Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Bangladesh:
Type 053H1 frigate BNS Osman. Built in China and commissioned as PLAN frigate 556 Xiangtan, she engaged Vietnamese forces at Johnson South Reef in March 1988, sinking gunboat HQ-605 Kim Quy. She was subsequently transferred to Bangladesh and served until her retirement in 2020.

 

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Russia:
Tarantul class missile corvette Naberezhnye Chelny

 

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USN:
USS Mervine (DD-322) underway in the late 1920's. USS Mervine (DD-322) was a Clemson-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy from 1921 to 1930. She was scrapped in 1931.

 

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USN:
"Kamikaze," watercolor by combat artist Dwight Shepler, depicts an unsuccessful suicide attack by a Japanese "Zero" fighter on the aircraft carrier Hornet (CV 12) on 18 March 1945. Hornet was operating at the time as part of Task Force 58, launching strikes against the Japanese Home Island of Kyushu. These attacks were designed to reduce the number of Japanese aircraft that would be available for kamikaze operations against the US fleet during the invasion of Okinawa

 

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RN:
HMS Spey heading out for sea trials 17th Sept 2020

 

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Germany:
SMS Zähringen, a Wittelsbach-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial German Navy, portrayed in a lithograph by Hugo Graff in the book "Deutschland zur See"

 

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France:
Intrépide as TS Borda, 1911

 

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USN:
Yorktown class USS Enterprise (CV-6)

 

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Germany:
Europa is a steel-hulled barque registered in the Netherlands. Originally she was a German lightship, named Senator Brockes and built in 1911 at the H.C. Stülcken & Sohn shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. Until 1977, she was in use by the German Federal Coast Guard as a lightship on the river Elbe. A Dutchman bought the vessel (or what was left of her) in 1985 and in 1994 she was fully restored as a barque, a three-mast rigged vessel, and retrofitted for special-purpose sail-training.

Europa with studding sails (stud'sl's) set

 

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RN:
HMS Tiger was a torpedo boat destroyer of the Royal Navy. Built by John Brown on Clydebank as a three funnel 30-knot destroyer on speculation She was purchased by the Royal Navy under the 1899 – 1900 Naval Estimates.

She was the tenth ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1542 for a 22-gun galleasse. In 1908, she collided with the armoured cruiser HMS Berwick during a night exercise and sank.

On 2 April 1908 Tiger took part in a Home Fleet exercise in the English Channel 18 miles south of the Isle of Wight. Part of the exercise was to test fleet defence against a torpedo boat night attack, with all ships running without lights. Tiger and Recruit were carrying out a mock torpedo attack when Tiger crossed the bow of Berwick, an armoured cruiser. Tiger was cut in two with the forward section sinking almost immediately. The stern remained afloat long enough for 22 members of her crew to be rescued, but 36 men, including Tiger's captain, Lieutenant W.E. Middleton were lost.

The stern of battlecruiser HMS Tiger, 13 December 1913, 2 days prior to her launch. The recessed area lined with timber is where armour will be fitted.

HMS Tiger

 

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USN:
USS Jimmy Carter undergoes de-perming in the Magnetic Silencing Facility at Naval Base Kitsap. The process will reduce the ship's electromagnetic signature, better protecting it from enemy detection and mines.

USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) conducts a training exercise with the Royal Moroccan Navy’s Floreal-class frigate Mohammed V, in the Atlantic Ocean, Sept. 15, 2020. Hershel “Woody” Williams is on its inaugural deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa area of responsibility in support of maritime missions and special operations.

USS Seawolf (SSN-21) arriving in Scotland 21st Sept 2020

USS Paul Ignatius (DDG-117) sails past USS Ford (CVN-78) at speed

 

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Russia:
Admiral Kuznetsov at the PD-50 floating dry dock of Shipyard 82. 2010

 

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Imperial Japan:
Aircraft carrier Zuikaku conducts air operations in the Indian Ocean in April 1942

Heavy cruiser Takao.

 

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Canada:
Museum ship HMCS Haida

 

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Australia:
HMCS Victoria, c. 1865, Melbourne, Australia. HMCS Victoria was a steam sloop operated by the Victorian Government from 1856 - 1878

 

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USA:
The schooner yacht America- racing yacht, Confederate blockade runner, and Union warship.

America gained her fame in 1851, joining the Royal Yacht Squadron in a race against 14 British ships in a 53-mile race around the Isle of Wight. She beat her closest competition by 22 minutes, and the third by an hour. Watching from her royal yacht, Queen Victoria supposedly asked which ship was second, and received the famous reply- "Your majesty, there is no second."

America was handed down through a number of owners, and ended up renamed as the Memphis serving as a blockade runner for the Confederacy. After the fall of Jacksonville, however, she was scuttled by retreating Confederate forces. Despite this, she was refloated by the Union, refitted with bronze cannons (1 12-pounder in the bow, 2 24-pounders amidships) and sent to join the blockade of Charleston.

She served as a training ship with the Naval Academy until 1873 until she was sold out of service in 1873, went through several more owners, and was eventually donated back to the Naval Academy in 1921 where she received the hull number IX-41.

Despite the best efforts of the likes of President Roosevelt and Admiral Halsey to restore her, America rotted for years, and was eventually moved to a shed for preliminary repairs, though no full refit was ever authorised and was believed to be too costly. The shed collapsed in 1942, and the shed and the ship were scrapped and burned in 1945.

 

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RN:
British troopships arriving in Port Said, showing ships in the Suez Canal to the left and buildings on shore to the right. The image depicts the invasion of Egypt by British military forces in 1882, following a coup against the ruling Ottoman Khedive of Egypt.

Euphrates-Class troopship HMS Crocodile passing through the Suez Canal, c. 1886

 

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USN:
USS Delaware (BB-28) in Dry Dock # 4 Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1910.
The Mast Funnel arrangement (mast, funnel, mast, funnel) is unique to the Delaware class and the three stripes on the aft funnel marks her as BB-28 prior to WWI.

 

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Germany:
Changing the diesel engine of German U Boat U-593. U-593 was sunk on 13 December 1943 by USS Wainwright & HMS Calpe via depth charges in the Mediterranean Sea

 

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RN:
HMS Duke of York in 1947