Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
USS Colorado (BB-45) being pushed into the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, May 2, 1927, where she will undergo examination in a dry dock.

 

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Imperial Japan:
Destroyer Namikaze circa 1925

Aircraft carrier Hōshō with her extended and widened flight deck.

Hōshō as completed in December 1922

During World War II, Hōshō participated in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 in a secondary role. After the battle, the carrier resumed her training role in Japanese home waters for the duration of the conflict and survived the war with only minor damage from air attacks. She was used as a repatriation transport after the war, making nine trips to bring some 40,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians to Japan from overseas locations. Hōshō was scrapped in Japan beginning in 1946

 

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Imperial Germany:
SMS Hindenburg at anchor at Scapa Flow 1919

SMS Hindenburg was a battlecruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), the third ship of the Derfflinger class, built to a slightly modified design. She carried the same battery of eight 30.5 cm (12 in) guns, but in improved turrets that allowed them to fire further. The ship was also slightly larger and faster than her two sister ships. She was named in honor of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, the victor of the Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of the Masurian Lakes, as well as Supreme Commander of the German armies from 1916. The ship was the last capital ship of any type built for the German navy during World War I.

Hindenburg was commissioned late in the war and as a result had a brief service career. The ship took part in a handful of short fleet operations as the flagship of I Scouting Group in 1917–18, though saw no major action. The proposed final sortie of the fleet in the last weeks of the war came to nothing when the crews of the capital ships mutinied. Hindenburg was subsequently interned with the rest of the German battlecruisers at Scapa Flow in November 1918. Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the ships be scuttled on 21 June 1919. Hindenburg was the last of the ships to sink. She was raised in 1930 and broken up for scrap over the following two years.

 

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USN:
Aircraft aboard U.S.S. Yorktown with sailors between them performing exercises, 1943

Sailors aboard a light cruiser during the raid against Marcus Island, c. 1943

 

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France:
Tunisian student divers recently found submarine Ariane sunk by a German submarine 105 years ago off Tunisia, killing 21 crew

She was at sea off Cape Bon (Tunisia) on the morning (05.58) of 19 June 1917, to carry out a training exercise, when she was surprised by a German submarine SM UC-22 (a Type UC II minelaying submarine), which hit her with two torpedoes. Ariane sank rapidly, taking 21 or her 29 crew with her. Her eight survivors were rescued by the torpedo boat Bourrasque.

It is interesting to note that she had barely been in service more than a year - she was commissioned on 20 April 1916, and sank thirteen months later. UC-22 had actually been in commission for just under a year (30 June 1916), and ultimately survived the war, surrendering to the French and being scrapped shortly after.

 

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Italy:
Palinuro , three-masted, iron-hulled barquentine, active as navy sail training vessel

 

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Russia:
Cruiser Dmitrii Donskoi at the Columbian Exposition, c. 1893

 

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Iran:
IS Sabalan (foreground) and Alvand in the 1980s (Persian Gulf)

 

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One of the initial contributions by Russia to the International naval fleet sent to Crete in 1897 was the Pre-Dreadnaught battleship ‘Sissoi Veliky’. The ship had been a floating disaster since the very beginning, suffering from numerous design, engineering and construction faults.

Matters came to an unfortunate head on 15th March 1897 when on a routine target practice, the rear turret of the battleship exploded, killing 16 men instantly, another six dying later of their injuries. The reason for the explosion was later put down to the crew disabling a faulty safety mechanism, and the incompetence of the turret commander.

Burial of Russian seamen from Sissoi Veliky. The Graphic 3 April 1897.

Memorial for Russian seamen from Sissoi Veliky

 

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High-speed test run of the American battleship USS Maryland (BB-46) after the completion of repair and modernization at the Puget Sound shipyard (Washington state), spring 1944

 

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USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), Pensacola-class, near the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo , California, USA, 06/21/1944.

 

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Russia:
Project 949A Antey, (Oscar II) class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine, 2018

 

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80-CF-14-2051-14 by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
USS New Mexico (BB 40), New York City, New York, May 31, 1934. (6/30/2015).

