Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Australia:
HMAS Hobart (DDG-39) during RIMPAC2020

HMAS Arunta departs Fleet Base West and sails into Cockburn Sound, Western Australia after a 20 month Anzac Midlife Capability Assurance Program (AMCAP) upgrade which includes a platform systems remediation program to improve platform reliability and maintainability. HMAS Arunta is the first FFH to undergo the program which provides significant improvements to the ship’s key sensor and communications systems.

 

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USN:
USS South Carolina (CGN-37) undergoing trials, Oct 1974.

USS America (CV-66) in drydock, Norfolk 1982

 

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USN:
USS San Diego (CL-53) entering San Diego harbor, Oct 1945

Light cruiser USS Dayton (CL-105) underway at sea, in 1945. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 22.

USS Narwhal (SS-167) shows off her 2 x 6" deck guns.

USS Narwhal completed 15 war patrols.

The V-boats were a group of nine United States Navy submarines built between World War I and World War II from 1921 to 1934. These were not a ship class in the usual sense of a series of nearly identical ships built from the same design, but shared authorization under the "fleet boat" program. The term "V-boats" as used includes five separate classes of submarines. They broke down into three large, fast fleet submarines (V-1 through V-3), three large long-range submarines (V-4 through V-6), and three medium-sized submarines (V-7 through V-9). The successful fleet submarines of World War II (Tambor class through Tench class) were descended from the last three, especially V-7, though somewhat larger with pure diesel-electric propulsion systems.

Originally called USS V-1 through V-9 (SS-163 through SS-171), in 1931 the nine submarines were renamed Barracuda, Bass, Bonita, Argonaut, Narwhal, Nautilus, Dolphin, Cachalot, and Cuttlefish, respectively. All served in World War II, six of them on war patrols in the central Pacific. Argonaut was lost to enemy action.

 

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USN:
Northampton class heavy cruiser USS Louisville arrives in New York for a fleet review. 1934.

 

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USN:
USS Colorado in 1871 during the United States Expedition to Korea.

On 14 Sept 1861, the first naval engagement of the U.S. Civil War took place when the USS Colorado attacks and sinks the Confederate private schooner Judah off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.

 

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Philippines:
In 1889, the steamship Compania de Filipinas was built by Lobnitz in Renfrew, Scotland, and was acquired by the Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas the following year.

In 1898, while serving as an inter-island steamship, the Revolutionary Navy (later the Philippine Navy) acquired her as their flagship. The Revolutionary Navy was initially composed of a small fleet of eight captured Spanish steam launches refitted with Gonzalez Hontoria de 9 cm (mod 1879) guns, and then received a donation of five merchant ships, namely the Taaleño, the Balayan, the Bulusan, the Taal and the Purísima Concepción, prior to having the Filipinas.

The acquisition was made possible by the Filipino crew of the ship, who launched a mutiny under the Cuban Vicente Catalan. Catalan, in turn, proclaimed himself "admiral." When the Filipino flag was hoisted by the ship, the East Asia Squadron contested it and claimed the ship for Germany. Despite an impending naval incident, the ship remained under Filipino control until the Philippine-American War proved the naval superiority of the American Asiatic Squadron and decimated the Revolutionary Navy.

The vessel continued to be in the service of the Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas until 1942, when World War II opened in the Pacific theatre. During the war, Compania de Filipinas was incorporated by the Japanese government to the nation's merchant marine as a cargo ship. She was renamed Hoei Maru. On 3 July 1945, it was sunk by an aerial mine near Jindo Island

 

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RN:
HMS Ark Royal with her Swordfish parked on her flightdeck

Aircraft carrier HMS Victorious, October 1945, showing the many AA guns

HMS Indefatigable, April 1956, laid up and awaiting disposal

 

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RN:
HMS Donegal, Channel Fleet in the Firth of Forth by George W. Wilson

HMS Hero, firing a salute, c. 1860.

