Photos Navies Of All Nations

Chile:
Almirante Latorre was ordered from Armstrong Whitworth and was based largely on the contemporary (1911) King George V class of battleships of the Royal Navy. Almirante Latorre was also requisitioned for Great War service in the Royal Navy prior to delivery to Chile as HMS Canada. She was at last purchased by Chile post-war, at a considerable discount from the original asking price.

Battleship Almirante Latorre with the crew parading, 1948

Qatar:
Musherib Class OPV, Musherib (Q61)

"The “Musherib” OPV vessel, to be delivered in 2022 and whose design is consistent with the RINAMIL for Fast Patrol Vessel (FPV) rules, will be a flexible type of ship capable of performing several services, from surveillance to combat functions.

It is about 63 meters long, 9.2 meters wide, with a maximum speed of 30 knots and it will accommodate as many as 38 crew members. The propulsion system has four variable pitch propellers, two to starboard and two to the left, each in line with a diesel propulsion engine.

Furthermore, the vessel will be capable of operating a RHIB (Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat) through a crane located at the stern.

Armament :
1 × OTO Melara 76 mm
8 × VL MICA surface-to-air missiles
4 × Exocet MM40 Block 3 anti-ship missiles
2 × 2 Marlin remote weapon stations

Argentina:
Cruiser ARA Almirante Brown anchored in Antarctic waters, a Supermarine Walrus 315 is along side, Feb 1948

Italy:
Light cruiser Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi in a floating drydock


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Italy:
Hospital ship Gradisca as seen by an aircraft, while looking for survivors of the Battle of Cape Matapan, 31 March 1941; she would manage to rescue 161 souls overall

The Gradisca had been built, between 1912 and 1913, by a British shipyard for a Dutch company, and had been originally named Gelria. Decommissioned by its owner in 1931, she was bought by the Lloyd Triestino in 1935, but after just a few months she was requisitioned (togheter with five more ships) by the Regia Marina, to be outfitted as a sick and wounded transport (not as "hospital ships" outright, because they could thus transport supplies and troops as well), for the campaign in East Africa. She would also support Italian operations in the Spanish Civil War and the invasion of Albania. Requisitioned once more in May 1940, this time as a proper hospital ship (with 760 hospital beds), she began operations in August of the same year.

In the morning of 29 March 1941 she had just reached Taranto with a load of sick and wounded from the Albanian theater, when the order was given to reach Greek waters and look for survivors of the battle that had just taken place, and that had claimed three Italian heavy cruiser and two destroyers. After hurrying to disembark the remaining men aboard, the Gradisca sailed at 1430 h, going for Cape Matapan as fast as she could (14 knots, the faster of any Italian hospital ship). She reached those waters by the night of 30 March, and searched until the evening of 5 April, when she received orders from Supermarina to abandon further operations and make for home. Reaching Messina at 0830 h of 7 April, the hospital ship had found eight bodies, and 162 survivors (one of which would die aboard): thirteen officers, twenty-nine warrant officers, and one hundred and nineteen seamen, plus a civilian cook.

The operation would also lead to changes to equipment onboard hospital ships to better operate in such rescues, for example increasing the numbers of floodlights and improving first aid equipment.

In the end, 2303 Italian seamen were lost to the sea because of that battle; other than those rescued by the Gradisca, 1023 had been taken on by British destroyers, while 139 more had been rescued by Greek destroyers.

Germany:
Battleship Bismarck is launched on St. Valentines Day 1939

USN:
USS Hamilton (DD-141) while employed in ordnance tests during the 1930s. Note that a torpedo tube has been installed in place of her forward 4/50 gun.

USS Springfield CLG-7 Boston Naval Shipyard May 1960 by Dick Leonhardt, on Flickr

USS Springfield CLG-7 Boston Jul 1960 by Dick Leonhardt, on Flickr

USS Springfield CLG-7 Boston Harbor Jul 1960 by Dick Leonhardt, on Flickr

19610900S-8 USS Long Beach CGN-9 South Boston cSep 1961 by Dick Leonhardt, on Flickr

20070819D-273 USS Salem CA-139 Quincy MA 19 Aug 2007 by Dick Leonhardt, on Flickr

19670627FTB-939 USS Galveston CLG-3 Valletta Malta 27 Jun 1967 by Dick Leonhardt, on Flickr

19610900S-10 USS Boston CAG-1 South Boston cSep 1961 by Dick Leonhardt, on Flickr

USN:
Civil War 572-ton "timberclad" river gunboat USS Conestoga

Conestoga's first combat action took place in September 1861 when she engaged CSS Jackson near Lucas Bend, Kentucky. Other skirmishes punctuated the routine of river patrol service into 1862. In February, she participated in an expedition up the Tennessee River that led to the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson. Later in the month, she saw action at Columbus, Kentucky, a Confederate strongpoint on the Mississippi River.

