USN:
USS California (BB-44) Passing beneath the "Golden Gate Bridge" enter San Francisco Bay, sometime between January and June 1937
USS Wasp, (CV-7), anchored in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while "dressed" with flags for Navy Day, 27 October 1940
USN Fleet Oiler USS Aucilla in rough seas preventing any refueling operations. Carrier USS Ticonderoga can be seen in the background. Pacific Ocean, Jan 13th 1945
Heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) preparing to leave Tinian after delivering atomic bomb components, circa 26 July 1945. She was sunk on 30 July, while en route to the Philippines.
USN:
A crashed U.S. Navy Boeing-Vertol UH-46D Sea Knight on the fantail of the ammunition ship USS Suribachi (AE-21). The helicopter experienced a mechanical failure during an ammunition offload from the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower off Virginia (USA), in September 1992. Only one crewman was injured.
USN:
Blue Ridge class Command Ship, USS Mount Whitney, showing a small rainbow cascading across the ship's deck as she tests her Countermeasure Washdown System while rounding the Horn of Africa on February 5, 2003.
Greece:
Salamis naval base, 1949: the armoured cruiser Georgios Averof, left, near the wreck of the pre-dreadnought battleship Kilkis, raised to be scrapped
USN:
Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer USS Samuel N. Moore (DD-747), photographed circa late 1950s.
USS Winham Bay, (T-CVU-92), passes under the Golden Gate Bridge with a cargo of aircraft on her flight deck, including 24 USAF North American F-86D/L Sabre, 2 liaison aircraft, 2 McDonnell F2H-4 Banshee fighters and 2 Grumman F9F-5 Panthers. 1958
Considering that at least five gun ports seems to have been replaced by windows, This picture was probably taken after the Vittorio Emanuele had been reduced to the role of training ship in 1873, and her armament had been accordingly modified.
France:
Le Triomphant-class SSBN Le Téméraire departing the Ile Longue Naval Base, accompanied through the Brest Strait by an Estienne d'Orves-class OPV, 2011
Imperial Japan:
Myōkō-class heavy cruiser Haguro steaming through the wake of another Japanese cruiser, 1937. Note the 127mm/40 twin antiaircraft gun and gun director in the foreground.
Seaplane tender Chiyoda in the Whangpoo River, near Shanghai, China, off Woosung, in April 1940. Note chrysanthemum emblem on bow, and the two dual 5" AA guns forward.
She was sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf by a combination of naval bombers, cruiser shellfire and destroyer-launched torpedoes.
Crewmembers of the listing Japanese aircraft carrier IJN Zuikaku throwing explosives over the side, after she had been damaged by U.S. carrier aircraft during the Battle off Cape Engano, 25 October 1944. Photographed from the carrier's island, looking to port.
She capsized and sank this same day taking 842 of her crew to the bottom
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