Photos Navies Of All Nations

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HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales

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So Lizzie and son each got themselves a new Royal Yacht?

Iceland:
Coast Guard's ICGV Þór (or Thor). This beauty was commissioned in September of 2011

RN:
HMS Prince of Wales


HMS Hood entering Vancouver Harbour during her Empire Cruise of 1923-1924


Battlecruiser HMS Repulse


HMS Repulse during her 1940 refit, note workmen by rudder and propellers.


Prince of Wales' Captain J C Leach, reads the "Articles of War" to the ship's company, April 1941

RN:
F-35Bs in the hangar of HMS Queen Elizabeth


HMS Queen Elizabeth (R) and HMS Prince of Wales (L)


HMS Queen Elizabeth at Portsmouth

RN:
HMS Queen Mary blowing up after taking a hit to the citadel during the Battle of Jutland with HMS Lion (L), 1916
Eyewitnesses, including survivors, appear clear that there were two blasts, the second much larger than the first, and most suggest Q amidships exploded first followed by A and B further forward, though some flip this. The break is between Q turret and the aft funnel, suggesting Q did explode, but there is no identifiable physical evidence yet identified. It is clear that when A and B exploded, probably the largest explosion of the battle, it almost completely the ship forward of this line. The stern continued forward, plowing over the remains of the bow and sinking rapidly, rolling to port and capsizing. This aligns very closely with the description of Chief Petty Officer William Cave on Dublin, though he mistook it for the bow of the ship:

This fore part suddenly shot ahead with a slight list to port & veered towards us, in so doing, we noticed the height of the bow-wave rising & our Navvy, sensing, maybe a collision, gave the order 'hard aport', but this sorry load of humanity, listing further, now slowing up, gently slid into the 'Deep' seemingly only a few feet from where we had been. Oh the sight of those poor fellows ... I was to experience many many dreams, nightmares, more appropriate, for months afterwards. Those of us who witnesses this had similar symptoms.

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The number of survivors varies depending on your source. McCartney notes the Harper Record states there were nine, but the senior ranking survivor, Midshipman JL Storey, reported 18. Campbell reports Laurel recovered 17, Petard one, and the German G8 two more. All agree this column of smoke marks the final resting place of 1,266 men, most of them alive 90 seconds before it was taken.


Battleships Revenge (left) and Hercules (right) in the North Sea en route to the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916

HMNB Portsmouth filled to the brim with warships from around the world during the 2005 Trafalgar Day International Fleet Review

• NNS Aradu F89
• RFA Fort Victoria (one with orange lifeboats in the wet dock)
• HNLMS Rotterdam (to the right of RFA Fort Victoria)
• HMS St Albans (the type 23 closest to the Jetty)
• Greek Frigate Hydra (Bottom left, on its own)
• HMS Illustrious
• Pakistani Type 21 PNS Tippu Sultan at the bottom outer
• TCG Orucreis F245 with the turkish flags bottom inner
• Romanian RNS Regina Maria F222 (formerly HMS London) far right outermost
• Indian INS Mumbai is next to Regina Maria, far right inner ship
• Irish LÉ Eithne P31 top left corner
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USN:
USS Olympia


Sea Shadow - an experimental stealth ship built for the US Navy to test new technologies for surface ships

France:
La Combattante, OPV. Stationed in the Carribbean.


France, USN, Italy, Spain:
Carrier 'Charles de Gaulle' and escorts during Exercise PEAN 19. Nov 25th to Dec 6th, 2019

• FS Charles de Gaulle (R91)
• FS Mistral (L9013) and Tonnerre (L9014) [Mistral-class LHD]
• FS Chevalier Paul (D621) [Horizon-class Frigate]
• FS Auvergne (D654) [Aquitaine-class FREMM]
• FS Enseign Jacoubet (F794) and Commandant Bouan (F797) [d'Estiennes d'Orves-class OPV]
• FS Orion (M645) and Capricorne (M653) [Eridan-class Mine Hunter]
• FS Var (A608) and Somme (A631) [Durance-class Supply Ship]
• FS Loire (A602) [Loire-class Support Ship]
• USS Ross (DDG-71) [Arleigh Burke-class Destroyer]
• ITS Luigi Rizzo (F595) [Bergamini-class FREMM]
• ESPS Blas de Lezo (F103) [Álvaro de Bazán-class Frigate]

USN:
Among the complement of 1,514 men assigned to USS Arizona on Dec 7th 1941, there were 38 sets of brothers including a pair of twins, two sets of three brothers, and a father and son. Only 15 of these men survived the attack—a staggering 80 percent casualty rate. Source USS Arizona Assoc.


West Virginia (BB48). Aerial, port bow, underway. 1939


Higgins PT boats on the assembly line, New Orleans, 1943


USS Breton(CVE-23) off San Francisco, 4 March 1944.

