Photos Navies Of All Nations

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North Carolina class battleship USS North Carolina (BB-55) underway with Robert H. Smith-class destroyer minelayer USS Lindsey (DM-32) alongside, on October 8, 1944.

After shakedown off southern California, the new destroyer minelayer sailed from San Francisco on 25 November 1944 via Pearl Harbor for Ulithi, arriving on 3 February 1945. Underway from Ulithi on the morning of 8 February, Lindsey steamed toward Iwo Jima. Operating off Iwo Jima from 17 to 19 February, Lindsey knocked out six guns ashore and provided covering fire as minesweepers cleared the harbor. On 23 February, she returned to Ulithi to prepare for landings on Okinawa.

Underway 19 March, Lindsey arrived off Okinawa on 24 March and swept the harbor for the inbound transports. Then, as the Marines gained a foothold, the ship bombarded Japanese gun installations and transferred wounded soldiers to hospital ships. On the afternoon of 12 April, Lindsey experienced a mass kamikaze attack. Her gunners scored repeated hits on seven onrushing dive bombers, but two Aichi D3A "Val" bombers, damaged and out of control, crashed into Lindsey killing 57 sailors and wounding 57 more. The explosion from the second "Val" ripped some 60 feet (18 m) off her bow. Only the “all back full” ordered by Commander Chambers prevented the pressure of inrushing water from collapsing the fireroom bulkhead and sinking the ship

Towed to Kerama Retto the same night, Lindsey remained in the lagoon for two weeks repairing battle damage. On 28 April she departed under tow for Guam, where, after arrival 6 May, she received a temporary bow. She sailed under her own power 8 July for the east coast via Pearl Harbor and the Panama Canal, arriving in Norfolk, Virginia on 19 August 1945.

 

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19 July 1944 Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Kwajalein (CVE-98) heading towards the Pacific war zone, her flight deck jammed with fifty-nine F4U Corsairs and F6F Hellcats. Most carriers were used as airplane ferries when first joining the fleet or rejoining the fleet after refits.

 

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USN:
Midway-class aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42), April 1946.

 

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India:
Visakhapatnam-class guided-missile destroyer INS Mormugao
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Mormugão was the name given by the portuguese to the main harbour of Goa , capital of the former Portuguese State of India

 

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The Latvian patrol boat "LVNS P-07 Viesite" of the Skrunda class at the Kiel naval base.
June 17, 2023

 

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The Atlantic Conveyor photographed by a Soviet Tu-95RTS of the 392 ODRAP based in Luanda, Angola taking fuel during its transit to the Falklands

Via Mariano Sciaroni

 

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Germany:
Damaged conning tower of Type IXC U-513. Extensive damage to the U-boat conning tower was caused by its submerged collision with SS Lord Strathcona on September 5, 1942 in Bell Island Tickle. The Viking ship emblem of U-513 is painted on the front

Her fourth and last foray began 18 May 1943 and saw her close to the Brazilian coast. After five attacks resulting in four ships sunk and one damaged, she was sunk southeast of São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina state on 19 July 1943 by a US Navy Mariner, nicknamed "The Nickel Boat", led by Lt. (jg) Roy S. Whitcomb, from Patrol Squadron VP-74. 46 men died; there were seven survivors, including her captain, Friedrich Guggenberger.

 

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Italy:
Submarine Nazario Sauro lead ship of her class, during her launch in 1975. After decades of service she is, since the early 2000s, a museum ship in Genova

 

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Singapore:
Invincible class RSS Impeccable sails into RSS Singapura - Changi Naval Base on 20th July, 2023

The Invincible-class submarines, formally classified as the Type 218SG submarines, is a class of conventionally-powered attack submarines, ordered by the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) from German-based naval conglomerate ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS). The Type 218SG is an extensively-customised derivative of the export-oriented Type 214 submarine, with specific design characteristics drawn from Type 212 submarines. They feature several capabilities, including a substantial level of automation, a significant payload capacity, enhanced underwater endurance and superlative ergonomics.

Singapore's Ministry of Defense (MINDEF) ordered a total of four Type 218SG submarines, of which two were ordered in 2013 and two more in 2017, as a replacement to the RSN's existing Challenger-class and Archer-class submarines. Of the four submarines that were ordered, three have been launched, while the fourth remains under construction.

As of July 2023, the first submarine of the class, the Invincible, is being used for the training of the RSN's submariners, while the second, the Impeccable, is scheduled to undergo local sea trials aimed at achieving operationalization. The RSN plans to have all four submarines in active service by 2024.

 

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USN:
Gato-class submarine USS Golet (SS-361) covered with ice at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, c. November, 1943

 

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USN:
22nd Virginia Class attack submarine, the future USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 795) heading out on sea trials from Electric boat shipyard in Groton

 

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France:
A Triomphant-class SSBN passes by surfers on her way out of Brest. Oct 2023

 

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USN:
Pre-dreadnought battleship USS Kearsarge (BB-5). Sailors man the rails while seeing off Kaiser Wilhelm II (at the stern of the long boat) during her visit to Kiel, June 25th, 1903

USS Kearsarge (BB-5) saluted by Royal Navy sailors during a visit to Spithead, July 1903. She would host the Prince of Wales, later King George V, on the 13th of that month.

USS Kearsarge (BB-5) underway in a harbor during the early 1900s. Kearsarge was painted this way when she visited Europe in 1903, and this photograph may have been taken at about that time. Note the semaphore signalling paddles mounted on her main topmast.

Armoured Cruiser No. 11, USS Washington (ACR-11) off NYC during the 1912 Naval Review

Radio controlled Coastal Battleship Number 4 (formerly USS Iowa BB-4) bracketed by a salvo from USS Mississippi (BB-41) during Fleet Problem I, off the Panama Canal Zone, 1923

 

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USN:
Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers USS Sterett (DDG 104) leaving San Diego while USS Kidd (DDG 100) heads in. Oct 10, 2023

Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) coming into San Diego. Oct 11, 2023

USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) coming into Norfolk, Virginia. Oct 11, 2023

Ford class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN) 78 and Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment oiler USNS Laramie (T-AO-203) conduct a refueling-at-sea in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Oct. 11, 2023

Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), arrives in Busan, Republic of Korea, October 12, 2023

 

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Italy:
Armoured cruiser San Giorgio moored in Tobruk to bolster the port's anti-aircraft defense in 1940

 

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Austro-Hungary:
Protected cruiser Zenta at Pola, October 1, 1901, having just returned from a deployment to East Asia

 

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RN;
River class OPV HMS Spey (P 234) during a visit, board, search and seizure drill in the Philippine Sea as part of Maritime Training Activity (MTA) Sama Sama, Oct. 9 2023

A USMC F-35B lands aboard HMS Prince of Wales to commence DT-3. Oct 12, 2023

Daring class (Type 45) destroyer HMS Dragon, seen with Task Force 473 in support of the Charles de Gaulle CSG.

 

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RN:
County-class heavy cruiser HMS Kent seen off Plymouth, preparing to depart for Scapa Flow following her combat damage repair. 1941

Battleship HMS King George V in the Atlantic, January 1941

 

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India:
Aircraft carriers INS Vikramaditya and INS Vikrant carrier strike groups in Arabian Sea, June 2023

 

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USN:
PT boats of Motor Torpedo Squadron 13 alongside Clemson class seaplane tender destroyer USS Gillis (AVD-12), Attu Island, Aleutians, 21 June 1943