Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
Abdiel class minelayer HMS Latona. She was commissioned on 4 May 1941 but never served in her intended primary role, instead being used in the Mediterranean to deliver stores and supplies to the allied armies and garrisons at Tobruk and Cyprus.

On being commissioned Latona sailed to Scapa Flow to embark stores and extra Oerlikon 20 mm cannons for defence against air attacks. Having completed loading, she sailed for the Mediterranean on 16 May, travelling via the Cape of Good Hope and the Red Sea. She arrived at Alexandria on 21 June, joining her sister Abdiel. The following day they sailed to support military operations in the eastern Mediterranean. Latona’s first assignment was to carry RAF personnel to Cyprus to reinforce the garrison there. After successfully carrying this out, she returned to Alexandria on 25 July.

She sailed again in August in company with Abdiel, the Australian cruiser Hobart, and Australian destroyers Napier and Nizam to support the garrison at Tobruk. They eventually carried some 6,300 troops to Tobruk and evacuated another 6,100. On 25 October the ships supporting Tobruk came under air attack north of Bardia. Latona, carrying 1,000 Polish troops, was hit in the engine room by a bomb from a Junkers Ju 87 of I./StG1. This started a fire which soon raged out of control. The destroyers Hero and Encounter came alongside to assist and evacuated most of the troops and crew. Latona remained afloat for a further two hours, before the after magazine exploded, sinking the ship. Four officers, 16 crew members and 7 soldiers were killed.

 

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RN:
Battleship HMS Dreadnought cleared for action. Note the QF 12lb guns on the turret roofs. 1909-1914

 

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USN:
USS Carpenter (DDE-825) refueling from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CVS-12), in 1962. Hornet, with assigned Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 57 (CVSG-57), was deployed to the Western Pacific from 6 June to 21 December 1962. Note the large amount of fuel oil spilled on Carpenter´s decks. Carpenter carries the seldom used 3"/70 (76 mm) Mark 37 gun forward.
Gearing-class destroyer USS Carpenter (DDE-825), towed 6 November 1947 for completion as a Carpenter-subclass hunter-killer antisubmarine destroyer (DDK).

 

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Norway:
RN S-class destroyer HNoMS Stord at Rosyth, Scotland, 4 Jan 1944 after the Battle of the North Cape. She played an important role in the Battle of the North Cape sinking of battleship Scharnhorst. Stord went in as close as 400 yards (360 m) to Scharnhorst before firing torpedoes. After the battle, Admiral Fraser sent the following message to the Admiralty: "... Please convey to the C-in-C Norwegian Navy. Stord played a very daring role in the fight and I am very proud of her...". In an interview in The Evening News on 5 January 1944, the commanding officer of HMS Duke of York said: "... the Norwegian destroyer Stord carried out the most daring attack of the whole action..."

 

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USN:
Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) underway on June 24, 1944

USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) anchored in New York Harbor, with supply barges alongside, 9 January 1945

Flight deck of the Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75) photographed during heavy seas on 5 December 1945. Onboard are a large amount of passengers, being ferried back to the West Coast as a part of the post-war Operation "Magic Carpet".

 

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RN & USN:
'The celebrated engagement during which H.M.S. Shannon captured the American frigate Chesapeake, 1st June 1813' by John Steven Dews

Captain Philip Broke, in command of H.M.S. Shannon, had come upon the Chesapeake refitting in Boston Harbour and promptly challenged her to come out and fight. At about noon on 1st June 1813, Captain James Lawrence brought Chesapeake out into the open sea and after a furious annihilating action lasting just fifteen minutes, was forced to surrender.

After first firing two devastating broadsides, Broke led his boarding party onto Chesapeake but was so badly wounded that he had to relinquish his command. Casualties on both sides were extraordinarily high – 48 Americans, including Captain Lawrence, were killed and 96 wounded whilst Shannon suffered only slightly less with 33 dead and 50 wounded.

Despite his injuries, Captain Broke survived to be rewarded with a baronetcy and enduring fame, although he never recovered sufficiently to be able to return to active service.

 

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Japan:
Akizuki-class destroyer JS Suzutsuki (DD 117). Feb 2023

 

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RN:
HMS Argus, with HMS Eagle (center) and the battleship HMS Malaya (right distance) delivering Spitfires to Malta, March 7, 1942

 

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France:
Floréal-class frigate (French: frégate de surveillance) Prairial (F731) Feb 2023

 

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USSR:
Project 161 monitor (armoured gunboat), one of 20 built for the Baltic Fleet. Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive, summer 1944.

 

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RN:
HMS Ark Royal (R09) at speed, circa 1977

 

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RN:
HMS Nelson off Spithead during the 1937 Fleet Review. Anchored in the background are two Queen Elizabeth-class battleships (possibly Queen Elizabeth and Barham), as well as several smaller warships including two London-class cruisers.

 

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Pakistan:
PNS Tariq (Ex Type 21 frigate HMS Ambuscade). Aug 27, 2013

 

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USN:
Protected cruiser USS Charleston (C-22) passing through the Gaillard (late Culebra) Cut of the Panama Canal, 1917

 

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South Korea, USN & Japan:
KDX-III class destroyer ROKS Sejong the Great (DDG-991), Flight I Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52), and Atago class destoyer JS Atago (DDG-177) held a Missile Defense drill in the Sea of Japan near the Korean Peninsula. Feb 2023

 

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USN:
Freedom class LCS USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS 21) fires her 57mm MK 110 gun Jan, 2023

Two landing crafts, air cushion (LCAC) approach the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) during expeditionary strike force operations, Feb. 15, 2023, in the South China Sea.

Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG 121) leaving Pearl Harbor Feb 17, 2023

Sailors aboard Flight IIA Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) move an MH-60R helicopter into its hanger bay, Feb. 18, 2023

Vulture’s row during a visit aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).

 

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USN:
USS Macon (CA-132), Baltimore-class heavy cruiser

 

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USN:
Breech of after turret 13-inch guns aboard Indiana-class battleship USS Oregon (BB-3), circa 1898

President Theodore Roosevelt (on the 12-inch gun turret at right) addresses officers and crewmen on the USS Connecticut (BB-18) in Hampton Roads, Virginia, upon her return from the Great White Fleet's cruise around the world, 22 February 1909.

 

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USN:
Installation of a 16" gun of No. 2 turret of North Carolina class fast battleship USS North Carolina (BB-55), Brooklyn Navy Yard, 9 Nov 1940

Cannon class destroyer escort USS Cannon (DE-99) underway in Delaware Bay off Wilmington, Delaware on 5 September 1943

Fletcher-class destroyer USS McKee (DD-575) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 30 December 1944. Sister ship USS Kidd (DD-661) is tied up to McKee's port side.

 

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Russia:
MURMANSK - FEBRUARY 21, 2023: A view shows aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the flagship of the Russian Navy, leaving dry dock of the 35th Ship Repair Plant, her overhaul and upgrade going on since June 2022.