HMS Hero was a screw-propelled 91-gun second rate, launched in 1858 and sold 1871. This was the vessel in which the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) sailed on his tour of Canada and the United States in 1860

HMS Hannibal (90 Guns) fitting out for the Black Sea Fleet, 1853

 

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Italy:
Battleship Cavour was sunk in the shallow waters of Taranto in the famous British raid in November 1940. On the 22 December the ship was refloated and moved to Trieste in late 1941 to undergo repairs

The three Littorio class Battleships together at sea. Probably in spring 1943 during their transfer to La Spezia. From the closest: Roma, Littorio and Vittorio Veneto

"Aquila" the Italian Aircraft Carrier that was almost completed

Aquila (Italian for "Eagle") was an Italian aircraft carrier converted from the trans-Atlantic passenger liner SS Roma during World War II. Work on Aquila began in late 1941 at the Ansaldo shipyard in Genoa and continued for the next two years. With the signing of the Italian armistice on 8 September 1943, however, all work was halted and the vessel remained unfinished. Aquila was eventually scrapped in 1952.

Aquila was Italy's first aircraft carrier project; it was not built from the keel up as such, and was never completed.

 

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RN:
The Grand Fleet from the deck of HMS Cordelia, WW1

HMS Cordelia was a C class light cruiser and spent the entire war with the Grand Fleet in the 1st and 4th cruiser squadrons.

 

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Imperial Italy:
Ironclad Roma under construction at the Cantiere della Foce, Genoa, ca. 1865

The Roma (named after the Eternal City, back then not yet part of the newly born Italian state) was a broadside ironclad, with a wooden hull covered by iron plates; armed with seventeen guns of various calibres, her steam engine (capable of propelling her to 13 knots) was supplemented by a barque rig. Designed by the engineer Giuseppe De Luca, it was laid down in February 1863 and launched in December 1865, but it wasn't completed in time to participate in the Third War of Italian Independence, and the Battle of Lissa.

Already obsolescent upon its completion in 1869 (as casemate ships were already appearing), the Roma had an uneventful career, early on hampered by the lack of funding that did not allow the Regia Marina to commission its largest units at times. Given a thorough refit in the 1870s, she soldiered on till 1890, when she was used as a floating battery for the defence of the La Spezia naval base. Decommissioned in 1895 and turned into an ammunition hulk, she caught fire the following year after she was hit by lightning, and had to be sunk to prevent an explosion; her wreck was later recovered and scrapped.

 

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Albania:
Ex Russian Project 613/Whiskey class SSKs rotting away at Pashaliman Naval Base. From left: Tufani (331, ex. S-241), Trufeja (022, ex. S-360), Vetetima (024, ex. S-242) & Stuhia (105, ex. S-358).

 

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RN:
HMS Endurance (A-171) in Portsmouth with HMS Ark Royal (R-07) and HMS Liverpool (D-92), Oct., 2007

HMS Tireless (S-88) at the North Pole during ICEX 07

 

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Canada:
HMCS Ville de Quebe in Halifax.

HMCS Oriole is the sail training vessel of the Royal Canadian Navy based at CFB Halifax in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a sailing ketch, currently the oldest commissioned vessel in the Royal Canadian Navy, and also the longest serving commissioned ship

 

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France:
MineHunter L'Aigle after Exercise OTAN Sandy Coast 20.

 

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USN:
An F/A-18E Super Hornet from VFA 115 approaches USS Ronald Reagan CVN 76 in the PHILIPPINE SEA Sept. 12, 2020. photo by PO2 Jetzer, DVIDS

USS Missouri (BB-63), January 2020

Training Air Wing 2 conduct carrier qualification on USS Ford (CVN-78) 11th September 2020

USS America (LHA 6) replenishment-at-sea in the Philippine Sea

 

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USN:
Class-leader USS Forrestal (CVA-59) fitting out at Newport News, Virginia, circa December 1954

 

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Norway:
NoCGV Svalbard (W303) of the Norwegian Coast Guard.

 

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USN:
Iowa class battleship leads a 3rd Fleet battle group at sea in the 1980s

 

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USN:
USS Missouri (BB-63) during her shakedown cruise, August 1944. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

USS Missouri (BB-63) off Istanbul, Turkey, on 5 April 1946. She had brought home for burial the body of the late Turkish Ambassador to the U.S., Mehmet Munir Ertegun. This visit also was aimed at influencing Russian Middle East policy. USS POWER (DD-839) is at left. At right is the Turkish battle cruiser YAVUZ.

USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) Grumman F9F-2 Panther fighters of Fighter Squadrons 111 and 112 (VF-111 & VF-112) parked on the flight deck, forward, during a snowstorm off the Korean coast, 15 November 1950.