Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Russian Navy heavy nuclear missile cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" project 11442M is undergoing repair and modernization. Northern Machine-Building Enterprise ". Severodvinsk, 08/18/2020

 

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RN:
HMS Magnificent, Brest, 1904.

HMS New Zealand on a visit to Vancouver, 1913. A gift from the people of New Zealand to the Imperial Government, HMS New Zealand was on a ten month tour of the Dominions before joining the Grand Fleet.

Launch of HMS Hood

HMS Hood underway in the Mediterranean, 1937

County-class heavy cruiser HMS Berwick in the 1930s

 

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RN:
HMS's Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales, Portsmouth Naval Base

RFA Tiderace replenishing RFA Fort Victoria

The Royal Navy has many traditions, and this is up there as one of the most fun. As HMS Dragon (right) took over duties from HMS Monmouth in the Arabian Gulf she carried out a Sail Past. This involves both ships passing each other at high speed whist trying to drown the other with hoses.

 

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Italy:
Battleship Roma with stern catapult

Battleship Littorio in the Gulf of Genoa, 1939 prior to full completion

Crew and Officers of heavy cruiser Zara

The forward twin mounts of heavy cruiser Zara, each with two Ansaldo M.1927 8-inch 53-calibre naval guns. The year 1930 is engraved on the muzzle and may be the date of manufacture. Note the rifle sleeve on these weapons. Circa 1937

 

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USN:
A boxing match on board the USS Oregon (BB-3) in 1897

USS Connecticut (BB-18) Leading North Atlantic Fleet off the East Coast, 1909.

USS Thatcher (DD-162) Leading other destroyers into a harbour, circa 1919-1921. The next ship astern is USS Crosby

 

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USN:
The USS Missouri is pictured firing her massive 16-inch guns at the South Korean port of Samcheok during the opening stages of the Korean War. The battleship had made an 11,000 mile dash to the battle area from Norfolk, Virginia, and used the bombardment to help divert attention from the troop landings at Incheon

USS Begor (APD-127) off the coast of Hungnam, Korea, during the demolition of UN facilities and the evacuation of UN troops following the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir.

USS Davis (DD-937) underway on 28 February 1957

 

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Imperial Japan:
IJN Mikasa, circa 1900. Flagship of the Imperial Japanese Naval Forces during Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. She lead the 1st Fleet commanded by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō in the Battle of Tsushima Strait

Satsuma-class semi-dreadnought battleship Aki in 1915

 

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RN:
HMS Whaddon (L45) was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by Alexander Stephen & Sons of Linthouse, Govan and launched on 16 July 1940. She was laid down on 27 July 1939 and commissioned 28 February 1941

HMS Whaddon laying smoke, Mediterranean, March 1943

HMS Renown underway as seen from HMS Duke of York

HMS Formidable and HMS Renown, probably off North Africa, circa Nov-Dec 1942

Albacore aircraft of No. 820 Squadron, British Fleet Air Arm taking off from HMS Victorious, which was on distant cover for Arctic convoys, Mar 1942

HMS Duke of York

HMS Duke of York's forward turrets

 

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Russia:
Project 941 Akula class Dmitriy Donskoy

Project 955 Borei Vladimir Monomakh

Project 949A Antey (NATO; Oscar II)

Admiral Gorshkov (454) and Admiral Kasatonov (431) at Northern Fleet HQ, Severomorsk

Pr. 20380 Sovershenny

 

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Australia:
Battlecruiser HMAS AUSTRALIA, 1919. Coaling party

 

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PLA(N):
Type 09IIIA SSN. (NATO: Shang-class), its performance basically reaches the level of the U.S. Navy Los Angeles class SSN.

Type 052D Guided Missile Destroyer Hohhot DDG-161

Sovremenny-class destroyer Hangzhou DDG-136 underway post-refit. Note the YJ-12 anti-ship missiles replacing the old 3M80 Moskits

 

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Spain:
Heavy cruiser Canarias likely in the 1950's. Location unknown.

