Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
Spitfire Mk. Vc-Tropical variant from No. 603 Squadron RAF being hauled aboard USS Wasp (CV-7) by a crane, Glasgow, Scotland, 13 Apr 1942.

USS Vincennes (CL-64) underway in the Atlantic Ocean off Boston, 25 February 1944, wearing Camouflage Measure 33, Design 3D. The photo was taken from a blimp of squadron ZP-11.

Sailors aboard the USS West Virginia, on watch for Japanese aircraft off the coast of Okinawa in late March, 1945.

Cleveland class U.S.S Montpelier. Light cruiser CL-57, Pencil

 

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USN:
USS Samuel B. Roberts DD-823 and USS O'Hare (DD-889) in in Copenhagen about 1949.

 

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Russia:
Project 636 Varshavyanka variant (NATO Improved Kilo class) submarine Rostov-on-Don

 

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France:
FS Clemenceau R-98 seen at Toulon, France. Date unknown

 

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PLA(N):
Jin-class submarine. They are stated to be quite loud boats, and their JL-2 SLBMs have a range of about 8000km.

 

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USN:
The dark grey sky lightened a bit as USS Stout rounded the end of Pier 5 at Naval Station Norfolk, the rust streaks and faded paint on its side a testimony to its record-setting 215 days at sea. Oct 13, 2020

USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) in the Georgian port of Batumi, Oct 2020

USNS Alan Shepard (T-AKE 3) transits the Pacific Ocean after replenishing USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)

Amphibious transport dock ship USS Somerset (LPD 25) with embarked 15th MEU transit the Strait of Hormuz, Feb. 5. 2021

 

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RN:
Crown Colony class light cruiser HMS Jamaica in Trincomalee, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). 1952.

 

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USN:
USS Arthur W. Radford (DD 968) undergoing an underway replenishment with the USS Iowa (BB 61) on November 1, 1984.

USS HAYLER (DD-997) transiting the waterway during Unitas XXXI, an annual, joint exercise between the U.S. Navy and the naval forces of nine South American countries. Photo by PH1 Michael D.P. Flynn. 01/01/1990

USS Enterprise (CVN 65) steams through the waters of the Atlantic Ocean following a port visit to Portsmouth, UK, July 7, 2004

 

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Imperial Germany:
SMS Emden armed with ten main 4.1 inch calibre guns

SMS Hindenburg at Scapa Flow, 1919

German sailors fishing over the side of a destroyer while interned at Scapa Flow, 1919

 

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Italy:
Spica-class torpedo-boat Altair during its sea trials, Gulf of Genoa, late 1936

Oriani class destroyer Giosuè Carducci in 1938

Soldati class destroyer Granatiere in 1939.

Soldati class destroyer Aviere while sailing off the Orlando shipyards in Livorno, 21 December 1939.

 

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Philippines:
BRP Ramon Alcaraz (Ex USCG Dallas)

 

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Imperial Italy:
Ironclad battleship Sardegna about to be launched, September 1890

Left to right, the battleships Andrea Doria and Duilio and an unidentified Conte di Cavour-class battleship at Taranto, likely between 1916 and 1918

Destroyer Giuseppe La Masa, likely in the early 1920s

 

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Germany:
Kriegsmarine sailors disposing ammo of the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, surrendered at Copenhagen, Denmark. 1945

 

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USN:
Photo #: NH 106273 A sack race recreation on board a battleship, circa 1916-1917. This ship is either USS Pennsylvania (Battleship # 38) or USS Arizona (Battleship # 39). The original image, copyrighted by N. Moser, New York, is printed on post card (AZO) stock. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

 

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USSR & USN:
Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Project 641/Foxtrot class SSK B-59 on the surface trying to evade the US Navy's Allen M. Sumner class destroyer USS Lowry (DD-770).

By this time, US ASW patrols, first from shore-based aircraft and later the Randolph ASW group (including the pictured Lowry, Beale, Bache, Cony, Eaton, Conway, Murray, and Waller), had held the submarine down for almost a full day, trying to communicate and tell them to surface (including throwing hand grenades over the side as signalling charges). This drained the submarine's batteries, and unable to snorkel due to the patrols, the submarine surfaced around 2050 local time on 27 October. This photo was taken the next day or on 29 October, as the submarine remained surfaced almost 48 hours with constant US patrols (including Barry, arriving later).

This was one of four submarines dispatched to Cuba, and one that potentially came closest to turning the crisis into nuclear war. All four submarines had nuclear-tipped torpedoes, with purple-painted warheads. Each was only authorized to launch the torpedoes if the senior officers agreed, and while on most boats that would be the captain and the political officer, B-59 also had the commander of the submarine squadron aboard, Vasily Arkhipov, who also had to concur.

At this point, accounts diverge. Most state that Arkhipov alone opposed launching the torpedo, and as this is the most flashy story it tends to be repeated most often (including a very good exhibit aboard B-39 in San Diego, where they tell the story through different compartments). However, some sources cite crew memoirs that only the CO lost his nerve and both Arkhipov and the political officer talked him down.

 

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USN:
USS Nevada (BB-36) damage to the forecastle deck suffered during the Pearl Harbor Attack. Photo taken Dec 12, 1941

Medal of Honor citation

For distinguished conduct in the line of his profession, extraordinary courage, and disregard of his own safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. During the height of the strafing and bombing, Chief Boatswain [Edwin Joseph] Hill led his men of the linehandling details of the U.S.S. Nevada to the quays, cast off the lines and swam back to his ship. Later, while on the forecastle, attempting to let go the anchors, he was blown overboard and killed by the explosion of several bombs.

Chief Boatswain Hill died feet from this spot, possibly where this photo was taken. He was one of two Medal of Honor and 15 Navy Cross recipients on the battleship Nevada that morning, and one of three posthumous awards.

Cruise book cover, USS Fall River (CA-131). Artist unknown.1944-47

 

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RN:
RFA Wave Knight alongside in the Mersey

RFA Wave Knight, the lead ship of the Wave-class of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, is currently alongside at Liverpool Cruise Terminal. After a short refit in the Liverpool docks at Cammell Laird, post-refit activity is underway before she gets back to work.

The MoD has reportedly been trying to shift Wave Knight/ Wave Ruler on for a while now, including an attempted sale to Brazil in 2010. With the re-introduction of Carrier Strike, they will, however, be more crucial than ever in delivering the RFA’s exceptional capability- with RAS assets needed for CSG, FOST and others tied up in unforgiving refit cycles, the RFA really shouldn’t be losing fast fleet tankers at a time like this.

 

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Spain:
Principe de Asturias (R-11), having her ammo and fuel removed in preparation for decommissioning, Feb 10, 2013

 

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Italy:
Battleship Roma, the fourth Vittorio Veneto-class battleship of Italy's Regia Marina, circa 1942. Location unknown. Damaged then sunk by two German radio-controlled bombs on 9 September 1943 with the loss of 1,393 crew.

 

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