Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Italy:
Taranto, some years before World War I

 

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USN:
USS Delaware (BB-28) on speed trials after her completion, 1909

 

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USN:
USS Wedderburn (DD-684) Underway in San Francisco Bay, California, during the early 1950s

 

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USN:
USS Oriskany being towed to sea to be sunk and used as an artificial reef, 2006

Museum ship USS North Carolina (BB-55) at her berth at the North Carolina museum in Wilmington

"Approaching the Gate to Destiny" by William S. Phillips ( giclée on canvas )
The mission would not only be a dangerous for the Doolittle Raiders, but it was also a major strategic gamble for the United States Navy. With only four carriers in the Pacific Ocean, 50% of that force were committed to the Tokyo Raid - the USS Hornet, from which the 16 bombers were launched and sailing from Hawaii, the USS Enterprise, as a protective escort.

Little of that was apparent as the Hornet and the other ships of Task Force 18 emerged from the fog and into the sunlight on the morning of April 2, 1942. 5000-miles beyond the Golden Gate lay the hostile shores of Japan. A cover story of the Hornet ferrying bombers to Hawaii had been circulated. Thousands had the opportunity to watch the carrier and the other ships depart with little idea of the Task Force’s true destination.

Doolittle had the Navy load sixteen B-25’s aboard the USS Hornet. His intention was to launch one when they were off the California coast as proof to his men that it could be done. The other fifteen would be used in the attack on Japan. The Navy’s takeoff training supervisor, Lt. Henry Miller, had such unflagging confidence in the ability of the planes to safely leave the deck of the ship that he convinced Doolittle and Captain Mitscher to save the extra plane for the raid itself.

 

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RN:
Personal photos from a steward who served in HMS Victorious in 1941-42

H.M.S Victorious in 1941-1942

H.M.S Victorious

H.M.S Indomitable during a Malta convoy under air attack

H.M.S Indomitable on fire during the Malta convoy

 

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India:
INS Vikramaditya

INS Chennai at Malabar 2020. Taken from a US Navy Sea Hawk

DDG INS Ranjit

 

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Imperial Italy:
Pre-dreadnought, ironclad battleship Andrea Doria (1891)

The fleet gathers in La Spezia in 1910

 

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RN:
On May 29, 1904, the port of Gibraltar had an RN fleet that included 17 battleships, 16 cruisers, plus a number of smaller units.

HMS Collingwood St. Vincent class battleship, between 1908 and 1923.

HMS New Zealand. Despite participating in all the major WW1 North Sea actions she was only struck by enemy fire once, earning her a reputation as a lucky ship. Her crew put this down to her captain wearing Māori warrior dress gifted to the ship, in battle.

 

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France:
Richelieu, aerial port, off New York Harbor, New York, 26 August 1943.

 

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Russia:
Project 941 Akula class, 2008

Ivan Gren class landing ship, Project 11711 Ivan Gren

Cruiser Kerch in Sevastopol Bay, 2009. Now scrapped

 

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RN:
Diagrams of first and third rate warships, England, 1728

 

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USN:
USS Worcester (CL-144) in May 11, 1949. Note the Sikorsky HO3S helicopter aft.

USS Antietam (CVA-36) passes under Brooklyn Bridge, on 3 August 1953. The mast is visible on the flight deck. It had to be removed to be able to pass under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Skate class submarines churn the Pacific: Swordfish (SSN-579), Sargo (SSN-583) & Seadragon (SSN-584) stand out for a family photo op on 3 December 1960. USN photo # NPC 1052413

 

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Sweden:
Museum ship HMS Ystad, 2017.

 

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USN:
USS Tennessee, after the installation of a cage mast and before her renaming as USS Memphis in May 1916

USS New York (BB-34) in Firth of Forth during the Surrender of the Germany Navy, November 1918.

Class leader USS Wickes in the early 1920s

USS S-22 (SS-127) at Portsmouth Navy Yard, 21 November 1929

USS Langley (CV-1) "The covered wagon" under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City (USA), 1934

 

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Greece:
Type 214 submarine Papanikolis (S-120)

 

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Germany:
Torpedo boat “Luchs” underway, 1934

KMS Tirpitz anchored in Kåfjord, Norway, March 1943

 

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RN:
HMS Antelope (F170) burns and sinks after an attack by four Argentine A-4B Skyhawks during the Falklands War. Two bombs penetrated but did not explode. An attempt to defuse one resulted in an explosion and fires that burned through the night and eventually reached her magazines.

 

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USN, India, Japan & Australia:
Exercise Malabar 2020.

INS Vikramaditya with USS Nimitz in the background

 

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USN:
USS Iowa BB-61 off the Norwegian coast during Exercise Northern Wedding '86

USS Iowa off of Rota, Spain just a few months after the No. 2 turret explosion in April 1989. Photo taken from aboard USS Nassau