Photos Navies Of All Nations

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The Flip Ship (Floating Instrument Platform) is a unique Research Ship created by the US Navy in collaboration with the Marine Physical Laboratory in the year 1962. It is designed like a spoon, stands at 355 ft and is unique in the sense that it has the flexibility to stand vertically from a routine ship’s position of being horizontal.

It takes 28 minutes to flip.

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USN:
USS John Hancock (DD-981), a Spruance-class destroyer, was the second ship of that name, and the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for John Hancock (1737–1793), the President of the Continental Congress and first signer of the Declaration of Independence.

USS John Hancock (DD-981) underway 1983

 

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RN:
RFA Tidespring in the North Atlantic

RFA Fort Victoria passing the Forth Bridges, Scotland 7th Sept, 2020

OPV HMS Tamar passes under Tower Bridge, 7th September 2020

OPV HMS Tamar alongside cruiser HMS Belfast, 7th September 2020

 

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USN & RN:
USS Iowa and Type 22 frigate HMS Coventry

 

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The Flip Ship (Floating Instrument Platform) is a unique Research Ship created by the US Navy in collaboration with the Marine Physical Laboratory in the year 1962. It is designed like a spoon, stands at 355 ft and is unique in the sense that it has the flexibility to stand vertically from a routine ship’s position of being horizontal.

When in vertical mode, don't forget to turn the dinghy before launching it.

 

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RN:
Battleship HMS King George V in Chesapeake Bay conveying Lord Halifax to his appointment as Ambassador to the USA. January 1941

 

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USN:
USS Brinkley Bass (DD-887) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Lieutenant Commander Harry Brinkley Bass (1916–1944), who was killed in action when his plane crashed in combat during the invasion of southern France on 20 August 1944.

U.S.S. Columbus (CG-12), an Albany-class guided missile cruiser.

Albany class Heavy Guided Missile cruisers had;
Mk 12 Guided Missile Launching System fore and aft, each holds 52 missiles weighing 7,800 lbs each (811,200 lbs)
Mk 11 GMLS port and starboard, each holding 42 missiles weighing 1,310 lbs each (110, 040 lbs)
The weight of 460 tons of missiles made a very good ballast.

 

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Italy:
Cruiser Montecuccoli during a visit in Venice, taken from St Mark's bell tower. 1940's

 

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Imperial Japan:
Aircraft carrier Akagi, in the Indian Ocean in April 1942

 

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USSR:
Project 1143 "Kiev", overflown by USN P-3C in the Mediterranean Sea, January 1980. Photo by Yu.N. Gavrish

A starboard bow view of Soviet Project 956 "Sarych" (Sovremenny class) destroyer Otchayannyy (#460) on the Mediterranean Sea, August 1986.

 

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RN:
The Thames Nautical Training College, as it is now called, was, for over a hundred years, situated aboard ships named HMS Worcester.

London shipowners, marine insurance underwriters and merchants subscribed to its founding as an institution which would provide trained officers for a seagoing career. The British Admiralty loaned the 50-gun, 1,500-ton frigate HMS Worcester for the scheme, and in 1862 the Thames Marine Officer Training School was opened. She was to find her eventual home off Greenhithe, in the Thames, in 1871, after temporary berths at Blackwall, Erith and Southend.

The college expanded and the Admiralty provided the college with HMS Frederick William (originally laid down as Royal Frederick), a line-of-battle ship of 86 guns with screw propulsion. She was renamed Worcester and refitted in the Victoria Docks before being brought to Greenhithe in 1876. About this time the name of the school was changed to the Incorporated Thames Nautical Training College, HMS Worcester (ITNTC).

This HMS Worcester remained at her moorings until 1945 when she was returned to the Admiralty and shifted to moorings off Grays, Essex awaiting disposal but capsized at her moorings in 1948 and was broken up, in situ, over a number of years. Some locals claim that her keel timbers can still be seen off the Grays Yacht Club at lowest Spring Low waters.

HMS Frederick William (As TS Worcester) foundered in the River Thames. C. 1948

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Italy:
Operation Toast was an Italian-conducted mission (with British approvation and support) to try and sink the incomplete carrier Aquila before her large mass could be used to block the harbour of Genoa, as the Germans intended to do. This mission was also undertaken in the hope that an Italian success could be used as a boon in the negotiations for the future peace treaty.

