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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
HMS Implacable at anchor, 21 August 1944, Greenock
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.
Australia:
Decommissioned Oberon class submarine HMAS Otama lies forlorn in Western Port Bay, Australia
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
Former USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier being towed out of for final scrapping in Texas, January 2022
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,
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
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
USS Utah (BB-31) leads other battleships in line ahead formation, during battle practice, circa 1913
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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