Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
Battleship USS Idaho in Hvalfjord, Iceland, October 1941

USS San Francisco (CA-38) off Mare Island Navy Yard, 14 Dec 1942, after being damaged in action off Guadalcanal. Circles mark enemy hits.

 

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RN:
HMS Valiant between 1930 and 1937

HMS KING GEORGE V casts a shadow on her own wash as she steams through the Atlantic, March 1941

Battleship HMS KING GEORGE V, October 1941

HMS Victorious at sea for Norwegian operations, October 1941

 

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RN:
Lynx Mk3 and HMS Minerva, 1990's

 

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Imperial Italy:
Cruiser Quarto, part of the 6th Naval Division, during a visit to Varna, Bulgaria on 7 July 1932

 

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Russia:
Guided missile cruiser Moskva, 2015

Project 971 Shchuka-B/Akula class SSN Magadan (K-331)

 

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What a badass picture! Enough firepower to take out a small country.

 

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Turkey:
A-591 Horizon Intelligence Ship (SIGINT & ELINT). TCG Ufuk and LHD/Light Aircraft Carrier TCG Anadolu (under construction)

 

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USN:
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Christmas lights

 

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Japan:
JS Shimokita (LST-4002) with a LCAC passing, Aug, 2018

 

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Spain:
Destructor in 1887, the first ship classified as a destroyer. Destroyers were meant to destroy torpedo boats - the English term “destroyer” is a contraction of “torpedo boat destroyer”

 

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USN:
USS Long Beach (CGN-9) and her SCANFAR (phased-array radar suite consisting of AN/SPS-32 and the AN/SPS-33 search radars). Entering Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne 30th October 1976

Garcia class frigate lead ship USS Garcia (FF-1040) in drydock. Note the massive housing for the AN/SQS-26 AXR low frequency, active/passive sonar. Due to the QE-82 satellite antenna on the bridge, the photo was probably taken in the 1980s.

Missouri Battleship Battle Group during RimPac 88, photo taken from USS Missouri.
Knox class frigate USS Cook (FF-1083), Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate USS McClusky (FFG-41), Spruance class destroyer USS John Young (DD-973) & Long Beach nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9)

 

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France:
Light cruisers Gloire, Montcalm and Émile Bertin in the background, Alger, Fall 1939

Gloire, Georges Leygues and Montcalm were back from their New York World's Fair trip when on september 3rd 1939, the Force de Raid is created to protect convoys on selected areas of the Atlantic. Group L (Dunkerque and the Cruiser Division 4) is tasked to look out for German raiders with the Royal Navy.

Cruiser Gloire being escorted towards Casablanca, September 20th 1940. Phot taken from HMAS Australia.

The cruiser division 4 of the Vichy French departed from Libreville on September 18th to deliver troops to Pointe Noire who sworn allegiance to the Free French. Montcalm and Georges Leygues would return to Dakar after the light cruiser Primauguet and the oil tanker Tarn would be intercepted by British warships. Gloire would be intercepted by HMS Cumberland and HMAS Australia. She had mechanical failures and stopped at Conakry to be repaired, she would be escorted to Casablanca on September 24th and thus would not participate in the naval battle of Dakar.

 

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Imperial Italy:
Armoured cruiser San Giorgio, right, together with a Regina Elena-class pre-dreadnought battleship, left, date and location unknown but probably 1910-1920's

 

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USN:
Dec 1920. USS Texas (BB-35) travelling from Port Angeles, WA to San Franciso CA

 

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Imperial Germany:
A 380 mm turret of the battleship SMS Baden, showing damage inflicted by British shells during post WW1 gunnery trials

 

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RN:
HMS Torbay (S-90) participating in personnel helo transfer, 2006

 

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Imperial Japan:
Battleship Kongo departs for the first time from Vickers'Barrow Shipyard on April 20, 1913

 

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USN:
18th May, 1945. USS Missouri moored in Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands, 18 May 1945. Note hospital ship USS Hope behind Missouri and two Casablanca-class escort carriers at right.

 

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RN:
HMS ANSON arriving at the Fleet anchorage, Scapa Flow

HMS VICTORIOUS on operations with the Home Fleet, October 1941

 

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France:
Commissioning into the navy of the German destroyers Z25, Z31, Z5 and Z6 as reparations, Cherbourg, February 4th 1946

These German destroyers were initially meant as war reparation for the Royal Navy. They were turned over to the Marine Nationale following diplomatic protest from the French government. These destroyers adopted the names that were meant for the Desaix-class (a continuation of the Mogador-class) : Hoche (Z25), Marceau (Z31), Desaix (Z5) and Kléber (Z6). All named after generals of the French Revolution.