Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Indonesia
KRI BALAPUTRADEWA 322

 

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The most elegant cruisers ever

 

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The Red Fleet celebrating New Year at various points in the past.

 

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Greece
Frigate HS Psara, Meko 200 HN

 

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RN:
Aboard Flower class corvette HMS Primrose (K91) during convoy duties. Commissioned 1940, sold 1946

 

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RN:
Submarine monitor HMS M2 launching her Parnell Peto seaplane. Circa 1928-32

Retrieving her seaplane, circa 1928-32

M2 left her base at Portland on 26 January 1932, for an exercise in West Bay, Dorset, carrying Parnall Peto serial N255. Her last communication was a radio message at 10:11 to her submarine depot ship, Titania, to announce that she would dive at 10:30. The captain of a passing merchant ship, the Newcastle coaster Tynesider, mentioned that he had seen a large submarine dive stern first at around 11:15. Unaware of the significance of this, he only reported it in passing once he reached port.

Her entire crew of 60 was killed in the accident. The submarine was found on 3 February, eight days after her loss. Ernest Cox, the salvage expert who had raised the German battleships at Scapa Flow, was hired to salvage the M2. In an operation lasting nearly a year and 1,500 dives, on 8 December 1932, she was lifted to within 20 ft (6 m) of the surface before a gale sprang up, sending her down to her final resting place.

The hangar door was found open and the aircraft still in it. The accident was believed to be due to water entering the submarine through the hangar door, which had been opened to launch the aircraft shortly after surfacing.

Two explanations have been advanced;

The first is that since the crew were always trying to beat their record time for launching the aircraft, they had opened the hangar door on surfacing while the deck was still awash.

The other theory is that the flooding of the hangar was due to failure of the stern hydroplanes. High pressure air tanks were used to bring the boat to the surface in an awash condition, but to conserve compressed air, compressors were then started to completely clear the ballast tanks of water by blowing air into them. This could take as long as 15 minutes to complete. The normal procedure for launching the aircraft was therefore to hold the boat on the surface using the hydroplanes whilst the hangar door was opened and the aircraft launched. Failure of the stern hydroplanes would have sent the stern down as observed by the merchant officers and water would have eventually entered the hangar.

On 25 February 1932, a help message from M2, written in pencil on a small piece of wood, was discovered by a fisherman on the shore at Hallsands, south Devon. It read: "Help. M2 gone down. No. 2 hatch open.", with "Help. Lieut." on the back. It was handed over to the naval authorities and is now on display at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport.

 

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Canada:
Annapolis-class destroyer HMCS Nipigon (DDH 266) entering Port Everglades, Florida (USA) in 1993

 

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RN:
Hunt (Type II) class escort destroyer HMS Puckeridge (L 108) approaches an unidentified aircraft carrier preparing to refuel.

On 6 September 1943, around 20:15 hours Puckeridge was hit by two of four torpedoes fired by submarine U-617 commanded by Albrecht Brandi and sank 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) east of Gibraltar. The two hits aft detonated her magazine and she sank in 8 minutes. 129 men were rescued and 62 men were lost with the ship

 

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RN:
Flagship of the 4th Battle Squadron, Iron Duke-class battleship HMS Benbow (photo taken on board) sails past battlecruiser Invincible (in the left background), torn into two parts after explosion of her midships magazine with the loss of 1026 souls and 6 survivors. Battle of Jutland. 31 May 1916

Invincible exploding at Jutland, taken from a destroyer nearby

 

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HS Nikiforos Fokas F466, she is the last of the S class frigates of the Hellenic Navy. She was built in Wilton-Fijenoord in Schiedam, the Netherlands and commissioned as HNLMS Bloys van Treslong F824 into the Netherlands Navy. She eventually joined the Hellenic Navy in November 2004. Seen here off the South coast of Crete.

 

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USS Columbus, an Albany class guided missile cruiser, formerly a Baltimore Heavy Cruiser.

 

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USN:
Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) shown operating in dense fog in the Atlantic Ocean. Iwo Jima was underway conducting exercises in preparation for an upcoming deployment. 15 January 2006

 

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Vietnam:
Project 11661E Gepard 3.9 class frigate Tran Hung Dao (015) at Kure Naval Base, Japan. 8 Dec 2025

 

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India:
Visakhapatnam-class destroyer INS Imphal (D68). Dec 2024

Project 17 Shivalik class frigate INS Sahyadri (F49) heading to Sasebo Bay, Japan. 28 Oct 2025. Credit embedded

 

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Germany:
Lead corvette of the class Braunschweig (F260) in Szczecin, Poland. Oct 2025 @ladytruckview

 

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USN:
Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine USS Alaska (SSBN 732) in the TRIREFFACKB Dry Dock. Kings Bay, Georgia. 7th May 2020

 

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USN:
Flight IIA TI Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) departs Naval Station Mayport. 3 Jan 2026

 

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RN:
Sole battleship of her class HMS Vanguard (23) during NATO Exercise Mariner, September 1953.

 

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Taiwan:
Kang Ding-class frigate ROCS Wu Chang (PFG-1207) during an open day event in 2013. The RIM-72C Sea Chaparral is being replaced with an 8 cell Hua Yang VLS (32 quad-packed TC-2N Sky Sword).