Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Imperial Germany:
The sinking of the battleship SMS Pommern during the Battle of Jutland, by Paul Wright

"[The] flotilla succeeded in discharging 17 torpedoes in all, and were rewarded by the sound of a rending explosion and the sight of a yellow flash that lit the sea and sky. Recovered from the temporary blinding, [Flotilla Commander Capt. Aselan] Stirling could see that the symmetry of the line had been broken by a gap. A single torpedo had struck the pre-dreadnought battleship Pommern in a vital and vulnerable part, and the ship had instantly disintegrated without trace. No sinking could be more decisive,or horrifying." There were no survivors from over 800 crew members.

 

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Italy:
Raising the flag ceremony aboard the Italian battleship Roma, probably during her commissioning.

2 twin 37mm /54 model 38 AA guns on top of main battery turret number 2 of battleship Littorio.

 

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RN:
Battlecruiser HMS HOOD running trials off Arran, March 1920. This photo was probably taken during full power trials

 

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USSR:
Sverdlov class cruiser "Mikhail Kutuzov", series 68-bis, modification 68-A

 

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USN, RN & Norway:
Aircraft carriers USS GEORGE HW BUSH and HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, accompanied by the escorts USS DONALD COOK, USS PHILIPPINE SEA, HMS WESTMINSTER, HMS IRON DUKE and HNoMS HELGE INGSTAD, in the North Sea in 2017

 

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RN:
Battleship HMS IRON DUKE, the flagship of the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, by Irootoko Jr

 

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USN:
USS Charles Ausburne (DD-570) returning from an action in the Solomon Islands, 1943-1944, when she was part of Destroyer Squadron 23. That unit's "Little Beaver" insignia is visible on her bridge wing. Note the empty gunpowder cases stacked amidships.

 

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Germany:
Heavy cruiser Lützow (formerly Deutschland) showing torpedo damage from the submarine HMS Spearfish- a nearly severed stern. She was an immobile sitting duck until an oceangoing tug arrived & towed her to port. The attack happened in April 1940, near Norway.

Battleship Schlesien photographed from b Battleship Scharnhorst in the Western Baltic, January of 1940

Schlesien bombarding the Hel

 

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France:
Aircraft carrier Arromanches (ex-HMS Colossus) off Saïgon, Tàu sân bay, 1951-53

 

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RN:
Ships in reserve, Devonport c. 1954-55. Battleship HMS HOWE, cruiser HMS BELFAST and a Dido class cruiser, which is possibly HMS EURYALUS.

A proud fighting ship being towed to the breakers. HMS Victorious had hunted the Bismarck, escorted convoys in the Atlantic and Arctic, Operation Pedestal in the Med, fought with the USN in the Pacific in 1943, bombed the Tirpitz. Scrapped in 1969.

 

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Netherlands:
Light cruiser De Ruyter under construction at Wilton-Fijenoord in 1935

 

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USN:
USS Hornet (CV-12) and friends, Bremerton inactive ship facility. Next to Hornet (foreground) are three minesweepers, USS New Jersey (BB-62), Oriskany (CV-34), Bennington (CV-20), USS Midway (CV-41) and USS Nimitz (CVN-68). Plus subs, destroyers, transports, etc. 1992

 

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RN:
HMS Queen Elizabeth is gently floated out of her dock for the first time in Rosyth, Scotland in July 2014

HMS Queen Elizabeth conducts a Replenishment at Sea with RFA Tidespring, 2018

HMS Queen Elizabeth with F-35B embarked, Sept 2020. On 4 January 2021, the UK has declared Initial Operating Capability for Carrier Strike with the CSG held at 'Very High Readiness'

HMS Tamar in Plymouth Sound

 

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USN:
USS Juneau (CLAA-119) at anchor in Kagoshima, Japan, on 25 June 1950.

USS Juneau CL-119 post refit which reclassified her as CLAA-119

A General Motors TBM-3E Avenger (Bureau Number 91404) crashes into the barrier while landing on board USS Philippine Sea (CV-47), during operations January 17, 1951. [1170x915]
The pilot has obviously hit quite hard given the amount of damage to the splintered wooden decking flying up below the aircraft. Photo, US Archives.
Source: South Pacific WWII Museum on Facebook.

