Australia & New Zealand:
Pulling to her berth at Port Melbourne, the bare-decked aircraft carrier HMAS SYDNEY [III] is seen over the 5.25 inch guns of the 5,950 tons [standard] Dido Class cruiser HMNZS BLACK PRINCE. The two ships are about to depart on an almost five months voyage to Britain to participate in the Coronation Review at Spithead, saluting the new young Queen Elizabeth II.
Australia:
A member of the famous 10th Destroyer Flotilla, Tribal class destroyer HMAS WARRAMUNGA shows her own sleek lines to advantage and the yachts at the Olympics sailing competition on Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne 1956
Argentina:
A F9F Panther of the Argentinian Navy flying over the ARA Independencia (Ex HMS Warrior), the first aircraft carrier of Argentina, late 50's-early 60s
USN:
Ex USS Oriskany (CV-34) sinking to the ocean floor, 22-miles south of Pensacola, Florida (FL) in approximately 212-ft. of water in the Gulf of Mexico, May 17, 2006
Germany:
S-22 running on maximum speed during a trial run in June/July 1939. The motor torpedo boat S 22 was launched on Jan. 31st, 1939 by the Friedrich Lürssen Werft, Bremen-Vegesack, yard number 12763, and commissioned on May 12th, 1939
RN:
Paddle sloop HMS Virago near Fort Macquarie, Sydney Harbour, c. 1867-71
A glass plate negative, produced between 1867 and 1871, shows the Royal Navy paddle sloop 'HMS Virago' (1841-1876) which was a unit of the Royal Navy's Australia Station between 1867 and 1871. The ship was used mainly in survey work on the east coast of Australia, including Norfolk Island and the Great Barrier Reef. She also surveyed large sections of the coastline of New Zealand.
Germany:
Aug 1958, sailors enter the German Federal Navy U-HAI (ex Type XXIII U-2365). Scuttled in 1945 and raised in 1957 to join the post-war Kriegsmarine. In Sep 1966 foundered in Dogger Bank in a gale, 19 of the 20 crewmen were lost, one of the worst German Navy disasters post-WW2
Russia:
Project 636.3 (NATO Improved Kilo) class diesel-electric submarines Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Volkhov and Project 20385 Gremyashchiy class corvette Gremyashchiy in Vladivostok.
France:
Battleship Strasbourg under attack by bombers in Aug 1944
Alongside Strasbourg is the cruiser La Galissonnière, and moored aft is the seaplane tender Commandant Teste.
Commandant Teste was at Mers el-Kébir during the British attack, where she was unharmed. She later sailed back to Toulon, where it was scuttled along the rest of the fleet. Refloated by the Italians and towed to Saint Mandrier, it was again sunk by American bombs. Re-refloated postwar, it was turned into a floating depot before being finally scrapped.
RN:
Sea King HAS Mk-6 lands on the flight deck of the Invincible Class Aircraft Carrier, HMS Illustrious (R06). Illustrious is operating in the Persian Gulf in support of the Southwest Asia build-up, 12 Mar 1998
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