Japan:
JS Kaga (front) and JS Izumo (rear)


JS Kongo (DDG-173) and JS Maya (DDG-179)

Poland:
Project 664 class Torpedo Boat 'ORP Odważny', KTD-458
This is the sole survivor of the eight 'Project 664' class Torpedo boats built in Stocznia Północna (Northern Shipyard) in Gdańsk. The design was not successful overall. The hydronalium (aluminium alloy) hull had limited durability, especially when sailing at high speed on a rough sea, which resulted in cracks. Propulsion was not optimal as the gas turbine was not fuel efficient limiting range and there were also problems with the gearing of paired engines. The boats were very compact and were not comfortable for the crews, being cramped, noisy and prone to vibration. Their advantage of very high top speed was, however, limited by sea conditions. Due to these problems and wear, the project 664 class boats were relatively quickly phased out. This was the seventh in the class was launched in February 1973. It was in Polish Navy service from September 1973 until January 1986, and in 1990 it was given to the museum. The other seven boats were all scrapped. It remains on display at the White Eagle Military Museum. Skarzysko Kamienna. Poland.

RN:
Ironclad HMS Nile (1892) – Malta

USN:
US F/A 18 and French Rafale M getting ready to launch from USS George H.W. Bush


USS New Jersey BB-62


USN:


PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 3, 2019) An MH-60R Sea Hawk, assigned to the “Wolf Pack” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 75, hovers over the flight deck of the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Yukon (T-AO 202) during a vertical replenishment with the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile-destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) Dec. 3, 2019. Spruance is underway conducting routine training in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Shaun Griffin)


USCGC Stratton (WMSL-752) acting as a forward screen vessel during Talisman Sabre 2019, July 18


USS Leyte Gulf sails in the Arabian Sea, Dec. 10, 2019, during its deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. Photo By: Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Darion Chanelle Triplett

USN:
October 1915. USN subs K-1 (SS-32), K-2 (SS-33), K-6 (SS-37) & K-5 (SS-36) prior to going to Europe after the US entered WW I. The Florida (BB-30) is seen at rear.
Notice that the K-5 is being repainted OUT of dazzle before deployment.

USN:
"Slumber Deep" by T H Benton, 1944

USN:
Lt Commander Edward Porter Clayton, USN, (center, back to camera) CO of Underwater Demolition Team 21, receiving the first sword surrendered to an American force in the Japanese Home islands.
The surrender was made by a Japanese Army Coast Artillery Major (standing opposite LCdr. Clayton) at Futtsu-misaki, across Tokyo Bay from Yokosuka Navy Base on 28 August 1945. Members of UDT-21 had landed from USS Begor (APD-127), whose boats are beached in this view.

Identifications of many of the other UDT-21 members present were provided. Those to the left of LCdr. Clayton include (from left to right, in first boat except as noted): Gunner's Mate 2nd Class William P. Griffis; E.W. Pangburn; J.E. Paul; R. Rice; Seaman 1st Class A.L. Vadenburg (standing on beach in swim gear); Gunner's Mate 1st Class Robert Lee Wicall (kneeling, in white shirt); Gunner's Mate 2st Class Robert A. Winters (standing, behind Wicall); Seaman 1st Class Frank P. Goodwill (standing, beside Winters); Radio Technician 2nd Class L. Wurzel (kneeling, beside Wicall); Motor Machinist's Mate 2nd Class O'Brien; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Philip Masters (in white shirt, at bow of boat); Others identified, to right of LCdr. Clayton, include: Motor Machinist's Mate 1st Class Myron Earl Townsend (in second boat, only head & shoulders visible, just to right of Japanese Major); Coxwain Shirley Cox and Gunner's Mate 1st Class E.G. Chesney (left to right, in swim gear, standing on beach just to right of group of Japanese in center).



USS Springfield (CL-66). Off Boston 6 Jan 1945.


PT-333 training off of New York, 1943


The damaged U.S. Navy destroyer USS Nelson (DD-623). Nelson was anchored in position No. 13 on the "Dixie Line" as part of the screen around the Omaha beachhead, Normandy (France), on the night of 12 June 1944. At 01:05 hrs on the 13th she made a radar contact, challenged the contact by flashing light, and opened fire. The destroyer had fired ten salvos when a torpedo from the German motor torpedo boat S 138 struck her just aft the No. 4 gun mount, blowing off the stern and No. 4 mount. 24 of her crew were killed or missing and nine wounded. After emergency repairs at Derry, Northern Ireland, where her No. 2 turret and torpedo tubes were removed as a weight saving/stability measure, the destroyer was towed to the Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts (USA), where she received a new stern. The extensive repairs were completed on 23 November 1944.

Italy:
Aircraft carrier 'Cavour'

RN:
HMS Aurora, a Leander class frigate, was built by John Brown, Clydebank, and completed in 1964. She was in training at Portland and in the Cod Wars off Iceland. She was then modernised and fitted with the Ikara anti-submarine missile system, and is seen in this guise in the picture. She paid off in 1987 and was scrapped in 1990. Organization: Royal Navy


RN & USN:
HMS Ark Royal (R09) Audacious Class aircraft carrier operating with USS Forrestal (CV59), 1972

Imperial Japan:
IJN Fumizuki in July 1926, shortly after commissioning.

Republic Of Korea:
Chamsuri Class patrol boat