Photos Navies Of All Nations

R.A.N.:
Oct. 10, 2019 The Royal Australian Navy guided-missile destroyer HMAS Brisbane (DDG 41) transits though San Francisco Bay during San Francisco Fleet Week (SFFW).
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R.N.
HMS Eagle post 1964 refit launching a Buccaneer
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R.N.:
Type 45 destroyers HMS Daring and HMS Diamond loom over Type 42 destroyer HMS Gloucester, Portsmouth Naval Base, April 2011
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Original concept work for the Invincible class ‘through deck cruiser’
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R.N.:
Royal Navy ships shelling the cruisers SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau in the Mediterranean. The two ships would escape and set off butterfly effect events that brought the Ottoman Empire into WW1.
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HMS Eagle was laid down as the Chilean Battleship Admirante Cochrane prior to World War I and her construction was suspended until the Royal Navy purchased her for completion as a through deck Aircraft Carrier. She was 667.5 feet long and displaced 26,000 tons full load and carried up to 21 aircraft.
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HMS Eagle entering the Grand Harbour,Malta circa 1930
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Town-class light cruiser HMS Bristol passing the Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge
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Imperial Austro-Hungary:
Two Austro-Hungarian Habsburg class battleships bombarding Italian positions around the city of Ancona in response to Italian declaration of war, May 1915
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U.S.N.:
The USS Cole bombing was an attack against USS Cole, a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, on 12 October 2000, while she was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor.Seventeen U.S. Navy sailors were killed and 39 injured in the deadliest attack against a United States naval vessel since the USS Stark incident in 1987.
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Landing Craft, Utility (LCU) 1665, approaches the well deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Comstock (LSD 45) to conduct operations as part of Arctic Expeditionary Capabilities Exercise (AECE) 2019
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Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transits the Arabian Sea, 22 September 2019
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USS Columbus (SSN 762) with a giant Lei in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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U.S.N.:
USS Antietam (CV-36) and USS Wisconsin (BB-64) Steam alongside USS Rainier (AE-5) as she pulls away after supplying ammunition to the carrier and battleship, in Korean waters. 8 February 1952.
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USS INDIANAPOLIS July 1945
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Singapore:
RSS Steadfast (70) & RSS Tenacious (71), Formidable Class Frigates
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You served on this one?
Yes I did. I served on USS Hancock(CVA-19) from August 1974 until August 1975.

Read about my USN career;

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
NAVAL- AIR STATION MIRAMAR
SAN DIEGO, CA 92145-5000

30 AUG 1991

Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department
Naval Air Station Miramar
San Diego, CA 92145-5000

Dear Petty Officer Hxxx

As your long and distinguished career draws to a close, I wish to take this
opportunity to formally recognize the tremendous contributions you have made
in the defense of your country. Those of us in the Navy who are frequently
called away from our families and loved ones in the course of a military
career make a very special sacrifice in the interest of freedom. It is with
those thoughts in mind that I commend you on behalf of your countrymen for
twenty years of faithful, steadfast, and loyal service in the United States
Navy.

Your military career began on 25 August 1971 when you enlisted in the United
States Navy at Cincinnati, Ohio.

After completing basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois, you attended Aviation Fundamentals"P" School, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, and Aviation Mechanical Fundamentals "P" School, Naval Air Station Memphis, Tennessee. You went on to serve admirably on board USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67); USS MIDWAY (CV 41); USS HANCOCK (CVA 19); Naval Air Station, Cubi Point, Republic of the Philippines; Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron, Light 31; and Air Anti-Submarine Squadrons 33 and 41. Your quest for excellence and challenging assignments inspired you to change your rate to Aviation Life Support Systems Technician (PR) while
serving on board USS AMERICA (CV 66). You later served at Helicopter Combat
Support Squadron 11; Naval Air Facility, Diego Garcia; Aircraft Intermediate
Maintenance Department (AIMD), Naval Air Station Miramar, San Diego,
California; and Sea Operational Detachment NINE, Naval Air Station Miramar embarked aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68).

