Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Brazil & PLA(N):
Frigate F42 Constituição approaches destroyer 170 Lanzhou during a joint exercise, October 2013.

 

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RN:
December 1918, Liepāja, Latvia. Crewmen of HMS Caradoc are cleaning the deck of rock-hard ice. The light cruiser was engaged in various anti-Bolshevik activities with great success.

HMS Repulse anchored in Athol Bight, 13 April 1924

County class cruiser HMS Berwick as completed, c 1928

Submarine depot ship HMS Medway with her charges moored alongside, China Station. 1932

Heavy cruiser HMS Suffolk in 1937 after her modernisation

 

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Imperial Japan:
Rear view of the conning tower and fore tripod mast of battlecruiser Kirishima, seen during maintenance and training at Sasebo, 4 May 1921

Armoured cruiser Azuma in 1924

 

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USN:
USNS John Ericsson pulls away from HMAS Sydney IV (FFG03) in stormy conditions following a Replenishment at Sea, 2012

USS Oak Hill (LSD 51) pier side Lisbon, Portugal in April 2016

 

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South Korea:
Frigate ROKS Daegu (FFG-818)

 

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RN:
HMS Curacoa, veteran of the Crimean War and the invasion of the Waikato, photographed in Sydney Harbour's Farm Cove. Circa 1864.

 

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Imperial Austro-Hungary:
Coastal defence ship SMS Wien in 1898

 

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USN:
USS Indiana (BB-1) at League Island Navy Yard, 1903

Suez Canal. View looking aft from high on the foremast of USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18), as she transits the Suez Canal in January 1909.

30 January 1924, Boston Navy Yard. The first USN dreadnought-type battleship USS Delaware (BB-28) is being dismantled.

 

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RN:
HMS Benbow (centre), HMS Essex (right) and SS Zeppelin (left) at Devonport, 1919. Painting by Frank Watson Wood.

HMS Benbow was an Iron Duke-class superdreadnought, HMS Essex was a Monmouth-class protected cruiser (likely in service as a training ship at this time) and SS Zeppelin was a recent war reparation from Germany. It would soon be transferred to the United States Navy and, as USS Zeppelin, make two voyage back and forth across the Atlantic bringing home nearly 16,000 soldiers.

 

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PLA(N):
Patrol craft (Type-22 Houbei catamaran) tails a fishing vessel carrying an ABS-CBN News crew in the West Philippine Sea on April 8, 2021. Chiara Zambrano, ABS-CBN News.

Type 22 Missile Boat

 

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Italy: France & Spain:
Exercise Dragon Hammer '92. The Italian carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi (C-551), the French carrier Foch (R-99) and the Spanish carrier Principe de Asturias

 

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Germany:
June 1941, off Rugen Island, Baltic Sea. Shakedown cruise of battleship Tirpitz

U-190 arrives in St. John’s Newfoundland in June 1945 after surrendering to Royal Canadian Navy off the coast of Newfoundland on 12 May 1945.

 

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Italy:
USMC MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor lands on carrier Cavour (C 550), April 2021

LSS – Logistic Support Ship, Volcano which commissioned in March 2021

 

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USN:
Vietnam War. June 1969. Sailors aboard the guided missile frigate USS Brooke (DEG 1) watch as the Gato-class submarine USS Bluegill (AGSS 242) travels on the surface

 

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Australia:
Sailors leaving HMAS Australia prior to her scuttling on 12 April 1924, off Sydney Heads

Light cruiser HMAS Perth in Gatun Lake, Panama Canal, 2 March 1940.

 

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USN & Australia:
Destroyers USS Blue and USS Patterson take off the crew of the crippled heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra after the battle of Savo Island, 9 August

 

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France:
Armoured cruiser Léon Gambetta under construction at the Arsenal de Brest in 1901

Crewmen giving the protected cruiser Chasseloup-Laubat a new coat of paint, Bizerte, date unknown

Armoured cruiser Jules Michelet in drydock at Balboa (Panama), 15 July 1921

 

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Brazil:
Cruiser Rio Grande do Sul in Guanabara Bay some point after her 1925-26 rebuild.

Lead ship of her class. "Carioca" (C1) at Rio de Janeiro after commissioning in late 1939

Originally built as a 6 ship class of minelayers. The Carioca class were converted into ASW corvettes after Brazil's declaration of war against Italy and Germany. They had all the minelaying equipment removed and replaced with sonar gear, Y guns and depth charge racks.

 

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Italy:
Coast defence gunboat Polluce test-firing her 400 mm Krupp gun, La Spezia, December 1889

 

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Canada:
HMCS Harry DeWolf moving into position alongside MV Asterix to undertake her first replenishment at sea. Photo credit goes to Lt. Jeffrey McBride.