Photos Navies Of All Nations

USN:
USS Intrepid (CV-11) photographed by Richard Shipman from the rear seat of an SB2C, after taking off to attack the Japanese Fleet in the Battle of Sibuyan Sea, 24 October 1944
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USSR:
Pacific Fleet "Skoryy" class destroyer, photographed in Japanese waters during 1959. Note the large "Knife Rest" radar antenna that has been added just abaft the forward funnel amidships
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Brazil:
A task force consisting of the Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier NAe São Paulo (A12) with a replenishment vessel and a former British Type 22 frigate, along with other escorts, underway off the Brazilian coast, Atlantic Ocean, 2011.
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Germany:
Former destroyer Z 39 in a drydock at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts (USA), 11 August 1945. The U.S. Navy designated the destroyer DD-939.
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USN:
USS Picking (DD-685) with Admiral Arleigh Burke, chief of naval operations, chatting with officers on the bridge wing, 19-22 October 1957. Note DESRON 23 emblem on stack
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USN:
16 October 2018: Mobile, Ala. - The future USS Kansas City (LCS 22) being rolled out of the fabricating shed. She'll be barged downriver to the BAE Corp. where she'll be placed into a floating drydock. The drydock will be sunk on 19 October, launching Kansas City.
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Emil Hymowitz, electrical engineer and head of one of the search radar units at Patuxent, rides a bicycle seat on the snorkel simulator and operates it manually. This photo was run in the December 1956 issue of Popular Mechanics.
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USN:
USS Independence (CV-62) sailing with battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) in the 1980s
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RN:
Battleship HMS Duke of York nears completion at Rosyth, 17 October 1941. The size of the County class cruiser behind her is very apparent!
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HMS Implacable at anchor, 21 August 1944, Greenock
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In the open bridge of HMS Bellona during a gale. The Dido class light cruiser was escorting a convoy on the way to Russia when hit a Force 12+ gale. Feb 1945.
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RN:
HMS Queen Elizabeth during Ex Joint Warrior 20-2
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RN:
Battlecruiser HMS Hood at Princes Pier, Melbourne in March 1924
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Battleship HMS Warspite (June 1937)
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Australia:
Decommissioned Oberon class submarine HMAS Otama lies forlorn in Western Port Bay, Australia
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The Western Port Oberon Association have been trying for a number of years to get her up on land and turned into a museum ship (much like Ovens in Fremantle) and while the outer hull looks in bad shape inside it was like the crew had just left. It would be sad to see her sunk as a reef.
 
USN:
Future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128) and National Security Cutter Calhoun (WMSL 759) under construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding. January 2022
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Former USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier being towed out of for final scrapping in Texas, January 2022
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 2, 2022) Sailors conduct a wash down aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley (DDG 101). Gridley is part of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, led by Carrier Strike Group 3, deployed from Everett,
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France:
Georges Leygues-class ASW frigate Latouche Treville in a storm, 2012.
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Light stealth frigate La Fayette seen from the Charles de Gaulle flight deck, 2020
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USN:
USS LST-547 lands an Army M4 Sherman during training operations at Camp Bradford, Virginia in 1944
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Tacoma class patrol frigate USS Covington (PF-56) underway in 1945
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Imperial Germany:
The former SMS Frankfurt on 18 July 1921, 50 miles off Cape Charles, Virginia Capes, during air bombing experiments. There appear to be two bombs falling in this view, both likely misses. This ship was allocated to the USA as war reparations after World War I
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USN:
On January 18, 1911, Eugene Burton Ely became the first person to take-off from and land on a naval vessel. In this photo, Ely pilots his Curtiss Model D biplane after take-off from a platform constructed on the stern of the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), anchored in San Francisco Bay
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USS Utah (BB-31) leads other battleships in line ahead formation, during battle practice, circa 1913
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USSR:
Project 1134B Berkut B (NATO Kara) class cruiser Azov underway, the first surface ship in the world to be fitted with a VLS, was modified to carry the then new S-300F which can be seen between the top dome radar and hangar
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Italy:
Carlo Bergamini-class frigate Carlo Margottini (F-592) transits the Mediterranean Sea
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