Photos Navies Of All Nations

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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

 

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RN:
HMS Hibernia was a 110-gun first-rate ship of the line

HMS Hibernia in dry dock, Malta likely between 1855-60

 

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RN:
HMS Dragon alongside in Odessa, Oct 7th 2020

 

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USN:
USS Percival (DD-298) underway in harbour, during the middle or later 1920s

 

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France:
Sloop Kersaint during her visit to Akaroa, New Zealand. 1911.

Battleship Bretagne on maneuvers near Brest, 1935

 

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HMAS Canberra in Capt Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island, Sydney

 

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USN:
USS Pittsburgh en route to Guam after losing her bow in a typhoon.

On 4 June, Pittsburgh began to fight a typhoon which by early next day had increased to 70-knot (130 km/h) winds and 100-foot (30 m) waves. Shortly after her starboard scout plane had been lifted off its catapult and dashed onto the deck by the wind, Pittsburgh's second deck buckled, her bow structure thrust upward, and then the front fell off. However, not a man was lost. Still fighting the storm, and manoeuvring to avoid being rammed by the drifting bow-structure, Pittsburgh was held quarter-on to the seas by engine manipulations while the forward bulkhead was shored. After a seven-hour battle, the storm subsided, and Pittsburgh proceeded at 6 knots (11 km/h) to Guam, arriving on 10 June. Her bow, nicknamed "McKeesport" (a suburb of Pittsburgh), was later salvaged by the tugboat Munsee and brought into Guam. The 104-foot section of bow broke off owing to poor plate welds at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, in April 1943.

With a false bow, Pittsburgh left Guam on 24 June bound for Puget Sound Navy Yard, arriving 16 July. Still under repair at war's end, she was placed in commission in reserve on 12 March 1946 and decommissioned on 7 March 1947. The typhoon damage also earned her the nickname "Longest Ship in the World" as thousands of miles separated the bow and stern.

USS Baltimore (CA-68) being launched at the Fore River shipyard, July 28, 1942

USS Massachusetts (BB-59) underway, most probably after her refit at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington (USA), circa in July 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 22.

 

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RN:
Light cruiser HMS Edinburgh

Heavy cruiser HMS York seen sometime before her loss off Crete in March 1941.

Captain-class frigate HMS Braithwaite coming in to Londonderry, Northern Ireland, from a successful hunt during which time the 10th Escort Group accounted for two probable U Boat sinkings and one possible. 20 - 21 February 1945

 

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RN:
August 28th 1982: HMS Illustrious (front) relieves HMS Invincible (back) on station in the Falklands, providing CAP as part of Operation Monkey. This famous photo proves beyond all doubt that Invincible was neither sunk or damaged in the war, as the junta frequently claimed. In fact, there are photos of her throughout the war which prove this conspiracy theory to be false

 

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Germany:
U-196 refueling at sea. WW2

 

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RN:
HMS Boadicea a Bacchante-Class Corvette launched in 1875, unknown date

HMS London 90-guns, possibly during her time on anti-slavery duties around Zanzibar, c. 1876

HMS Partridge at the Columbian Exposition, c. 1893, she was a composite screw gunboat launched at Devonport Dockyard on 10 May 1888 and sold in 1909.

HMS Phoenix, lead ship of her class of Sloops foundered beside a coaling pier in Hong Kong after a typhoon, c. 1906

HMS Victory on a crisp autumn day

 

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RN:
HMS Montagu was a Duncan-class pre-dreadnought battleship. During wireless telegraphy experiments on 30th May 1906, she ran aground off Lundy Island. Repeated attempts to refloat the ship failed, and she proved to be a total loss. She was ultimately broken up in situ.

Sister ship HMS Albermarle

The catwalk allowed salvage crews to board the vessel in all weather conditions.

