Photos Navies Of All Nations

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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

 

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USN:
Baltimore-class heavy cruiser USS Los Angeles (CA-135) at Mare Island, July 20, 1954

Iowa, New Jersey and Wisconsin laid up at Philadelphia in 1962

 

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France:
Destroyer Vauban at Villefranche during late 1938 or early 1939. Battleship Courbet appears in the left background after completing her 1937-38 refit. A Duguay-Trouin class cruiser at right.

 

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Brazil:
23 September 2013. São Paulo, former French Clemenceau Class Foch, she served in France from 1963-2000 and in Brazil from 2000-2017

 

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PLA(N):
Type 052D destroyers

 

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Russia:
A Tupolev Tu-142 flies over battlecruiser Pyotr Veliky (Peter The Great)

 

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Japan:
Kongō-class guided missile destroyer JS Myōkō (DDG-175) , JS Atago (DDG-177) lead ship of her class and Akizuki-class destroyer JS Fuyuzuki (DD-118) Ōminato Naval Base, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan 2017

 

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RN:
HMS Edinburgh was an ironclad battleship of the Colossus class which served in the Royal Navy of the Victorian era. She was the sister ship of HMS Colossus, being started before her but being completed after.

 

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Russia:
Pyotr Veliky (Peter The Great)

 

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PLA(N):
Aircraft carrier Liaoning launching a J-15

 

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USN:
Life aboard the USS Brooklyn 1894-1901

Armored Cruiser USS Brooklyn (ACR-3). At the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY, 1898.

Fire Room:

Revolver Drill

Ship's Library

Spar Deck

Engine Room:

 

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USN:
February 19, 1942: Torpedo damage to the USS Nevada BB-36 seen in drydock.

September 17, 1944: USS Nevada BB-36 off the east coast of the USA.

February 19, 1945: USS Nevada BB-36 bombarding Iwo Jima.

 

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USN:
USS Midway (CV-41) steaming off the Firth of Clyde, Scotland (UK), prior to "Operation Mainbrace" exercises, September 1952. Douglas AD-4 Skyraider, Vought F4U-4 Corsair, and Grumman F9F-2 Panther aircraft from Carrier Air Group 6 (CVG-6) are spotted on her flight deck.

USS Forrestal 1955

USS Glacier breaks through ice in McMurdo Sound, 1961

USS Fletcher (DD-445) Underway at sea on 20 October 1966. Photographed by PH2 O'Brien. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Catalog # NH 97881.

 

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Italy:
Battleship Vittorio Veneto at the final stage of her construction anchored in 'San Marco' Trieste, Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico (C.R.D.A.) | Circa 1940, Trieste, Italy

 

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USN:
USS Arizona in New York City, taken from the Manhattan Bridge on December 25th, 1916

USS Hale (DD-133) passing Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay, mid 1930's.

 

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USN:
USS Spruance DD963 in dry dock Jacksonville, FL. July 2000.

DoD photo by Gunnery Sgt. Scott Dunn, U.S. Marine Corps - USS Makin Island (LHD-8) under way off the coast of Southern California with the embarked 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Sept. 5, 2011.

 

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Imperial Germany:
The S138 class was a group of sixty-five torpedo boats built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) and the Ottoman Navy in the early 1900s. Almost all of the boats served with the German fleet, with only four being sold to the Ottoman Empire in 1910.

S149 in Kiel, c. 1908

Battlecruiser SMS HINDENBURG resting on seabottom after the scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow - 21st June 1919

 

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RN:
HMS BELFAST, fully fitted out, in July 1939.

HMS Renown, HMS Ark Royal, and Manchester, in the Mediterranean, Nov., 1940, as seen from HMS Sheffield.

HMS Duke of York running speed trials, November 1941

HMS Queen Elizabeth, post refit, Hampton Roads, 2 June 1943

HMS King George V awaits scrapping in 1958.

 

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USSR:
Crew of Kirov-class cruiser 'Kalinin' enjoying a peaceful violin serenade in 1955. Location unknown.

When the Pepsi-Cola company traded soda to the USSR for warships and vodka and then sold the ships for scrap to a UK ship breaking yard called Hughes Bolckow back in about 1989. Most were NATO code name Whiskey or Project 613 diesel electric submarines plus frigates, corvettes and destroyers.

One of the subs sunk almost immediately and had to be pumped out, several more sunk more slowly, the company who bought them contaminated the river with Diesel, lube oil and PCB,s

 

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RN:
Bellerophon-class dreadnought battleship HMS Superb.

A column of battleships led by HMS Queen Elizabeth, 1935 fleet review

HMS Chester in the Mersey by Arthur James Wetherall Burgess.