Photos Navies Of All Nations

USN:
Japanese reconnaissance photo showing Battleship Row during the attack on Pearl Harbor. USS Arizona, (second from left, moored inboard) was just struck with a bomb near the stern, but she has not yet received the bomb that detonated her forward magazines. 7 December 1941.
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USN/USCG:
Protected cruiser USS Denver (C-14/PG-28/CL-16) (foreground) and USCG no. 13 Jouett in drydock at Charlestown Navy Yard, 14 October 1928.
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Romania:
River Monitor Ion C. Brătianu (F-46) firing during Navy's Day demonstration, 15 August 2009
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USN:
USS Narwhal (SSN-671) Pulling into St Croix c. 1969
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USN:
Ohio class USS West Virginia (SSBN-736) & submarine support vessel HOS Black Powder (since 2015 USNS Black Powder (T-AGSE-1))
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USS Norton Sound (AVM-1), a unique ship that served as a test platform for many US Navy systems between 1951 and 1987.
In 1973, for instance, she received the first ship-borne installation of the Aegis Combat System.

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Germany:
Battleship SMS Bayern interned at Scapa Flow at the end of the First World War. She would be scuttled there on 23/6/1919. Her turrets remain at the bottom of the sea there but her ship's bell is on display at Kiel Fordeklub
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USN:
Sailors on USS Enterprise (CV-6) lend a hand to help extricate a Curtiss SBC-3 Helldiver after a minor landing mishap. LIFE photo by Carl Mydans, 1940 (not colourised)
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Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers crowd the deck of USS Enterprise, 1941. Photo by LIFE photographer Peter Stackpole.
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USS Seawolf (SS-197) periscope photograph of a sinking Japanese ship, torpedoed by Seawolf during a war patrol in the Philippines-East Indies area in the fall of 1942. This ship is possibly the S.S. Gifu Maru, sunk on 2 November 1942 in Davao Gulf, Mindanao
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Looking stern from one of the triple turrets of light cruiser USS Portsmouth, you can see the catapults loaded with Curtiss SC Seahawk scout seaplanes. Summer 1945.
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USS Stephen Potter (DD-538) underway in the Pacific, 2 May 1944, while participating in raids on Japanese bases.
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RN:
Battlecruiser HMS Hood in heavy seas 1940
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L-class destroyer HMS Lance sunk in Grand Harbor, Malta after an Axis raid 7th Apr 1942. She was damaged in two consecutive air attacks at Malta in 1942. She was towed back to Britain, declared a constructive total loss and was scrapped.
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USN:
Battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) firing a 15 gun broadside to starboard. The 15 gun salvo is comprised of all nine 16-inch main battery guns and the six starboard 5-inch guns. The Iowa is off the coast of Central America, Aug 13, 1984
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USN:
USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) fires a star shell from its 5-inch gun. Aug 1, 2018
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Japan:
US-2 flying alongside the Uraga-class mine countermeasure vessel JS Bungo. Nov 2022
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Italy:
OtoBreda 76/62SR gun turret being removed from OPV ITS Comandante Foscari(P 493)
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USN:
Ohio Class SSBN, Hood Canal, Wa. November 2022
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Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Rhode Island (SSBN 740) arrived in Gibraltar for a scheduled port visit, Nov. 1, 2022.
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USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) flight ops, Nov. 4, 2022
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Japan:
Aircraft carrier Hiryu at Yokosuka, July 5, 1939
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RN:
Cressy-class armoured cruiser HMS Bacchante in Italy, circa 1910
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