Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Belgium:
Tripartite-class minehunter BNS Crocus (M917) coming into Rostock, Germany - October 2, 2020

 

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USN:
ARABIAN GULF (Sept. 29, 2020) The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) steams in the Arabian Gulf, Sept. 29. Sterett is part of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and Pacific through the Western Indian Ocean and three critical chokepoints to the free flow of global commerce. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Drace Wilson)

 

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RN, USN & Netherlands:
The Carrier Strike Group (CSG) comprises of:

HMS Queen Elizabeth
HMS Diamond
HMS Defender
HMS Northumberland
HMS Kent
USS The Sullivans
HNLMS Evertsen
RFA Tideforce
RFA Fort Victoria
With an RN submarine lurking in the deep

HMS Queen Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group from HMS Kent's flight deck.

HMS Queen Elizabeth, RFA Tideforce, HMS Defender

 

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RN:
Battleships of the RN Grand Fleet in the North Sea as they head out to meet the German High Seas Fleet at Jutland, 31 May 1916

HMS Defence (1907) showing stern 9.2 inch Mk XI guns. HMS Defence was sunk at Jutland

 

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Russia:
Pyotr Veliky carries out CONREP with Alademik Pashin, October 2019

Cruiser Kerch the sole surviving member of the Kara class now being reduced to scrap

 

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Imperial Japan:

Battleship Yamashiro under attack at The Battle of The Surigao Strait 25th of October 1944

 

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Imperial Germany:
Battleship SMS Kaiser. Kaiser fought in the 3rd Battle Squadron at the Battle of Jutland 31st May 1916

Battlecruiser SMS Hindenburg being raised in 1930

 

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RN:
PREPARATIONS FOR NORWEGIAN OPERATIONS. OCTOBER 1941.
HMS Victorious seen from destroyer HMS Bedouin

 

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USN:
On June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War between Israel and her Arab neighbours, the Liberty was attacked by Israeli forces while sailing in international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Israeli government claims to this day that they thought that the ship was an Egyptian vessel.

Israel relentlessly attacked the Liberty with jets, helicopters, and motor torpedo boats. McGonagle was severely wounded during the first air attack and although the bridge had sustained heavy damage he stayed and directed the defence of the ship, refusing to leave his post for medical attention. As the Israeli fighters continued their attack he manoeuvred his ship, directed its defence, supervised the control of flooding and fire, and saw to the care of the casualties. Captain McGonagle remained at his battle station and continued to command his ship for more than 17 hours. It was only after rendezvous with a United States destroyer that he relinquished personal control of the Liberty and permitted himself to be removed from the bridge.

The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members including naval officers, seamen, two Marines, and a civilian, wounded 171, (from a complement of 294) and severely damaged the ship. Although the ship had a 39 ft (12 m) wide by 24 ft (7.3 m) high hole and a twisted keel from a torpedo impact, the crew kept the ship afloat, and were able to leave the area under their own power. When the damage to the ship was assessed 821 rocket, shell, and machine-gun holes were found in the ship's hull.

The Medal of Honor was presented to him, in secret, at the Washington Navy Yard by the Secretary of the Navy, rather than at the White House by the President. This represents the only time a Medal of Honor recipient was awarded in such a manner.

The U.S. Navy electronic reconnaissance gathering ship USS Liberty (AGTR-5) receives assistance from units of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, after she was attacked and seriously damaged by Israeli forces off the Sinai Peninsula on 8 June 1967. A Sikorsky SH-3A Sea King of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 9 (HS-9) Det.66 "Sea Griffins" is near her bow. HS-9 Det.66 was assigned to Attack Carrier Air Wing 6 (CVW-6) aboard the aircraft carrier USS America (CVA-66) for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 10 January to 20 September 1967.

USS Liberty Commander W.L. McGonagle sitting in his damaged cabin, after the Technical Research ship" (electronic spy ship) had been attacked by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War. He remained at the bridge despite his injuries, for which he was secretly issued a Medal of Honor. (June, 1967)

Commander McGonagle points out damage to the USS Liberty.

