Photos Navies Of All Nations

RN:
HMS ‘New Zealand’ passing Clydebank after completion at Fairfield’s Govan yard in 1912
National Records of Scotland, UCS1/118/Old Red/25/1


HMS ‘Valiant’, the Fairfield-built Queen Elizabeth class battleship of the 5th Battle Squadron, passing Clydebank, February 1916.
National Records of Scotland, UCS1/118/Old Red/326/5


HMS ‘Canterbury’ with splinter mats fitted around her bridge, and a 4-inch gun.
National Records of Scotland, UCS1/118/435/11


Launch of HMS ‘Acasta’ at John Brown & Co’s yard, 1912
National Records of Scotland, UCS1/118/412/1


Vice-Admiral David Beatty (hands in pockets) on the forecastle of HMS ‘Lion’, with her Captain, A E Chatfield (fourth from right), and other officers, 1916.
National Records of Scotland, MW12/33


HMS ‘Tiger’, which fought with ‘Queen Mary’ in the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron, during her trials, October 1914.
National Records of Scotland, UCS1/118/418/160

RN:
The conning tower and forward turrets with 15 inch guns of HMS ‘Repulse’ at John Brown & Co’s Clydebank yard, August 1916
National Records of Scotland, UCS1/118/443/295


The light cruiser HMS ‘Castor’, flagship of 11th Destroyer Flotilla, which was to lose twelve men at Jutland, passing Clydebank, February 1916
National Records of Scotland, UCS1/118/Gen 372/2


King George V addressing the company of HMS ‘Warspite’ at Rosyth, 15 June 1916
National Records of Scotland, MW12/29


Detail of photograph of King George V addressing the company of HMS ‘Warspite’ at Rosyth, 15 June 1916
National Records of Scotland, MW12/29


The aft 13.5-inch turrets of the battleship HMS Ajax

USN & France:
Amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island behind FS Charles de Gaulle during Group Arabian Sea Warfare Exercise, March 2021

USN:
USS Roanoke (CL-145) at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, circa in early 1949. Note that the hull number has not been painted on the ship. Roanoke was commissioned on 4 April 1949.



Light cruiser USS Manchester (CL-83) alongside the ammunition ship USS Mount Katmai (AE-16) at Wonsan harbour, Korea, on 3 May 1951. To save time the re-arming took place within sight of enemy held Wonsan.


Heavy cruiser USS Helena (CA-75) gets her Regulus I missiles maintenance done before she departs for Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Australia soon after Christmas that year. October 1959, off Long Beach, CA.

RN:
HMS Trent, Batch 2 River-class OPV, Sept 2020

Imperial Austro-Hungary:
River monitor SMS Bosna transporting German Kaiser Wilhelm to Romanian front, 1917

Australia:
Armidale-class patrol boat HMAS Pirie (ACPB 87) in Darwin, Australia. 22 March 2021. Soon to be decommissioned after 14 years of hard use

RN:
'The surrendered Italian fleet with HMS 'King George V' and 'Howe', 1943' Oil painting by Rowland John Robb Langmaid

Imperial Japan:
Cruiser Tone at Kure following the war

Photos : George Silk - LIFE Collections
George Silk for LIFE magazine. He took over 1000 pictures in Japan after the Surrender, including 188 of the remains of the Japanese Fleet.

Argentina:
Armoured cruiser ARA San Martin leads a squadron of 8 Argentinean cruisers into the full-scale manoeuvres and intensive gunnery practice which will ultimately culminate with the presidential Fleet review. Summer 1901, Ushuaia.

RN:
HMS Raleigh was one of five Hawkins-class heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War, although the ship was not completed until 1921. She was assigned to the North America and West Indies Station when she commissioned and often served as a flagship. After visiting ports in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and both coasts of the United States and Canada in 1921–1922, Raleigh ran aground off Newfoundland in August 1922 with the loss of a dozen crewmen.