80-CF-14-2048-1 by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
USS Arizona (BB 39) ready to test the 14” gun after being modernized. Photographed by U.S. Naval Air Station, Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 10, 1931. (6/30/2015).

LC-USZ62-120854 by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
USS Warrington (DD 383) arriving at New York City, New York, with Queen Mary and King George IV on board, 1939.

80-G-442916 by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
USS Rizzi (DE 537), port view, at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, May 5, 1952.

330-PS-790 (USN 421049) by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
(USN 421049): USS Missouri (BB-63). Fires a salvo of 16-inch shells from turret # 2 while bombarding Chongjin, North Korea, in an effort to cut enemy communications, October 1950. Chongjin is only 39 miles from North Korea's northern border.

80-G-463462 by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
USS Saratoga (CV 3) broadside port view, June 25, 1928.

Lot 10625-6 by Photograph Curator, on Flickr
Navy Day, October 27, 1945. USS Colorado (BB 45), on last lap of journey home. Donated by Mr. Thomas J. Watson from a recording America’s tribute to its victorious fleet in first peacetime Navy Day since the start of World War Two.

 

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Bulgarian Navy servicemen at the ceremony for the retirement of the last operational Bulgarian submarine "Slava" (i.e. "Glory"). Photo by BGNES

 

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Imperial Austro-Hungary:
SMS Kaiser was a 92-gun wooden ship of the line of the Austrian Navy, the last vessel of the type, and the only screw-driven example, to be built by the Austrians. She was built by the naval shipyard in Pola; she was laid down in March 1855, was launched in October 1858, and was completed the following year. The ship took part in the Second Schleswig War of 1864, but saw no action during her deployment to the North Sea. Kaiser did see action during the Seven Weeks' War two years later, during which she took part in the Battle of Lissa as the flagship of Anton von Petz, commander of the Austrian 2nd Division. Kaiser engaged several Italian ironclads simultaneously, rammed one—Re di Portogallo—and damaged another—Affondatore—with gunfire. In doing so, she became the only wooden ship of the line to engage an ironclad warship in battle.

Kaiser surrounded by Italian ironclads at Lissa

Kaiser after the battle, partially dismasted

Kaiser after her reconstruction into a casemate ship

 

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Germany:
Deutschland-class Admiral Graf Spee passes the Levensau High Bridge over the Kiel Canal

 

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RN:
HMS Boxer (F92), expended as a target ship, shows the damage from two Harpoon missile strikes, Aug 2004

 

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USN:
USS Makin Island (LHD 8) operating in the eastern Pacific with F-35B aboard.

Live fire from ships and aircraft participating in RIMPAC 2020 sink the decommissioned amphibious cargo ship ex-USS Durham (LKA 114). Pacific Ocean, Aug. 30, 2020. USN photo.

USS Constitution in Drydock

 

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USN:
After 16 years as a battleship and 3 years as a training ship, the predreadnought USS Kearsarge (BB-5) was rebuilt as a crane ship and spent 35 years building and repairing other ships, including USS Indiana, USS Alabama, USS Savannah, USS Pennsylvania, USS Hornet, USS Boxer, and USS Chicago.

She gave up her name for the aircraft carrier Kearsarge (CV-33), becoming the humble USS Crane Ship No. 1. She was finally retired and sold for scrap in Boston in 1955.

The photos show just how much her hull was widened in the conversion to give her more stability, as her crane could lift up to 250 tons.

And she holds the distinction of being the only US battleship NOT named for a state, but for an earlier warship -- which itself was named after a mountain in New Hampshire.

USS Crane Ship #1, IX-16/AB-1, formerly USS Kearsarge, BB-5

 

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RN:
HMS Victorious (Illustrious Class post refit) leaving Portsmouth 1966

HMS Reclaim a deep diving and submarine rescue vessel was the last British warship to have sails. Although rarely used, they could add half a knot to her speed. HMS Reclaim also served as a filming location for the Doctor Who serial "The Sea Devils" in 1971

The sails allowed the ship to maintain positive steering control and counter tide placement while the engines were off. This being especially relevant as the ship would be required to maintain position and yaw while using acoustic equipment that required no active propulsion.