Photos Navies Of All Nations

USN:
Carriers Saratoga, Enterprise, Hornet, and San Jacinto, at Alameda, California, Sep 1945
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PT-596 with 2 Mk 50 5-Inch MLRS launchers in 1945
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RN:
HMS Prince of Wales launches an F-35B for the first time, 9th June 2021
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USN:
USS New Jersey (BB-62) in San Francisco Bay to participate in the Peace in the Pacific celebration, commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the end of the War in the Pacific, 14 August 1985.
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Decommissioned battleship New Jersey (BB-62) and seven decommissioned Knox class frigates tied up at the Ship Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, WA., May 1993.
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RN:
The escort destroyer HMS Badsworth coming alongside the depot ship HMS Tyne. September 1941.
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Badsworth was primarily tasked with escort duty during the war, being badly damaged by mines twice in the process.
Following the second of these incidents, she was transferred to Norway as Arendal and would remain with them until she was scrapped in 1965.
 
RN:
View from the bridge of battleship HMS Vanguard while she makes 30 knots during the NATO exercise Operation Mainbrace, 19 September 1952
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Russia:
Admiral Gorshkov class, designation Project 22350 frigate "Admiral Golovko" at the Northern shipyard in St. Petersburg, awaiting sea trials. May 2021
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USN:
The first DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer to be built in the Flight III configuration, the future Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), was successfully launched at Huntington Ingalls Industries, Ingalls Shipbuilding division, June 4, 2021. The future Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD-29) makes an appearance under the overhead crane on the right
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The DDG 51 Flight III upgrade is centered on the AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar and incorporates upgrades to the electrical power and cooling capacity plus additional associated changes to provide greatly enhanced warfighting capability to the fleet. The Flight III baseline begins with DDGs 125-126 and will continue with DDG 128 and follow on ships.
 
Norway, France & Denmark:
Skjold-class corvette Storm (P961) in the foreground, D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso Commandant Blaison in the middle and Absalon-class frigate HDMS Absalon (F341) in the rear
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Imperial Japan:
Two large submarines of the I-400 class surrendered in 1945 and moored by the submarine tender USS Proteus. The I-400 class were the largest subs until the coming of the nuclear units in the 1950s
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USN:
USS Salt Lake City (CA 25) being sunk as a target ship, May 25, 1948. She now rests 130 miles off the Southern California coast.
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USN:
USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser leaving San Diego - June 10, 2021
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USS Higgins (DDG 76) Arleigh Burke-class Flight II guided missile destroyer coming into San Diego - June 10, 2021
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USN:
South Dakota-class battleship USS Alabama (BB-60) anchored at Lynnhaven in Hampton Roads, on 1 December 1942. NavSource
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USS Aaron Ward (DM-34) in the Kerama Retto anchorage, 5 May 1945 showing damage received when she was hit by several kamikaze off Okinawa on 3 May
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On 30 April, the destroyer minelayer returned to sea to take up position on radar picket station number 10. That night, she helped repulse several air attacks; but, for the most part, weather kept enemy airpower away until the afternoon of 3 May. When the weather began to clear, the probability of air attacks rose. At about dusk, Aaron Ward's radar picked up bogies at 27 miles (43 km) distance; and her crew went to general quarters. Two of the planes in the formation broke away and began runs on Aaron Ward. The warship opened fire on the first from about 7,000 yards (6,000 m) and began scoring hits when he had closed range to 4,000 yards (4,000 m). At that point, he dipped over into his suicide dive but crashed about 100 yards (100 m) off the destroyer minelayer's starboard quarter. The second of the pair began his approach immediately thereafter. Aaron Ward opened fire on him at about 8,000 yards (7,000 m) and, once again, began scoring hits to good effect — so much so that her antiaircraft battery destroyed him while he was still 1,200 yards (1,100 m) away.

At that point, a third and more determined intruder appeared and dove in on Aaron Ward's stern. Though repeatedly struck by antiaircraft fire, the plane pressed home the attack with grim determination. Just before crashing into Aaron Ward's superstructure, he released a bomb which smashed through her hull below the waterline and exploded in the after engine room. The bomb explosion flooded the after engine and fire rooms, ruptured fuel tanks, set the leaking oil ablaze, and severed steering control connections to the bridge. The rudder jammed at hard left, and Aaron Ward turned in a tight circle while slowing to about 20 knots (37 km/h). Topside, the plane itself spread fire and destruction through the area around the after deckhouse and deprived mount 53 of all power and communication. Worse yet, many sailors were killed or injured in the crash.

