Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
Tennessee-class battleship USS California (BB-44) at her christening ceremony on the 20th of November, 1919

When USS California (BB-44) was launched the braking mechanisms were inadequate and she crossed the Napa River, wrecked a small dock and got stuck in the mud stern first (as seen in this photo). She was not damaged and was refloated with the next tide.

Illinois-class pre-dreadnought USS Alabama (BB-8) hit by white phosphorous. September, 1921

Pennsylvania class battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) during a visit to Australia in 1925

 

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Germany:
Light cruiser Nürnberg, moored at Tenerife on September 8th 1938. Built 1934 at Kiel by Deutsche Werft A.G.
Nürnberg would survive the war and was given to the Soviet Union as reparations. She remained in service until the late 50's.

Launching ceremony of aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, Deutsche Werke shipyard, Kiel, Germany, 8 December 1938

 

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RN:
Albion class amphibious transport dock HMS Albion in the Mediterranean. 2022

 

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France:
FREMM frigate Normandie (D651) during an ASW exercise. Dec, 2022

 

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Japan:
Atago class destroyer JS Atago (DDG-177)

Asahi class destroyer JS Asahi (DD-119) and Maya class destroyer JS Haguro (DDG-180) Dec 13, 2022

Abukuma-class destroyer escort JS Sendai (DE-232). Sasebo, 13 Dec 2022

JS Noshiro (FFM-3) heading to Sasebo after being commissioned today (Dec 15) at MHI Nagasaki shipyard

 

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Russia:
Pacific Fleet flagship Project 1164 (NATO Slava) class cruiser Varyag transits toward the Golden Gate Bridge after visiting San Francisco, June 25, 2010

 

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Netherlands & RN:
HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën alongside museum ship HMS Belfast. Dec 2022

 

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Australia:
Hobart class destroyer HMAS Hobart's dive team conducts diving operations as the ship transits through the Gulf of Carpenteria after a regional presence deployment Dec, 2022

These ships are designated as Air Warfare Destroyers, but they are multi-role. Though they weren't designed to be particularly quiet, these ships are fully equipped for ASW. It's tough to miss the fittings for the towed Array Sonar in this shot, and they also have bow mounted sonar and carry MH-60R helicopters.
All three of them are scheduled to get the AEGIS Baseline 9 upgrade in a couple of years as well as SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles. After the Baseline 9 upgrade and getting their SM-6s they will be capable of simultaneously prosecuting every level of endo-atmospheric air defense including terminal BMD.

 

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Germany:
U-505 being placed in her outdoor home as an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, 1954

Nearly every removable part had been stripped from the boat's interior by the time she went to the museum; she was in no condition to serve as an exhibit, so Museum director Lohr asked for replacements from the German manufacturers who had supplied the boat's original components and parts. Admiral Gallery reports in his autobiography Eight Bells and All's Well that every company supplied the requested parts without charge. Most included letters to the effect that the manufacturers wanted her to be a credit to German technology.

 

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Japan:
Battlecruiser Haruna was launched on December 14, 1913 at the Kawasaki Dockyards in Kobe. She would be commissioned on April 19, 1915 with her sister ship Kirishima. Haruna serving in the Imperial Japanese Navy right up to the end of the Second World War.

 

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USN:
USS Shangri-La (CVA-38) after her SCB-125 refit in the mid-50's.

M50 Ontos armored vehicles on the deck of LST-824 during Operation Jackstay, Spring of 1966.

Operation Jackstay was a joint U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and Republic of Vietnam Marine Division operation in the Rung Sat Special Zone, South Vietnam that took place from 26 March to 6 April 1966.

 

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Germany:
As seen from the battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz, the battleship SMS Baden at anchor. The photographer is behind turrets Caesar & Dora of Seydlitz. The life raft attached to turret is just visible. Baden can be identified by an armored observation platform under the top portion of the tripod. WW1

 

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RN:
Quad two pounder pom-pom mount on Hunt-class destroyer HMS Zetland during trials in July 1942

 

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USN:
Amphibious transport dock USS Portland (LPD 27) retrieved the Artemis I Orion spacecraft in coordination with multiple organizations including NASA, U.S. Space Command, fellow U.S. Navy ship Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Montgomery (LCS 8), Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC 23), and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Expeditionary Support Unit (EODESU) 1, Dec. 11.

 

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USN:
The future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125), the first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, getting underway to begin alpha sea trials. Dec 12, 2022

 

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RN:
16 Dec 1942. F class destroyer HMS Firedrake was torpedoed and sunk in mid-Atlantic by German submarine U-211 while on convoy escort duty. She broke in two, her bow sinking at once and her stern five hours later. 114 of her 140 crew were lost

V-class Destroyer HMS Viscount (I92) in heavy seas, as seen from her bridge during a convoy in the northern Atlantic. During this operation HMS Viscount and F-class destroyer HMS Fame rammed and sank two German U-boats.

 

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USN:
Eagle-Class Patrol Boat USS Eagle 17 (PE-17) at Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 1921

Ammunition ship USS Nitro (AE2), 26 August 1922

USS Sea Cloud (IX-99) under sail during the 1930s

Sea Cloud is a sailing cruise ship owned by Sea Cloud Cruises of Hamburg, Germany. Launched as a private yacht as Hussar V for Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1931, she later served as a weather ship for the United States Coast Guard and United States Navy during World War II, when she became the U.S. military's first racially integrated warship since the American Civil War. After the war, Sea Cloud was returned to private ownership, serving as a yacht for numerous people, including as presidential yacht of the Dominican Republic. Since 1979, Sea Cloud has been used as a cruise ship.

 

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USN:
The Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Seawolf (SSN 21) returns to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor following a seven-month deployment. 14 Dec 2022

 

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Latvia:
Coastal submarine Ronis.

Ronis and Spīdola in Tallinn, 1927

The two submarines were ordered in 1925 as part of the expansion of the nascent Latvian Navy which was first suggested in 1923. Constructed in France, the submarines were part of the navy's plan to guard Latvia's coastlines. With the onset of the Great Depression, the Latvian Navy comprised just the two submarines and two minesweepers acquired in the 1920s, although Latvia had planned to buy two more submarines of higher tonnage.

In 1940 Latvia was occupied by the Soviet Union and the Latvian Navy was incorporated into the Soviet Navy's Baltic Fleet in August 1940, retaining their original names. During World War II, the Ronis-class submarines participated in operations in the Baltic Sea.

Both submarines were sent to Liepāja in 1941 where they were scheduled to overhaul in July. However, with the Germans approaching the city, the Soviets were forced to blow up and scuttle the Ronis-class submarines on 24 June 1941 to prevent their capture. Liepāja was captured on 29 June by the Germans. The hulls were raised in 1942 and scrapped.

 

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Germany:
Type IXB U-boat U 123, January 1942

The boat was taken out of service at Lorient on 17 June 1944, she was scuttled there on 19 August. She was raised by the French in 1945 after Germany's surrender, and became the French submarine Blaison (Q165). She was decommissioned on 18 August 1959.