Montagu aground, c. 1907

 

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Japan:
The lead boat of her class SS-501 Sōryū in 2011

Oyashio class attack sub with Akizuki class destroyer Teruzuki

Soryu class SS-512 Tōryū (とうりゅう) at her launch in November 2019

 

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Russia:
Project 667BDRM Delfin/Delta IV class SSBN Tula (K-114) & Project 955 Borey/Borei I class SSBN Yury Dolgorukiy (K-535), 2019

Bora class hoverborne guided missile corvette Samum

 

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Australia:
HMVS Nelson 42 guns, formerly 126 guns.
Originally cut down to two decks and lengthened along the lines of HMS London with 89 guns, her armament was further reduced when she was sold as a training ship (and coastal defence ship) to Victoria.

Eventually she would be further razed to a single deck, and reduced to a single mast.

She would then be sold to spend her remaining days as a coal hulk.

HMS Nelson in original form

HMVS Nelson between 1870 and 1879

In 1898, as cut down to a single deck

 

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Colombia:
ARC 20 de Julio, a OPV80-class offshore patrol vessel

 

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India:
INS Vikramaditya at the drydock in Sevmash during its refurbishment

It's actually not a proper drydock(you can see the bed is just mud) but a lagoon that was originally created for testing the Typhoon class submarines that Sevmash built.

It was converted into a crude drydock for the Vikramaditya because there were few other facilities in Russia that could dock a ship of this size.

This space is now being used for the refurbishment of the Kirov class cruiser Admiral Nakhimov.

 

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Italy:
Launch of the battleship Giulio Cesare, Ansaldo shipyard, Genoa, 15 October 1911

Navigatori-class destroyer Antonio Da Noli during its major refit, spring of 1939, Arsenale di La Spezia

Battleships Giulio Cesare (foreground) and Conte di Cavour (background) during a visit to Malta, between 21 and 24 June 1938

Battleship 'Roma' showing her main and secondary armament.

 

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Turkey:
Burak ( D’estienne D’Orves ) class corvette TCG Beykoz with new radar and 76mm gun.

 

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USN, USCG:
USS Bear was a dual steam-powered and sailing ship built with six-inch (15.2 cm)-thick sides which had a long life in various cold-water and ice-filled environs. She was a forerunner of modern icebreakers and had a diverse service life. According to the United States Coast Guard official website, Bear is described as "probably the most famous ship in the history of the Coast Guard."

Built in Scotland in 1874 as a steamer for sealing, she was owned and operated out of Newfoundland for ten years. In the mid-1880s, she took part in the search for the Greely Expedition. Captained by Michael Healy of the United States Revenue Cutter Service (later part of the U.S. Coast Guard), she worked the 20,000-mile coastline of Alaska. She later assisted with relief efforts after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Her services also included the second expedition of Admiral Richard E. Byrd to Antarctica, and again to the southernmost continent in 1941 to evacuate Americans at the beginning of World War II. She later served in patrol duty off the coast of Greenland for the United States Navy. Between some of these missions, she was a museum ship in Oakland, California and starred in the 1930 film version of Jack London's The Sea-Wolf.

After World War II, Bear was returned to use again as a sealing vessel. Finally, in 1963, 89 years after she had been built, while being towed to a stationary assignment as a floating restaurant in Philadelphia, Bear foundered and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean about 100 miles (160 km) east of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia.

USRC Bear in 1910

USS Bear (AG-29) pictured in Antarctic waters during operations with the U.S. Antarctic Service. Note the aircraft on the ship. "One of two ships that supported the 1933-1935 Byrd Antarctic Expedition, Bear was built in Scotland in 1874, and purchased by the U.S. Navy ten years later specifically for use in the rescue of members of the Greeley expedition in the Arctic. Along with another ship, Thetis, she rescued six survivors on 23 June 1884. Transferred to the Revenue Cutter Service (later U.S. Coast Guard), she served until 1929, making 34 voyages to Alaskan and Arctic waters. She was sold to the City of Oakland, California, in 1929 for use as a museum. After participating in the Byrd expedition of 1933-1935, during which she was known by the name Bear of Oakland, the ship was repurchased by the Navy in 1939. Commissioned as Bear (AG 29), she made two voyages to the Antarctic as part of the U.S. Antarctic Service and subsequently operated with the Northeast Greenland Patrol until decommisioned in 1944." (NMNA)