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I love the Slava class. As I've said before, I am no naval guy or expert but that is the most beautiful navy ship of them all.

 

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I love the Slava class. As I've said before, I am no naval guy or expert but that is the most beautiful navy ship of them all.

In 2008 I was next to the Moskva in Lisbon, she is indeed a impressive and enormous ship....unfortunately I was not able to visit her because all russians living in Portugal had the same idea and the qeue was gigantic...

 

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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.

Not a long time ago it was speculated that Portugal was interested in purchasing the Wave Ruler...but unfortunately nothing has come from that

 

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USN:
USS Theodore Roosevelt transits the Gulf of Alaska after participating in Exercise Northern Edge 2019, May 25, 2019

 

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Italy:

ITS Cavour (CVH 550), arrived at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. Feb 13, 2021 for a series of operations alongside U.S. military assets to attain the Italian Navy’s “Ready for Operations” certification to safely land and launch F-35B aircraft.

 

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USN:
Iowa Class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is tied up outboard of the hulk of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Hawaii (USA), on 11 November 1944. Note the great difference in the length of the two battleships and the anti-torpedo netting outboard of the ships. Since 22 June 1998, USS Missouri (BB-63), sistership to the Wisconsin, has been moored at this location, facing in the opposite direction towards, and 500 yards away from, the USS Arizona Memorial. As a side note, all four Iowa Class battleships are memorials with the Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia, USS Iowa (BB-61) in San Pedro, California, and USS New Jersey (BB-62) in Camden New Jersey.

 

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Italy:
Battleship Littorio in the Bacino Ferrati of Taranto, under repair after being torpedoed during the Taranto night, early 1941

Littorio hasn't been given a camo scheme; the paint job on her is merely an effort to have her blend more with her surroundings, and make the job of any aircraft more difficult.

Tarpaulins to make recognition of the drydock can be seen as well, and also the cylinders (that could be filled with water) used to balance the battleship's trim when she entered the drydock.

 

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RN:
HMS Hermione's 5.25" guns as she enters Grand Harbour, Malta after a convoy escort, Sept 1941

 

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RN:
HMS Ark Royal seen in the late fifties, showing her appearance as completed by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, in 1955. She served in the Mediterranean, East of Suez and Home waters until 1979 and in the following year was sold for scrap.

Here her deck is filled with Sea Vixens, Sea Hawks and Fairey Gannets.

 

[morris]

Iranian submarine fleet - midget submarines "Ghadir"

 

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Off-topic but, might be useful for someone. The NATO phonetic alphabet, codes & signals.

 

[morris]

Surcouf was the largest French cruiser submarine. She served in both the French Navy and the Free French Naval Forces during the Second World War. She was lost during the night of 18/19 February 1942 in the Caribbean Sea, possibly after colliding with an American freighter. Surcouf was named after the French privateer Robert Surcouf. She was the largest submarine built until surpassed by the first Japanese I-400-class submarine in 1944.

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USN:
USS North Carolina (BB-55) and USS Hornet (CV-8) underway in the Atlantic, Jan 1942

Escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) loading Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers from a barge, circa in 1944

USS Topeka (CL-67) during her shakedown cruise. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 33, Design 24d. The photo was taken from USS Oklahoma City (CL-91), early 1945

USS Indiana bombarding Kamaishi, Japan, 14 July 1945, The superstructure of USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is visible directly behind Indiana, The heavy cruiser in the left center distance is either USS Quincy (CA-71) or USS Chicago (CA-136)

 

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Russia:
Project 1144 (NATO Kirov class) nuclear cruiser Admiral Lazarev (Frunze until 1992), laid up and waiting scrapping

 

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USN:
Early 1930's photo of the Narwhal (SS-167). She was one of two cruiser submarines inspired by the German U-cruisers of WW I, armed with 6in/53 guns. Her high freeboard reflects great reserve buoyancy.

USS Idaho (BB-42) and USS Texas (BB-35) underway in 1930

USS New York during a fleet review off New York, 31 May 1934

USS Saratoga (CV-3) landing aircraft, 6 June 1935.

 

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Iran:
A Russian-built, Kilo-class diesel submarine recently purchased by Iran, is towed by a support vessel in this photograph taken in the central Mediterranean Sea during the week of December 23, 1996. The submarine and the support ship arrived at Port Said, Egypt, on Tuesday and were expected to begin transiting the Suez Canal today, Jan. 2, 1996. Ships and aircraft from the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet are tracking the submarine, which has been making the transit on the surface. This is the third Kilo-class submarine the Iranians have purchased from Moscow.

 

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RN:
Submarine aircraft carrier HMS M2 launching her Parnall Peto seaplane, post 1928 but prior to 1932 when she was lost

 

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France:
3ème Escadre of the Marine Nationale bombarding Genoa during Operation Vado, morning of 14 June 1940

The group was specifically assigned to bombard Genoa (namely, the industrial installations in the Polcevera valley), consisting of the heavy cruisers Foch and Algérie (left to right in the picture) and two destroyers. Meanwhile, the Dupleix and Colbert with six destroyers bombarded the fuel depots and industries around Vado Ligure and Savona, while three more destroyers remained farther away from shore. The Italians reacted with their coastal batteries, and attacks from a MAS flotilla and from the old torpedo-boat Calatafimi, but the only damage suffered by the French squadron was a 152 mm hit on the contre-torpilleur Albatros.

The bombardment caused limited damage to their targets, and caused 9 deaths and thirty-four wounded among the civilian populace.

Battleship Richelieu against the backdrop of Manhattan, 18 February 1943

 

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USN:
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) leaves San Diego, Feb 20th 2021

Fleet oiler USNS JOHN LEWIS (T-AO 205) launched by NASSCO shipyard, San Diego, California, 12 January 2021.