Photos Navies Of All Nations

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France:
SSN Suffren arrives in its homeport of Toulon for the first time. In the background are 3 Avisos, 2 FREMMs, and FS Charles de Gaulle

July, 2020. Overseas surveillance frigate Floréal accompanied by its Panther helicopter and RHIB

 

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RN:
HMS Daring, 2013

 

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Imperial Germany:
Kaiser Wilhelm on the ship that bears his name SMS Kaiser Wilhelm.

 

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Argentina:
The two Veinticinco de Mayo-class heavy cruisers served in the Argentine Navy through World War II. They were the only post-Washington Naval Treaty heavy cruisers built for a South American Navy. Both ships of the class were built in Italy by the OTO company, and commissioned into the Argentine Navy in 1931.

ARA Moreno was a dreadnought battleship designed by the American Fore River Shipbuilding Company for the Argentine Navy. After Moreno was completed in March 1915, a series of engine problems occurred during the sea trials which delayed its delivery to Argentina to May 1915. The next decade saw the ship based in Puerto Belgrano as part of the Argentine Navy's First Division before sailing to the United States for an extensive refit in 1924 and 1925. During the 1930s the ship was occupied with diplomatic cruises to Brazil, Uruguay, and Europe until the Second World War broke out. During this time, Moreno was employed little as Argentina was neutral. Decommissioned in 1949, Moreno was scrapped in Japan beginning in 1957.

ARA Moreno (C) and heavy cruisers ARA Brown and ARA Veinticinco de Mayo in Valparaiso Chile, February 1937. Photograph taken in port from the Chilean battleship "Latorre"

 

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PLA(N):
29th July, 2020. The lead Type-075 being prepared for sea trials. Note the smoke stains near the stern. Photo via @Rupprecht_A (via by78/SDF)

 

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Philippines:
BRP Jose Rizal frigate sets sail to Hawaii to participate in RIMPAC 2020

 

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India & Japan:
INS Rajput in an anti-submarine warfare exercise with JS Samidare in the Bay of Bengal, April 2019

 

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Imperial Japan:
Vice Admiral Jisaburō Ozawa transferring his flag from the damaged carrier Zuikaku to the light cruiser Ōyodo during the Battle off Cape Engaño, at 1100 hours, 25 October 1944

 

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USN:
Christening of USS John Warner (SSN 785) at Newport News Shipbuilding, September 2014

 

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RN:
Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Barham

HMS Hood undergoing speed and turning capabilities trials, 1926
At full speed, or in heavy seas, water would flow over the ship's quarterdeck and often entered the messdecks and living quarters through ventilation shafts. This characteristic earned her the nickname of "the largest submarine in the Navy".

HMS Rodney under the Forth Bridge, 1930s

 

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Indonesia:
KRI Sutanto 377 firing RBU 6000, Combat Exercises in the Java Sea, South Natuna Sea, and Riau Islands: -21-26 July 2020

 

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Italy:
USN intelligence picture of the cruiser Pola,

Destroyers Audace (left) and Francesco Nullo (right)

The Audace is a rather well-known ship for its curious history, having been ordered by the Imperial Japanese Navy to a British shipyard as Kawakaze, then ceded to the Regia Marina, desperate for destroyers. It rose to fame as it was the first Italian warship to reach Trieste on 3 November 1918 (an event still remembered in the city, where the "Molo Audace" - Audace Pier - is still there). It remained in service till WWII, when it was taken over by the Kriegsmarine after the Italian Armistice, as the torpedo-boat TA 20; it was sunk by British destroyers during an engagement in the Adriatic Sea, on 1 November 1944.

The Francesco Nullo was a Rosolino Pilo-class destroyer, and had the distinction of having been rechristened (in 1921 she would become Fratelli Cairoli). As it was one of the few Italian units whose crews mutinied and joined the "Impresa di Fiume", after their recapture their names were changed, so to erase such events from memory.

 

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Italy:
The tanker SS Gold Heels, formerly Brennero of the Regia Marina, and later to become USS Carondelet (IX-136); the bulge on her hull shows her experimental Pugliese torpedo defense system for which she served as testbed as built.

