Photos Navies Of All Nations

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India:
Hanger of INS Vikramaditya

 

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RN:
Sept 2013, HMS Dragon's Lynx helicopter fires infra red flares during an exercise over the Type 45 destroyer.
As well as flying her own Lynx helicopter - of 815 Naval Air Squadron based in Yeovilton - Dragon has been flexing muscle as part of joint training with Typhoons from her affiliated 6 Squadron RAF.

Holding various flying exercises with 11 Squadron, based at RAF Conningsby, and Boeing E3-Ds from 8 Squadron based at RAF Waddington, Dragon also exchanged personnel for the RAF to experience life on a ship and vice versa

LPD HMS Bulwark’s stern gate opens during her optimised support period, 15th Dec 2020

 

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RN:
Iron Duke class superdreadnought HMS Emperor of India seen in 1919. Colourised by Irootoko Jr.

 

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Imperial Russia:
Sivuch, or Сивуч "sealion", was a Gilyak-class gunboat of the Imperial Russian Navy. During World War I, she was sunk in the Gulf of Riga during the Battle of the Gulf of Riga on 19 August 1915 by the German battleships Nassau and Posen.

Gunboat Sivuch, Haapasaari island, Finland, 1912

 

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Russia:
Admiral Kuznetsov with his missile hatches open

 

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USN:
The Forrest Sherman class destroyer USS Turner Joy DD-951 is seen with the sun just rising above the harbor at Bremerton, WA where she lies at her preservation moorings. Summer 2018. This photo was taken from a hotel room overlooking the marina where she is moored. Photo by Nikki Burgess.

 

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Japan:
JDS Chokai (DDF 176), steams along side USS Kitty Hawk for a replenishment at sea (RAS). 12/10/2002

 

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USN:
USS Arizona (BB-39) steaming past the 96th Street Pier during the Great Naval Review of 1918.

 

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Imperial Germany:
SMS Von der Tann, battlecruiser in 1911. She sunk the HMS Indefatigable in the opening minutes of the Battle of Jutland. Survived the battle despite taking hits from numerous heavy and medium calibre shells

 

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RN:
Damage done to HMS Exeter at the Battle of the River Plate, December 13, 1939

B turret received a direct hit. The shrapnel damage you see to the bridge position killed everyone except the Captain & two others and cut all the voice pipes.

Exeter lost her X turret for all guns out of action later on and had to withdraw. Ajax and Achillies, the two Leander light cruisers made themselves a bigger threat to draw Graf Spee whilst Exeter escaped.

By the end of Exeter's participation in the fight, her last remaining turret was being directed by the gunnery officer standing on the turret's roof and shouting instructions to the crew inside.

Middle of a gunnery battle, and the gunnery officer is standing on the roof of a twin 8" gun turret. Balls of steel on that one...

 

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RN:
"HMS Resolution in a Gale" by Willem Van de Velde, the Younger. Circa 1678.

 

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USN:
USS Delbert D. Black DDG-119 5" gunfire exercise

 

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A 1924 photo by Allan C. Green of HMS Hood (pennant number 51), the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy.

"HMS Hood (British Battlecruiser, 1920-1941). View looking aft, showing her 15" guns, taken while she was on maneuvers off Portland, England, circa 1926. HMS Repulse is next astern.

Aerial view of the ship's starboard midships area, taken by a plane from Naval Air Station, Pearl Harbor, while Hood was off Honolulu, Hawaii, on 12 June 1924.
Note rangefinders atop the conning tower and foremast top; 15-inch twin gun turrets, with a partially disassembled aircraft platform atop "B" turret; and boats stowed amidships.

