Photos Navies Of All Nations

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France:
Tunisian student divers recently found submarine Ariane sunk by a German submarine 105 years ago off Tunisia, killing 21 crew

She was at sea off Cape Bon (Tunisia) on the morning (05.58) of 19 June 1917, to carry out a training exercise, when she was surprised by a German submarine SM UC-22 (a Type UC II minelaying submarine), which hit her with two torpedoes. Ariane sank rapidly, taking 21 or her 29 crew with her. Her eight survivors were rescued by the torpedo boat Bourrasque.

It is interesting to note that she had barely been in service more than a year - she was commissioned on 20 April 1916, and sank thirteen months later. UC-22 had actually been in commission for just under a year (30 June 1916), and ultimately survived the war, surrendering to the French and being scrapped shortly after.

 

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Italy:
Palinuro , three-masted, iron-hulled barquentine, active as navy sail training vessel

 

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Russia:
Cruiser Dmitrii Donskoi at the Columbian Exposition, c. 1893

 

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Iran:
IS Sabalan (foreground) and Alvand in the 1980s (Persian Gulf)

 

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One of the initial contributions by Russia to the International naval fleet sent to Crete in 1897 was the Pre-Dreadnaught battleship ‘Sissoi Veliky’. The ship had been a floating disaster since the very beginning, suffering from numerous design, engineering and construction faults.

Matters came to an unfortunate head on 15th March 1897 when on a routine target practice, the rear turret of the battleship exploded, killing 16 men instantly, another six dying later of their injuries. The reason for the explosion was later put down to the crew disabling a faulty safety mechanism, and the incompetence of the turret commander.

Burial of Russian seamen from Sissoi Veliky. The Graphic 3 April 1897.

Memorial for Russian seamen from Sissoi Veliky

 

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High-speed test run of the American battleship USS Maryland (BB-46) after the completion of repair and modernization at the Puget Sound shipyard (Washington state), spring 1944

 

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USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), Pensacola-class, near the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo , California, USA, 06/21/1944.

 

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Russia:
Project 949A Antey, (Oscar II) class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine, 2018

 

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80-CF-14-2051-14 by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
USS New Mexico (BB 40), New York City, New York, May 31, 1934. (6/30/2015).

80-CF-14-2048-1 by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
USS Arizona (BB 39) ready to test the 14” gun after being modernized. Photographed by U.S. Naval Air Station, Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 10, 1931. (6/30/2015).

LC-USZ62-120854 by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
USS Warrington (DD 383) arriving at New York City, New York, with Queen Mary and King George IV on board, 1939.

80-G-442916 by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
USS Rizzi (DE 537), port view, at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, May 5, 1952.

330-PS-790 (USN 421049) by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
(USN 421049): USS Missouri (BB-63). Fires a salvo of 16-inch shells from turret # 2 while bombarding Chongjin, North Korea, in an effort to cut enemy communications, October 1950. Chongjin is only 39 miles from North Korea's northern border.

80-G-463462 by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
USS Saratoga (CV 3) broadside port view, June 25, 1928.

Lot 10625-6 by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
Navy Day, October 27, 1945. USS Colorado (BB 45), on last lap of journey home. Donated by Mr. Thomas J. Watson from a recording America’s tribute to its victorious fleet in first peacetime Navy Day since the start of World War Two.

 

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Bulgarian Navy servicemen at the ceremony for the retirement of the last operational Bulgarian submarine "Slava" (i.e. "Glory"). Photo by BGNES

 

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Imperial Austro-Hungary:
SMS Kaiser was a 92-gun wooden ship of the line of the Austrian Navy, the last vessel of the type, and the only screw-driven example, to be built by the Austrians. She was built by the naval shipyard in Pola; she was laid down in March 1855, was launched in October 1858, and was completed the following year. The ship took part in the Second Schleswig War of 1864, but saw no action during her deployment to the North Sea. Kaiser did see action during the Seven Weeks' War two years later, during which she took part in the Battle of Lissa as the flagship of Anton von Petz, commander of the Austrian 2nd Division. Kaiser engaged several Italian ironclads simultaneously, rammed one—Re di Portogallo—and damaged another—Affondatore—with gunfire. In doing so, she became the only wooden ship of the line to engage an ironclad warship in battle.

Kaiser surrounded by Italian ironclads at Lissa

Kaiser after the battle, partially dismasted

Kaiser after her reconstruction into a casemate ship

 

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Germany:
Deutschland-class Admiral Graf Spee passes the Levensau High Bridge over the Kiel Canal

 

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RN:
HMS Boxer (F92), expended as a target ship, shows the damage from two Harpoon missile strikes, Aug 2004

 

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USN:
USS Makin Island (LHD 8) operating in the eastern Pacific with F-35B aboard.

