Photos Navies Of All Nations

RN:
Multi-role ocean surveillance ship RFA Proteus (K60), October 2023

RN:
E class destroyer HMS Escort circa 1937. During Operation MA 5, a planned air attack on Italian airfields in Sardinia, Escort was torpedoed by the submarine Guglielmo Marconi on8 July 1940 after the attack had been cancelled due to lack of surprise. The torpedo blew a hole 20 feet (6.1 m) wide between the two boiler rooms killing two members of the crew. Sank while under tow, 11 July 1940


Type I Hunt-class destroyer HMS Whaddon underway at 5 knots, 13 June 1942


County class heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire comes alongside Fiji-class light cruiser HMS Mauritius to exchange mail, Indian Ocean, October 1942

Sweden:
Arkö class minesweeper HSwMS Hasslö (M64) 1962-89


OPV HSwMS Carlskrona (P04) during an exercise on the Swedish west coast, March 2019

USN & France:
Flight I Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Stout (DDG-55), underway with La Fayette-class frigate Surcouf (F711) in the Mediterranean Sea, 17 January 2014.

New Zealand:
Rothesay-class (Type 12M) HMNZS Otago (F111) during the protest against French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in July 1973.

RN:
"Centurion in Whampoa Roads" by Gordon Miller. Depicts 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line HMS Centurion in the anchorage of modern day Pazhou during Commodore George Anson's circumnavigation of the world in 1742.

USN:
Midway-class aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) anchored in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with the Eighth Fleet, 10 May 1946.


Currituck-class seaplane tender USS Norton Sound (AV-11) as a missile launch platform, launches a V-1 "Loon" missile. A "Lark" missile is in the background, 12 October 1949.

The Loon was reverse-engineered during WWII from V-1 wrecks, with 13 prototypes completed by 8 September 1944. Production was terminated on 15 September 1945 with almost 1,400 completed, without any direct involvement from German scientists.
The SAM-N-2 Lark project was a solid-fuel boosted, liquid-fueled surface-to-air missile developed by the United States Navy to meet the kamikaze threat. These were mostly expended in various test programs.

Australia:
Supply-class replenishment oiler HMAS Stalwart (A304) conducts a dual replenishment at sea with Hobart class destroyer HMAS Brisbane (DDG 41) and ANZAC class frigate HMAS Toowoomba (FFH 156) during a transit as part of a regional presence deployment. The Royal Australian Navy is undertaking a regional presence deployment in Southeast and Northeast Asia. Nov 8, 2023

Germany:
Bayern-class dreadnought battleship SMS Baden in a floating dock after her attempted scuttling, 1919


Kaiser class dreadnought battleship SMS Prinzregent Luitpold with main armament trained to starboard. Scuttled in 1919

USN:
USS Don Juan De Austria during the Perry centennial Naval parade, 1913, possibly at Erie, Pennsylvania. She was training ship of the Michigan Naval Militia at the time.

Laid down 1883, launched 1887, completed 1889. 1,152t. 4x4.7in and 4x6pdr guns. 2x14in tubes. 13kts. Velasco class unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898. Salvaged by the US Navy and taken into service retaining her name. Classed as a gunboat and armed with 4x5in and 4x6pdr guns. The 5in guns were later replaced by 4x4in weapons. Served in China during the Boxer Rebellion then in Philippine waters. Transferred to home waters in 1903 and served off the East Coast and in the Caribbean. Placed out of commission in 1907 and loaned to the Michigan Naval Militia. Served as a training ship for that organization based at Detroit for the next ten years. Recommissioned in 1917 and served on patrol duties off the East Coast for the duration of WWI. Decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1919.

italy:
Battleships Vittorio Veneto (left), Littorio (upper center) and Giulio Cesare (lower centre) moored in the Mar Grande of Taranto, in the days immediately before Operation Judgement, the Battle of Taranto, 11-12 Nov 1940

The Italian fleet lost half of its capital ships in one night; the next day, the Regia Marina transferred its undamaged ships from Taranto to Naples to protect them from similar attacks, until the defences at Taranto (mainly the anti-torpedo nets) were brought up to adequate levels to protect them from further attacks of the same kind (which happened between March and May 1941). Repairs to Littorio took about four months, to Duilio seven months; Conte di Cavour required extensive salvage work and her repairs were incomplete when Italy surrendered in 1943.

