Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
OPVs HMS Trent (left) and HMS Spey (right) with the Aircraft Carrier HMS Prince of Wales behind.

 

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Australia & USN:
HMAS Sydney (R-17), foreground, and helicopter carrier USS Valley Forge (LPH-8) underway during a SEATO exercise off the Philippines in May 1964.

 

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The Colombian Navy participated in 'Operation DESI 2021' 40 men from the Caribbean Naval Force participated for 71 days in 17 naval exercises under NATO standards. This exercise was carried out in jurisdictional waters of the United States, between Colombia and Peru. Operation DESI is an initiative between the United States and South American countries with conventional attack submarines, which allows maintaining a high standard of training among the different navies. It should be noted that since 2004 Colombia has participated in this operation, this being the eleventh representation of our country. During the operation carried out near the port of Jacksonville, 40 men from the Caribbean Naval Force participated in 17 exercises, carried out in 71 days. The crews highly trained in naval maneuvers under the standards of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - NATO, began the implementation of exercises that increase the degree of enlistment of the region's navies, particularly in anti-submarine warfare events. , as a preamble to international certification for the battle group.

 

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Russia:
Project 1144 "Orlan" (NATO Kirov class) Pyotr Velikiy in original colour scheme

 

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RN:
Orion-class dreadnought battleship HMS Conqueror

Hospital ship RMS Olympic arriving at Mudros Harbour, 1915.

HMT Olympic in dazzle

Olympic lived to see the breakers unlike her sisters Britannic and Titanic. Unlike her sisters, she did not sink after hitting something although not for the lack of trying:

She first hit/was hit by a cruiser, HMS Hawke
Then in WW1 she rammed and sank SM U-103 which was trying to torpedo her. It’s actually thought that she took an unrelated torpedo dud at some point in the war
After the war she hit the smaller liner named Fort St. George
And finally she accidentally rammed and cut in half the lightship Nantucket after being unable to see her in time due to dense fog

 

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Italy:
ITS Cavour (C 550) has acquired certification for F-35B operation - March 2021

 

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RN:
The Royal Navy at Malta,1930s. Three battleships and two County class heavy cruisers are visible.

HMS Hood's forward turrets in 1932, with 5.5" secondary battery guns in background

HMS Javelin silhouetted against the skyline. 1940

HMS Duke of York with her guns trained to starboard

Fiji-class light cruiser HMS Gambia

 

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USN:
USS Idaho during WWII

14 inch guns of USS California, August 1945

 

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USN:
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) departed from Naval Station Norfolk, Mar. 26, commencing the ship’s homeport shift to Rota, Spain.

A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter flies above the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego (LPD 22) in the Arabian Gulf, March 21, 2021. (USMC photo by Sgt. Desiree King)

 

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France:
Battleship Voltaire (in the foreground) acts as the flagship of the French fleet during full-scale manoeuvres and subsequent naval review. Toulon, 04 September 1911.

 

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Italy:Oriani class destroyer Vincenzo Gioberti in 1938

 

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Brazil:
Bahia class cruiser "Rio Grande do Sul" anchored at an unknown port during the interwar period after the 1925-1926 refit which converted propulsion from coal fired to oil fired.

Testing of an emergency escape device fitted on submarine Humaytá by its Italian inventor, around 1928

The device was called "vasca Belloni", and its concepts are shown in this picture. It basically required the crew to equate the pressure within the "tub", put on the cap shown in the picture, invented too by Belloni (and coupled to a Davis rebreather), and get to the surface. The device was also tested on at least one Italian submarine, the Tito Speri.

 

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PLA(N):
Type 052B destroyer Wuhan (169) in the South China Sea, June 2020.

169 Wuhan and 168 Guangzhou are the sole members of their class, both ships being commissioned in 2004 as a marriage of Chinese hull and machinery with Soviet/Russian systems, having much in common with the four 956/956A Sovremenny destroyers delivered to PLAN during this period. 168 has recently commenced her mid-life upgrade which should see most Soviet/Russian systems replaced with modern indigenous equivalents, and 169 is expected to follow.

