Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Imperial Japan:
Akitsushima, a protected cruiser, at Kobe, 1897.

 

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USN:
USS San Jacinto at Norfolk Naval Station on August 9, 2020.

USS Gerald R. Ford replenishes from USNS William McLean in August 2017

 

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ScanEagle is launched from the flight deck of HMAS Newcastle during her Operation Manitou deployment mission to the Middle East.

 

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Portugal:
NRP Corte-Real (F332) in Kattegat, DK. August 2020.

 

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Australia:
Daring class destroyer HMAS Vampire (II) delivering a full 4.5-inch broadside during exercises in the Eastern Australian area, post modernisation.

HMAS Vampire (II) in large swell as she approaches HMAS Melbourne, 1966.

HMAS Vampire (II) pitching heavily during an underway replenishment serial.

 

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USN:
USS Enterprise (CV-6) moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, circa in March 1942. Note the hulks of the destroyers USS Cassin (DD-372) and USS Downes (DD-375) in the left background.

USS Washington (BB-56) at Scapa Flow, as seen from USS Wasp (CV-7), April 4, 1942

USS Texas post-refit

40mm Bofors mounts on turret No. 3 of USS Iowa, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, 9 Jul 1943

 

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USN:
4-carrier Task Force Zulu USS America, Roosevelt, Midway & Ranger, overall, underway in US-led allied gulf war mission in Persian Gulf. (Photo by Gary Rice/US Navy/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

USS Roosevelt and USS America in the Persian Gulf the day of the Desert Storm cease fire Feb. 28, 1991

USS America (CV 66) arrives NYC for Fleet Week June 1991.

USS America, Ex North Star 1991: Above the Arctic Circle in Norway.

USS George Washington in the Persian Gulf, Christmas 1997

 

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USSR:
Project 58 Grozny, NATO: Kynda Class. Varyag had hull number 830 in 1970. In this photo, missile launchers are trained to stbd. Note the aft P35 tubes are open. Varyag was decom'd in April of 1990.

 

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USN:
EAST CHINA SEA (Aug. 10, 2020) Sailors perform maintenance on the ship’s whistle atop the mast of the Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), during a replenishment-at-sea with the dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Allen Shepherd (T-AKE-3).

ARABIAN SEA (Aug. 10, 2020) The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) pulls alongside the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship, the USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE-8) for a replenishment-at-sea. Nimitz, the flagship of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and Pacific Ocean through the western Indian Ocean and three critical chokepoints to the free flow of global commerce.

USS Essex Carries Load Of World War II Warbirds To Hawaii

 

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USN:
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) performs a test of the countermeasure washdown system. Late 2003/early 2004, Atlantic Ocean, soon after commissioning but before transit to the Pacific.

 

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Egypt:
January 2020, amphibious landing exercise in the Mediterranean. Mk3 Ambassador (Ezzat class in Egypt) missile boat crossing the Suez canal

 

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USN:
USS Arikara ATF 98.
Laid down as Fleet Tug (AT-98) at Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Charleston, S.C.

• Launched, 22 June 1943
• Commissioned, USS Arikara (AT-98), 5 January 1944, LT. John Aitken, USN, in command
• Reclassified Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-98), 15 May 1944
• During World War II USS Arikara was first assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theatre and later to the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre

Following World War II USS Arikara was assigned to Occupation and China service in the Far East

Participated in both the Korean and Vietnam wars

Decommissioned, 27 July 1971 and transferred under the Security Assistance Program to Chile, renamed, Sargento Aledea (ATF-63), decommissioned August 14, 1992

 

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Netherlands:
Air defence and command frigate HNLMS Evertsen F805 in Scottish waters during Joint Warriors 2013.

 

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Imperial Austro-Hungary:
Destroyer SMS Scharfschutze of the Huszár-class photographed in decent swells whilst in company with a sister-class destroyer, circa 1910.
Yarrow's destroyer design was a "turtleback" design similar to the Royal Navy's "thirty-knotters", and was based on Yarrow's Ikazuchi-class built for Japan.

 

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RN:
Superstructures and flight deck of HMS QE, November 2019

RFA Fort Victoria training with 3 embarked Merlin Mk4 ahead of the upcoming Joint Warrior exercise and CSG21

 

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France & Greece:
FSTonnerre (L 9014) and FS La Fayette (F 710) exercise with HS Spetsai (F 453) and HS Limnos (F 451) amid tensions with Turkey over violations of Greece’s EEZ – 13 August 2020

 

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RN:
January 1967. Training ship VINDICATRIX under tow from Sharpness to Newport for scrapping

 

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RN:
HMS Revenge with various other Royal Navy ships at the 1937 Spithead Review.

HMS Valiant in 1943

 

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Italy:
Battleship Conte Di Cavour after her reconstruction in the late 1930's.

 

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Germany:
Battlecruiser Deutschland in 1936, with Admiral Scheer visible at the top.

Admiral Graf Spee at the 1937 Spithead Naval Review

KMS Bismarck (upper right) In Grimstadfjord, near Bergen, Norway, on 21 May 1941, just prior to her sortie into the Atlantic. Two merchant-type ships are also present. Photographed from a RAF reconnaissance aircraft.

KMS Tirpitz camouflaged as a group of civil buildings, Norway

"Lonely Queen of the North" KMS Tirpitz at anchor Fættenfjord, Norway 1942