USS Toledo (CA-133), USS Helena (CA-75), and USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) of Cruiser Division 3 conduct a three-way transfer of personnel, 1955

 

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USN:
USS John Finn (DDG 113) tests its counter-measure washdown system

Sailors man the rails of the USS Sterett (DDG 104) for a crew photo. Indian Ocean, Dec 31st 2020 (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Drace Wilson

USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Pacific Ocean on the first day of 2021

USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) at dawn, Yokosuka, Japan, 3rd JAN 21

 

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USN:
USS Iowa BB 61 firing salvoes, early 1980s

USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a salvo from its forward Mark 7 16-inch/50-calibre gun turrets, 1st May,1984. Photo by PH1 Jeff Hilton.

Dependents watch a firepower demonstration from USS Missouri's forecastle, 1988

USS Pampanito Under Tow, 1996 on the way to becoming a museum submarine in San Francisco - USS Pampanito Archives Photo

 

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USN:
USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) seen here in heavy seas off Cape Horn from the USS Independence (CVA 62) - Fall of 1988. The Champlain's Hurricane Bow was ripped off in this storm. This was while rounding Cape Horn after commissioning in New York.

From DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

She suffered a major lube oil leak in Main Engine Room No. 1 on 11 September. The engineering team contained the leak without reporting crew casualties and the ship continued her voyage, only to lose her hurricane bulwark while battling heavy seas two days later. The cruiser reached her lowest point of latitude when she rounded Cape Horn at 56°6'S at 1435 on 14 September. Lake Champlain detached from Independence on 21 September, and the following day operated with Peruvian frigates Mariátegui (F.54), Montero (F.53), and Villavicencio (F.52), and attack submarine Casma (SS.31), before removing the damaged sections of the bulwark and installing temporary stanchions while visiting Lima, Peru (23-25 September). Lake Champlain crossed the equator at 85°2'3"W on 27 September. She rejoined Independence while anchored at Acapulco, Mexico (1-4 October), and moored temporarily at Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island and then at her new home port of Naval Station (NS) San Diego, Calif., on 8 October.

 

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RN:
King George V class battleship HMS ANSON. She was the only British battleship fully modernised for the Pacific with a full suite of modern electronics and AA equipment

Anson was refitted at Devonport between July 1944 and March 1945 in preparation for service in the British Pacific Fleet. This photo is taken in April 1945. Her anti-aircraft armament consisted of:

• 16 x 5.25" dual-purpose guns in eight twin mounts. She was the only KGV to have Mark VI high-angle/low-angle directors for these mounts, which were entirely new and not based on previous designs.
• 80 x 2 pdr (40mm) pom-pom. These were in eight octuple mounts and four quad mounts.
• 8 x 40mm bofors in two quad mounts.
• 27 x 20mm Oerlikons in six twin mounts and fifteen single mounts

As for electronics, she carried:

• 2 x Type 274 fire control radar for main battery
• Type 281B air warning radar
• 7 x Type 262 fire control radar for pom-poms
• 4 x Type 275 fire control radar for 5.25" guns
• Type 277 search radar
• Type 293 target indication radar
• Type 651 missile jamming gear
• Type 91 radar jammers
• FM2 medium-frequency direction-finder
• RH2 direction-finder
• A 'headache' communications intercept set

 

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RN:
WW1 submariners haul a stricken German aboard their submarine in the North Sea

Battlecruiser HMS QUEEN MARY, in 1914. She was unfortunately lost at the Battle of Jutland with just 20 of her crew of 1,286 surviving.

 

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USN:
Aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) steams through an aircraft-deployed smoke screen off Panama, 26 February 1929, shortly after that year's "Fleet Problem" exercises.

Boeing F4B-4 fighters, of VF-6B, spotted for take off over USS Saratoga's stern, on 17 May 1934. Aircraft launching over the stern likely is the reason for the large crowd of onlookers on the 8" turrets.