Photos Navies Of All Nations

France:
Wreckage of the battleship Dunkerque after the capture of Toulon by Allied forces in August 1944

Italy:
Corvette Procellaria, slowly sinking after striking a mine in the Gulf of Tunis, on 31 January 1943; on the right, the German landing craft F 481 providing assistance.

The Gabbiano-class corvette Procellaria ("Petrel") was escorting a rather unusual convoy from Bizerte, Tunisia, to Italy, made up of the damaged destroyer Maestrale, in need of repairs after losing its bow, the torpedo boat Animoso and the fellow corvette Persefone, plus two German landing crafts.

As the night before the minelayer HMS Welshman had laid a minefield along the route taken, at 0930 h the Procellaria's sonar began registering them, and by 1030 h everybody realized they had ended up in the middle of a minefield. Believing that going full astern he could get his ship out of danger, the corvette's commander ordered so, but unfortunately a mine detonated all the same, under the Procellaria's stern. Luckily, the two landing crafts, having such a shallow draft to be pretty much immune to mines, were able to maneuver freely and provide assistance to the crew that proceeded to abandon the stricken ship; it finally sank at 1430h. One officer, two warrant officers and eighteen seamen died in the sinking; two or three survivors likely died in the following days because of injuries. Unfortunately, hearing by midday of the events, and hoping to save the ship (as the Maestrale itself had been brought to safety after striking a mine), Admiral Luigi Biancheri (commander of the naval department of Bizerte) ordered the old torpedo boat Generale Marcello Prestinari to its assistance; unfortunately, the old ship itself struck a mine and sank, with the loss of 84 men. The rest of the convoy was able to navigate through the minefield and reach Trapani without further loss.

Spain:
Canarias was a heavy cruiser of the Spanish Navy. She was built in Spain by the Vickers-Armstrongs subsidiary Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval upon a British design, and was a modified version of the Royal Navy′s County class. Canarias saw service during the Spanish Civil War.
She was decommissioned in 1975 and then sold for scrap in 1977, but was able to steam under her own power to the scrapyard.

Brazil:
PHM Atlântico at sea, Aug 2018

Imperial Germany:
Kaiserliche Marine U 110 interior after being sunk and refloated in 1918


U-152 leaving Kiel, Sept 5, 1918
Built at Hamburg, the submarine was commissioned in October 1917. Initially intended as a submersible merchantman for transporting critical war materiel through the British blockade, she was converted to a combat ship while under construction.

Imperial Austro-Hungary:
Corvette SMS Frundsberg flying both Austrian and German ensign, 1880s

Italy:
Destroyer Granatiere in the floating drydock GO8
The Soldati-class destroyer Granatiere would be one of the seven of its class to survive World War II, and one of the two that the Marina Militare was allowed to keep, being decommissioned in 1959 and scrapped in 1960.


Battleship Duilio sailing to Malta for internment, 9 September 1943.

USN:
A view of two ships in a dry dock at the U.S. Naval Station Subic Bay, Philippines, with other ships docked at the pier on 28 August 1982. The docked ships include the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS Bainbridge (CGN-25), the store ship USNS Rigel (T-AF-58) and the fleet oiler USNS Hassayampa (T-AO-145).


Littoral Surface Craft-Experimental Sea Fighter (FSF-1), passes Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigate USS Rentz (FFG 46) as she arrives at her new homeport at San Diego, California, 1 August 2005

Plainview (AGEH-1) lifts her hull from the waters of Puget Sound during tests by her builder, Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co., Seattle, WA. 20 June 1968. US National Archives, Photo # USN 1131877-A, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.

USN:
USS Mattole (AO-17) refuels USS Pride (DE-323) by the astern method, 17 August 1944. USS Newell (DE-322) is approaching, at far right. USN photo.

Dramatic Newsreel footage captured the sinking of the Queen Elizabeth Battleship. A salvo of torpedoes from a German submarine struck from close range on HMS Barham on November 25, 1941 in the Mediterranean. Within four minutes, the battleship had listed over to Port and the ships magazines had exploded, sinking the battleship and killing 863 men. The terrifying explosion was caught on film by Pathé cameraman John Turner who was on an adjacent ship.

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The secret German plan to bombard New York City with V-1 missiles launched from U-Boats.

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Walkthrough Tour of HMS Victory.

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent.
After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship. In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship.
She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission.

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The Prinz Eugen was an enlarged Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser which served with the Kriegsmarine of Germany during World War II. She was named after Prince Eugene of Savoy).
Considered a "lucky ship", she survived to the end of the war and two atomic bomb blasts.