Live fire from ships and aircraft participating in RIMPAC 2020 sink the decommissioned amphibious cargo ship ex-USS Durham (LKA 114). Pacific Ocean, Aug. 30, 2020. USN photo.

USS Constitution in Drydock

 

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USN:
After 16 years as a battleship and 3 years as a training ship, the predreadnought USS Kearsarge (BB-5) was rebuilt as a crane ship and spent 35 years building and repairing other ships, including USS Indiana, USS Alabama, USS Savannah, USS Pennsylvania, USS Hornet, USS Boxer, and USS Chicago.

She gave up her name for the aircraft carrier Kearsarge (CV-33), becoming the humble USS Crane Ship No. 1. She was finally retired and sold for scrap in Boston in 1955.

The photos show just how much her hull was widened in the conversion to give her more stability, as her crane could lift up to 250 tons.

And she holds the distinction of being the only US battleship NOT named for a state, but for an earlier warship -- which itself was named after a mountain in New Hampshire.

USS Crane Ship #1, IX-16/AB-1, formerly USS Kearsarge, BB-5

 

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RN:
HMS Victorious (Illustrious Class post refit) leaving Portsmouth 1966

HMS Reclaim a deep diving and submarine rescue vessel was the last British warship to have sails. Although rarely used, they could add half a knot to her speed. HMS Reclaim also served as a filming location for the Doctor Who serial "The Sea Devils" in 1971

The sails allowed the ship to maintain positive steering control and counter tide placement while the engines were off. This being especially relevant as the ship would be required to maintain position and yaw while using acoustic equipment that required no active propulsion.

 

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RN:
HMS Bristol, a Type 82 Destroyer, now permanently moored in Portsmouth harbour as a training ship, is scheduled to decommission this week after over 47 years service

 

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Russia:
With thanks to @Jaybe
Pr. 971 Shchuka-B (NATO Akula class) Kuzbass K-419 with escort. Photo by Oleg Gokoev.

Project 667BDRM Delfin-class ballistic missile submarine (NATO reporting name Delta IV Stretch) special mission submarines next to what is presumably a Hapsichord USV; the open bay is normally used to store a UHF radio paravane.
After conversion from Project 667BDRM ex K-64 is now BS-64 and known as Pr. 09787 (carrier of minisubmarine) BS-64 Podmoskovye

After conversion from Project 667BDR Kaľmar (Squid) (NATO Delta III-class) large ballistic missile submarine ex K-129 is now BS-136 and known as Project 09786 (carrier of minisubmarine) BS-136 Orenburg

 

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USN:
USS Johnston DD-557 in Puget Sound, 27th Oct 1943. Official USN Photo 63495

USS Johnston (DD-557) is best known for her actions on October 25th, 1944, when she was a member of Task Force 77.4.3, or "Taffy 3". She would be the first ship to charge into action against the IJN task force, including the Super-battleship IJN Yamato and 3 older BB/BCs, the IJN Nagato, IJN Kongo, and IJN Haruna. She would hit and cripple the IJN Kumano, forcing both her and her sister, the Suzuya, out of the battle. She would serve gallantly during the battle, fighting a Kongo-class BC (BB rebuild, but still.) at close range without taking much damage in return. She then shot up an enemy cruiser that was attacking the Gambier Bay (she would eventually sink by gunfire), and fought off an enemy Desron. She would get hit from a 14' shell from the Kongo, and enemy destroyers closed on her as she fought, foundering before the Yukikaze (aka the "Unsinkable Ship") forced her below the waves as the captain of the Yukikaze was seen saluting the survivors, no doubt in honour of a "worthy adversary", which was rightfully deserved. Her Captain, Ernest E. Evans, would get the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions, and Taffy 3 would earn a PUC.


Research Vessel Petrel, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, discovered what they believe to be its battered and twisted hull 20,406 feet beneath the Philippine Sea in October 2019

The Petrel team said in 2019: “There is no hull structure intact that we can find. This wreck is completely decimated, it is just debris.

“This wreck is either the Johnston or the Hoel".

“This wreck is in the southern part of where the battle took place and this is one of the reasons why we believe this is the Johnston, because she sank later, after Hoel did.”

 

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USN:
USS Enterprise (CV-6) underway off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 2 August 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 33 Design 4Ab.