USS Liberty Arrives at Valletta, Malta, for repair of damages received when she was attacked by Israeli forces off the Sinai Peninsula on 8 June 1967. (U.S. Navy photo)
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Germany:
U-96 departing from St. Nazaire on her 4th war patrol, under the command of LtCdr Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (white cap), 12 April 1941

Heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen during Operation Cerberus/ the Channel Dash.

KMS Scharnhorst in Kiel, 1942

Graf Zeppelin in Stettin, 1941

 

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France:
The first of three La Fayette-class frigates has started midlife refit and upgrade. Will receive different SAM systems and a hull sonar

Gun tampion used on the Marine Nationale's 'Bretagne' frigate (Aquitaine-class) bearing the vessel's motto: Potius Mori Quam Foedari, "I'd rather die than be dishonoured", once used by the Dukes of French Brittany.

 

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RN:
HMS Nelson docked off of Spithead for the 1937 Fleet Review. In the background are two Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships, and two London Class Cruisers

HMS Nelson, Malta, 1943

HMS Howe waiting for the breakers at Inverkeithing (1958)

 

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USN:
USS Enterprise (CVN-65) transiting Strait of Gibraltar 2012. Photo Source: USN MC3 DJ Meshel

SSN in Deigo Garcia, 2017

 

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USN:
USS Wichita (CA-45) underway during a winter storm off Iceland in January 1942

USS Wyoming as AG-17, Gunnery Training Ship

USS Wisconsin (BB-64) refueling from USS Lackawanna (AO-40) as seen from escorting destroyer.

USS Missouri passing through the Panama Canal, October 1945.

 

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Canada:
HMCS Harry DeWolf, Oct 2020

 

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USSR:
Gangut-Class battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna (ex Sevastopol) In the background cruiser Krasny Kavkaz

 

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RN:
HMS Trafalgar (S107) on transit to the fleet review in Portsmouth Dockyard, 27 June 2005

 

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USN:
AQ-135 EA-6B Prowler overflies USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), 1991

 

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Italy:
Scouts Quarto and Nino Bixio moored in the base of Brindisi during World War I

Duilio class battleship Andrea Doria,1922

Minelaying submarine X3

Together with its sister ship X 2, the X 3 was derived from the German minelaying submarine UC 12 of the UC I type, that had, during a mission off Taranto, sunk, possibly because of the detonation of one of her mines, and had been raised, repaired and commissioned in the Regia Marina as X 1.

The design was by Curio Bernardis, one of the future leading submarine designers in Italy during the interwar years, but apart from a few improvements the two boats were largely the same as the former Austro-Hungarian ones; in any case, they did not prove very successful submarines, being slow and rather sluggish, but they enjoyed long careers as training boats, up until the early years of World War II, in which both were finally decommissioned to save resources and manpower.

The conning tower of submarine Benedetto Brin, during major modifications work, Bordeaux, late 1940 - early 1941

Battleships Giulio Cesare (left) and Conte di Cavour (right), between 1937 and 1940

 

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RN & imperial Germany:
The Battle of Coronel was a First World War Imperial German Naval victory over the Royal Navy on 1 November 1914, off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. The East Asia Squadron (Ostasiengeschwader or Kreuzergeschwader) of the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee met and overpowered a British squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock.

The engagement probably took place as a result of misunderstandings. Neither admiral expected to meet the other in full force. Once the two met, Cradock understood his orders were to fight to the end, despite the odds being heavily against him. Although Spee had an easy victory, destroying two enemy armoured cruisers for just three men injured, the engagement also cost him almost half his supply of ammunition, which was irreplaceable. Shock at the British losses led the Admiralty to send more ships, including two modern battlecruisers, which in turn destroyed Spee and the majority of his squadron on 8 December at the Battle of the Falkland Islands.


Flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, the armoured cruiser HMS Good Hope: Battle of Coronel on 1st November 1914

HMS Monmouth

HMS Glasgow in Valparaiso, Chile, about October 1914

HMS Otranto during WWI

SMS Scharnhorst (1906–1914)

Armoured cruiser SMS Gneisenau

Light cruiser SMS Dresden

Light cruiser SMS Leipzig

Light cruiser SMS Nurnberg