Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Greece:
A battery of light AA guns being operated during exercises on board the cruiser Giorgios Averoff, Feb 23, 1943

 

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USN:
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1921. A torpedo is carted along the deck of USS Mississippi (BB-41) before being struck down into the storage compartment.

 

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USN:
Guided missile cruiser USS Columbus (CG-12), 1968

USS Bordelon (DD-881), a Gearing-class DD sporting her FRAM I conversion. She’s moored alongside another destroyer in Trieste, Italy. March 14, 1969

On 14 September 1976, while refuelling alongside USS John F. Kennedy, the ships came together and collided. Bordelon's port bow and some of the superstructure were damaged and the main mast snapped and fell on the signal shack, injuring some of the handling team.
Due to the damage to the superstructure and electronics and the age and condition of the hull, Bordelon was decommissioned and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 February 1977, transferred to Iran in July 1977, and cannibalized for spare parts.

 

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Germany & USCG:
Training cutter Horst Wessel at the Mürwik Naval School, Flensburg, Germany, 1937. Taking as war reparation in 1945 today still serves in the US Coast Guard as USCG Eagle, one of only two USN active commissioned sailing vessels, the other is the USS Constitution.

 

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Guns of an Australian destroyer. Note the ship’s mascot just above the guns, a kangaroo with a string on its tail.

HMAS Perth, one of the units of Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Fleet, was photographed after taking part in the Battle of Matapan, March 27-29, 1941. when the Italians lost three heavy cruisers and a large destroyer. HMAS Perth’s anti-aircraft guns are always ready for action. Perth would survive the Battle of the Java Sea, February 27, 1942, only to be sunk by the Japanese at the Battle of Sunda Strait, March 1, 1942.

 

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USN:
USS Wyoming (BB-32/AG-17) after her conversion into a gunnery training ship, in 1944

LST-325 (left) and USS LST-388 unloading while stranded at low tide during the invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

The aftermath of a Japanese kamikaze attack on the USS Randolph (CV-15) on 11 March 1945.

 

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France:
Destroyer L'Indomptable, possibly Brest, circa 1937

 

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Australia:
An unexpected visitor in the heads of HMAS Tobruk, due to the accidental discharge of a drill torpedo, 1959

 

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RN:
HMS Valiant in August 1940 after completing her refit in late November 1939.

 

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USN:
7 December 1917, Scapa Flow. Greeted by the crewmen of HMS Queen Elizabeth, USS New York (BB-34) (in the center) leads US Navy Battleship Division Nine to join the Grand Fleet until the end of the Great War.

Paulding class destroyer USS Jenkins (DD-42) Moored in a European area port (possibly Queenstown, Ireland), circa 1918. She is painted in "Dazzle" type camouflage. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Photo #: NH 52009. Note the splinter mattresses protecting her bridge. Note, too, the splinter shield on her forward 3 in gun. The most important wartime improvement, a heavy load of depth charges, is not visible. She also shows characteristic wartime assortment of life rafts. Info from U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
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USS New Mexico photographed from an airplane, while steaming in line with other battleships, 13 Apr 1919

14-inch guns of battleship USS Arizona’s forward batteries, 1924

First flight of airplane off an American battleship by Lt. Comdr. McDonnell of U.S.S. Texas on March 10, 1919

 

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USN:
Douglas SBD Dauntless over USS Enterprise and USS Saratoga, 1942

Destroyer minelayer USS Shannon (DM-25) steams past task forces gathering for the Okinawa Operation at Ulithis Atoll, circa in March 1945. The ships in the near background include the light cruisers USS Flint (CL-97), in left center, and USS Miami (CL-89), at right. Three Essex-class aircraft carriers are anchored in the middle distance. USS Enterprise (CV-6) is at the far left.

 

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RN:
Helicopter cruiser HMS Blake leaving Portsmouth Harbour, June 1979

 

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Italy:
October 1940, Battleship Andrea Doria performing gunnery exercises at anchor in Pola, at that time an Italian province

 

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Argentina:
Aircraft carrier ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2)

 

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USN:
USS Vincennes makes a final port call to Pearl Harbor in 2005 before being decommissioned (scrapped in 2011). She was one of the first five Ticonderoga-class cruisers, equipped with Mk. 26 twin arm launchers, and received international notoriety for shooting down an Iranian passenger jet in July 1988.

 

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France:
LHD Tonnerre (L9014) being welcomed in the Toulon arsenal after her Jeanne d'Arc 21 deployment, July 9th 2021

Lafayette-class frigate FS Surcouf (F711) entering the Toulon arsenal after her Jeanne d'Arc 21 deployment, July 9th 2021

Rubis-class SSN Emeraude entering the Toulon naval base after a 199 days long deployment in the Indo-Pacific region on the Jeanne d'Arc 21 deployment

 

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Italy:
120mm secondary battery of battleship Conte Di Cavour firing while in Taranto, 1915

The landing party of battleship Conte di Cavour parading, 1915

Fitting of the 381mm (15 inch) guns on monitor Alfredo Cappellini, Orlando shipyard (Leghorn), 1916

 

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RN:
King George V class battleship HMS Howe, post-war

Battleship HMS Vanguard at Rotterdam, June 1952. By this time she was the only active British battleship

 

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RN:
HMS Illustrious as seen from light cruiser HMS Mauritius, July 1942.

Supermarine Seafire during its trials on board HMS Illustrious, 8-9 of February 1943.

Destroyer HMS Westminster underway. April 1943

HMS Westminster was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was the first ship to bear the name. Launched in 1918, she served through two World Wars, and survived both to be sold for scrap in 1947.

Light cruiser HMS Dido off Gaeta, Italy, 18 May 1944

Colossus class aircraft carrier HMS Glory (R62)

The ship was commissioned on 2 April 1945, and left for the Pacific with an air wing of Barracudas (837 Naval Air Squadron) and Corsairs (1831 Naval Air Squadron). At Sydney, she joined the 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron of the British Pacific Fleet as the war was ending. Glory came to Rabaul shortly thereafter on 6 September 1945 to accept the surrender of the Japanese garrison there.

 

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Russia:
Project 21631, Buyan-M class missile corvette Orekhovo-Zuevo in Bosphorus. July 10, 2021

Baltic Fleet flagship, Project 956 (Sovremenny) class destroyer Nastoychivy, at Kronshtadt being repaired for its eventual return to service

A forward view of the armament of an Admiral Grigorovich class frigate, RBU-6000 anti submarine rocket launcher, 8 cell VLS for Kalibr, Oniks and Zircon cruise missiles, 24 cell VLS for 3S90M Buk SAM and 100mm A-190 deck gun

Rotary VLS cells for Kinzhal 3K95 short-range SAM system aboard Kirov class cruiser, Project 1144 Orlan class Pyotr Velikiy, 2018