikorsky HNS-I, the first helicopter to enter U.S. military service.

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Egypt:
MEKO 200 frigate Al Aziz moored at TKMS, Germany. Awaiting commissioning, May 2022
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Tunisia:
La Galite (P-501) class (Combattante III type) large missile boat Carthage (P-503), 2022
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USN:
Sturgeon class USS Queenfish (SSN-651) underway, probably during sea trials.
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USS Queenfish (SSN-651), North Pole August, 1970
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USS Queenfish during ICEX 70
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Wasp from No. 3 Squadron RNZAF hovers above the sail of USS Queenfish (SSN-651), likely in Waitematā Harbour, circa 1984
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USN:
USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) Arleigh Burke-class Flight I guided missile destroyer leaving San Diego - May 16, 2022
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Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine coming into Pearl Harbor - May 16, 2022
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USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier coming into Yokosuka, Japan - May 17, 2022
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Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Montgomery ( #LCS8 ) fired three AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles to strike a land-based target several nautical miles away.
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USN:
Des Moines-class of heavy cruiser USS Newport News (CA-148) while at anchor in the Caribbean in May of 1949, a movie screen has been erected on the fantail
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USS Skate (SSN-578) was launched OTD in 1957. Skate was the first nuclear submarine production class and the first submarine to surface at the North Pole. Skipjack (L) and the dual reactor Triton (R) under construction during her launch.
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USS Skate (SSN-578) with the other two existing nuclear powered submarines after launch, Nautilus (SSN-571) & Seawolf (SSN-575)
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Italy:
Trieste, early 1942. Battleship Cavour on the left, undergoing repairs and refits after the Taranto raid. On the right, battleship Roma almost completed
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