Type 054A frigate (NATO Jiangkai II) Hengyang (568) with a Z-9 helo

 

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USN:
USS Olympia, 27 September 1908.

USS Olympia (C6) & USS Florida (BB-30) in middle chambers of the Gatun Locks, 13 June 1922

Photo taken in 1957 as the (USS) Olympia was being moved from drydock at Keystone Ship Repair which was the old Cramp Shipyard to her new home beside the Ben Franklin Bridge.

 

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Imperial Japan:
Musashi firing her forward guns during gunnery trials in 1942. This photograph was provided to a newspaper by the family of Captain Tameshige Nagahashi who was a gunnery officer on Musashi.

Curtiss SB2C Helldiver bomber is pictured here minutes before the first massive attack on the battleship Yamato by US aircraft starts. 07 April 1945, 12:30, 80 miles off Makurazaki.

The island and of the funnel of aircraft carrier Jun'yō, Sasebo, 19 October 1945

The forward torpedo room and three crewmen of the Japanese submarine I-58 (the boat that sank USS Indianapolis on 30 July 1945), after its surrender, 1946

 

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France:
Cruiser Sufferen leaves Alexandria harbour after a 3 year stay, June 23, 1943

Aircraft carrier Arromanches (R95), ex HMS Colossus and its escort Le Lorrain (D605), Mediterranean Sea, 1950

 

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Germany:
Admiral Graf Spee in European waters in mid-1939, prior to her departure for the south Atlantic.

Surrendered U-Boats entering Loch Eriboll, May 19, 1945.

 

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Canada:
March 25th 2021 off Lunenburg Nova Scotia, HMCS Summerside is a Kingston-class coastal defence vessel.

The Kingston class consists of 12 coastal defence vessels operated by the Royal Canadian Navy. The class is the name for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project (MCDV). These multi-role vessels were built and launched from the mid- to late-1990s and are crewed by a combination of Naval Reserve and Regular-Force personnel.

Their main missions are counter narcotics, coastal surveillance, sovereignty patrol, route survey, and training. They were designed with a minesweeping role in mind and are consequently classified as mechanical minesweepers (MM); however, this role has diminished as a result of the evolving nature of mine warfare.

 

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Russia:
The Launch of Improved Project 636.3 ( NATO Kilo class) Magadan at Admiralty Shipyards, Saint Peterburg. 26 March 2021.

Admiral Kuznetsov docked at the 35th Ship Repair Plant. March 2021

 

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RN & USN:
Light cruiser USS Detroit (CL-8) undergoes routine refit while British light cruiser HMS Orion (in the background) is under major repairs following evacuation of Crete (late May, 1941) where she suffered significant damage. 18 February 1942, Mare Island.

ORION was attacked by enemy aircraft during the evacuation of Crete

Near misses off the starboard quarter caused Y1, 2, 3 and 4 and B7 and 9 O.F tanks to leak while the after 6" magazine was flooded. Leaks caused contamination in A3 and 4 O.F. tanks.

A direct hit occurred on the roof of "A" turret , the bomb finally exploding on the after side of roller path. Serious structural damage took place within a radius of 30 ft from bursts and "A" gunhouse was wrecked, The roof of "A" turret hit "B" guns. A cordite fire occurred in "A" turret and lobby and fires started on lower and upper decks in this vicinity, the forward magazines were flooded as a precautionary measure. Serious damage took place to important electric cables.

Another direct hit bomb struck the bridge, perforated the bridge structure, and burst in the lower steering position. Serious structural damage occurred between 53 to 80 stations over the full width of the ship between hold and forecastle decks. The crown of 4" HA magazine (80 lb NC) was blown down a maximum of 6in. Minor splinter damage was sustained. The failure of all L.P. except local batteries to "X" and "Y" turrets occurred. Fires started in the vicinity of the burst, and the switchboard was abandoned, due to intense heat* while "A" 8 boiler room was temporarily evacuated."

She suffered 106 killed including her Captain, Geoffrey Back, RN.