Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Russia:
2017. Sailors play roller hockey on the deck of Admiral Kuznetsov during his first and so far only combat deployment to Syria, the helicopters on deck are 2 KA-27 and 1 KA-29 assault transport

 

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Canada:
HMCS Winnipeg FFH-338 in Pearl Harbor, December 2020

 

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Australia:
HMAS Australia at her first meeting with HMAS Berrima, Rossel Island, Sept. 1914

HMAS Berrima, Aug 1914

On 17 August, the ship was commissioned as the auxiliary cruiser HMAS Berrima, under the command of Commander John Bryan Stevenson, RAN. Many of Berrima’s civilian crew, both officers and ratings, were temporarily attached to the Royal Australian Navy and several other Royal Navy and RAN personnel also joined the ship as guns crew.

Berrima left Cockatoo Island, Sydney on 19 August 1914 carrying men of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (ANMEF), consisting of 500 RAN Reserve personnel from South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland and a hastily recruited battalion of 1000 infantry from New South Wales. to seize Rabaul.

On 9 September the convoy reached Rossel Island on the eastern tip of New Guinea and rendezvoused with Australia. It was there that Rear Admiral Patey, RN (commanding the Australian squadron) and Colonel Holmes discussed the impending operation for the occupation of Rabaul.

 

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Germany:
U-110 attacked convoy OB-318 on 9th May 1941. She was depth charged by the convoy escort, HMS Aubrietia, and forced to surface, resulting in her capture.

 

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Italy:
Literal end of a battleship; the stern hull section of the battleship Duilio being cut by scrappers, 1961

 

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Australia & USN:
HMAS Canberra (left), USS Chicago (CA-29) (center), and USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) (right) at anchor at Brisbane, Australia. Two Curtiss SOC Seagull float planes fly low past the stern of the right-hand cruiser, May 1942

 

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USN & France:
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) through the periscope of Rubis class SSN Saphir (S-602)

Museum aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, August 2019

 

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Italy:
The never completed aircraft carrier Aquila, seen sometimes after the end of WWII

 

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RN:
HMS Rodney

HMS Victorious and HMS Implacable seen above Avenger and Chance-Vought Corsair aircraft of HMS Formidable as the ships turned into position. At this time the three aircraft carriers were operating off the shore of Japan, July 10, 1945

 

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RN:
HMS Brave at anchor 1990-91

 

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RN:
Aircraft carrier HMS Courageous in floating dry dock during the 30's.

HMS Courageous seen here moored in Alexandria in 1935.

 

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USN:
Sailors bow their heads as they follow the prayers of a chaplain on the deck of a warship somewhere at sea on Christmas, 1943. While his shipmates pray, one man on duty (lower left) keeps his ears alert. Date: December 25th, 1943

Columns of smoke rise from USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) after being hit by two kamikaze planes, as seen from USS Essex (CV-9), 11 May 1945. Destroyer alongside is USS Charles S. Sperry (DD-697).

An LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) dispenses a smoke screen to conceal the USS LST-826 at anchor in the background before landing; Okinawa, 1945

USS Washington running post-overhaul trial Puget Sound, Washington, on 10 September 1945.

 

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Italy:
Destroyer Giuseppe Cesare Abba entering Brindisi harbour, 13 September 1916

In the background can be seen Ruggiero Di Lauria class ironclad Andrea Doria, when Italy entered WW1 she was redeployed as a guard ship in Brindisi (before WW1 she was reclassified as a depot ship).

 

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USN:
USS Howorth (DD-592) being sunk by submarine torpedoes off San Clemente Island, California (USA), on 8 March 1962. The small landing craft astern was designed to move the ship to present the submarine with a moving target. This view shows the first hit taking place, under the No.1 127 mm gun mount. The torpedos were fired by Submarine Flotilla 1 (COMSUBFLOT 1).

USS Orleck (DD 886) fires her 5” guns at a Viet Cong stronghold near Vung Tau. USN photo, 18 April 1966.

 

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PLA(N):
Type 002 Aircraft Carrier Shandong CV-17

 

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RN:
Nov 2020. RFA Argus, pictured off the coast of Honduras recovering a Merlin Helicopter from 845 Naval Air Squadron is providing assistance to the US army who are dropping aid to areas devastated by two recent hurricanes

RFA Argus and HMS Medway off Montserrat, Nov 2020

 

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Imperial Japan:
Battlecruiser Kirishima near Beppu, Kyushu, Japan in mid-October 1932.

"This was Hyuga" (1946) by Standish Backus, Jr.

 

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USN:
Looking aft from the forecastle of battleship Indiana (BB-1), at the #1 Twin 13-Inch Turret. To the right a Secondary Battery, Twin 8-Inch turret. Chicago 1898

 

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USN:
USS Fiske breaking apart and sinking north of The Azores, 2nd August 1944

On 2 August, during a special hunt for submarines known to be transmitting weather information from stations in the central Atlantic, Fiske and USS Douglas L. Howard were detached from the task group to investigate a visual contact both had made. The contact (north of the Azores), surfaced U-804, quickly dived, but the two escorts picked it up on sonar, and began their attack approach. Suddenly, Fiske was torpedoed on her starboard side amidships, and within 10 minutes, she broke in two and had to be abandoned. Thirty-three of her men were killed and 50 badly wounded by the explosion, but all who survived it were rescued by USS Farquhar.

 

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RN:
Trafalgar class SSN HMS Talent (S-92) sneaking upon a Type 23 frigate.