HMS Hood in Sydney Harbour shortly after arriving with the other ships of the Royal Navy's Special Services Squadron. 9 April 1924

HMS HOOD going into action against the German battleship BISMARCK and battlecruiser Prinz Eugen, 24 May 1941. This image taken from HMS PRINCE OF WALES was the last photo ever taken of HMS HOOD

Translated from German: Telephoto of the detonation of the world's largest warship, Hood. A Bismarck anti-tank shell had detonated the aft ammunition chamber. The explosion wall was 300 m high, an eerie ash gray that was torn apart by glowing red and sulfur yellow lightning. 1418 men were killed in this inferno

Hood during and after the explosion; sketch prepared by Captain JC Leach (commanding Prince of Wales) for the second board of enquiry in 1941

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The Loss of HMS Hood - But why did it blow up??
Today we look at the destruction of HMS Hood, with a particular focus on how, why and where the ship exploded. With special thanks to Bill Jurens, who was vital in offering comments and corrections on the script!
Sources: Bill Jurens - “The Loss of HMS Hood – A Re-examination”, Warship International, No. 2, 1987

 

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Canada:
HMCS Sackville, the last surviving Flower class corvette, undergoing restoration in Halifax. Dec 2020. Australia built 60 Bathurst class corvettes that were an Australian copy of the Flower class. 2 of the Australian builds are museum ships today, HMAS Castlemaine and HMAS Whyalla

 

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RN:
13th November, 1941. The sinking of HMS Ark Royal after being torpedoed by U-81. Ark Royal sank the following day

View from HMS HERMIONE of HMS ARK ROYAL making smoke in the attempt to raise steam after being hit by a torpedo.

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View from HMS HERMIONE of HMS ARK ROYAL after she had been hit, listing heavily to starboard.

A small party of officers and men remained aboard HMS ARK ROYAL. Second from left is Captain L E H Maund, the Captain of the ship. Photograph taken from HMS HERMIONE.

© IWM A 6337

From on board HMS LEGION, the destroyer that took off the survivors, showing some of the last to leave ARK ROYAL.

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The last scenes from the flight deck before abandon ship.

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USN:
USS Truman (L) and USS Ford (R) transiting the Atlantic Ocean. June 2020

Museum ship USS Wisconsin at Norfolk. December 2020

Sunset over museum battleship USS North Carolina, December 17, 2020

 

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Germany:
The pre-dreadnought battleship "Schleswig-Holstein" bombards Polish positions in Westerplatte, from the harbour of Danzig (now Gdansk), on the early morning of September 1st, 1939. These were the first shots of WW2. Colourised by https://www.reddit.com/user/Thanarcon_Next/

 

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RN:
A Sea Wolf surface to air missile leaves the launcher onboard Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose during an exercise. 13th Aug 2013.

The third Phalanx CIWS has been installed on HMS Queen Elizabeth

HMS Northumberland in a Sea State 7 with 45 knots of wind, Dec. 2020

HMS Northumberland under the Aurora Borealis, December 2020

 

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Italy:
19th dec 1941. Commandos of Decima Flottiglia MAS attack the British Fleet at Alexandria with 'manned torpedoes', crippling the battleships Queen Elizabeth and Valiant

Motor torpedo boat MS 15 moored in the anchorage of Marsah Matruh, August 1942

When the Axis forces advanced into Egyptian territory, at Marsa Matruh a temporary anchorage was organised, both for ships that were sent there (as was the sunken one in the background, the steamer Città di Agrigento, sunk by a RN squadron on 20 July 1942), and as a base for light forces. From there a MTSM boat would attack and cripple the destroyer escort HMS Eridge.

Battleship Roma, August 1943

 

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USN:
Sailors assigned to Surface Warfare Mission Package Detachment 2 prepare to be hoisted out of the water by the littoral combat ship USS Coronado’s (LCS 4) twin-boom-extensible crane following a visit, board, search and seizure training exercise on Aug. 15, 2015. US Navy photo.

USS Nevada (SSBN-733) transits the Washington state Puget Sound on its way to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, 14 January 2015.

USS Independence LCS-2, Sept 2016

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the Pacific Ocean, date unknown