Umberto Pugliese was a naval engineer who rose to become Lieutenant General of the Genio Navale (engineering branch corps) of the Regia Marina. Other than contributing to the design of several Italian warships, he is most notable for the unique torpedo defense syste, he designed; about which, a read of this excellent article, courtesy of /u/Phoenix_jz is strongly recommended.

The system was first tested, albeit in a shape somewhat different than that adopted later on for the Littorio-class battleships (lone warships to adopt them as designed), on the tanker Brennero, commissioned by the Regia Marina in 1921. The test undertaken on this vessel proved satisfactory, and validated the theory behind the concept; it should be added that General Pugliese donated his patent to Italy and refused to profit from it, out of a sense of duty.

The Brennero would be surprised, when Italy joined WWII, far from the homeland, and was seized by the United States in 1941; at first she was put under the Panamese flag, as S.S. Gold Heels, then in 1944 she was commissioned in the United States Navy as USS Carondelet (IX-136). She was scrapped in 1954.

 

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Germany:
Luftwaffe airmen crew a heavily armed "Siebel" ferry during a review, Lahdenpohja, Lake Ladoga, 13 August 1942.
These men were part of Einsatzstab Fähre Ost or "Eastern Ferry Operations Staff". They were a German naval detachment that was Luftwaffe operated, and operated on Lake Ladoga along with Finnish and Italian navy elements to disrupt Soviet supply and operations on the lake, as well as Leningrad's only supply line "The Road of Life".

A "Neger" one-man submarine preparing to be launched into the River Seine near the Normandy invasion beaches in France, 24 Jul 1944
The "Neger" could not submerge and was notoriously difficult to navigate due to waved washing over the "bubble" and a complete lack of any navigation aids. The pilot would release the torpedo when in range of the target but the release mechanism was also known to be very temperamental, usually resulting in the "Neger" being drawn along with the torpedo to its target. Over 80% of the crews perished.

 

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USN:
USS Massachusetts (BB-59) coming into Ulithi Anchorage on 24 November 1944, during a break in operations off the Philippines. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz has autographed the original print.

 

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RN:
On This Day 50 years ago in 1970, Black Tot Day marked the final daily rum issue in Royal Navy. At 6 Bells of the Forenoon (11am), Up Spirits was piped for final time

"Up spirits, stand fast the Holy Ghost"

HMS Vanguard, the last battleship of the Royal Navy

 

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Russia:
Project 955A Borei-A class SSBN "Knyaz Vladimir" arriving at its home port of Gadzhiyevo after being put into service on June 12, 2020

Project 22350(I): Admiral Kasatonov: view of Bow installed weapons systems behind the 130mm Gun A192M: from bottom to top: KT-216 countermeasures launchers, 32 VLS for Redut AD System, 16 VLS for Cruise missiles (Anti-Ship/Land Attack).

 

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PLA(N):
Type-055 destroyer DDG-101 Nanchang.

Type 055 destroyer firing her main gun

Type 002 aircraft carrier Shandong at Dalian shipyard

Type 055 DDG and a Type 056 corvette

September 2017, Type 901 fast combat support ship Hulun Lake (965), with Type 640 oiler Nan You 968 alongside

 

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RN:
HMS Defender

HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Queen Elizabeth

Sea Viper missile system being loaded into HMS Dragon's Sylver A50 silo at the UHAF in Portsmouth

HMS Prince of Wales receiving her second Phalanx mount on her Port quarter yesterday

 

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USN:
USS South Dakota in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 21 August 1944

USS Yorktown (CV-10) circa mid-1943 with Hellcat fighters and Helldiver dive bombers on her flight deck

USS Tennessee (BB-43) fires a broadside during the invasion of Okinawa April 1st, 1945

Battleship USS West Virginia, sunk in the Pearl Harbor Attack 7 Dec 1941 and then given temporary repairs at Pearl Harbor, is about to leave Hawaii for further repairs in the United States, 30 Apr 1943.