Photos Navies Of All Nations

France:
Battleship Jean Bart in Villefranche in 1955
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Aircraft carrier Arromanches in the Mediterranean Sea, 1961
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USN:
USS Enterprise (CV-6) underway off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 2 August 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 33 Design 4Ab.
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Marines in amphibian tractors (LVTs) churn towards Okinawa beach on L-Day beneath the protective heavy fire of battleship USS Tennessee
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South Korea:
commissioning of the first indigenous submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho
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USN:
Wilmington-class gunboat USS Helena
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USS Mississippi (BB-41) fires a salvo amid a high speed turn while on exercises with the US Navy Pacific Fleet. Ca. June 1919.
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RN:
Battleship HMS Warspite, after her major reconstruction of 1934-37, entering the Grand Harbour in Malta, 1938
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Suez glimpse of HMS INDEFATIGABLE as she passed on her way East, 1 Dec 1944
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An aircraft of HMS INDEFATIGABLE looks down on the light cruiser HMS EURYALUS (nearest) and other ships of the British Pacific Fleet steaming off the Japanese coast during one of the last strikes of the war. July, 1945
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Turkey:
Yavuz (ex German Goeben) carrying Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's coffin between Istanbul and either Izmit or Ankara, 20 November 1938
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Imperial Russia:
January 1890, Nagasaki. Russian armoured cruiser Admiral Nakhimov prepares to leave dry dock following routine maintenance.
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Australia:
Battlecruiser HMAS Australia passing under the Forth Bridge in Scotland. While serving with the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet from February 1915 until the end of the First World War, she was flagship of the 2nd Battle Cruiser Squadron, which was based nearby at Rosyth.
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RN:
Battleship HMS Warspite on her way to join the Mediterranean Fleet after her reconstruction, January 1938
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A Hunt class destroyer (possibly HMS Whaddon) in heavy seas while on patrol in the Mediterranean, seen from HMS Formidable. April 1943.
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Battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth, after her major reconstruction, c. 1943.
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Battleship HMS Duke of York at Woolloomooloo Wharf, Sydney, Australia, 23 November 1945.
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USN:
USS Hornet (CV-12) at anchor at Majuro, The Marshall Is, May 29, 1944
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A Curtiss SB2C Helldiver flies over the USS Hornet on its return from a strike against Japanese shipping, Jan 1945. (colourised)
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France:
Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier Foch transporting Gazelles and Puma helicopters from the 5th Combat Helicopters Regiment, and trucks from the 1st Infantry Regiment during the First Gulf War. Breguet Alizé ASW aircraft are also visible on the deck
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Imperial Japan:
"IJN Chikuma" by Piotr Forkasiewicz (boxart)
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USN:
Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) berthed at Pier 4 East of the Leonardo Pier Complex at the Naval Weapons Station, Earle, NJ, during March 1990 to on-load ammunition
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USN:
USS Higgins (DDG-76) and USS Howard (DDG-83) arrive 16Aug to Fleet Activities Yokosuka. Higgins is a replacement ship for USS Stethem (DDG-63), which left Yokosuka in 2019. Howard is a replacement ship for USS McCampbell (DDG-85) which left Yokosuka in July 2020.
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Germany:
Battleship Tirpitz with her guns trained to port during an exercise, Baltic Sea, 1941
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France:
Battleship Jean Bart in the 1950s
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USN:
Battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) off the Korean coast during a bombardment mission, with her second 16"/50 gun turret pointing at the shore, 30 May 1952.
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Russia:
Project 1164 Atlant, Slava class Marshal Ustinov in 2013
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USN:
"Clear for Action" (USS Dorado (SS-248))by Georges Schreiber
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Dorado was completed on 28 August 1943 and on 6 October 1943 departed for the Panama Canal and the Pacific. She never arrived, and aside from Lancetfish lost in a shipyard while incomplete saw the shortest service life of any US submarine in WWII.
 
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