Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
USS Boxer LHD-4, USS Howard DDG-83, and USNS Concord (T-AFS-5) participating in a VERTREP circa 2007

 

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Egypt:
On September 29, 2020, the fourth 209/1400mod class submarine for the Navy of Arab Republic of Egypt was named and launched at the shipyard of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems in Kiel

 

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Australia:
NUSHIP Sydney sails through Sydney Heads and enters her namesake harbour for the first time on 27 March 2020.

 

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USN:
USS Minneapolis CL/CA-36, circa 1942. Stationed at Pearl Harbour, but was on a training exercise away from base during the the Dec. 7th attack. The ship went on to fight in the battle of midway, Coral sea, Tassafronga, Phillipian sea, Guam, and a dozen more. The ship was awarded 16 battle stars for WWII service

USS Des Moines (CA-134) underway during sea trials prior to her commissioning, in 1948.

 

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Royal Australian Navy Trials Camcopter VTOL UAV aboard Anzac-class Frigate

 

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RN:
Battleship HMS Magnificent seen from her sister ship HMS Majestic in 1897. Two of the nine Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleships of the RN. At the outbreak of WW1 they were obsolete and Magnificent served as troop transport in the Dardanelles. Majestic saw action shelling Turkish forts.

HMS Dreadnought passing by Nelsons flagship HMS Victory in Portsmouth harbour. July 1909

 

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USN:
USS Nimitz (CVN 68) steams out the Strait of Hormuz, date unknown

 

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USN:
USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) during the recovery of the the Sigma 7 capsule of the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission on 3 October 1962

USS Saratoga (CVA-60) off Barcelona Feb 12, 1965

A family takes a picture with two Iowa-class battleships, Philadelphia 1967. Most probably taken from USS Wisconsin (BB-64) with USS New Jersey (BB-62), and USS Iowa (BB-61).

 

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RN:
Battleship HMS Valiant in drydock, Rosyth 1920

HMS Hood meeting with HMS Rodney and HMS Nelson (rear), late 1920s

Pay day on battleship HMS Ramillies, 1936

London sub-class of the County-class heavy cruiser HMS Sussex (96)

 

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USN:
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility successfully undocked Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) on Nov. 5, 2020. Despite the challenges of COVID-19, the shipyard and its partners remain open for business, executing a major milestone ahead of completing the ship’s Dry Docking Selected Restricted Availability. (Photo by Dave Amodo, U.S. Navy)

ARABIAN GULF (Sept. 24, 2020) – Navy coastal patrol ship USS Squall (PC 7), attached to Task Force (TF) 55, sails in the Arabian Gulf during the joint air operations in support of maritime surface warfare (AOMSW) exercise, Sept. 24. Combined integration operations between joint U.S. forces are regularly held to maintain interoperability and the capability to counter threats posed in the maritime domain, ensuring freedom of navigation and free flow of commerce throughout the region's heavily trafficked waterways. (Photo by Spc. William Gore)

ARABIAN GULF (Sept. 23, 2020) – The Coast Guard patrol boat USCGC Wrangell (WPB 1332), front, and the Navy coastal patrol ship USS Monsoon (PC 4), both attached to Task Force (TF) 55, participate in the joint air operations in support of maritime surface warfare (AOMSW) exercise in the Arabian Gulf, Sept. 23. Combined integration operations between joint U.S. forces are regularly held to maintain interoperability and the capability to counter threats posed in the maritime domain, ensuring freedom of navigation and free flow of commerce throughout the region's heavily trafficked waterways. (Photo by U.S. Army photo by Spc. Joshua DuRant)

 

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Italy:
Submarine Atropo in April 1941

The Foca-class (last minelaying boat designed for the RM) submarine Atropo was mainly employed, throughout World War II, as a transport submarine to carry supplies from the homeland to North Africa and the Dodecanese, owing to its relatively large capacity, rather than for minelaying (activity which ceased soon, partly due to the poor performance of the mines used, partly due to their own design flaws).

