Photos Navies Of All Nations

France:
cruiser Colbert waiting to be scrapped


Charles de Gaulle underway in the Red Sea, April 2019


The first Frégate de Défense et d'Intervention (Defense and Intervention Frigate) officially begun construction today at the Lorient shipyard of Naval Group during a visit of the French Minister of the Armed Forces and has been named the Amiral Ronarc'h. The ships will be named after admirals of the 20th century with the lead ship being named after Admiral Pierre Alexis Ronarc'h, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, a distinguished admiral of the French Navy who served during the Campaign of China (Boxer Rebellion) and the 1st Word War.

RN:
HMS Argyll and HMS St Albans conduct a sailpast in the Gulf in 2011


HMS Dragon on operations during Westlant 19


HMS Belfast in front of the tower bridge


HMS Diamond currently in dry dock in Portsmouth with both rudders removed

USN:
USS Kitty Hawk, CV-63, at berth in Puget Sound NS, 3 Feb, 2017


The USS Bataan approaches the USNS Supply and USS Oak Hill during a replenishment in the Atlantic Ocean, Oct. 23, 2019.


Early morning fog sets across the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, 2002


Early morning fog sets across the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, CVN-70, Naval Station Bremerton, Wash., Oct. 24, 2002


An aerial port view of the battleship USS IOWA (BB 61) firing to starboard from its No. 1 Mk 7 16-inch gun turret


USS Gerald R Ford returns to sea

RN:
'Victory' leads the line into Trafalgar, followed by 'Temeraire' and 'Neptune'

"Heavyweight Punch" by Geoff Hunt.

Russia:
Missile cruiser 'Chervona Ukraine' (Varyag) goes east. 1990

PRC:
PLAN Type 052D Guided Missile Destroyer DDG-161 'Hohhot'

Imperial Germany:
SMS Seydlitz close up port view.

RCN:
HMCS Regina with her dazzle paint job off Canada’s west coast

RN & USN:
HMS Victorious operating with the US Navy in 1943 as USS Robin. Note the USN aircraft on deck & the Atlanta-class cruiser at the top of the photo- either USS San Diego (CL-53) or San Juan (CL-54).


HMS Revenge passing through Plymouth Sound, Devon, 1920s


HMS Cornwall after the Battle of the Falkland Islands (1914)

USN:
Crewmen on USS Birmingham (CL-62) play fire hoses on the burning USS Princeton (CVL-23), as their ship comes alongside to assist in damage control measures, 24 October 1944.


During the Battle off Samar, USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) prepares to launch her Wildcat fighters, while the USS White Plains (CVE-66) is straddled by 18 in (460 mm) shells from the Battleship Yamato. Oct 25, 1944
Aircraft from the carriers of Taffy 1, 2, and 3, including FM-2 Wildcats, F6F Hellcats and TBM Avengers, strafed, bombed, torpedoed, rocketed, depth-charged, fired at least one .38 caliber handgun and made numerous "dry" runs at the Japanese force when the American planes ultimately ran out of ammunition.


Gunner's Mate 3rd Class Paul Henry Carr. USS Samuel B. Roberts, gun captain of No. 2 mount.

From the after action report by Lt. W.S. Burton:

'That gun in less than an hour expended something in excess of 300 rounds...After all power had been lost, and before the word to abandon ship was passed, the crew of No. 2 gun loaded, rammed and fired six charges entirely by hand and with a certain knowledge of the hazards involved due to the failure of the gas-ejection system caused by the air supply having been entirely lost. While attempting to fire the seventh round, the powder charge cooked off before the breech closed, wrecking the gun and killing or wounding all but three crew members, who were critically injured and two of whom were blown clear of the mount and the ship.

The first man to enter the mount after the explosion found the gun captain, Carr, on the deck of the mount holding in his hands the last projectile available to his gun, even though he was severely wounded from his neck down to his thighs. He was completely torn open and his intestines were splattered throughout the inside of the mount. Nevertheless, he held in his hand the 54 pound projectile, held it up above his head and begged the petty officer to help him get that last round out. You must appreciate that the breech of the gun had been blown into an unrecognizable mass of steel. The mount itself was torn to pieces. He was the only man capable of physical movement within the mount and his only idea was get out that last round, his last chance to do damage to the Japanese.'

Carr died a few minutes after he was dragged from the gun mount.

Text and drawing from United States Destroyer Operations in World War II. by Theodore Roscoe, drawing by Fred Freeman.

Italy:
A top down view of Italian battleship 'Conte di Cavour' after her reconstruction.


The Italian troopship Argentina unloading troops and supplies into two 'trabaccoli' turned into landing craft during exercises for the planned invasion of Malta, spring of 1942


View of Italian light cruiser 'Raimondo Montecuccoli's main battery in 1938

USN:
USS Springfield (SSN 761) makes her homecoming arrival at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, 21OCT19

France:
Danton-class pre-dreadnought battleship 'Vergniaud' of the French Marine Nationale during a naval drill in Toulon.


THE FRENCH BATTLESHIP 'PARIS'. JULY 1940, DEVONPORT. THE FRENCH BATTLESHIP ESCAPED TO BRITAIN IN JUNE 1940, WHERE SHE WAS INTERNED.

New Zealand:
HMNZS Aotearoa; Ulsan, South Korea; October 2019

RN:
HMS Victorious at Dusk


HMS Dragon (D35) celebrating Diwali - The Festival of lights

USN@
Higgins was pumping out LCVPs in 1943

Russia:
Pr. 23550 Ivan Papanin, Arctic patrol ship, launched October 25 2019

Ice patrol ship of project 23550 "Ivan Papanin" after launching

RN:
18 AUGUST 1955, ON BOARD THE CARRIER HMS EAGLE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. TWO BRITISH AND TWO AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS TOOK PART IN COMBINED EXERCISES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN DURING WHICH US NAVAL AIRCRAFT LANDED ON THE DECK OF THE BRITISH CARRIERS. THE FOUR CARRIERS WERE; HMS EAGLE AND HMS ALBION AND THE USS CORAL SEA AND USS INTREPID.

USN:
USS Los Angeles (CA-135) operating off Korea with Task Force 77, August 1951.


USS Sculpin with Admiral Rickover standing on one of the dive planes. Rickover was the father of nuclear propulsion in the USN, between 1945 and 1982 his career would solely focus on this.

RAN:
HMAS Duchess (D154) escorting HMAS Sydney (R17) to Vietnam, Nov 1969