Photos Navies Of All Nations

France:
Helicopter-carrier Jeanne d'Arc, a Naval Academy 182-metre-long ship carrying a crew of 585 officers and sailors, arrives in Fort-de-France harbour during its last trip as training vessel, on March 16, 2010

Germany:
Scharnhorst class battleship Gneisenau

USN:
Midway-class aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43) underway in the Pacific, July 1, 1981


Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS La Jolla (SSN-701) leaves San Diego while the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9) returns. July 1982

RN:
HMS Furious in August 1941 with four Hurricanes on her flight deck

HMS Furious was a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by the First Sea Lord, Lord Fisher, the ship was very lightly armoured and designed with a main battery of only two 18-inch (457 mm) guns.

Furious was modified as an aircraft carrier while under construction. Her forward turret was removed and a flight deck was added in its place, such that aircraft had to manoeuvre around the superstructure to land.

Later in the war, the ship had her rear turret removed and a second flight deck installed aft of the superstructure, but this was less than satisfactory due to air turbulence. Furious was briefly laid up after the war before she was reconstructed with a full-length flight deck in the early 1920s.

After her conversion, Furious was used extensively for trials of naval aircraft and later as a training carrier once the new armoured carriers like Ark Royal entered service in the late 1930s.

During the early months of the Second World War, the carrier spent her time hunting for German raiders in the North Atlantic and escorting convoys. This changed dramatically during the Norwegian Campaign in early 1940 when her aircraft provided air support to British troops ashore in addition to attacking German shipping.

The first of what would be numerous aircraft ferry missions was made by the carrier during the campaign. After the withdrawal of British troops in May, Furious made several anti-shipping strikes in Norway with little result before beginning a steady routine of ferrying aircraft for the Royal Air Force.

At first, Furious made several trips to West Africa, but she began to ferry aircraft to Gibraltar in 1941. An unsuccessful attack on German-occupied ports on the Arctic Ocean interrupted the ferry missions in mid-1941.

Furious was given a lengthy refit in the United States and spent a few months training after her return in April 1942.

She made several more ferry trips in mid-1942 before her aircraft attacked airfields in Vichy French Algeria as part of the opening stages of Operation Torch in November 1942. The ship remained in the Mediterranean until February 1943 when she was transferred to the Home Fleet.

Furious spent most of 1943 training, but made a number of attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz and other targets in Norway during the first half of 1944. By September 1944, the ship was showing her age and she was placed in reserve. Furious was decommissioned in April 1945, but was not sold for scrap until 1948.

USN:
Flight IIA Arleigh-Burke class destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) rejoins the fleet after her Depot Modernization Period, Feb 24, 2023

France:
Armoured cruiser Dupuy de Lôme. When commissioned in 1895, she was actually very well armoured and armed compared to her German, British and Russian contemporaries, despite her appearance.

USN:
Armoured cruiser USS West Virginia (ACR-5). A lucky ship, she was later renamed Huntington and successfully crossed the Atlantic and back 9 times during WW1 as a convoy escort.


Wyoming class battleship USS Wyoming (BB-32) circa 1920

RN:
HMS Clio. 22 gun screw-corvette, 2,100 tons. A beautiful ship, but obsolete nearly as soon as she was launched (1858). Assigned to the Australia Station for several years & later served as a school ship. Scrapped in 1919


HMS Cleopatra on laundry day. She was a screw-corvette launched in 1878. Used for 'harbour service' in 1903. Renamed Defiance II in 1922. Scrapped 1931.


Calypso-class corvette (later classified as a third-class cruiser) HMS Calliope inaugurating Calliope Dock, Auckland, NZ, 1888. Amethyst-class corvette HMS Diamond waits her turn to enter. The dock was named after the point on which she was built, it was coincidence that the first ship to dock in her happened to have the same name! It is still in use by the RNZN today.

USN:
Flight III Arleigh-Burke class destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) outbound from HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula early Feb 28, 2023 for the scheduled second round of builder's trials


The future Flight III Arleigh-Burke class destroyers USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) and John Basilone (DDG-122) fitting out at Bath Iron Works Feb 28, 2023

India:
The fourth Visakhapatnam-class destroyer INS Surat under construction.