For about 20 minutes, no attacking plane succeeded in penetrating her air defences. Damage control parties worked feverishly to put out fires, to repair what damage they could, to jettison ammunition in danger of exploding, and to attend to the wounded. Though steering control was moved aft to the rudder itself, the ship was unable to manoeuvre properly throughout the remainder of the engagement. Then, at about 1840, the ships on her station came under a particularly ferocious air attack. While Little was hit by the five successive crashes that sank her, LSM(R)-195 took the crash that sent her to the bottom; and LCS(L)-25 lost her mast to a kamikaze. Aaron Ward also suffered her share of added woe. Just before 1900, one plane from the group of attackers selected her as a target and began his approach from about 8,000 yards (7,000 m). However, the destroyer minelayer began scoring hits early and managed to shoot down the attacker when he was still 2,000 yards (2,000 m) away. Another enemy then attempted to crash into her, but they, too, succumbed to her antiaircraft fire.

Her troubles, however, were not over. Soon after the two successes just mentioned, two more Japanese planes came in on her port bow. Though chased by American fighters, one of these succeeded in breaking away and starting a run on Aaron Ward. The aircraft came in at a steep dive apparently aiming at the bridge. Heavy fire from the destroyer minelayer, however, forced the plane to veer toward the after portion of the ship. Passing over the signal bridge, the plane carried away halyards and antennae assemblies, smashed into the stack, and then crashed close aboard to starboard.

Quickly on the heels of that attack, still another intruder swooped in toward Aaron Ward. Coming in just forward of her port beam, the plane met a hail of anti-aircraft fire but continued on and released a bomb just before crashing into her main deck. The bomb exploded a few feet close aboard her port side, and its fragments showered the ship and blew a large hole through the shell plating near her forward fireroom. As a result, the ship lost all power and gradually lost headway. At that point, a previously unobserved enemy crashed into the ship's deckhouse bulkhead causing numerous fires and injuring and killing many more crewmen.

Aaron Ward endured two more devastating crashes before the action ended. At about 1921, a plane glided in steeply on her port quarter. The loss of power prevented any of her 5-inch mounts from bearing on him, and he crashed into her port side superstructure. Burning gasoline engulfed the deck in flames, 40-millimeter ammunition began exploding, and still more heavy casualties resulted. The warship went dead in the water, her after superstructure deck demolished, and she was still on fire. While damage control crews fought the fires and flooding, Aaron Ward began to settle in the water and took on a decided list to port.

She still had one ordeal, however, to suffer. Just after 1920, a final bomb-laden tormentor made a high-speed, low-level approach and crashed into the base of her number 2 stack. The explosion blew the plane, the stack, searchlight, and two gun mounts into the air, and they all came to rest strewn across the deck aft of stack number 1. Through the night, her crew fought to save the ship. At 2106, Shannon arrived and took Aaron Ward in tow. Early on the morning of 4 May, she arrived at Kerama Retto where she began temporary repairs. She remained there until 11 June when she got underway for the United States. Steaming via Ulithi, Guam, Eniwetok, Pearl Harbor, and the Panama Canal, Aaron Ward arrived in New York in mid-August. On 28 September 1945, because her damage was so severe and the Navy had a surplus of destroyers at the time, she was decommissioned, and her name was struck from the Navy list.

For some first hand details the Aaron Ward's Action Report describing the attack is worth a read
 
USN:
USS Long Island (CVE-1) underway in Puget Sound, Washington, 11 February 1944. She is camouflaged in Measure 32 Design 9A, the colors being dull black, ocean gray and light gray with some white counter shading.
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USSR:
Battlecruiser Yuri Andropov, youngest of Kirov-class, outfitting at Baltic Shipyard. In 1992 was renamed Pyotr Velikiy and received pennant number 099.
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USN:
Ohio class USS Nevada (SSBN-733)
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2 February 1991, Long Beach Naval Shipyard. USS New Jersey (BB-62) undergoes her fourth and final ceremony of decommissioning.
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Russia:
Project 11351 Nerey class (NATO Krivak III) frigate "Dzerzhinskiy" of the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB (BOKHR of the FSB of Russia)
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Project 22120 Purga class ice-strengthened patrol ship "Ladoga" is launched 11th June 2021 for the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB (BOKHR of the FSB of Russia)
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Iran:
Expeditionary sea base Makran refuelling frigate Sahand on their way to deliver fast attack boats to Venezuela, 11JUN21.
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France:
Horizon-class destroyer Chevalier Paul
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