Photos Navies Of All Nations

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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.

 

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Imperial Japan:
Battleship Ise off Ondo Seto island, near the Kure Naval Arseanal, Japan, October 1945.

 

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Canada:
HMCS Harry DeWolf (AOPS 430 - Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship)

 

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Russia:
3S14E Vertical Launch System being installed into a Project 11356P/M (Admiral Grigorovich class) frigate; the 8 Kalibr or 91R missile canisters (with integrated concentric flame exhaust) are then loaded through the hatches on top

 

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USN:
USS Portland (LPD-27) returns to San Diego with a nice view of laser turret, Nov 6, 2020

PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 12, 2020) Landing craft, air cushion 65, assigned to Assault Craft Unit 5, departs the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8). The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group and the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit are conducting at-sea training events in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ethan Jaymes Morrow)

 

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France:
Helicopter cruiser Jeanne d'Arc (R97)

CVN 'Charles de Gaulle' and the Patrouille de France, Naval Parade in August 15 2014

9th Nov, 2020. The first of the Barracuda/Suffren-class submarines Suffren was delivered.

 

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PLA(N):
June, 2020. Type 052D Guided Missile Destroyer Hohhot DDG-161

 

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Russia:
Sverdlov-class cruiser Murmansk outside of Sørvær village in Norway.

Murmansk was a Soviet light cruiser project no. 68-bis. It was part of the Soviet (and later, the Russian) Navy’s Northern Fleet.

Construction began in Severodvinsk in 1953, and she was commissioned on September 22, 1955. It joined the 2nd Cruiser Division when it was formed in 1956.

Murmansk was sold to India for scrap in 1994, but she ran aground off the coast of Norway, near Sørvær, after breaking free while being towed on December 24th. The seas in that area are known to be rough with extreme weather conditions.

Originally, the decision was made to allow the winter storms to destroy the parts that are above water.

In 2009, funding was provided to dismantle the ship, since it could no longer be towed due to its deteriorating condition. The largest demolition contractor in Scandinavia, AF Decom, built a breakwater and dry dock around the Murmansk to demolish it on site. In April 2012, the dry dock was sealed.

In mid-May, the dock was almost clear of the water. According to project manager and senior advisor Knut Arnhus of the Norwegian Coastal Administration, the decision was made to not remove all of the water to avoiding causing unnecessary stress on the hull. Construction equipment was brought in and the ship was torn apart piece by piece. The demolition was finished in 2013 with the pieces having been sent to waste and recycling facilities.

 

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RN:
HMS Eagle in the Mediterranean, January 1970

 

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RN:
HMS King George V underway by Paul Wright
https://battleshippaintings.com/

Taranto Harbour, Swordfish from ‘Illustrious’ Cripple the Italian Fleet, 11 November 1940
by Charles David Cobb
https://artuk.org/discover/artists/cobb-charles-david-19212014

 

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Germany:
Admiral Graf Spee in flames after being scuttled in the River Plate Estuary off Montevideo, Uruguay. December 1939

 

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Sweden:
Destroyer HMS Uppland in Stockholm. Behind her a Tre Kronor class light cruiser is anchored, either HMS Tre Kronor or HMS Göta Lejon. Probably late 40'2, early 50's

 

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RN:
HMS Illustrious (87) at sea in the Indian Ocean between 27 March and 18 May 1944, while operating with the U.S. Navy carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3).

 

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USN:
USS Galveston (CLG-3) underway in 1960

USS Oriskany was laid down in 1944 and sunk in 2006 to create an artificial reef.

 

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USN:
USS Missouri (BB-63) anchored in port during her shakedown cruise, circa August 1944. She is wearing camouflage Measure 32 Design 22D. A K-type blimp is overhead.

USS Baltimore (CA-68) the lead ship of her class of heavy cruisers, off Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 18 October 1944

USS Alaska (CB-1) underway on 11 September 1944

USS Baya (SS-318) gets painted with shark "nose art" courtesy of the 102 Naval Construction Battalion. Subic Bay, Philippines 1945.

 

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USN:
U.S.S. Casco, Light-Draft Monitor - James River, VA
The first USS Casco was the first of a class of twenty 1,175-ton light-draft monitors built by Atlantic Works, Boston, Massachusetts for the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

Upon her launching in May 1864, it was found that the design of these ships was seriously flawed. She was pronounced unseaworthy when nearly completed and on 25 June 1864 she was ordered to be converted to a torpedo vessel, without a turret or heavy guns.

Sailors and Marines posing on the ship's after turret, circa 1910-14. Upper guns of this "superposed" turret are 8"/45s. The lower ones are 12"/40s.
Note bugle held by the Marine in the lower centre.

USS Georgia, view looking down from the foremast during coaling, at the Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, circa 1919

"Perched high above the flight deck of the U.S.S. Lexington on the 8-inch guns of the forward turrets, these young women do not appear at all nervous during their visit to the aircraft carrier in December 1929". Photo courtesy of Tacoma Public Library

Early 1943: Removing the mast from USS Oregon at Portland, Oregon. The mast is now located at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon.

 

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USN:
"Tomcat Into the Night" by Morgan Ian Wilbur; 2002
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/art/artists/morgan-ian-wilbur-.html

The guided-missile destroyer Zumwalt (DDG 1000) is floated out of dry dock at the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard, Bath, Maine, Oct. 28, 2013.

Snow falls as USS Norfolk SSN-714 arrives at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine after being decommissioned on 11 December 2014 at Norfolk, Virginia

 

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Italy:
Battleship Regina Elena

Battleship Dante Alighieri sailing at full speed, ca. 1914

Mass aboard the armoured cruiser San Marco, during World War I

 

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Russia:
Tarantul class Naberezhnye Chelny

A band performs on Dmitry Donskoy

 

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Norway & RN:
HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen and HMS Lancaster conduct a sail pass exercise to mark Remembrance Day, 11 November 2020