Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Imperial Germany:
The former SMS Frankfurt on 18 July 1921, 50 miles off Cape Charles, Virginia Capes, during air bombing experiments. There appear to be two bombs falling in this view, both likely misses. This ship was allocated to the USA as war reparations after World War I

 

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USN:
On January 18, 1911, Eugene Burton Ely became the first person to take-off from and land on a naval vessel. In this photo, Ely pilots his Curtiss Model D biplane after take-off from a platform constructed on the stern of the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), anchored in San Francisco Bay

USS Utah (BB-31) leads other battleships in line ahead formation, during battle practice, circa 1913

 

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USSR:
Project 1134B Berkut B (NATO Kara) class cruiser Azov underway, the first surface ship in the world to be fitted with a VLS, was modified to carry the then new S-300F which can be seen between the top dome radar and hangar

 

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Italy:
Carlo Bergamini-class frigate Carlo Margottini (F-592) transits the Mediterranean Sea

 

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RN:
A Seaslug missile roars away from HMS DEVONSHIRE's twin launcher. At this early stage of firing, the boosts can be seen still attached to the weapon. May 1962

 

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Three large landing ships of project 775 of the Baltic Fleet - "Korolev", "Minsk" and "Kaliningrad" transit to North Sea.

 

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Three more LLS of the Northern Fleet that had previously arrived in the Baltic are now in Kattegat.
The lead new project 11711 "Pyotr Morgunov "and two projects 775 "Olenegorsky miner" and "SaintGeorge the Victorious". Photo (c) Kurt Petersen

 

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In this image we can see two RAF Harrier GR.1 on board the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle (R-05). They were shipped for testing for two weeks in the early 1970's. Note that the Eagle was not retrofitted to operate the Phantom like her twin the Eagle being decommissioned even with Sea Vixen on board as pictured

 

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Soviet cruiser Aleksandr Suvorov, in the photograph with Numeral 834. This Numeral was used by the ship in 1969. It also had several Pennant Numbers, on different dates, as was common in Soviet times, for example, among others, it used the Numeral 53, 20, 45 or 632 in the 1950s, Numeral 834, 140 or 831 in the 1960s, and in the 1980s Pennant Numbers 015, 016, 033 and 035. It belonged to Project 68 Bis, known in NATO code as the Sverdlov class. The Aleksandr Suvorov cruiser entered service with the Soviet Navy in December 1953, remaining in service until December 1986 when she was placed in reserve. In 1989 she was disarmed and sold to Turkey for scrapping in 1991. Her main artillery consisted of four triple turrets with six inch or 152 mm guns.

 

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RN:
OTD in 1940 the E Class Destroyer, HMS Exmouth, was sunk by a U-Boat off the Moray Firth whilst on escort duties. All 190 souls on board were lost

 

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Russia
Marshal Ustinov

 

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Germany: Frigate Nordrhein-Westfalen (F 223) in the Baltic Sea in 2018

Image by Fabian Horst, CC Attribution Share Alike 4.0 (original image from Wikimedia Commons)

 

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Decommissioned Romeo-class submarine Slava (Picture source: Municipality of Varna)

 

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USS Peleliu (LHA-5) in Hong Kong, 2014.

 

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RN:
HMS Emperor, a Ruler-class escort carrier (Bogue-class) Planes lashed to the flight deck in heavy Atlantic seas, Jan-Apr 1944. Waves repeatedly crashed over her flight deck, 60 ft above the waterline

 

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PLA(N):
Type 075 Yushen-class landing helicopter dock Guangxi (32) at Zhanjiang recently - January 23, 2022

 

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Italy:
Soldati class destroyer Geniere, 1940-42

Destroyer Folgore, in 25th august 1942

Built by OC Partenopei, Naples, completed 1 July 1932.She was sunk on 2 December 1942 by British cruisers of Force Q during the Battle of Skerki Bank, while trying to protect the convoy she was escorting. 124 men, including the commanding officer Lt. Cdr. Ener Bettica, went down with the ship.

 

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RN:
HMS Queen Elizabeth undergoing maintenance following CSG21. Jan 2022

 

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RN:
T class submarine HMS Trooper leaving Malta harbour on patrol. February 1943

Trooper spent most of her short career serving in the Mediterranean. She sank the Italian tanker Rosario, the Italian merchant ship Forli, a sailing vessel and the Italian submarine Pietro Micca. She also damaged two other enemy vessels, and unsuccessfully attacked the Italian merchant Belluno (the former French Fort de France).

On her first operation, she took part in Operation Principal, which used human torpedoes to sink Italian ships in Palermo harbour.

Trooper sailed from Beirut on 26 September 1943, on her 8th War Patrol to cover in the Aegean Sea off the Dodecanese islands. On 14 October she challenged Levant Schooner Flotilla F8 off Alinda Bay, Leros. She failed to return on 17 October and was reported overdue on that day. She is presumed lost on German mines around Leros.

 

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Russia:
Sailors play roller hockey on the deck of Admiral Kuznetsov during his 2016 Syrian deployment