Imperial Japan:
The gigantic lathe which was installed at Kure Naval Arsenal in 1938 and produced the 18" guns used by the Yamato-class battleships.
A massive lathe believed to have been used to fashion the main guns of Japan's mighty World War II battleship Yamato was in danger of becoming a rusting relic until a crowdfunding raised the initial target of 100 million yen ($876,500)--in just a single day.
The city government here mounted the fund-raising drive in August and by Sept. 30 had raised a whopping 269.48 million yen from 6,626 interested parties.
City officials are now setting their sights on the best way to exhibit the lathe at the Kure Maritime Museum, also known as Yamato Museum, based on feedback from contributors. Nov 2021
USN:
Northampton-class cruiser cruiser USS Houston (CL-30), later (CA-30), in the Port of Houston Turning Basin, 1930. She was re-designated a heavy cruiser in 1931
Imperial Russia & RN:
May 1916, a condenser meant for the British-designed engines of battleship Imperator Alexander III is loaded. Battlecruiser HMS Repulse is in the background.
RN:
Battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth, shortly after the completion of her last major rebuild in the late 1930s
Town class cruisers HMS Sheffield and HMS Glasgow engaging a 'Queen Bee' target drone during anti-aircraft exercises in front of the King, 21 June 1938
The crew of a 4.7 inch Mark IX gun at action stations on a destroyer. They are all wearing anti-flash gloves and hoods. Note the men taking more ammunition from the storage locker to the right of the gun. WW2
Divisions fallen in on the fo'c'sle ready for inspection, on the battleship HMS Anson, 28 June 1942
Fiji class cruiser HMS Mauritius at sea, August 1942
USN:
USS Oak Hill (LSD-7) underway, off the coast of California enroute to Pearl Harbor with two Flotilla 13 LCTs aboard. LCT-984 and LCT-982 are loaded stern to stern in Oak Hill's well deck along with numerous LVTs. April 21st 1944
France:
Destroyer Aventurier, lead ship of a class of four originally ordered by the Argentine Navy, but taken over by the navy at the start of World War I
Imperial Japan:
Destroyer Kikuzuki beached in Purvis Bay, Florida Island, Solomon Islands in 1944. She had been sunk on 4 May 1942, when USS Yorktown (CV-5) aircraft raided the Tulagi area and was salvaged by the U.S. Navy in 1943.
RN & New Zealand:
River-class OPV HMS Spey (P234), multi-role vessel (MRV) HMNZS Canterbury (L421) and Protector-class OPV HMNZS Wellington (P55) as part of the humanitarian relief mission near Tonga in the South Pacific. Jan 2022
USN, Italy, Turkey:
Ex Neptune Strike 22 in the Adriatic Sea, Jan 2022. USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, along with its carrier strike group and Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2)
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