Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
HMS Nelson's "B" and "X" turrets in 1940, fitted with launchers for the UP "Unrotated Projectile", an unsuccessful 7" anti-aircraft rocket

King George V-class battleship HMS Duke of York firing her 14" guns, probably Feb 1942

Implacable-class aircraft carrier HMS Indefatigable in 1944

Battleship HMS King George V outbound from Sydney Harbour, 1945

HMS King George V. post WWII

 

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France:
Battleship Strasbourg at sea

Quadruple turrets showing how there are essentially two separate sets of guns in each

Battleship Richelieu off the coast of Provence, 1953

 

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RN:
Battlecruiser HMS Repulse on the 14 August 1916

Battlecruiser HMS Hood, just prior to launching, August 1918. Note the recessed areas where armour will be fitted after launching

 

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USN:
USS George Washington in Norfolk, early 2000's

Ohio class SSGN (possibly USS Florida) in Norfolk, early 2000's

Joint Venture, High Speed Vessel Experimental One (HSV X1) pulls a Special Boat Team (SBT) Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) out of the water, 25 May 2003

 

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Imperial Germany & RN:
SMS Kaiser opens fire on HMS Warspite at Jutland by Paul Wright

 

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Imperial Japan:
Battlecruiser Kirishima undergoing her major reconstruction between 1934 and 1936. Her three sister ships were also given such major rebuilds, and reclassified as battleships. The lead ship of the class, HIJMS Kongo, was ordered in 1910 and was the last major Japanese warship built abroad, being designed and built in Britain.

Hand to hand combat on Nagato, c 1939

 

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New Zealand:
HMNZS Aotearoa refuelling at Chowder Bay, Sydney. April 2021

 

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RN:
Sea Dart launcher on HMS Bristol after her return from the Falklands in 1982.

HMS Plymouth a Type 12 Frigate returning home to Rosyth From the Falklands War 1982

Oberon class submarine HMS Otis (S-18) returning to Portsmouth, in early April 1991 after Operation Desert Storm.

She and HMS Opossum (S-19) were deployed to the Gulf to deliver special forces on missions to Iraq and Kuwait. In order to be able to operate offshore, the two submarines were painted in camouflage which was to confuse the line of sight through contrasts of light and shade, mainly for submarine activities offshore at dawn or at night, with reefs and waves in the distance.

 

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RN:
HMS Malabar in 1867. A troopship for the Indian Government.

An interesting fact about the Euphrates-Class is that each had a different colour hull band. Malabar had a black band. The blue band of HMS Euphrates became the standard for all subsequent troopships of the Empire.

The stern of the cruiser HMS Terrible at the Clydebank yard in 1895

Practice torpedo launched from destroyer HMS Medea in 1915

Articifers are manning the firing gear for the torpedo's. They generally used a "wet heater" system to power the torpedo in these early years, hence the steam emitting from the tube

Minesweeping sloop HMS Cicero post WW1

 

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Russia:
Krivak I class (Project 1135 Burevestnik) missile frigate Ladny. Malta, 29 December 2011.

Borey class (Project 995A Borei-A) SSBN K-549 Knyaz Vladimir at the Sevmash shipbuilding enterprise. 23 july 2019. Photo by Sergei Bobylev.

Caspian Flotilla in the Black sea during an exercise, April 17 2021.

Visible here are 3 Buyan-M-class corvettes, 1 Tarantul-class corvette, 2 Gepard-class corvettes and 2 Pr. 22870 Tow and Rescue vessels

 

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USN:
USS Newcomb (DD-586), view from aft looking forward. Damage received from kamikaze hits off Okinawa on 6 April 1945. Photographed on 11 April. Catalog # 80-G-330100 National Archives via NHHC

Departing Iwo Jima on 10 March, Newcomb put in at Ulithi, where she was assigned to Task Force 54 (TF 54) for the invasion of Okinawa. Newcomb again covered underwater demolition and minesweeping operations as well as antiaircraft and shore bombardment until 6 April, when she was screening minesweepers off Ie Shima. At least 40 enemy aircraft were observed in the area during the day, and at 16:00 attacks began. Though handicapped by a low ceiling, her gunners were able to drive off or shoot down several attackers, but over a period of an hour and a half, she was struck five times. With the effort that won them a Navy Unit Commendation, her crew worked furiously to repair engine damage and extinguish fires, while continuing to fight their ship and maneuver to avoid further crashes. Aid was rendered by Leutze, herself struck by the fifth kamikaze skipping across from Newcomb, and Beale. Afloat with fires and power out, the toll for the attack was 18 killed, 25 missing, and 64 wounded; Newcomb was towed to Kerama Retto by fleet tug Tekesta.

Her squadron made a night torpedo attack in the Surigao Strait phase of the Battle for Leyte Gulf 25 October. At least one of her five torpedoes struck the battleship Yamashiro, which was sunk in this action.

 

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Turkey:
Bayraktar-class tank landing ship TCG SANCAKTAR. Photo: Ertuğrul Birel

 

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France:
Battleship Jean Bart, still under reconstruction, 1951

 

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Spain:
S-80 Plus class, Isaac Peral S-81 rolled out, 17th April for launch on 22nd April 2021 after 17 years since being laid down

 

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USN:
USS San Antonio (LPD-17) enters HM Naval Base Devonport, April 17

Museum ship New Jersey (BB-62) on the shore of the Delaware River. 16-04-2021

 

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RN:
12 July 1948, Blyth, United Kingdom. Heavy cruiser HMS Berwick is being towed into the breaker's yard where she'll be dismantled by 1949.

HMS Newfoundland firing a salvo onto terrorist positions, Malaya, 1955

HMS Hermes at Subic Bay, Jan 18, 1961

 

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RN:
RMS Berengaria passes between a Revenge-class battleship (foreground) and a Queen Elizabeth class battleship (background) at the 1935 Spithead Naval Review.

Battleship HMS Revenge in early August 1939.

 

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USN:
USS Hamner (DD-718) off North Island circa in the mid-1950s

U.S. Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, circa 1958-1960. Visible are the aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CVA-61) and an Oregon City-class heavy cruiser, probably USS Rochester

 

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RN:
Type 42 destroyer HMS Nottingham in stormy North Atlantic weather, 200 miles west of Ireland, 2004. Just after this photex, she conducted a successful double Sea Dart test fire.

 

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Spain:
Heavy cruisers Canarias, left, and Baleares, right, under construction at the SECN shipyard of Ferrol, Spain, 1930

Heavy cruiser Canarias upon completion, 1936; on the hull, the recognition marks of the Spanish Nationalist fleet can be seen