After the German collapse in May 1945, the ship was surrendered to the British Royal Navy. On 27 May 1945, Prinz Eugen and the light cruiser Nürnberg were escorted by the British cruisers Dido and Devonshire to Wilhelmshaven. On 13 December, the ship was awarded as a war prize to the United States, which sent the ship to Wesermünde. The cruiser was commissioned into the U.S. Navy as the unclassified miscellaneous vessel USS Prinz Eugen (IX-300). A composite American-German crew, under the command of Captain A. H. Graubart, then took the ship to Boston, departing on 13 January 1946 and arriving on 22 January. There, the ship was extensively examined by the US Navy. Her very large GHG passive sonar array was removed and installed on the submarine USS Flying Fish for testing. American interest in magnetic amplifier technology increased again after findings in investigations of the fire control system of Prinz Eugen.

The ship was then allocated to the fleet of target ships for Operation Crossroads in Bikini Atoll. Prinz Eugen was towed to the Pacific via Philadelphia and the Panama Canal. The ship survived two atomic bomb blasts, Test Able, on 1 July 1946, and Test Baker on 25 July. Prinz Eugen was thoroughly contaminated with radioactive fallout, but suffered no structural damage from the explosions. The irradiated ship was towed to the Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific, where a small leak went unrepaired. On 29 August 1946, the US Navy decommissioned Prinz Eugen.

By late December 1946, the ship was in very bad condition; on the 21st, the ship began to list severely. A salvage team could not be brought to Kwajalein in time, so the US Navy attempted to beach the ship to prevent her from sinking, but on 22 December, Prinz Eugen capsized and sank. Her main battery gun turrets fell out of their barbettes when the ship rolled over. The ship's stern, including her propeller assemblies, remain visible above the surface of the water. The US Government denied salvage rights, on the grounds that it did not want the irradiated steel entering the market. In August 1979, one of the ship's screws was retrieved and placed in the Laboe Naval Memorial in Germany.

Indian Navy INS Vikramaditya Aircraft Carrier

Naval LCA Tejas & MIG-29K onboard

View from Naval Tejas

RN:
HMS Howe, showing 'B' turret and the main armour belt


HMS Exeter in Panama Canal


Battlecruiser HMS Renown, c. 1940-41. She was extensively rebuilt in the 1930s


HMS Royal Oak, in 1937 post a limited modernisation


HMS Renown steams alongside HMS Duke Of York, during Home Fleet exercises witnessed by The King on board HMS Duke Of York, Aug 1943.

Israel:
Sa'ar 2 and 3 classe missile boats

Russia:
Protected cruiser Aurora in dry dock for overhaul, Kronstadt 2014


Oceanographic research vessel Admiral Vladimirsky in the Antarctic sea on an expedition to identify the Magnetic South Pole

Turkey:
Ottoman cruiser Mecidiye with both U.S. and Ottoman flags, 1904

RN:
Daring-class destroyers HMS Duchess (D154) and HMS Diamond (D35) with Weapon-class destroyers HMS Crossbow (D96) and HMS Battleaxe (D118)


HMS Eagle at Mers el Kebir, February, 1954.


From top to bottom:
RFA Retainer (A329)
HMS Galatea (Leander class, F18)
RFA Reliant (A131)
HMS Hermes (Centaur class, R12)
RFA Tidereach (Tide class, A96)
HMS Minerva (Leander class, F45)

This image was taken in the Indian Ocean in 1967. This was, therefore, taken before Hermes' conversion to STOVL. Just 6 years later she would emerge from refit a "commando carrier" for Royal Marine operations, complete with a 12 degree ramp and having had her arrestor wires removed.

Turkey, USN & Italy:
Atlantic Ocean (July 12, 2004) - The Turkish frigate TCG Gediz (F 495), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and the Italian aircraft carrier ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi (C 551) steam through the Atlantic Ocean while participating in Majestic Eagle 2004. Majestic Eagle is a multinational exercise being conducted off the coast of Morocco. The exercise demonstrates the combined force capabilities and quick response times of the participating naval, air, undersea and surface warfare groups. Countries involved in the NATO led exercise include the United Kingdom, Morocco, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey. Truman's participation in Majestic Eagle is part of her scheduled deployment supporting the Navy's new fleet response plan (FRP) Summer Pulse 2004, the simultaneous deployment of seven carrier strike groups (CSGs), demonstrating the ability of the Navy to provide credible combat across the globe, in five theaters with other U.S., allied, and coalition military forces. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Rob Gaston (RELEASED)