Photos Navies Of All Nations

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New Zealand:
Oct 2019. HMNZS Te Kaha, sitting beside HMNZS Te Mana, was the first of the two frigates to start her Frigate System Upgrade in Canada. The new fore & aft masts boast a modern suite of electronic warfare equipment.

 

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Philippines:
22 September 1981: Cayalan Island, Philippines - A view of the capsized frigate BRP Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76) (ex-USS Booth (DE-170)). In the foreground, a crewman from the U.S. Navy ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-29) takes a break from salvage operations. Datu Kalantiaw was lost during Typhoon Clara, 21 September 1981. 79 of 97 crew members died.

 

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France:
Training School Borda made up of:
Bretagne (left), Borda ( ex Valmy) (Centre), and Bougainville (Right) c. 1864

 

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Canada:
HMCS Halifax and MV Asterix sail during Ex Joint Warrior 2020

Sailors from HMCS Halifax examine their electronic Damage Control stateboard

 

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USN & RN:
MEDITERRANEAN SEA - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) joined the British Royal Navy’s Offshore Patrol Vessel HMS Trent (P224) in the Eastern Mediterranean, Sept. 9, 2020.

 

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Italy:
Battleships Giulio Cesare and Conte di Cavour in the Battle of Punta Stilo, July 9, 1940. Known in the Royal navy as The Battle of Calabria

The fleet off Gaeta in 1940,the four units of the Zara class and the third cruiser division (2 x Trento class and Bolzano), the Sirtori class torpedo boat Francesco Stocco can also be seen in the lower right of the image.

 

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Japan:
Soryu class submarine SS-513 about to be launched.

 

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USN:
USS Savannah (CL-42) in 1938

 

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RN:
HMS Phaeton in Halifax, c. 1862

HMS Rover; an 18-gun iron screw corvette, c. 1885

Troopship HMS Orontes in Southampton, possibly 1879. After she brought the body of Prince Napoléon back to Spithead after he was killed in the Zulu War.

HMS Nelson and HMS Tamar in Farm Cove, Sydney, c. 1885

 

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RN:
HMS King George V departs Guam, May 1945

HMS's Formidable and Implacable, 24th August 1945

 

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France:
Battleship 'Richelieu' as she passes Brooklyn Bridge in New York's East River, heading for repairs at a US Navy yard, 1942

The incomplete French battleship Jean Bart, in port at Casablanca, engaged the US battleship USS Massachusetts in November 1942. Even with the support of shore batteries, it was still a very unfair fight. One 16" shell from Massachusetts blew through the deck and exploded in an empty 6" magazine, another knocked Jean Bart's only functional main turret out of its rotating mechanism, and a 1,000-lb. bomb dropped by a plane from USS Ranger literally peeled a length of deck up and over atop what appears to be a 6" mount.

After the battle, three of her guns were removed by the Allies and shipped to the US, where they were used to rearm her sister ship Richelieu. She was mostly patched up and used as a training ship for the rest of the war, and only finished and taken into service 1955. She served only two years before being placed in reserve, used as a barracks ship, laid up in 1961, and sold for scrap in 1970.

Cruiser Duquesne photographed in 1943, probably during her voyage from Alexandria, Egypt, to Dakar, French West Africa, in July and August 1943 (via the Indian Ocean).

 

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USN:
USS Iowa during a review in Belize. On the right is the guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga.

USS Hull (DD-945), named for Commodore Isaac Hull USN (1773 to 1843), was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine. Laid down on 12 September 1956 and launched 10 August 1957.

During her major overhaul in 1974-75, her forward 5 in/54 Mark 42 gun mount was replaced with an 8 in/55 Mark 71 gun mount. This Major Caliber Lightweight Gun ("MCLWG") was the result of a project dating back to the 1960s, when it was realised that heavy gunfire support for amphibious operations would die with the existing force of heavy cruisers unless a big gun could be developed for destroyer-size ships. A prototype gun and mounting had been built and tested ashore during the early 1970s. Hull was its test ship for seagoing trials, after which it was expected that several of these guns would be installed on board destroyers of the new Spruance class.

Hull's eight-inch gun began firing tests in April 1975. These lasted into the following year, and were reportedly successful. The ship carried the Mark 71 mounting during her 1976-77 and 1978 deployments to the Western Pacific, and conducted more firing tests during that time. However, the MCLWG project was cancelled in 1978. The prototype gun was removed from Hull during her 1979-80 overhaul and she spent the rest of her days with the three five-inch gun mounts that were typical of her class.

 

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USN:
View of the carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) at sea, airplanes on her deck. Official Caption: "(Series of 9) Rome, 7/26/45--Oldest U.S. carrier back in action---The U.S. S. Saratoga, famed U.S. aircraft carrier, has returned to combat service after having sustained seven direct hits by Japanese bombs and suicide planes off Iwo Jima. Despite the heavy damage, the 'Sara' as she is affectionately known to her crew, continued under her own power as the crew battled the flames. Her planes landed after several hours and the Saratoga proceeded to the U.S. west coast where she was the most extensively damaged vessel ever to be repaired at the Puget Sound Navy Yard. The 33,000-ton 'Sara', the U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier, was commissioned more than 17 years ago and has been in many famous battles. Twice hit by torpedoes, she was repaired and modernized and took part in task force operations at Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Rabaul, the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, the Netherlands Indies and off the Japanese home islands. The 'Sara' is not only the oldest U.S. carrier, but the toughest.--Navy photos through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7217-1.” Pacific Ocean. 26 July 1945

USS Langley (CVL-27) in heavy seas in the South China Sea in the morning of 13 Jan 1945.

USS Sable (IX-81) underway on Lake Michigan, 1945. Sable and her sister ship Wolverine were side-wheel steamers used to train aviators on carrier take-offs and landings. President G. H. W. Bush was one such aviator who trained on Sable

 

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Imperial Japan:
Sailors in dress uniform with the battleship Yamashiro in the background, 1943

Battle damage to Japanese heavy cruiser Myōkō. The 500-lb bomb from a B-17 pierced the port side of the upper deck abreast 20-cm turret #2, exploding on the middle deck, 4th January 1942

Ryūjō ("Prancing Dragon") was a light aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the early 1930s. Small and lightly built in an attempt to exploit a loophole in the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, she proved to be top-heavy and only marginally stable and was back in the shipyard for modifications to address those issues within a year of completion

Ryujo under construction

Ryujo in 1934

 

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RN:
Modified Town class cruiser HMS Belfast, 3rd September 1939

Japanese harbour pilot being hoisted aboard HMS Duke of York for the journey into Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan.

HMS Swiftsure, late WW2

 

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USN & France:
U.S.S New Jersey (BB-62) at anchor in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Captured on 7th of September, 1943. With the French battleship Richelieu in the background

 

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USN:
USS Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class carrier, sails during the dawn in the Arabian Sea. Westpac 2011-2012 deployment.

USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) and a test version of the Orion capsule during Underway Recovery Test-7 (URT-7) in the Pacific Ocean, Nov. 1, 2018. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy NASA/Released)

 

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Sweden & Finland:
Visby class corvette HSwMS Helsingborg and Meenmaa class minelayer FNS Uusimaa

 

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Russia:
Kirov class cruiser Admiral Nakhimov being moved from the flooding basing in front of Sevmash's submarine slipways to the fitting-out pier, August 2020

VLS section of Admiral Gorshkov, Project 22350 pictured from Kirov Project 1144 Admiral Ushakov which is awaiting scrapping. Severomorsk, Russia

 

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Italy:
Amerigo Vespucci in the tall ship parade of the U.S. Bicentennial, July 1976