USN:
Gearing-class destroyer USS Ernest G. Small (DD-838) steaming astern towards Kure after heavy seas broke off her bow that had already been damaged by a mine off Hungnam in October 1951

She participated in the naval bombardment of Hungnam and was so occupied on 7 October when she struck a mine which seriously damaged her bow, killed 9 and wounded 18. Four days later heavy seas broke the bow off. As the watertight bulkhead doors could not withstand the pressure of traveling forward she travelled backward (with the help of a fleet tug) at 6 knots for 300 miles to Japan, and she was fitted with a stubby replacement which enabled her to reach Long Beach, arriving on 18 December 1951. She was decommissioned on 15 January 1952 and the bow of the unfinished Seymour D. Owens (DD-767) was grafted to her hull. She also underwent conversion to a radar picket ship at this time.

RN:
USMC test pilot Maj. Paul Gucwa performs a vertical landing (VL) in an F-35B Lightning II short takeoff vertical landing (STOVL) aboard the U.K. aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales (R09) Oct. 29, 2023

USN:
(Aug. 22, 2023) Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) returns to San Diego following an initial sea trial period after modernisation. Boxer will continue sea trials and workup preparations for its eventual deployment.


Countermeasure wash down aboard Flight IIA Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115). East China Sea, Nov 6, 2023


Nimitz class USS George Washington (CVN 73) coming into Norfolk, Virginia. Nov 9, 2023

Sweden:
Örnen class HM Torpedocruiser Jacob Bagge. Completed 1898. Became a seaplane tender in 1925 and fitted to carry a seaplane. Converted to a cadet training ship in 1935 and by 1945 was armed with only a single 20mm gun. Finally stricken in 1947.

France:
Battleship Dunkerque beached near the small town of St André, after a British hit caused her to lose propulsion and steering at Mers-el-Kebir on July 3, 1940.

USN:
The forward 12"/50 gun turrets of heavy cruiser USS Alaska (CB-1) June 1944


Admirable-class minesweeper USS Execute (AM-232) off Seattle, 10 November 1944


USS Lamberton (DMS-2) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, May 4, 1945

Lamberton was a Wickes-class destroyer, built by Newport News Shipbuilding, and launched in March, 1918, and first commissioned on August 22, 1918 with a hull number of DD-119. Seeing little service during World War 1, the destroyer was transferred to the Pacific in July, 1919, only to be decommissioned as part of the post-World War 1 drawdowns on June 30, 1922.

Lamberton was recommissioned on November 15, 1930 as a replacement for a destroyer that had to be retired due to defective machinery. In April, 1932, the destroyer would be reassigned as a dedicated target towing vessel, and be redesignated as an auxiliary with the hull number AG-21. Between then and 1940, Lamberton would be used to tow targets in gunnery exercises as well as carrying out experiments in high-speed minesweeping. In 1940, Lamberton would be converted into a destroyer-minesweeper and be given a new hull number of DMS-2. As an aside, future actor Ernest Borgnine served aboard Lamberton during his first enlistment in the US Navy (1935-41.)

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor found Lamberton screening the cruiser Minneapolis (CA-36), which was at sea several miles off Oahu to conduct gunnery practice. For the next seven months, the destroyer engaged in local defensive patrols around Hawaii, before being sent to the Aleutians in July, 1942. There, Lamberton was engaged in patrol and escort duty, as well as supporting the landings on Attu. In July, 1943, the destroyer was recalled to the West Coast, where she spent the remainder of the war engaged in target-towing duty, being downrated to an auxiliary in June, 1945, reverting to her previous hull number of AG-21. After the Japanese surrender, she made it out to Okinawa, only to become one of the over 200 ships driven ashore by Typhoon Louise on October 9, 1945, but was refloated and returned to the United States, where she was decommissioned on December 13, 1946, and sold for scrap in May, 1947.

RN:
Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Warspite fitting out at Devonport, October 1914

T21 class motor torpedo boat T30, post WWII,


T29, Gota Canal,1950

USN:
Supply class fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE-8) conducts an early morning Replenishment at Sea with Nimitz class USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) and Flight I Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Ramage (DDG-61), late 2000's