Photos Navies Of All Nations

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France:
Battleship Bretagne, on fire and visibly low by the stern, at Mers-el-Kébir, 3 July 1940

This picture was taken after she had been struck by British shells near Turret no. 4 and in the central engine room, but before she would be hit by a shell that, striking near Turret no. 3, would ignite some ready-use ammunition and would likely cause the explosion that spelt the doom of the battleship, and made her capsize and sink, with the loss of thirty-six officers, 151 warrant officers and 825 seamen (out of a crew of roughly 1200 souls overall).

Destroyer Lansequenet sunk at the Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée shipyard at La Seyne (adjacent to Toulon) in December 1942, shortly after she was scuttled.

 

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Japan:
Helicopter destroyer JS Hyūga (DDH 181) sails in the Philippine Sea (Dec. 17, 2020. Photo by: Petty Officer 2nd Class Markus Castaneda

 

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RN:
Aircraft carrier HMS THESEUS off the Korean coast, 8th December 1950

 

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Russia:
Project 949A Antey, (NATO Oscar II) class submarine, Sept 2020

Project 949A Antey/Oscar II class SSGN Tver (K-456) loading P-700 Granit/SS-N-19 Shipwreck AShM. Photo by P. Rybachy.

Project 705 Lira/Alfa class fast SSN K-373.

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

Small submarine chaser Kabardino-Balkaria (formerly MPK-227) launching 533mm torpedo

 

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Portugal:
João Coutinho class corvette NRP António Enes F471

 

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Imperial Russia:
Pre-dreadnought Tri Sviatitelia. Entered service in 1896 and saw (indecisive) action against the Turkish/German battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim in a pair of engagements in the Black Sea during WW1

 

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RN:
HMS Norfolk, a County class cruiser.

HMS Belfast, 1944 © IWM (A 25664)

 

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USSR:
Moskva class guided missile aviation cruiser Leningrad. 1st Oct 1985

 

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Netherlands:
Men of the submarine Hr.Ms. K-XV test fire their 40 mm Vickers-Armstrong 'Pom Pom' machine gun. c. 1941, Netherlands East Indies. The machine gun could be retracted into a closed compartment while the boat was submerged.

 

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PLA(N):
CV-17 Shandong and an unnamed Type 075 spotted at Sanya naval base

Type 055 in Sanya

Aircraft carrier Liaoning sailing through the Bashi Channel south of Taiwan, 22nd April 2020

Type-075-3 LHD under construction in Shanghai HD-ZH shipyard.

 

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USN:
Workers prepare to attach the bow to an Independence-class littoral combat ship during construction. (USS Coronado)
Mobile, Alabama. May 27, 2011

 

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France:
Battleship Dunkerque just after being launched, 2 October 1935, Brest

Despite being built in the dock no. 4 of La Salou, in the Arsenal de Brest, the only place large enough for such a large construction, the Dunkerque was launched without seventeen metres of her bow; those would be fitted afterwards, when the ship was placed in one of the 250 m Laninon graving docks. Her half-sister Strasbourg instead, built on the same slip of the St. Nazaire yard that had previously built the liner Normandie, would be launched all in one piece.

A similar situation would happen for the Richelieu, built on the same slip, and that had to be divided in three sections, with a bow and stern section fitted separately after the launch.

 

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RN:
Aerial view showing ships of the Task Force in line ahead shortly after the Argentine surrender. HMS ANDROMEDA leads HMS BRISTOL and HMS INVINCIBLE. 1982

 

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Russia:
Project 11540-class frigate "Neustrashimy" and Project 11551-class large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Chabanenko" doing Anti-Piracy missions , circa 2008.

 

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RN:
Aircraft Carrier HMS Argus in 1918. HMS Furious can be seen just beyond with both being painted in dazzle camouflage. Colourised by Irootoko Jr.

 

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Italy:
The forward 76mm/62 ‘Sovrapposto’ (Superimposed) of a Centauro-class frigate, 1957

 

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France:
Secondary armament of the pre-dreadnought battleship Henri IV, Dardanelles, 1915

Battleship Charlemagne in Mudros Bay, 1915

 

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Imperial Japan:
Commemorative photo of the crew of submarine I-58, which was the sub that sank the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis in July of 1945

 

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RN:
HMS Belfast and HMY Britannia seen during the 100th anniversary of the tower bridge in 1994

 

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RN:
HMS Ark Royal escorting a Malta bound convoy, Sept 1941.