In the night of 18 April 1945, the destroyer Legionario and the MS 74, escorted by two British MTBs, released near Genoa two MTSM motor torpedo boats and two Chariot manned torpedoes, all with Italian crewmen from Mariassalto; the former's mission was to try and recover the crews of the latter two after they had completed their own.

One of the two Chariots ended up dead in the water with depleted batteries and had to be abandoned, with the crew being taken by a MTSM. The other, despite the British-made respitators acting up, managed to reach the carrier; being unable to place the charge beneath the hull, though, the crew left it under it, on the bottom. The two men then doubled back and were successfully extracted by the MTSM.

The charge did detonate, as shown by the picture, but incredibly the Aquila, protected by considerable bulges, failed to sink. And, when the Allies would reach Genoa (already liberated by a partisan uprising that forced the surrender of its German garrison) at the end of the month, they found the incomplete carrier still very much afloat, and all the trouble they had to deal with was to tow it where she wasn't in the way.

 

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RN:
HMS Katoomba was a Pearl-class cruiser built for the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Pandora, 1899

HMS Blake, Protected Cruiser at the Columbian Naval Review, 1893

HMS Orion circa 1913, the lead ship of her class of four dreadnought battleships

 

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RN:
Robert Ellis, a former Chief Petty Officer aboard the Royal Navy Nelson-class battleship HMS Rodney, now holds onto her nameplate as a crane operator assisting in the process of the battleship being scrapped at the Thomas W Ward shipyard on 4 September 1950 in Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. The smoke from the burning sludge oil rises into the air from the broken hull of HMS Rodney, which had played a major role in the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck during World War 2. (Photo by Don Price/ Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).

 

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USN:
USS Ranger (CV-4) was an interwar United States Navy aircraft carrier, the only ship of its class. As a Treaty ship, Ranger was the first U.S. vessel to be designed and built from the keel up as a carrier. It was relatively small, just 730 ft (222.5 m) long and under 15,000 long tons (15,000 t), closer in size and displacement to the first US carrier—Langley—than later ships. An island superstructure was not included in the original design, but was added after completion.

Deemed too slow for use with the Pacific Fleet's carrier task forces against Japan, the ship spent most of World War II in the Atlantic Ocean where the German fleet, the Kriegsmarine, was a weaker opponent. Ranger saw combat in that theatre and provided air support for Operation Torch. In October 1943, she fought in Operation Leader, air attacks on German shipping off Norway. The ship was sold for scrap in 1947.

 

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Australia:
A Learjet 35 aircraft conducts a low flypast ahead of HMAS Hobart.

HMAS Hobart sails into Sydney Harbour on completion of her Mariner Skills Evaluation period.

Air Warfare Destroyer HMAS Hobart successfully fires a Harpoon Blast Test Vehicle in the East Australian Exercise Area.

 

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RN:
HMS Newcastle firing at enemy batteries in the Chuinnapo Estuary, Korea 1953. The shock wave has raised spray from the deck and flung empty cordite cases into the air

HMS Eagle enters Devonport, passing the Western King Battery at Plymouth, early 1950's

 

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Imperial Italy:
One of the 305 mm main guns being fitted on the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare, Genoa, 1914

Laundry day onboard battleship Giulio Cesare, ca. 1925

 

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USN:
April 17th, 2013. With the mooring of the Los Angeles-class submarine USS Bremerton (SSN 698) April 16, Apra Harbor now has seven submarines in port. This is the highest number of submarines in the harbor since the re-establishment of Commander, Submarine Squadron (SUBRON) 15 in 2001. The submarines are conducting maintenance prior to continuing their deployments. The boats include (from top left, clockwise), the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine JS Hakuryu (SS 503), the Los Angeles-class submarines USS Cheyenne (SSN-773), USS Bremerton (SSN-698), USS Charlotte (SSN-766), USS Oklahoma City (SSN-723), and USS Key West (SSN-722), the Ohio-class submarine USS Ohio (SSGN-726) and the submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS-40). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jeffrey Jay Price/Released)

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 19, 2017) Machinist's Mate 1st Class Robert Denoya teaches Machinist's Mate Fireman Apprentice Tyler Prince about line shaft bearings and flow characteristics in shaft alley aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77).

Pre-Commissioning Unit Colorado (SSN-788) sits pierside prior to commissioning on March 17, 2018. Colorado is the the U.S. Navy's 15th Virginia-class attack submarine and named for the State of Colorado. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Darryl I. Wood/U.S. Navy

 

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Germany:
August 6, 2014, FGS Mecklenburg-Vorpommern