 

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Argentina:
Battleship Rivadavia, New York, August 6th 1913

 

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Germany:
Scharnhorst in 1939 with her new Atlantic bow.

Admiral Hipper

Admiral Graf Spee's wreck in the River Plate, near Montevideo, Uruguay, 2 Feb 1940

Bismarck with full Atlantic camouflage in Norway, May 21 1941

Bismarck and Prinz Eugen conducting refueling exercises, Apr-May 1941
The photo was taken during Operation Rheinübung in May of 1941. Prinz Eugen had a team of Wehrmacht Propaganda reporters filming the ship during the operation. This photo is a still taken from the footage recorded by the Wehrmacht. Rheinübung was Bismark's final operation as she was sunk on 27 May 1941 with the Prinz Eugen narrowly escaping. The film was never released but Paul Schmalenbach donated the film after the war to an Prinz Eugen veterans group.

U-Boats surrender at Loch Eriboll, Scotland, May 19, 1945

 

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Croatia:
Patrol boat Omiš

 

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New Zealand:
PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 19, 2020) HMNZS Manawanui (A09) during weapons firing practice in the Pacific Ocean during Exercise Rim of the Pacific

 

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USN:
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) shows off her impressive broadside while steaming in Panama Bay, 21 April 1934

USS Potomac (AG-25) off the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and King George VI on board. June 9, 1939

USS California (BB-44) being salvaged after being sunk during the Pearl Harbor Raid. March 30th, 1942

USS Atlanta (CL-51) comes alongside the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38) to refuel, 16 October 1942.

PT-48 "Prep Tom" in dock ca. 1942-44. After an eventful combat career, PT-48 now awaits restoration as the only survivor of its class

 

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Australia:
PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 19, 2020) Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Stuart (FFH 153) conducts a live-firing exercise during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2020.

 

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USCG:
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Mellon (WHEC 717) returned to their homeport July 7 after completing the final patrol for the 52-year-old ship, the Coast Guard Pacific Area said in a July 20 release.

The 150-person crew left Seattle April 17 to conduct missions throughout the Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea.

During the patrol the crew conducted 38 law enforcement boardings, four search and rescue cases, and enforced federal regulations governing Alaska’s $13.9 billion commercial fishing industry.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mellon crew instituted protective measures to ensure crew safety and the safety of the commercial fishing fleet and Alaskan public.

The Mellon is one the last remaining 378-foot high-endurance cutters built for extended offshore patrols. Its capabilities span from helicopter operations to pursuit boat operations and served as a key asset for the Department of Homeland Security and humanitarian missions at sea.

The Mellon was the third of the 378-foot high-endurance class to be completed and the first cutter to be named after Andrew W. Mellon, the 49th secretary of the treasury, who served between 1921 and 1932. The cutter’s keel was laid July 25, 1966, and the ship was launched Feb. 11, 1967. It was commissioned 11 months after its launching on Jan. 9, 1968. The construction cost for the vessel totaled approximately $14.5 million.

USCGC Mellon (WHEC-717) was decommissioned 21 August 2020.

USCGC Tahoma (WMEC 908), Halifax, 4th August 2020

 

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Italy:
LPD San Giusto (L 9894) takes on equipment for the relief mission to Beirut, 19 August 2020

San Giusto is scheduled to arrive off Beirut on 22 August with a joint army-navy relief mission. Embarked on board is a portion of the Esercito Italiano (Italian Army)’s 3rd REPASAN “Milano” (with a field hospital) and a rubble removal unit from the 6th Pioneer Regiment. These forces will be joined on the 27th of August by further army personnel, including elements of the 7th CRBN Defense Regiment “Cremona”, which will arrive both by aircraft and by the AOR Etna (A 5326), which will also support the mission.

The mission is also supported by a navy EH-101 with a biocontainment stretcher, a 60-man ‘force protection’ team from the San Marco Marine Brigade, and a team from GOI (Gruppo Operativo Incursori) of COMSUBIN, who will provide both ordnance disposal, and counter-IED capabilities. The navy will also provide hydrographic support and analysis, and, naturally, transport via San Giusto’s LCMs.