Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
HMS Hood entering Valetta harbour, Malta 1930's during the Spanish Civil War. The red, white and blue neutrality markings can be seen on B turret.

Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, the "Grand Old Lady" HMS Warspite in 1933

Inside a 5.25" turret on board HMS KGV in 1943

HMS Howe on a visit to Auckland, New Zealand, in Feb., 1945

 

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USN:
USS Mississippi (EAG-128) fires a Terrier surface-to-air missile during at-sea tests, circa 1953-55. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

 

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USN:
BREMERTON, Wash. (Aug. 23, 2020) The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) transits past Waterman Point on her way out to sea.

 

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Imperial Japan:
Sailors row across Wellington Harbour to their ship, the cruiser Ibuki, seen to the left of HMS Minotaur. 1914.
In 1914 Ibuki and HMS Minotaur were tasked with escorting the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps to Egypt. With HMS Philomel, they escorted the New Zealand contingent to Western Australia. The cruisers then sailed west with HMAS Sydney, HMAS Melbourne, and a convoy of thirty-six other ships. Minotaur was diverted to South Africa after the Battle of Coronel. Ibuki continued the journey and guarded the convoy while Sydney engaged SMS Emden during the Battle of Cocos.

 

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France:
FS Tonnerre manoeuvring in Beirut's harbour, August 2020

 

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Australia:
HMAS Parramatta FFH-154, HMAS Stuart FFH-153, HMAS Brisbane DDG-41, HMAS Hobart DDG-39 and HMAS Canberra L-02 in Port in Sydney 10-Jan-2020

HMAS Anzac D59, painted 1996 by "Cameron" (unknown)

 

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France:
Ironclad Neptune (Marceau Class), 1880-1908.

 

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USN:
View of Pearl Harbor Navy Yard from the submarine base, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941, USS Narwhal (SS-167) at left and various ships in background

 

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USN:
USS Florida (BB-30) firing a broadside circa 1916

Battleships of the U.S. Fleet firing during an exercise, 1927-28.

 

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Canada:
HMCS Halifax

 

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NIgeria:
NNS Ambe Type 502 class LST
The Type 502 class LSTs Ambe and Ofion were designed by HDW as a private-venture for sale to the West German navy, which was not interested.

Both ships suffered minor fires during the 1980s which were repaired, but maintenance on the bow ramp machinery was poor and by 1992 both vessels had non-operational ramps. Several sources state that both ships had ramps welded shut, rendering them transports instead of LSTs.

NNS Ambe, one of the two amphibious vessels acquired by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 1978 was said to have been the country's only operational Amphibious war ship used for lifting a battalion and their equipment as the second, NNS Ofion, was almost a carcass as major parts have been used to keep the burnt Ambe in shape. The ship had a capacity of lifting a battalion of 600 soldiers and their equipment at once. NNS Ambe, which became fully operational in the 1980s, played a significant roles during the ECOMOG operations in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

In 2010, troop carrier landing craft NNS AMBE of the Nigerian Navy under repair at Navy dock yard, Wilmot Point, Lagos had caught fire under her starboard bridge deck. Ambe suffered a severe fire which started in her cargo deck and spread upwards under the starboard side of the bridge. The bridge and radio room were destroyed, and the crew berthing spaces severely damaged. The fire burnt out the entire bridge and part of the accommodation, leaving the main mast tilted to starboard on top of the compass deck which had also been seriously damaged.

In August 2010 a civilian company, Atlantic Marine Services, was contracted to remove the mast. AMS was called in to remove the mast as it was threatening to collapse. With the help of their tug EXPLORER they mobilized their 1000dwt barge H457 and their Leibherr HS871 crane alongside the NNS AMBE. The mast was secured, cut and lifted off on 13 August 2010 and delivered to NNS Olokun maintenance yard for further dismantling and repair. Since them Ambe was moored at the Wilmot Point naval dockyard in Lagos awaiting repairs.

 

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Type 075 returns home to the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard after its first sea trail, which started on 5. August 2020.

 

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USN:

American Enterprise aircraft carrier (USS Enterprise) near Naval Air Station Ford Island in Pearl Harbor on the eve of the Battle of Midway.
In the background to the left are the destroyers Cassin (USS Cassin, DD-372) and Downs (USS Downes, DD-375).

USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) on her shakedown cruise, circa March, 1944

 

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Russia:
Salvage ship Kommuna of the Black Sea fleet, 106 years old and still serving the motherland

 

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Germany:
Heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper off the Norwegian coast, June 1942.

 

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RN:
After the raid on Colombo by the Japanese aircraft carriers on 5 April, HMS Hermes and HMAS Vampire were sent to Trincomalee to prepare for Operation Ironclad, the British invasion of Madagascar, and 814 Squadron was sent ashore.

After advance warning of a Japanese air raid on 9 April 1942, they left Trincomalee and sailed south down the Ceylon coast before it arrived. They were spotted off Batticaloa, however, by a Japanese reconnaissance plane from the battleship Haruna. The British intercepted the spot report and ordered the ships to return to Trincomalee with the utmost dispatch and attempted to provide fighter cover for them.

The Japanese launched 85 Aichi D3A dive bombers, escorted by nine Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters, at the two ships. At least 32 attacked them and sank them in quick order despite the arrival of six Fairey Fulmar II fighters of No. 273 Squadron RAF. Another six Fulmars from 803 and 806 Squadrons arrived after Hermes had already sunk. The rest of the Japanese aircraft attacked other ships further north, sinking the RFA Athelstone of 5,571 gross register tonnage (GRT), her escort, the corvette Hollyhock, the oil tanker SS British Sergeant and the Norwegian ship SS Norviken of 2,924 GRT

 

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USCG:
Buoy tender USCGC Juniper

 

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Italy:
Battleship Dante Alighieri firing its guns during an exercise in WWI

The aft 305 mm turrets of an Italian Conte di Cavour-class battleship

 

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RN:
HMHS Salta (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) was a steam ship originally built for Société Générale de Transport Maritime Steam, but requisitioned for use as a British hospital ship during the First World War. On 10 April 1917 she hit a mine laid by the German U-boat UC-26.

While returning to pick up wounded at the port of Le Havre, France, Salta struck a mine at 11:43, one mile (1.6 km) north of the entrance to the dam. A huge explosion smashed the hull near the stern in the engine room and hold number three. Water rushed into the disabled ship which listed to starboard and sank in less than 10 minutes. Of the 205 passengers and crew members, nine nurses, 42 member of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) and 79 crew drowned.

The British patrol boat HMS P-26 attempted to come alongside to assist, but also struck a mine and sank.

 

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Pakistan:
The first of four Type 054AP frigates built by HDZH for Pakistan was launched today. 054AP is expected to feature improved sensors and equipment over PLA(N) 054As and may form the basis for a rumoured production restart of the type for PLA(N)