In recognition of your outstanding career in the Naval Service, you were
authorized to wear the following individual and unit awards: Navy Unit
Commendation Medal; Meritorious Unit Commendation Medal; Navy Battle "E";
Ribbon (two awards); Navy Good Conduct Medal (five awards); Navy Expeditionary
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (two awards); Vietnam Service Medal; South
West Asia Service Medal with Device; Humanitarian Service Medal (two awards);
Sea Service Deployment Ribbon (three awards); and Navy and Marine Corps
Overseas Ribbon.

On the occasion of your retirement, I extend to you the grateful appreciation
of this command for your many years of loyal service to the United States Navy
and our nation. On behalf of the many officers, enlisted personnel, and
civilian employees who have served with you, I wish you happiness and
continued success in your future endeavors.

Sincerely,
D.W. Bouck
Commander, U.S. Navy
Commanding Officer
Acting
 
USN:
USS Iowa and surroundings from the ship channel -17th October 2019
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USS South Dakota in Heavy Seas
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Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 20 July 1966. Many mothballed ships are visible, among them three Essex-class aircraft carriers (USS Leyte (CVS-32) or USS Tarawa (CVS-40), top, USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39), and USS Antietam (CVT-36)), two Independence-class light carriers, a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier, two (active) Iwo Jima-class helicopter carriers and three Iowa-class battleships.
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R.N.:
HMS Gloucester, the first ship to shoot down a missile with a missile in action. It was fired at USS Missouri, which deployed chaff, but painful lessons from the Falklands instructed the RN to shoot it down to avoid target reacquisition, Desert Storm
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UK F-35 Lightning jet on HMS Queen Elizabeth
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The hangar of HMS Queen Elizabeth, with 4 x F-35B and 5 x Merlin
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R.N.:
HMS Argus showing off her 'dazzle' patterned camouflage, 1917
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U.S.N.:
USS Wasp anchored at Scapa Flow, about June 1942. Battleships North Carolina and Washington in upper right.
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USS Tennessee (BB43) Bombarding Okinawa with her 14" main battery guns, as LVTs in the foreground carry troops to the invasion beaches, 1 April 1945.
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USS Washington in 1946, appears to be taken when the Washington and North Carolina were used as host ships for the midshipman's cruises. The two North Carolina's were kept active longer than the South Dakota's due to their better crew quarters and living conditions.
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Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Leopold (DE-319) launching at Orange, Texas on 12 June 1943. She was named for Ensign Robert L. Leopold who served aboard the battleship Arizona and was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. She is the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.
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Aerial view of the U.S. Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in March 1948.
The armoured cruiser USS Olympia (C-6) is visible at the top left. In the adjacent drydocks are the battleships USS Tennessee (BB-43) with USS California (BB-44) and USS South Dakota (BB-57). Two Independence-class light aircraft carriers are moored to the left of the drydocks, another in the reserve basin. The aircraft carrier USS Randolph (CV-15) is moored with a half painted flight deck. USS Wichita (CA-45) is in the drydock at the lower left.
Identifiable in the reserve basin are a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier, three Northampton-class crusiers, USS Portland (CA-33), the four surviving New Orleans-class cruisers, USS Oregon City (CA-122), six Cleveland-class cruisers, four Brooklyn-class cruisers and a large seaplane tender (a second one is visible below the crane in the lower left).
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R.C.N.:
HMCS Regina shows off her 75th Battle of the Atlantic commemorative dazzle camouflage scheme today, fresh out of refit
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J.M.S.D.F.:
JS Kaga with some destroyers in the background
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Kongō-class Aegis destroyer JS Kirishima ("Mist Island") tests her counteremeasure wash down system.
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R.C.N.:
On 23 October 1969, HMCSKootenay had just left UK waters after an eight-week deployment for NATO and multi-national exercises and European port visits. KOOTENAY was in company with eight other RCNavy ships, including the aircraft carrier HMCSBonaventure. the other ships being HMCS Terra Nova, HMCS Fraser, HMCS St. Laurent, HMCS Ottawa, HMCS Assiniboine, HMCS Margaree, and HMCS Saguenay.
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