On 8 August Raleigh was bound for Forteau, Labrador, from Hawke's Bay, Newfoundland, and she entered a heavy fog in the Strait of Belle Isle en route. The ship ran aground at L'Anse Amour, Newfoundland, that afternoon, 15 minutes after entering the fog. She did not strike with much force, but the strong wind quickly blew her stern onto the rocks, which pounded multiple holes in the hull and gave her an eight-degree list. A dozen sailors died from drowning and hypothermia as the crew abandoned ship. Many men were able to find shelter ashore while the others lit fires to stay warm

They returned to the ship the following morning to evaluate the ship's condition and to recover personal belongings, only to find a 260-foot-long (79 m) gash in the hull and most personal items ruined by leaking fuel oil. The light cruisers Capetown and Calcutta arrived later that day and fed the crewmen. In the bad weather little could be done immediately and many of the survivors were marched to Forteau to be transported back to Britain. The 18,481-gross register ton (GRT) Canadian ocean liner RMS Empress of France arrived on 10 August to load the crewmen, but her captain refused to do so as he did not have enough provisions for all the men. They had to wait several more days before the brand-new 16,402 GRT ocean liner SS Montrose arrived. Several hundred men were kept back to salvage Raleigh and to protect the wreck from locals intent on the same task. It was stripped of everything useful and the wreck was abandoned in place, still upright. Shortly after their return to the UK, Bromley and his navigator were both court martialled and found negligent in their duty; they were severely reprimanded and dismissed their ship. Their careers over, both men requested retirement.

Embarrassed by the sight of the apparently intact Raleigh visible to every passing ship, the Board of Admiralty deemed the wreck a hazard to shipping in 1926 and ordered it to be refloated. A survey found that this was impossible and the captains of Capetown and Calcutta were ordered to remove as much as possible from the wreck and then demolish the remains so that it was unrecognizable. The crew of the former ship carried out the first task and the latter's crew blew Raleigh's remains apart using depth charges under the command of Captain Andrew Cunningham over five days beginning on 23 September.

Cunningham's men made no effort to recover the pieces of the ship and remains are still plentiful. Royal Canadian Navy dive teams were forced to visit the site in 2003 and 2005 to remove live 7.5-inch ammunition, although there were reports of shells still visible as of 2016

RN:
Lion-class Battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal (1911)

RN:
HMS Lion in Rotterdam, Aug 25, 1965

South Africa:
German built Type 209/1400 SAS Manthatisi (S101) is a Heroine-class submarine based out of Simon's Town

RN:
The raid on Souda Bay, 26 March 1941: HMS York is struck by two MT assault boats - painting by Rudolf Claudus

The raid was one by Decima MAS operators (whose commander was Tenente di Vascello Luigi Faggioni) who, after being brought close to the bay by two destroyers, managed to get past the two lines of obstructions without raising the alarm and, starting at 0530 h, attacked with six Motoscafi da Turismo. Three missed, but three struck home, causing devastating damage to the heavy cruiser HMS York (for details on that, check what /u/NAmofton said about it here) and a Norwegian tanker. The former would be finished off by German aircrafts during the invasion of Crete. All the operators survived and were captured as POWs; Faggioni, despite missing his own target (the old cruiser HMS Coventry), would be awarded the Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Militare for leading the successful raid.

France:
Cruiser submarine Surcouf, 1940. Armed with 2 x 8" guns and an aircraft hangar on the rear casing


Battleship Richelieu at sea, 1944

RN:
HMS Hood on the Clyde


Town class cruiser HMS Gloucester enters Malta during the late 1930s.

RN:
HMS Vanguard at Spithead with HMS Illustrious in background, June 1953

RN:
"H.M. Ships COSSACK and COMET Landing Troops at Santander, 23 June 1808" by Mark Myers

Australia:
HMAS Melbourne arriving in Milford Sound, NZ. De Havilland Sea Venom aircraft can be seen on the deck. Feb. 16th, 1957