Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Japan:
Battleship Yamato in the late stages of construction alongside of a large fitting out pontoon at the Kure Naval Base, Japan, 20 September 1941. The aircraft carrier Hōshō is visible at the extreme right. The store ship Mamiya is anchored in the center distance. Note Yamato's after 460mm main battery gun turret, and superfiring 155mm secondary battery gun turret.

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Essex class aircraft carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) on or about Sept 29, 1954. This is when Hanna was still straight-deck (look closely) and had the only steam cats in USN, was testing them all summer. North American A-2 Savage medium bombers launching

 

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RN:
Battlecruiser HMS Hood with her crew fallen in, circa 1939.

 

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View attachment 427440How the new US frigates will look like

What's up with the new bow?

 

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What's up with the new bow?

I believe USN didn't like the covered in bow of the FREMM

 

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I believe USN didn't like the covered in bow of the FREMM

I'm not a fan, looks like tugboat.

 

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RN:
Vanguard-class SSBN HMS Vanguard at Gibraltar 1998

 

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RN:
HMS Conway was a naval training school or "school ship", founded in 1859 and housed for most of her life aboard a 19th-century wooden ship of the line. The ship was originally stationed on the Mersey near Liverpool, then moved to the Menai Strait during World War II. While being towed back to Birkenhead for a refit in 1953, she ran aground and was wrecked, and later burned

 

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RN:
KVG class battleship HMS Duke Of York battling against heavy seas and a north easterly gale of 50 to 60 knots, while maintaining her position in the battle squadron during an Arctic convoy to Russia (photographed from the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious).

HMS Duke Of York as part of a large scale reconnaissance by the RN and USN, 25-29 July 1943

Midget submarine HMS XE8 Expunger, circa 1945

Built by Broadbent, sunk as target 1952, recovered 1973 and preserved at Chatham Historic Dockyard, on loan from the Imperial War Museum

Interior of midget submarine HMS X24, Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport

 

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USN:
Mahan-class destroyer USS Shaw (DD-373) in 1942 after her bow had been replaced. Shaw was in dry dock during the attack on Pearl Harbor and her hull forward of the mast was obliterated. She was repaired and put back in service. Fighting all over the Pacific she earned 11 battle stars by wars' end.

 

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USN:
USS Saratoga (CV-3) photographed by a visitor approaching in a small boat, San Francisco Bay, August 8th, 1930.

 

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Russia:
Project 1155 Fregat (NATO Udaloy I) class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov, (BPK 543) now reclassed as a frigate after refit in 2021

Project 1144 Orlan (NATO Kirov) class battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov under modernisation in Sevmash shipyard. Sea trials are expected to start this year.

 

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Italy:
Balao class submarine Francesco Morosini (S508) (ex USS Besugo (SS321)), 1971

Helicopter cruiser Vittorio Veneto, March 1971

 

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USN:
Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS William McLean (T-AKE-12) as seen from USS Normandy (CG 60), March 17, 2023.

Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Kansas City (LCS 22) and Flight I Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG 70) in the Pacific Ocean March 18, 2023

Ford class USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) transits the Atlantic Ocean, March 19, 2023

Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) fires its aft five-inch gun while underway as part of the Ford Carrier Strike Group, March 19, 2023.

Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) is moored in Sal Island, Cabo Verde, during a scheduled port visit in support of the African Maritime Forces Summit (AMFS), Mar. 19, 2023

 

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Japan:
Submarine aircraft carrier I-400 on her way to Hawaii in late 1945. You can see the triple Type 96 25 mm AA installed in the conning tower

 

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Germany:
Nassau-class dreadnought battleship SMS Rheinland. Took part in most of the major engagements of the war, but was not at Scapa Flow when the High Seas Fleet scuttled itself. Later sold and broken up in 1920

SMS Moltke, the Kaiserliche Marine's second battlecruiser and lead ship of her two ship class

Battlecruiser, SMS Von der Tann WW1

 

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Argentina:
Sep 4, 1969. Test pilot John Farley landed Harrier GR1 XV757on ARA 25 de Mayo, the recently acquired Argentine carrier, as part of a trip seeking new buyers for the aircraft.

 

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USN:
Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, circa 1962

 

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Italy:
Todaro (Type 212A) Batch II class submarine Romeo Romei (S-529)

 

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France & Philippines:
Floréal-class frigate Prairial and Parola-class patrol boat BRP Capones trained together in the South China Sea, March 20, 2023.