During the rest of her service, Conestoga continued to operate along the rivers. She took part in the bombardment of Saint Charles, Arkansas, in June 1862 and was formally transferred to the navy in October of that year. In April and July 1863, she was involved in expeditions to Palmyra, Tennessee, and up the Red River, Louisiana. The following March, she went up Louisiana's Black and Ouachita Rivers. Soon after, on 8 March 1864, USS Conestoga was sunk in a collision with USS General Price.

USN:
USS Yorktown (CV-5) This is her during her shakedown cruise, January 1938. Official NHHD photo 80-G-466153.


USS Baltimore (CA-68), date and location unknown.


USS Baltimore (CA-68) underway in Boston Harbor, 15 April 1943.


New Orleans-class cruiser USS Minneapolis (CA-36), with a collapsed bow after taking two torpedo hits during the Battle of Tassafaronga (1942)

RN:
HMS Vanguard off the coast of Cowes, Isle of Wight

USN:
2016, 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

USS Missouri watching over USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor

RN:
HMS Hood at speed in a heavy sea, circa 1940


HMS Ark Royal, 1941. The only non-armoured modern fleet carrier of the Royal Navy during WWII


'County' class cruiser HMS Berwick (foreground) and the 'Town' class cruiser HMS Liverpool in drydock, Rosyth, c. 1943

USN:
USS Donald Cook DDG75 in the Black Sea. Photo taken from USNS Laramie while performing an Underway Replenishment (UNREP) 29th Jan 2021

USSR:
Mid-September 1941, Naval base of Kronstadt. Battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya (October Revolution) is under attack byJu-88 bombers. She will survive 145 near misses and 2 direct hits during 21-23 September.

Italy:
Seaplane carrier Giuseppe Miraglia in 1936

The Giuseppe Miraglia, originally ordered and laid down for the Italian State Railways, was taken over after her launch by the Regia Marina and renamed after an Italian naval aviator killed in an accident in 1915.

Interestingly, during conversion work she suffered from stability issues and ended up on her side; leading the salvage and repair work was an engineer named Umberto Pugliese - who would later, among other things, lead design work for the Littorio-class battleships).

Replacing makeshift solutions (such as the old protected cruiser Elba or the Europa), the Miraglia, upon her commissioning (1 November 1927), took over the maintenance and transport of the seaplanes assigned to the Italian squadrons. With two hangars, and a total capacity of twenty aircrafts, she could use both the catapult (visible in the picture) to launch them, or lower them onto the water (and from it they could be recovered as well).

She was used as an aircraft ferry in both the Italian invasion of Ethiopia and during the operations supporting the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. She survived World War II without damage (during which she tested the modified Reggiane RE.2000 fighter launchable by a catapult, to be used on the Littorio-class battleships), and, sailing from Venice, went to Malta after the Italian armistice on 8 September 1943. During the co-belligerence she also served as a submarine tender.

After the war, she was left to the Italian Navy; after being used to transport repatriated prisoners, she would serve as a barracks ship until her decommissioning and sale for scrap, in 1950.

Battleship Giulio Cesare in rough seas, pre modernisation in 1933


The fore 120mm twin gun mount and bridge of the Soldati class destroyer Carabiniere, 1939

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Battleship Caio Duilio after modernisation, possibly 1943, colourised

RN:
HMS Renown as seen from a Swordfish. Probably operating with Force H, April 1941


HMS Venturer arriving at Holy Loch soon after her commissioning. August 1943.

During Venturer's career she sank the submarines U-771 and U-864, the latter of which is noted as the only confirmed case of a submarine intentionally sinking another while both were submerged.

After the war she was sold to Norway as Utstein and later scrapped.

USN:
USS Midway (CV-41) with HH-53's parked on the flight deck before Operation Frequent Wind, 1975


USS Michigan (SSBN-727) taken before June of 1982.


USS Enterprise (CVN-65) entering drydock No.4, Hunters Point, San Francisco, 28th Nov 1985


USS Michigan (SSBN-727) underway in the channel heading to Pearl Harbor, 1987.

Russia:
Neustrashimy class frigate Yaroslav Mudry, 2014

France:
Patrol boats (Y Cutters) of the Dinassaut 8 during a mission in the Bassac river, First Indochina War, August 1952