The deployement of submarines for transport missions was originally because of the underestimation (or even poor planning) of the needs of the Italian forces employed in North Africa (just to speak, pre-war plans postulated to carry a corps of 180'000 men with weapons and supplies during the first month of hostilities!). With the transport scheduled thrown out of the window, the availability of boats meant that from the summer of 1940 some were used to carry urgent supplies.

Between 1940 and the June of 1943 (when the African campaign came to an end), 156 transport missions were executed, carrying a total of 10'782,2 t of supplies of all kinds (an average of 70,9 t per mission). The mediocre size of this effort can be glimpsed by the total, as it is equivalent of the cargo of three or four fully-loaded cargoes, especially if it is considered that these missions exposed the boats and their crews to sensible risks (five submarines were lost in such duties).

 

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Russia:

One of only two Russian Navy Kirov-class battlecruisers still in service, the Admiral Nakhimov, has been relaunched following six years of repair works.

The nuclear-powered ship entered the water at the Sevmash shipbuilding yard in Severodvinsk on August 19, 2020 and is close to completing the overhaul procedure. The shipbuilder said earlier that the Admiral Nakhimov would be ready to start sea trials in 2020.

During the lengthy overhaul undertaking, the battlecruiser received updated propulsion and communication systems, in addition to upgrades to its missile and artillery weapon systems.

Once Nakhimov completes the upgrade procedure, Russia plans to have the only ship in the class currently capable of getting underway for operations, the Pyotr Velikiy, undergo the same upgrade. According to reports, the battlecruiser is to receive the new Oniks, Kalibr cruise and Tsirkon hypersonic missile systems.


Pyotr Velikiy (Peter the Great)

October 2020, Upgraded Udaloy-class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov on the way for sea trials in the Sea of Japan. (Picture source Russian MoD)

 

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Russia:
Late 2016/early 2017, A SU-30SM flies past Admiral Kuznetsov, while Peter the Great looms in the background during Syrian ops

Landing ship Caesar Kunikov in Sevastopol Bay in 2018.

 

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RN:
View from HMS HERMIONE of HMS ARK ROYAL flying off Hawker Hurricane aircraft at sea, shortly before she was torpedoed by the German U Boat U 81. 13th Nov, 1941

HMS Nelson in the Western Mediterranean, April 1943

HMS Nelson and HMS Zephyr in Lisbon, March 1946.

 

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France:
Destroyer Le Fantasque underway during exercises in the Atlantic, June 1939. The battleship Dunkerque is in the background

 

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Australia:
June 1969: HMAS Melbourne in drydock at Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney, Australia following the collision with the USS Frank E. Evans DD-754.

On the night of 2–3 June, Melbourne and her escorts were involved in anti-submarine training exercises. In preparation for launching a Grumman S-2 Tracker aircraft, Captain Stevenson ordered Evans to the plane guard station, reminded the destroyer of Melbourne's course, and instructed the carrier's navigational lights to be brought to full brilliance. This was the fourth time that Evans had been asked to assume this station that night, and the previous three manoeuvres had been without incident. Evans was positioned on Melbourne's port bow, but began the manoeuvre by turning starboard, towards the carrier. A radio message was sent from Melbourne to Evans's bridge and Combat Information Centre, warning the destroyer that she was on a collision course, which Evans acknowledged. Seeing the destroyer take no action and on a course to place herself under Melbourne's bow, Stevenson ordered the carrier hard to port, signalling the turn by both radio and siren blasts. At approximately the same time, Evans turned hard to starboard to avoid the approaching carrier. It is uncertain which ship began to manoeuvre first, but each ship's bridge crew claimed that they were informed of the other ship's turn after they commenced their own. After having narrowly passed in front of Melbourne, the turns quickly placed Evans back in the carrier's path.[ Melbourne hit Evans amidships at 3:15 am, cutting the destroyer in two.

