Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Netherlands:
Submarine HNLMS O-12 at Willemskade with the destroyer leader HNLMS Tromp 29 April 1939

After being scuttled by the Dutch Navy, O-12 was raised by the Kriegsmarine and taken into service as UD-2, and then scuttled again.

 

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Italy, USN & France:
GULF OF OMAN (Jan. 3, 2014) The Italian navy aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (CVH 550), front, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and the French navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R 91), conduct operations in the Gulf of Oman

 

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Italy:
Fall of shot of a salvo from battleship Duilio, 31 August 1936

 

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Turkey:
TCG Anadolu (L-400) amphibious assault ship. Currently undergoing sea trials.

 

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Germany:
First shot of WW2: Pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein attacks Polish positions in Westerplatte, from the harbour of Danzig, on the early morning of September 1st, 1939.

On August 25 1939, German Battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein enters the Harbour of Danzig. Under the pretext of making a courtesy call, she anchors just 150 meters from the Westerplatte WST. The Polish forces are immediately aware of the threat and put on alert. When the next day, Captain Gustav Kleikamp moves the ship to anchor just a little further upstream into the Port canal, Major Sucharski the commander in charge of the WST garrison puts his forces on an even higher alert.

 

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PLA(N):
A Type 054A frigate firing x4 HHQ-16 SAMs

 

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USN:
PCU (Pre Commissioming Unit) USS Bougainville (LHA-8) at Ingalls Shipbuilding

Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyers USS Gridley (DDG-101), USS Chafee (DDG-90) and USS Spruance (DDG-111) in the Philippine Sea, January 2022

USS Spruance (DDG-111), front, and USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) conduct exercises in the Philippine Sea

Guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) arrives at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY). Fitzgerald, on a routine deployment as part of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, arrived at CFAY for the first time since the ship's 2017 collision. 21st Jan 2022

 

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Norway:
Navy divers remove British-made Stingray Anti-Submarine torpedoes from the wreck of HNoMS Helge Ingstad Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate

 

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RN:
Daring class destroyer HMS Daring D32 at The Bund, Shanghai, 2013.

 

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Algeria:
Project 877 Paltus (NATO Kilo) class attack submarine

 

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USN:
USS Wyoming (BB-32) firing her sub-calibre guns during manoeuvres at Panama, 10 March 1926. Note her 12" guns; anti-aircraft guns on turret, rear, are 3"/50's; range-finder on turret; sub-calibre spotting rifle on front of turret (with kneeling sailor behind it)

 

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RN:
C-class light cruiser HMS Cape Town in Los Angeles Harbor 19 September 1925.

HMS Hermes on the Huangpu River near Shanghai, between 1930-7.

 

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RN:
An M class submarine moored next to RMS Aquitania

The British Royal Navy M-class submarines were a small class of diesel-electric submarines built during World War I. The unique feature of the class design was a 12-inch (305 mm) gun mounted in a turret forward of the conning tower. Due to the limitations imposed on submarine armament by the Washington Naval Conference, M2 and M3 had their guns removed. M2 was converted to carry a small seaplane and M3 was made into a minelayer.

A grinning crewman of HMS Queen Elizabeth inside one of her 15" gun, 1915

 

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RN & Spain:
HMS Dasher intercepts P46 Furor when it got too close to Gibraltar. Jan 2022

 

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RN:
Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster at the UHAF in Portsmouth, 26th Jan, 2022

 

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Germany:
Aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin under construction at Kiel, showing the "Atlantic Bow", March 26, 1940

 

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USN:
USS Wasp (CV-7) in port at San Diego Harbor, possibly June 19, 1942, with a motor launch coming alongside. Aircraft on deck, some with wings folded, include SB2U scout bombers, TBD torpedo bombers and F4F-4 fighters. USN photo

Heavy cruiser USS Minneapolis (CA-36) refuelling at sea from a Navy AO, during the Marshall Islands operation, Jan. 1944. Photographed from USS Cowpens (CVL-25). The oiler is one of the few that were fitted with a Mark 37 gun director, visible atop her bridge.

Light cruiser USS San Juan (CL-54) underway in Tokyo Bay in late-August/September, 1945.

Atlanta-class light cruiser USS San Diego (CL-53) at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan. 1945

 

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RN:
Dido class light cruiser HMS Euryalus transiting the Suez Canal to join the Mediterranean Fleet, 27 October 1942

Minotaur class Light cruiser HMS Swiftsure, circa 1944-45

 

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New Zealand & RN:
Oiler HMNZS Aotearoa & OPV HMS Spey alongside in Tonga, January 26th, 2022

 

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France:
Brest, 1930s: left to right, the light cruisers Émile Bertin and Jeanne d'Arc and the battleship Lorraine