Photos Navies Of All Nations

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India:
INS Vikramaditya, November 2013

 

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USN:
USS Concord (CL-10) underway in 1932.

USS Concord (CL-10) was an Omaha-class light cruiser, originally classified as a scout cruiser, of the United States Navy. She was the fourth Navy ship named for the town of Concord, Massachusetts, the site of the first battle of the American Revolution. She spent the first nine years of her career in the Atlantic as part of the Scouting Force. Concord transferred to the Pacific in 1932 and spent the rest of her career, except for the winter of 1938–1939, stationed there. Her home port moved to Pearl Harbor in April 1940, but escaped the attack on Pearl Harbor because she was in San Diego for an overhaul

USS Concord (CL-10) off Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, on 6 January 1943

USS Concord crew member Harold Clifford DeLong and other crew member on USS Concord at sea.

USS Coral Sea (CVB-43) underway on 17 March 1949. Coral Sea, with assigned Carrier Air Group 2 (CVG-2), was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea from 3 May to 26 September 1949.

 

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RN:
HMS REPULSE, painted in a dazzle camouflage scheme, while escorting the last troop convoy to reach Singapore. The ship was sunk a few days later with great loss of life on 10 December 1941 by Japanese torpedoes. The sinking, along with that of HMS PRINCE OF WALES, was an appalling blow to British prestige in the Far East.

 

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France & Belgium:
Frigate Guépratte (F714) is moored alongside the Belgian BNS Louise-Marie (F931)

 

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New Zealand:
HMNZS Royalist in Milford Sound/Piopiotahi, 1950s

 

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Denmark:
June 11, 2003: Sælen S-323 at Manama, Bahrain being loaded on to the German heavy lift ship Grietje for return to her homeport Fredrikshavn, Denmark after a 385 day deployment in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

 

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Germany:
The sinking of battleship Bismarck as seen from HMS Dorsetshire. This picture was taken by Petty Officer L.H. Martin.

KMS Scharnhorst conducts a torpedo firing drill in the Baltic after her refit

Kommandant and Watch Officer confer in a lighter moment on the conning tower of a Type VIIC

U-135 with Captain Praetorius wearing the white cap.

For her last patrol, she left Lorient on 7 June 1943. Northeast of the West Indies, she attacked and damaged Twickenham on the 15th. She then moved to the east Atlantic where she was attacked by the sloop HMS Rochester, the corvettes HMS Migonette and Balsam and a US PBY Catalina flying boat of VP-92. U-135 was sunk east of the Canary Islands on 15 July. Five men died, there were 41 survivors.

 

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RN:
HMS Royal Oak at full speed, showing guns at full elevation, WW1

HMS Queen Mary explodes during the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916

She was hit twice by the German battlecruiser Derfflinger during the early part of the battle and her magazines exploded shortly afterwards, sinking the ship.

One shell hit forward and detonated one or both of the forward magazines, which broke the ship in two near the foremast. Stationed inside 'Q' turret, Midshipman Jocelyn Latham Storey survived and reported that there had been a large explosion forward which rocked the turret, breaking the left gun in half, the gun breech falling into the working chamber and the right gun coming off its trunnions. Cordite in the working chamber caught fire and produced poisonous fumes that asphyxiated some of the turret's crew. It is doubtful that an explosion forward could have done this, so 'Q' turret may have been struck by the second shell. A further explosion, possibly from shells breaking loose, shook the aft end of the ship as it began to roll over and sink. Tiger, the battlecruiser behind her, was showered with debris from the explosion and forced to steer to port to avoid her remains. 1,266 crewmen were lost; eighteen survivors were picked up by the destroyers Laurel, Petard, and Tipperary, and two by the Germans.

Queen Mary, along with the other Jutland wrecks, has been declared a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 to discourage further damage to the resting place of 1,266 officers and men. Surveys of this site conducted by nautical archaeologist Innes McCartney in 2001–03 have shown the wreck is in three sections, with the two forward sections being heavily damaged and in pieces. Her aft end is upside down and relatively complete except for her propellers, which have been salvaged. Examination of the damage to the ship has suggested that the initial explosion was not in the magazine of 'A' or 'B' forward main turrets, but instead in the magazine of the forward 4-inch battery. An explosion of the quantity of cordite in the main magazine would have been sufficient to also ignite 'Q' magazine, destroying much more of the ship. The explosion in the smaller magazine would have been sufficient to break the ship in two, the blast then spreading to the forward magazine and ripping apart the forward section

 

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Greece:
A Greek navy minesweeper and a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship collided Tuesday outside the country’s main port of Piraeus, leaving two navy crew slightly injured and prompting the evacuation of the military vessel.