Melbourne stopped immediately after the collision and deployed her boats, liferafts and lifebuoys, before carefully manoeuvring alongside the stern section of Evans. Sailors from both ships used mooring lines to lash the two ships together, allowing Melbourne to evacuate the survivors in that section. The bow section sank quickly; the majority of those killed were believed to have been trapped within. Members of Melbourne's crew dived into the water to rescue overboard survivors close to the carrier, while the carrier's boats and helicopters collected those farther out. Clothing, blankets and beer were provided to survivors from the carrier's stores, some RAN sailors offered their own uniforms, and the ship's band was instructed to set up on the flight deck to entertain and distract the USN personnel. All of the survivors were located within 12 minutes of the collision and rescued before half an hour had passed, although the search continued for 15 more hours.

Seventy-four of the 273 crew on Evans were killed. It was later learned that Evans's commanding officer—Commander Albert S. McLemore—was asleep in his quarters at the time of the incident, and charge of the vessel was held by Lieutenants Ronald Ramsey and James Hopson; the former had failed the qualification exam to stand watch, while the latter was at sea for the first time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne–Evans_collision

 

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USN:
USS Alabama (BB-60) in Casco Bay, Maine, during her shakedown period, December 1942.

USS Alabama (BB-60) anchored in Puget Sound, Washington, March 1945

Juneau-class light cruiser USS Spokane in heavy seas while crossing the Atlantic Ocean, October 1946

 

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South Korea:
ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho (SS-083) next to her newly-launched sister ship ROKS Ahn Moo (SS-085), Nov 2020

 

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Italy:
The bow of torpedo boat Antares, showing damage suffered after ramming and sinking the Greek submarine Proteus, late December 1940

The Spica-class torpedo boat Antares (commanded by Tenente di Vascello Niccolò Nicolini) sailed from Valona (Vlorë) in the morning of 29 December 1940, escorting the three transports Sardegna, Piemonte and Italia that were returning on ballast to Brindisi.

At 1005 h the Sardegna made signals and started maneuvering; a minute later, it was hit by two torpedoes. The Antares spotted, at a range of 1500 m, the bow of the submarine that had made the attack, the Πρωτεύς (Proteus, also given as Protefs), lead ship of her class. The commander of the torpedo boat decided to ram it and ordered to make it straight for it, and go to flank speed; the Greek submarine tried to evade, but the chase ended soon because of the superior speed of the Italian ship. Just before the impact, Nicolini gave word to brace for impact, and to drop four depth charges immediately after.

The Antares struck the boat amidships, right forwards of the conning tower; the four depth charges added to the damage. The Proteus sank immediately, taking all her crew of six officers and forty-two seamen, first Greek submarine to be lost in World War II.

The torpedo boat then returned to the place where the transport sank, and began operations to help the survivors, while at the same time the commander checked the condition of his ship (finding it good, as the bow bulkheads were bent but had held). Two hundred and twenty men were picked up from the water, while twenty-five had died aboard the Sardegna; in the meantime, the other transports had gone on towards Brindisi, which they reached safely.

After completing the rescue, the Antares made for Brindisi at 17 knots, reaching the port at 1510 h. She would be immediately put in a floating drydock to be repaired and be given a moderate refit, and she would return to full operations by April 1941.

 

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Italy:
The crippled light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni, before being finished off by a torpedo, Cape Spada, 19 July 1940

The light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni (belonging to the Alberto di Giussano-class of the Condottieri-series) would demonstrate, in the waters off Cape Spada, all the flaws of its original concept, namely the forsaking of anything resembling armour protection for a theoretically high top speed that turned out to be a chimaera. During the engagement between the two Italian cruisers (the Colleoni and the Giovanni delle Bande Nere) and the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and one destroyer flotilla, the Italians fired five hundred shells and only managed to make a hole in one of the Sydney's funnels; the Australian ship had pumped out no less than thirteen hundred shells, and had managed to hit the Colleoni right in the machinery spaces, crippling and dooming her. After first being struck by a torpedo that made the bow fall off, the crippled Italian ship (deprived of electric energy and thus returning fire only with her 100 mm secondaries) would be subjected by a deluge of fire, before another torpedo sent her to the bottom.