Photos Navies Of All Nations

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PLA(N):
Shandong at her commissioning in Dec 2019

 

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Italy:
Battleship Conte di Cavour, during salvage operations after sinking in shallow water during the Taranto raid

Crewmen on a Duca degli Abruzzi-class light cruiser

 

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Germany:
Battleship Tirpitz just before launching in Wilhelmshaven, 1939. (Photo by Hugo Jaeger)

 

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RN:
HMS Vengeance being rolled out in September 1998. She is the fourth and final Vanguard-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Vengeance carries the Trident ballistic missile, the UK's nuclear deterrent

Vengeance was built at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd (now BAE Systems Submarine Solutions), was launched in September 1998, and commissioned in November 1999.

Before she was commissioned, the British Government stated that once the Vanguard submarines became fully operational, they would carry 200 warheads.

Vengeance carries unopened "last instructions" (letters of last resort) of the current British Prime Minister that are to be used in the event of a national catastrophe or a nuclear strike; this letter is identical to the letters carried on board the other three submarines of the Vanguard class.

 

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USN:
USS Detroit LCS 7 during its recent Panama Canal transit 17 Sep 2020.

USMC's V22 landing on USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)

USS America (LHA 6) transits the Philippine Sea

 

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USN:
Training aircraft carrier USS Sable in the icy waters of Lake Erie on the day of her commissioning in Buffalo, New York, United States, 8 May 1943.

11th November 1944, Iowa Class USS Wisconsin vs USS Oklahoma

 

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RN & Australia:
The Invincible-class battlecruiser HMS Indomitable, lead by HMAS Australia and HMS New Zealand.

RN:
HMS Renown in Waitemata harbor, Auckland, during the Prince of Wales' visit to New Zealand in 1920

 

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Italy:
Battleship Dante Alighieri rolling in heavy seas, during a cruise from the Azores to Spain, 1913

 

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Italy:
A British salvo falling near an Italian cruiser, Punta Stilo, 9 July 1940
The Battle of Calabria, known to the Italian Navy as the Battle of Punta Stilo, was a naval battle during the Battle of the Mediterranean in the Second World War. Ships of the Italian Regia Marina were opposed by vessels of the British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy. The battle occurred 30 miles to the east of Punta Stilo, Calabria, on 9 July 1940. It was one of the few pitched battles of the Mediterranean campaign during the Second World War involving large numbers of ships on both sides

Vittorio Veneto and Littorio at gunnery exercises

 

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Yugoslavia/Italy:
Yugoslav destroyer Dubrovnik was captured by the Italians. After a refit, she was commissioned into the Royal Italian Navy as Premuda. Premuda was the most important and effective Italian war prize ship of World War II

 

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RN:
2015, Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender and Type 42 destroyer HMS Edinburgh

HMS Norfolk F230 entering London for the last time before she was decommissioned, and sold to Chile.

 

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Germany:
Bismarck in the baltic sea on her way to Gotenhafen. September 1940

Sailors man the 3.7 cm SK C/30 AA gun on artillery training ship Drache.

 

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Australia:
HMAS Vendetta (D08) making a replenishment approach on the fleet oiler, HMAS Supply, in Indian Ocean swells, 1978. Vendetta's service was recognised with the honours "Malaysia 1964–66" and "Vietnam 1969–70". Vendetta paid off on 9 October 1979.

 

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RN:
HMS Implacable, HMS Indefatigable and HMS Glory at Melbourne, Australia, January 1946

 

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France:
La Fayette Class Frigate Aconit is a second-line multi-mission stealth frigate of the French Navy. Initially to be named Jauréguiberry, she is now the fourth French vessel named after the FNFL corvette Aconit.

 

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USN:
SAN DIEGO (May 22, 2009) The mine countermeasures ship USS Champion (MCM 4) arrives at Naval Base San Diego after participating in search efforts for a downed HH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter that went down May 19 off the coast of Southern California. Champion is assigned to Commander, Mine Countermeasure Squadron and is shifting homeports from Ingleside, Texas to Naval Station San Diego as part of the Defense Base Realignment and Closure. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jennifer S. Kimball/Released)

USS Anzio (CG-68) taken at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Pier 2, 2011.

USS Gettysburg (CG-64) in dry dock at Jacksonville, Florida, 2014

USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19) and Arleigh Burke-class DDG in dry dock, Norfolk, VA, 2017

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) at NS Norfolk, 2018

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) at NS Norfolk, 2018

 

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RN:
HMS Conqueror and HMS Duke of Wellington, Grand Harbour, Valletta, c. 1856

HMS Comus firing her guns, unknown date and location. HMS Comus was a corvette (reclassified in 1888 as a third-class cruiser) of the Royal Navy.
Comus was active for about two decades, but in that time went to the ends of empire, from the British Isles to the Caribbean and Nova Scotia to southwest Africa in the western hemisphere, and in the eastern, from the southern Indian Ocean to the northwest Pacific, and from the China station to the Strait of Magellan.

This image from a glass plate negative produced between 1905 and 1911 shows HMS 'Powerful' and the ferry 'Carabella' in Farm Cove, Sydney.
'Powerful' was the largest and most impressive of the Royal Navy's Australia Station flagships

 

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USCG:
USCGC Northland (WPG-49) on Greenland Patrol during WWII

The Greenland Patrol was a United States Coast Guard operation during World War II. The patrol was formed to support the U.S. Army building aerodrome facilities in Greenland for ferrying aircraft to the British Isles, and to defend Greenland with special attention to preventing German operations in the northeast.[1] Coast Guard cutters were assisted by aircraft and dog sled teams patrolling the Greenland coast for Axis military activities. The patrol escorted Allied shipping to and from Greenland, built navigation and communication facilities, and provided rescue and weather ship services in the area from 1941 through 1945.

USCGC Northland (WPG-49) circa 1929

 

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France:
Brest, c. 1860ish

 

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USN:
An F-35B Lighting II takes off from the USS America (LHA 6) during night operations, 12 Mar 2020. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent E. Zline

USS Chicago (SSN 721), USS Shiloh (CG 67), USS Comstock (LSD 45), and USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10) steam in formation during Valiant Shield 2020. From U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Erica Bechard

A U.S. Navy destroyer viewed through a periscope aboard USS San Juan (SSN 751) in support of Exercise Black Widow, 12 Sep 20. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jimmy Ivy III