Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Testing with the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, test launching a Jet Suit from a PAC-24 Fast RIB, and onto a P2000 Patrol Boat. Then really pushing into the unknown by launching three #JetSuit Pilots at the target boat!

 

[DENO]

Interesting design. Three main guns is a lot of artillery for a modern warship, isn't it? I'm loving it.

Italians are using their Oto-Melara super rapid 76mm guns both as CIWS for aerial targets & SSMs and as naval gun for surface targets thanks to their
Strales DART smart ammunition which can be programmed to counter for both. So it's reasonable to use one each for port and starboard side...

 

[Fish&Chips]

Italians are using their Oto-Melara super rapid 76mm guns both as CIWS for aerial targets & SSMs and as naval gun for surface targets thanks to their Strales DART smart ammunition which can be programmed to counter for both.

It seem the Danes won't object to some rapid fire either.

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[BravoZulu]

USN:
A fire continues to be fought into the evening on board the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) at Naval Base San Diego, July 12. On the morning of July 12, a fire was called away aboard the ship while it was moored pier side at Naval Base San Diego. Base and shipboard firefighters responded to the fire. Bonhomme Richard is going through a maintenance availability, which began in 2018.

**Photo's will be posted to this post as/when available**

View of the island superstructure showing collapsed portions with the fallen mast at right

Listing to starboard

 

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RN:
HMS Eagle on a port visit to Vigo, Spain, Oct 23, 1957

Minister of Defence for the Royal Navy, J. P. W. Mallalieu, being transferred from HMS Cleopatra to HMS Kent by light jackstay transfer, 1966

 

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RN:
Aerial photograph of HMS VICTORIOUS underway at sea near Scapa Flow, 28 October 1941. (Photo by Lt. R G G Coote/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

HMS King George V anchored at Alexandria, November 1944

Battleship HMS King George V following in the wake of HMS Illustrious, in Far Eastern waters, Feb., 1945

 

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USN:
USS Hercules (PHM-2) and Taurus (PHM-3) in the Carribean. (Circa 1983)

8th May, 1984. Aerial port bow view of the battleship USS IOWA (BB 61) leading Commander Task Group 28.1.1. The ships off its stern are: the patrol combatant-missile (hydrofoils) USS HERCULES (PHM 2), left front, and USS ARIES (PHM 5), right front; the guided missile frigate USS STEPHEN W. GROVES (FFG 29), left rear; and the guided missle destroyer USS CONYNGHAM (DDG 17)

USS Tarawa with bow 5 inch MK45 guns, the Tarawa class had three 5 inch guns, 2 mounted on the bow and 1 on the starboard aft sponsons, all removed during the late 90’s

 

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RN:
On the 18 Sept 1939, just after the start of WW2, the Alvis was fishing in the vicinity of St Kilda. At about 1.20pm a shot was heard and a large spout of water erupted close to the Alvis. The skipper and crew then spotted a German submarine. The skipper, Albert Thomason, was signalled from the U Boat and instructed to abandon his vessel. The small lifeboat was launched and the crew left the Alvis. The lifeboat pulled alongside the submarine, the U-35, and the commander, Werner Lott, asked for the captain of the Alvis. Thomason went aboard the submarine and, on the conning tower, Lott extended his hand in welcome. He then said, " I am sorry but I will have to sink your ship" and asked Skipper Thomason if there were anymore crew aboard the Alvis. The crew and Lott, all speaking very good English, handed cigarettes to the Alvis crew, and then ordered them back to their vessel. Lott sent a working party over to Alvis under the command of a Lieutenant. On their arrival, they threw the wireless overboard and then chopped away the fishing gear and smashed the dynamo in the engine room. The Lieutenant asked Thomason if he could take a lifebelt as a souvenir, which he did. However, Lott gave Thomason a bottle of gin in return with his compliments.

No provisions or the fish caught were taken from the Alvis by the Germans. The reason the U-Boat commander did not sink the Alvis was that, in his opinion, the 13-man crew would never make it back to shore in their lifeboat. The Alvis returned unharmed to her homeport of Fleetwood, but that same day the U-Boat commander found 3 other Fleetwood vessels. They were the Arlita, the Lord Minto, and the Nancy Hague. After removing the crews from the Arlita and Lord Minto onto the Nancy Hague, the U-35 sank the two empty ships. The three crews returned to Fleetwood aboard the Nancy Hague. The Alvis was subsequently requisitioned in 1940 by the Admiralty. Werner Lott was taken prisoner of war aboard HMS Kingston, with all of his crew, after he scuttled his U-boat on 29 November 1939.

HMT Alvis, armed WW2 trawler:

 

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USN:
USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) docked at a base in Okinawa, Japan. (April 15, 2018)

A vehicle cargo hold inside of USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) with 2 USN LCAC stored. Okinawa, Japan; April 15, 2018

 

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USN:
USS Missouri (BB-63) during the Tokyo Bay surrender ceremony, 2 Sep 1945.

USS San Diego (CL-53) docks at Yokosuka on 30 August 1945, to take part in the U.S. occupation of that facility

Sailors on the bow of USS Nicholas (DD-449) watch the IJN Hatsuzakura steaming in company off Tokyo Bay, 27 August 1945

USS Missouri (BB-63) and USS Iowa (BB-61) en route to Japan, Aug 1945

 

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Italy:
Caio Duilio (C-554). Helicopter cruiser prior her modernisation (Circa 1969)

 

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Canada:
Unidentified ratings manning a two-pounder anti-aircraft gun aboard H.M.C.S. ASSINIBOINE, which is escorting a troop convoy en route from Halifax to Britain, 10 July 1940. HMS Revenge and Empress of Australia in the background

 

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Egypt:
ENS El Fateh., a Gowind class corvette

 

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Denmark:
The amidships VLS cells of a Danish Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate. What you see here is 32 Mk41 VLS cells for Standard missiles flanked by 12 Mk56 VLS cells for dual-packed ESSM, and mountings for Harpoon AShMs

 

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South Korea:
ROKS Kyong Buk an Ulsan-class frigate

 

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Italy:
Heavy cruiser Gorizia at Tangiers, in late August 1936, showing damage to her bow due to an explosion in the aviation fuel tank

 

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USN & Romania:
USS Porter and the Romanian corvette Marcellariu transit the Black Sea during a 2015 PASSEX.

 

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PLA(N):
Type 056 corvette Meizhou with a Z-9 Harbin helicopter.

 

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Russia:
Decommissioned Akula class submarines Arkhangelsk and Severstal with their missile hatches removed and tubes filled, waiting for the time they will meet the cutting torch

8-missile rotary launchers for S-300F Fort/SA-N-6 SAM missiles aboard Project 1164 Atlant/Slava class cruiser Varyag.

Kirov class Pytor Velikiy and Aircraft Cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov

 

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USN:
USS Canberra (CA-70/CAG-2). US guided missile cruiser fires Terrier missile in training exercise (Circa February 1957).

USS Stormes (DD-780), May 20, 1957