It was not immediately clear why the minesweeper and the cargo ship, the Maersk Launceston container vessel, collided. The coast guard said all 27 navy crew members were rescued from the minesweeper, which sustained damage.
The two injured crew members were transported to a hospital, while the rest were transferred to another navy vessel, the coast guard said.


Hunt-class Mine Countermeasure Vessel HS Kallisto (ex HMS Berkeley) split in two after collision

 

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Italy:
Recon photo of the harbour of Naples, likely in December 1940; the battleships Vittorio Veneto and Giulio Cesare can be seen moored at the pier

Light cruiser Ottaviano Augusto shortly before her launch, Ancona, 31 May 1942

The Capitani Romani-class "light cruiser" Ottaviano Augusto was built by the Cantieri Navali Riuniti of Ancona; however, by 8 September 1943 the ship was still incomplete, therefore she was captured by German troops and abandoned in port. She would be sunk during an Allied air raid on 1 November 1943, and her wreck would be raised and scrapped after the war.

 

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USN:
USS Shangri-La (CVA-38), foreground, and USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) at Souda Bay, Crete (Greece), on 28 February 1964.
Shangri-La, with assigned Attack Carrier Air Wing 10 (CVW-10), was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea from 1 October 1963 to 23 May 1964.

Enterprise, with assigned CVW-6, was on her world cruise ("Operation Sea Orbit") from 8 February to 3 October 1964.

 

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Japan:
USAF CV-22 landing on the rear deck of JS Kaga (DDH-184)

Ex Keen Sword 21 in the The Philippine Sea, Oct 26, 2020

 

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France:
Ironclad corvette Atalante in the Fitzroy Dock, Sydney Harbour, c. 1873

 

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RN:
HMS Albion, this photo was taken just before exercise Joint Warrior 19, with her well deck flooded about to receive a Landing Craft (Utility), just before coming alongside in Faslane.

HMS Diamond leaving Plymouth to continue with her Operational Sea Training, Oct 26th

HMS Tyne arriving for visit to the Tyne today.

HMS Richmond seen anchored in Tor Bay this afternoon

HMS Kent outbound from Faslane this morning

 

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USN:
January 31, 2003: USS Carl Vinson CVN-70 arriving at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for a port visit. USS Missouri BB-63 and the USS Arizona Memorial are seen in the foreground

F-35 Lightning II Carrier Variant attached to the F-35 Pax River Integrated Test Force assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 completes a flyover of the guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt in the Chesapeake Bay on Oct. 17, 2016.

USNS Medgar Evers inbound to Devonport, UK, today. Oct 26th 2020

 

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Brazil:
Battleship Minas Geraes in the 1940s

 

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USN:
The lead boat of the Balao-class submarines, USS Balao.

USS Ranger replenishes from USS Housatonic, July 17 1942

LSM-156 (Landing Ship Medium) underway near the Port of Charleston, South Carolina, June-August 1944.

USS Topeka (CL-67) at anchor in 1945, showing the classic Cleveland class profile. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 21.

USS Saint Paul (CA-73) underway in Massachusetts Bay, 15 March 1945

 

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USN, Japan & Canada:
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command forces and units from the Japan Self-Defense Force began exercise Keen Sword 21 (KS21), Oct. 26, 2020, on military installations throughout mainland Japan, Okinawa prefecture, and their surrounding territorial waters.

U.S. Navy ships assigned to Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group join ships of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Escort Flotilla 1, Escort Flotilla 4, and the Royal Canadian Navy, in formation during Keen Sword 21. Keen Sword is an example of the strength of U.S.-Japan Alliance, the foundation of peace and security in the Indo-Pacific region for almost 60 years. The relationships built and maintained during these events are critical to our shared capability to respond to contingencies at a moment’s notice. (Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Erica Bechard)

 

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USN:
USS Concord (PG-3) off New York City, c. 1891

 

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RN:
HMS Cattistock arrived in Faslane yesterday

HMS Sutherland arrives the the de-ammunition buoy in the river Tamar this morning.

HMS Severn off Torquay 26th Oct 2020

HMS Enterprise heading out from Portsmouth this grey morning 24th Oct 2020