Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Italy:
Gabbiano class frigate Cormorano in 1955. During WW2 she sank the Luftwaffe service motorboat FL B. 412 during the battle off Bastia on 9th September 1943, after the German garrison stationed in the port of Bastia betrayed a ceasefire established the night prior to the battle.

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RN:
River class OPV HMS Trent arriving in Gibraltar

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France:
203mm (8 inch) model 1924 forward turrets of Suffren class heavy cruiser Foch, 1930's

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USN:
USS Arkansas (BB-33) and USS Arizona (BB-39) immediately behind her, with a Florida class (BB-30/31) beyond her, 29 January 1918.

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USN:
North Carolina class battleship USS Washington, 25th April- 4th May, 1942. Photo was taken from aircraft carrier HMS Victorious

Aegir class submarine tender USS Apollo (AS-25) 17 October 1944

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RN:
Royal Sovereign class pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Revenge circa 1897

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Philippines & China:
Coast Guard MRRV BRP Capones (4404) faces off Zhaoyu Class Patrol Cutter (3305) in the much contested waters of Scarborough Shoal, 27th March, 2022

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USN:
PCU USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) fitting out at San Diego, 2022

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Russia:
Project 877V (NATO Kilo) class Alrosa (B-871) undergoing refit, February 12, 2022, Sevastopol.

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HMS Prince of Wales in the artic

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NRP Gonçalves Zarco in dry dock at Hong Kong in 1961

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USN:
USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer coming into Seal Beach, California - March 31, 2022

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Australia & Canada:
HMAS Warramunga, HMCS Nootka and HMS Cockade tied to a mooring bouy at a southern Japanese port (presumably Sasebo), after "an extended period of operations in Korean waters", c. May 1951.

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Japan:
Akizuki class destroyer Fuyuzuki (DD-118) 28 April 2014

Izumo class helicopter destroyer Izumo (DDH-183)

Izumo class helicopter destroyer Kaga (DDH-184) in drydock being refit to handle F-35's, 2019

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France:
The French Fleet at Cherbourg, 5 August 1858 - Gustav Le Gray
Photograph of a seascape at Cherbourg with seven ships of the French Fleet, accompanied by smaller vessels. Taken during Queen Victoria's State Visit to France, 1858.
Upon arrival at Cherbourg on 4 August 1858, the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert anchored in the middle of the French fleet. On the morning of 5 August, salutes were fired by the French before the royal couple went ashore to be received by Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie.

The fleet fires a salute off Cherbourg, 4-5th August, 1858

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Netherlands:
De Zeven Provincien class frigate De Ruyter (F-804)

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Imperial China:
One of the Last Qing Dynasty War Junks, Ningpo later Whang Hu.

When the Qing Dynasty fell in 1911, this old-girl renegade served as a gunship for almost 158 years. She first set sailed in 1753 as a fast merchant junk. But her corrupt captains, after realizing she was one of the fastest ships in Southern China, soon used her as a pirate & smuggling ship, and also a mercenary in the service of anti-Imperial rebels in 1796. She was seized by the Imperial government in 1806 and resold to merchants, only to be caught smuggling silk & opium in 1823. In 1834 she was apprehended by the British for trafficking slave girls to Guangzhou (Canton) and in 1841, she was passed over to the Imperial government to serve as a pirate hunter and prison ship (pirates in China were imprisoned by the warships that captured them, usually for a short while since they were then brought to shore and publicly executed).

In 1850s-1860s, the then-largest civil war in human history erupted: the Taiping Rebellion. Stationed as she were in the heart of Taiping rebel territory, she served as a rebel gunship, until she was retaken by the Imperial government in 1861. From then on she served as an Imperial gunboat policing the waters of Southern China's coastline while also moonlighting as a floating circus, where its crew disembarked and performed martial arts skills. Her gun deck was upgraded during this time as well to fire breech loaders instead of muzzle loaders.

In 1911 she fought her last battle during the Chinese Revolution in Hankou, where she was captured by the Revolutionaries. As the nascent Chinese republic wanted to modernize its fleet, it had no use for an old traditional warship, so they sold her to an American carnival company, who towed her all the way to San Pedro, California in 1913. There the local residents of the Chinatown were hired as performers to play the role of Imperial Chinese sailors/pirates in West Coast carnivals.

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RN:
Type 45 Daring class destroyer HMS Diamond with her embarked Wildcat HMA Mk2 helicopter

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USN:
USS Yorktown, (CVS-10), during the filming of Tora! Tora! Tora!, her flight deck painted to resemble a World War II Imperial Japanese Navy carrier. Note the piston-engined aircraft on deck, probably North American T-6 Texan resembling Japanese aircraft. 2 December 1968

Gearing class destroyer USS Brinkley Bass (DD-887) underway off Oahu, July 1969

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France:
French Army Cougars landing on Mistral-class LHD Dixmude's icy flight deck off Norway, exercise Cold Response 22

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