Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Spain

R11 Principe de Asturias and R01 Dedalo

 

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RN:
HMS Hood berthing at Melboune's Princess Pier, 1924. Hood, along with Repulse and several Danae-class cruisers, circumnavigated the world in a cruise that lasted from Nov 1923 to Sept 1924

County-class heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall, probably at Honolulu, Hawaii during the 1930's

16-inch guns of HMS Rodney firing a salvo, 1936

 

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USN:
The future USS Marinette (LCS 25) during sea trials. 2022

Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67) fires a Standard missile during a live-fire exercise in the Philippine Sea, Jan. 23 2023

Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Antietam (CG-54) entering Otaru Port, Japan. Feb 2023

USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) and USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) assisting the recovery of debris from a high-altitude surveillance balloon. Feb 2023

 

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USN:
Battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57) underway with Task Force 17 in 1942.

USS Iowa (BB-61) raising her anchor as she prepares to move from Bayonne, NJ to Gravesend Bay, 29 March, 1943

Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd (DD-661) en route to the Saipan Invasion, 12 June 1944. Anchored in the left background is the battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43), with a destroyer alongside and an escort carrier beyond. The photo was taken from USS New Mexico (BB-40).

Aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11) operating in the Philippine Sea in November 1944. Note the Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter parked on an outrigger forward of her island

 

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Germany/USN:
Ex-German Helgoland class battleship SMS Ostfriesland while operating as a U.S. Navy vessel, April to September 1920. The ship was obtained by the U.S. as a war reparations transfer and she was sunk during air power trials off the Virginia Capes in July 1921.

 

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Germany:
During the severe Winter of 1940, battleship Gneisenau steams slowly in the ice with an escorting destroyer.

Type VIIA U-boat U-34 emblem during winter of 1940-41. Beneath it is the training boat emblem.

She was sunk at 21:55 on 5 August 1943 at Memel (today's Klaipėda in Lithuania), in the Baltic, after a collision with the U-boat tender Lech. Four men died, although 39 survived. The boat was raised on 24 August but stricken on 8 September 1943.

Conning tower of Type VIIC U-boat U-756. Commisioned in Dec 1941. U-756 did not survive to complete her first patrol and did not sink or damage any ships. Eighteen days into her first patrol, on 1 September 1942 U-756 was in the mid North-Atlantic when she was attacked by the corvette HMCS Morden. Heavily damaged, the vessel went down with all 43 aboard.

Neger human torpedo inspected by an Allied serviceman on the Anzio beachhead in April 1944

The first mission took place on the night of 20/21 April 1944. Thirty Negers were launched against Allied ships berthed in Anzio. Only 17 of them managed to deploy, with the other 13 capsizing upon reaching the water. Three failed to return and up until then, the Allies had no knowledge of this new unusual weapon. None had made any successful attacks.

 

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Italy:
Brin class submarine Brin under air attack, Atlantic Ocean, spring of 1941. Surrendered to the Allies in 1943; discarded in February 1948.

Battleship Duilio at a bouy in the years immediately after WWII

 

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RN:
Column 'B', Royal Navy Fleet Review, 1909, Thames River Estuary. All four ships in Column B were King Edward VII-class predreadnoughts- HMS King Edward VII, Britannia, Hindostan and Dominion

 

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France:
Aquitaine class FREMM frigate Lorraine (D657). 2022

 

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Germany:
Derfflinger class battlecruiser SMS Hindenburg being raised, July 1930.

 

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USN:
Pennsylvania-class armoured cruiser USS Maryland (ACR 8) showing off her 8" main battery, circa 1905.

USS Maryland (ACR 8),circa 1905

 

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RN:
HMS Queen Elizabeth and Type 23 frigate HMS Richmond pass through the Verrazzano Bridge, New York. 25 September 2022

Type 23 frigate HMS Kent returns to HMNB Portsmouth after operations in the North Sea (2 December 2022)

 

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Italy:
Carlo Bergamini-class FREMM frigate Carlo Margottini (F 592)

 

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Russia:
Project 941UM Akula (NATO Typhoon) class SSBN Dmitriy Donskoi (TK-208) during Navy Day, 2018. He was decommissioned in Feb 2023

 

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Japan:
Aircraft carriers Kasagi and Ibuki at Sasebo in about 1948 while being broken up for scrap

 

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USN:
Battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) En route to the west coast after she had been salvaged and given preliminary repairs at Pearl Harbor. Original photo is dated 20 April 1943

Alaska-class large cruiser USS Hawaii (CB-3) leaving the launching ways at the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, NJ on 3 November 1945.

 

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Italy:
Maestrale-class frigate Maestrale (F-570), underway during Operation Enduring Freedom, May 8, 2002

 

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USSR & USN:
At anchor in the harbour at Sevastopol: Project 1134B Berkut B (NATO Kara) class guided missile cruisers Azov & Project 1164 Atlant (NATO SLAVA) class guided missile cruiser Slava, Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser USS Thomas S. Gates (CG 51) & OHP class guided missile frigate USS Kauffman (FFG 59). Aug 4-8, 1989

 

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USN & Japan:
Independence class USS Charleston (LCS-18) and Takanami class destroyer JS Makinami (DD-112) conducting joint training in the South China Sea, Feb 2023

 

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RN & USN:
HMS Queen Elizabeth, flagship of the Grand Fleet, seen from USS New York (BB-34) at Scapa Flow, 1918. Note the rangefinder baffles between the funnels, designed to confuse optical rangefinders, a common sight late war.