Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Netherlands:
ATLANTIC OCEAN (July 13, 2009) The Dutch Navy ship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (F 802) participates in a pass and review during the North Atlantic Council at Sea Day.

 

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Argentine:
Battleship Rivadavia. On trials off Rockland Breakwater, Maine, January 1926

 

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RN:
HMS Warspite in 1938, note stripes on B turret - likely during the neutrality patrol during the Spanish Civil War.

HMS Eridge (L-68), heavily damaged by a torpedo from an Italian torpedo boat on August 29, 1942 in the Mediterranean Sea. The attack caused five fatalities on board Eridge. She was towed to Alexandria by the destroyer Aldenham, where the destroyer was used as a base ship for the rest of the war and sold for scrapping in October 1946.

Flower class corvette HMS Honeysuckle coming alongside the aircraft carrier HMS Trumpeter in the frigid waters of the Murmansk Fjord, Barents Sea, circa 1943

 

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Germany:
Prinz Eugen under service with the US Navy before Test Able, an air burst atomic bomb test, at the Bikini Atoll. (July 1, 1946).

Deutschland was the lead ship of her class of heavy cruisers (often termed a pocket battleship) which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. Ordered by the Weimar government for the Reichsmarine, she was laid down at the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel in February 1929 and completed by April 1933. Originally classified as an armoured ship (Panzerschiff) by the Reichsmarine, in February 1940 the Germans reclassified the remaining two ships of this class as heavy cruisers. In 1940, she was renamed Lützow, after the Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser Lützow was handed over to the Soviet Union.

Sunk in shallow waters in the Kaiserfahrt in April 1945 by Royal Air Force (RAF) bombers, Lützow was used as a gun battery to support German troops fighting the Soviet Army until 4 May 1945, when she was disabled by her crew. Raised by the Soviet Navy in 1947, she was subsequently sunk as a target in the Baltic.

Lützow during inspection by the Soviet Admissions Committee of the Baltic Fleet, May 1945.

 

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USN:
USS Stennis

Mount 52, Mk-45 5' gun aboard the USS Vella Gulf

USS James E. Williams at Kiel Week 2017, mount 51 5' gun and USS Arlington in the background

 

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France:
FS Jeanne d'Arc.

 

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Imperial Russia:
The Izyaslav class were a class of destroyers built for the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy. They were modified versions of the Orfey class built in Russia with the assistance of the French company Augustin Normand.

Avtroil, left, photographed in the Baltic Sea, captured by a British destroyer, right, in 1918 and was transferred to Estonia in 1919, becoming Lennuck. In 1933 the ship was sold to Peru, becoming Guise, being scrapped in 1954

 

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Italy:
ITS Alpino FREMM with an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer

From left to right;
Frigate Antonio Marceglia (F 597)
Destroyer of the Orizzonte-class - I think this is Caio Duilio (D 554)
Frigate Carlo Bergamini (F 590)
Frigate Carabiniere (F 593)

 

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Italy:
A triple 320 mm turret of the Italian battleship Conte di Cavour being dismantled, as part of its salvage operations after being sunk at Taranto, 1941

While the Littorio and the Duilio, both timely beached, could be refloated and repaired without having to undergo heavy preliminary work, the battleship Conte di Cavour, heavily damaged by a torpedo that detonated below the keel, was not beached in time (over the objections of its commander, while the admiral who ordered to try and keep her afloat, Bruto Brivonesi, likely did so out of fear that, if the ship were beached, it would capsize), and therefore sank in shallow water.

To salvage it, there was no other choice than to proceed and lighten the ship as much as possible; therefore, part of the superstructures, the secondary and AA armament, and the main 320 mm guns were removed. As for the latter, the upper plates of the turrets were removed and the barrel and recoil mechanisms were lifted off and placed in storage. They would be later replaced at Trieste, where the battleship, once raised, underwent final repairs and a thorough refit that, despite its cost in terms of resources and manpower, was never completed, by the time Italy surrendered, in September 1943.

 

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RN:
The forward superstructure of battleship HMS King George V

Royal Marines load 1,590 lb shells for the 14inch guns onto battleship HMS King George V, 1941

Crew entering 'A' turret of battleship HMS King George V, January 1941

HMS Rodney, date and location u/k

16th March, 1942. Members of the ship's crew watching a torpedo leaving the torpedo tubes mounted amidships during firing trials on board HMS SHROPSHIRE. One of the cruiser's twin 4 inch gun turrets can be seen. She became HMAS Shropshire after HMAS Canberra was sunk at Savo island

 

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USN:
Aloe class net layer USS Sandalwood

USS Forrest (DD-461) alongside USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) for refueling, 20 February 1944.

USS Franklin (CV-13) underway in the Pacific, 1944

 

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Taiwan:
Corvette Tuo Chiang

 

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Australia:
HMAS Newcastle FFG-06, firing an SM-1 Standard missile, date and location unknown

RAN photo of HMAS Perth (D-38), HMAS Hobart (D-39) and HMAS Brisbane (D-41) during the last days of their active service.

R-L, HMA Ships; Ballarat, Brisbane, Choules and Adelaide. Fleet Base East, Sydney, Australia.

 

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USSR:
Kirov class heavy cruiser Slava on 7 October 1970 in the Mediterranean

Sevastopol naval base in 1991

 

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RN:
HMS York with Mk8 Mod 1 4.5"inch Naval Gun

 

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RN:
HMS Furious in 1918, with palisade windbreaks raised on her flying-off deck, forward. Note that her dazzle camouflage pattern is carried up onto the palisade strakes.

Closeup of the ship shortly following its initial conversion and in dazzle paint scheme. An SSZ class blimp is on the after deck

 

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Greece:
Lemnos, Greek battleship, at Constantinople, Turkey, probably in 1919. The Greek torpedo boat Dafni is alongside. Lemnos was the former USS Idaho (BB-24).

 

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France:
Cruiser submarine Surcouf on patrol in 1941

 

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USN:
USS Charleston, Cruiser No. 22, under construction at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA circa 1904-1905

USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) at anchor in the evening, circa 1916. USS Columbia (Cruiser # 12) is in the right distance.

 

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Germany:
Admiral Graf Spee in 1939.

German Navy S-30 type S-Boot docked at Ostend (Belgium) , 1942. As war progressed the initial single 20 mm gun grew to several combinations of 20 mm and 37 mm guns + 2 x 533 mm torpedoes, they were capable of 36 knots with a 21 men crew.

The commander of the U-96, Lieutenant-Commander Heinrich Lehmann-Villenbrock, on the bridge. Oct-Dec 1941