Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
The ultimate, and last, example of a Royal navy pre-dreadnought, HMS Lord Nelson (1908).

HMS Lord Nelson and her sister Agememnon were actually completed well over a year after HMS Dreadnought due to the First Sea Lord, Sir Jacky Fisher, re-allocating their main battery to speed up the construction of Dreadnought. She spent most of her time in the Mediterranean theater, first in the Dardanelles campaign and later watching over the Turkish battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim (formerly the German SMS Goeben). She didn't suffer a single battle casualty during the entire course of the war.

 

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USN:
Coal collier USS Cyclops (AC-4)

USS Cyclops (AC-4) was the second of four Proteus-class colliers built for the United States Navy several years before World War I. Named for the Cyclops, a primordial race of giants from Greek mythology, she was the second U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.

The loss of the ship and 306 crew and passengers without a trace some time after 4 March 1918 remains the single largest loss of life in U.S. Naval history not directly involving combat. As it was wartime, she was thought to have been captured or sunk by a German raider or submarine, because she was carrying 10,800 long tons (11,000 t) of manganese ore used to produce munitions, but German authorities at the time, and subsequently, denied any knowledge of the vessel.

Reports indicate that on 10 March, the day after the ship was rumoured to have been sighted by Amolco, a violent storm swept through the Virginia Capes area. While some suggest that the combination of an overloaded condition, engine trouble, and bad weather may have conspired to sink Cyclops, an extensive naval investigation concluded: "Many theories have been advanced, but none that satisfactorily accounts for her disappearance." This summation was written, however, before two of Cyclops's sister ships, the Proteus and Nereus, vanished at sea during World War II. Both ships were transporting heavy loads of metallic ore similar to that which was loaded on Cyclops during her fatal voyage. In both cases, their loss was theorised to have been the result of catastrophic structural failure

 

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RN & USN:
HMS Ark Royal (R07) docked in Subic Bay alongside USS New Jersey (BB-62) during Ex Outback 88

 

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Imperial Germany:
Armoured cruiser SMS Blucher sinks during the Battle of Dogger Bank, January 24th 1915

 

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Finland:
Coastal battleship Väinämöinen off the coast of Finland, 1938

 

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USN:
USS Alabama, March 1943 in the Atlantic. National Archives photo # N-3257 courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
Photo i.d. courtesy of David C. Nilsen, CTR USA, TRADOC.

Task Group 38.3 enters Ulithi anchorage in column, 12 December 1944, while returning from strikes on targets in the Philippines. Ships are (from front): Langley (CVL-27); Ticonderoga (CV-14); Washington (BB-56); North Carolina (BB-55); South Dakota (BB-57); Santa Fe (CL-60); Biloxi (CL-80); Mobile (CL-63) and Oakland (CL-95). National Archives Catalog 80-G-301351.

Sailors sleep at their quad 40mm gun position on the USS New Jersey (BB-62). Dec 1944

 

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Imperial Italy:
Launch of the battleship Dante Alighieri, first dreadnought built for the Regia Marina, on 20 August 1910; notice the ram bow

Battleship Giulio Cesare, with its crew manning the side

Sailors man the 76.2-millimeter (3 in) guns on the turrets of battleship Giulio Cesare during manoeuvres, 1926.

 

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RN:
HMS Daring (1893)

The Daring-class destroyers were the very first torpedo boat destroyers ("TBDs") to be ordered for the Royal Navy, the order being placed on 27 June 1892. During trials she managed a speed of 28.21 knots over the measured mile, exceeding her design speed and earning her the sobriquet of the 'Fastest Boat Ever'. Although fitted with multiple torpedo tubes, her bow tube proved useless in practice as — while running at high attack speeds — the ship was prone to overtake its own torpedo. The introduction of steam turbines after 1897 quickly made her and her sisters obsolete and she was sold off in 1912.

Battlecruiser HMS Tiger during trials, October 1914. In the distance can be seen the bows of the liner RMS Olympic sister of the ill fated Titanic. Colourised by Alex Wolf.

C-class light cruiser HMS Cairo (D87) next to W-class destroyer HMS Windsor (D42). Post WW1

 

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RN:
HMS Barham sinking after being torpedoed by U-331, just prior to exploding, November 25, 1941

HMS PRINCE OF WALES coming in to moor at Singapore. The ship was sunk by Japanese torpedoes six days later on 10 December 1941 with great loss of life .

Keppel Harbour, Singapore Feb 1942, port bow view of the cruisers HMS Glasgow (left) and HMS Enterprise.

 

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Canada & New Zealand:
HMCS Calgary and HMNZS Te Kaha near Victoria waterfront. Dec 2020

 

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New Zealand:
HMNZS Te Kaha as she sailed out of Esquimalt Harbour.

HMNZS Te Kaha arrives in Devonport NZ, Dec 20, 2020

 

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PLA(N):
The second amphibious assault ship, a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) known as Type 075 has started sea trials. 22nd Dec 2020

 

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USN:
USS Nevada in Port Phillip Bay (near Melbourne), Australia, July 23rd 1925

USS Colorado (BB-45) in Sydney Harbour, July 1925

USS Constitution visiting Santa Cruz, CA, during her 1933 tour of the United States. She was 130 years old at the time

 

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France:
Ffleet manoeuvres seen from the aircraft carrier Béarn, Atlantic, 1938

This comes from German propaganda footage from 1938. All the Bretagne-class battleships can be seen (Bretagne, Lorraine and Provence). The sortie happened between May 10th and July 14th when said fleet went to visit Portugal and Morroco.

Crew picture onboard the unfinished battleship Jean Bart, Casablanca, June 1940

Probably taken on the first day she arrived (June 22nd 1940). The ship's first captain (Pierre Jean Ronarc'h) was the nephew of Pierre Alexis Ronarc'h, an important French admiral of WW1. Althought very incomplete at the time of the German invasion, 3500 shipyard workers did their best to make the ship sea-worthy so she could be evacuated on June 19th. The barrels were either left behind due to a lack of transport, some captured by the Germans or the boat that transported a few of them was sunk by air raids.

Battleship Richelieu sporting her British Admiralty Standard paint, possibly Toulon 1946

 

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USN:
USS Oriskany (CVA-34) underway in 1959, just after her SCB-125A modernisation.

 

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Pakistan:
Type 054A/P frigate fitting out in China

 

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USN & New Zealand:
Anzac-class frigate HMNZS Te Kaha (F77) and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) conducted combined operations in the eastern Pacific, Dec. 8 through Dec. 9.

 

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Japan:
JS Haguro (DDG-180) on sea trial with newly mounted Type 17 anti-ship missile

JS Atago (DDG-177)

 

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USN:
Museum ship USS Alabama, 2019

USS Georgia (SSGN 729) transits the Strait of Hormuz, 21st Dec 2020 with a Dry Deck Shelter (DDS), it's used as an exit /entrance for divers. It's also used to launch a Seal Delivery Vehicle or Combat Rubber Raiding Craft (CRRC).

 

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France:
Frigate Aconit, Operation Chammal, 2018-2019