RN:
HMS Boxer (LST(1)) fitted out as an aircraft direction ship in 1944. Image from 2nd Aug 1945

HMS Boxer, as well as sister ships HMS Bruiser and HMS Thruster, were converted LSTs. Their purpose was to control fighters off a beachhead, specifically Normandy for the D-Day landings. They were not used as pickets around carrier task forces. The USN and RN used destroyers for that purpose, initially "regular" destroyers, but later destroyers that had been modified to carry extra radars and communications equipment for the embarked fighter directors.

Hunt-class destroyer HMS Blencathra in Aug 1946, serving as a target ship for aircrew training. Completed Dec 1940. Mediterranean 1943 for Sicily landings. 2 U-Boat part kills. Broken up 1957

USN:
Balao-class submarine USS Barbero (SSG-317) prepares to fire a Regulus I missile, April 1958


Command light cruiser USS Northampton (CLC-1) aka "the Floating White House" underway, circa 1959. She carries a variety of radars (front to back): SPS-10, a modified SK-2, SPS-2, SPS-29, and SPS-8A.

Northampton was part of the U.S. government's plan for Continuity of Operations and reported to be a "floating White House" to which the President could be evacuated in the event of nuclear attack. As such she was designated as the National Emergency Command Post Afloat (NECPA); Northampton was one of two ships to serve in the role, with the other being the aircraft carrier USS Wright. The ship was modified with an extra deck, the tallest communications mast in the Navy and multi-link communications gear.

Germany:
Sachsen-class frigate Hessen seen through the periscope of a German Type 212A submarine

Italy:
Navigatori-class destroyer Luca Tarigo during the 1930s, prior to 1938 when hull identification letters were placed on the bow


Light cruisers Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta, Raimondo Montecuccoli and Muzio Attendolo seen from the deck of Eugenio di Savoia

USN:
Gearing-class destroyer USS Theodore E. Chandler (DD-717) steaming off the coast of Vietnam on 20 November 1966. A Cessna O-1 Bird Dog flies alongside

RN:
Beachy Head-class repair ship HMS Penlee Point. Renamed HMS Girdle Ness, the ship was taken out of service in 1953 and converted for use in support of missile trials in the development of the Seaslug missile in the early 1960s. After trials of the missile were completed, Girdle Ness was placed in reserve before becoming an accommodation ship as part of the shore establishment HMS Cochrane at Rosyth. The vessel was stricken in 1970.


King George V-class battleship HMS Duke of York being scrapped, looking aft. Scrapped in 1957 at Shipbreaking Industries, Ltd., Faslane, Scotland


HMS Brave Borderer, first of the Brave-class fast patrol boats during trials in the Solent, January 1960.

Turkey:
Ada-class ASW corvette TCG Heybeliada in the Mediterranean


Barbaros-class (MEKO 200) frigates TCG Oruçreis (F-245) and Yavuz-class frigate (MEKO 200) TCG Turgutreis (F-241) sailing through heavy seas in Mediterranean

USSR:
Project 12341 Ovod (NATO Nanuchka III) class guided missile corvette Priliv (599) at anchor in the Neva River during Soviet Navy Day, July 26, 1987

Chile:
Battleship Almirante Latorre from the bow, 1920

I.R.I.N.S. "Dena" - 75 / EPRM

Fragata leve classe Moudge (Mowj class) - 1.500 t. (d)

Islamic Republic of Iran Navy

Foto: Edson de Lima Lucas - Rio de Janeiro, 26/02/2023

Demandando atracação no cais do armazém 6, cais comercial do Rio de Janeiro

The Mowj-Class frigate has a length of 95 m, a beam of 11.1 m, a draught of 3.25 m, and a displacement of 1,500 tones. She is powered by two 10,000 hp (7,500 kW) engines and four 740 hp (550 kW) diesel generators. The ship can reach a top speed of 30 knots (55,6 km/h). She has a crew of 140 people.

Armed with four Noor or Qader anti-ship missiles, one 76 mm Fajr-27 naval gun, one 40 mm Fath-40 AAA or 1x 30mm Kamand CIWS (Close-In Weapon System), 16 tube chaff launchers, two Oerlikon 20mm automatic cannons, four Mehrab SAM (Surface-to-Air Missile), a naval version of the Sayyad-2, two triple 324 mm torpedoes and two 12.7 mm heavy machine guns.