Photos Navies Of All Nations

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France:
Eridan-class minesweeper FS Sagittaire (M650) coming into Fairlie, Scotland - May 7, 2021

 

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Russian Navy, Peter the Great

 

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USN:
USS Mississinewa (AO-59) at Ulithi, November 20, 1944

Mississinewa began her brief but active wartime service on 18 May 1944. Having completed shakedown in the Chesapeake Bay, she sailed for Aruba, Netherland West Indies, to take on her first cargo. Filling her cargo tanks on 23–24 June she continued on to the Pacific Ocean, arriving Pearl Harbor on 10 July. As a unit of Service Squadron 10 (ServRon 10), she then steamed to Eniwetok where she first fueled ships of the 3rd Fleet. On 25 August, she got underway for Manus where she supplied fuel and stores and delivered mail to ships of TF 38, the fast carrier force, 32 and 31 during the assault and occupation of the Palaus.

Returning to Manus on 30 September, she replenished her tanks and again headed north to refuel TF 38 as that force struck at Japanese shipping and shore installations in the Philippines, on Taiwan, and in the Ryukyus in preparation for the Philippine campaign. On 19 October, having emptied her tanks into ships scheduled to take part in the landings at Leyte, she sailed to Ulithi in the Caroline Islands, her new base. Thence in early November, Mississinewa sailed her last fueling at sea assignment, returning on the 15th.

The next day, she replenished her cargo tanks, filling them almost to capacity with 404,000 US gallons (1,530 m3) of aviation gas, 9,000 barrels (1,400 m3) of diesel fuel, and 90,000 barrels (14,000 m3) of fuel oil. Four days later, 20 November, she was still anchored in berth No. 131. At 05:47, shortly after reveille, a heavy explosion rocked the oiler. Seconds later, fumes in an aviation gas cargo tank ignited, causing a second explosion. Massive flames immediately burst from midship forward. Bunker C oil immediately engulfed the ship, with aviation gas on top of that. The aviation gas acted like a wick. Fanned by a light wind, the fire spread aft quickly. A few minutes later the fires reached the after magazine and caused yet another explosion to tear through the ship. The ship was abandoned and soon enveloped in flames over 100 ft (30 m) high. Fleet tugs were immediately brought in to try to extinguish the fire, but in spite of their efforts, at about 09:00 the ship slowly turned over and disappeared. Fifteen minutes later, the fire on the water was out and Ulithi anchorage was again quiet. This ship was the first to be hit by a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo. The ship sank with a loss of 63 hands as well as the kaiten pilot.

 

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RN:
HMS Prince of Wales

HMS Defender and HMS Diamond conduct a simultaneous Replenishment at Sea with RFA Tidespring, May 7, 2021

Type 23 frigate HMS Argyll departing Portsmouth harbour, 8 May 2021

 

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USN:
USS Iowa, May 1984

USS Reeves CG-24 during its visit to Qingdao in 1986.

 

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USN:
USS Massachusetts at Puget Sound, 1946.

 

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RN:
HMS Ark Royal leaving Liverpool, June 2008

 

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Russia:
ChTA-53 533mm torpedo tubes mounted on destroyer Admiral Tributs(BPK-564)

Smolnyy-class training ship Perekop

 

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Japan:
DDH-183 Izumo and DDH-184 Kaga

 

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RN:
HMS Venerable, a London class pre-dreadnought battleship

HMS Agincourt mounted 7 twin turrets with 12" guns.

 

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Italy:
Destroyer Francesco Mimbelli (D 561) entering harbour at Doha, Qatar on 24 March 2014

 

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USN:
The forward elevator of aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) is blown circa 400 feet into the air after a kamikaze hit on 14 May 1945.

USS South Dakota refuels a destroyer in 1945 while the onboard orchestra plays music.

 

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USN:
Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Atlantic Ocean ex Lightning Handshake 2021

210507-N-ON977-1001 (May 7, 2021) The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS New Hampshire (SSN 778) returns to port at Naval Station Norfolk, May 7, 2021. New Hampshire returns following a six-month deployment that supported national security interests and maritime security operations at sea. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Alfred A. Coffield)

 

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USN:
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Nov. 2, 2002

USS Nimitz in drydock, 2011

 

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USN:
USS Newport News (CA 148), fires a salvo off the coast of South Vietnam in June 1972 during her third combat deployment to Vietnam

 

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Italy:
Heavy cruiser Zara firing her 8" guns.

Destroyer Nicoloso Da Recco in 1942

 

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RN:
Battlecruiser HMS Renown, newly reconstructed, 1939

HMS King George V as seen in preparation for Norway, 1940

HMS Seraph underway after completion. July 1942

Light cruiser HMS Argonaut.

King George V class battleship HMS Anson returns to Portsmouth from Australia, 29 July 1946

 

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USN:
USS Ranger (CV-4) underway at sea during the later 1930s. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Removing one of the triple 8 in (203 mm)/55 calibre turrets from the USN cruiser USS Pensacola after the damaged suffered at the Battle of Tassafaronga in Nov 1942

USS Phelps (DD-360), off the Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, about November 1944. She is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 3d. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

 

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Netherlands:
HNLMS Van Speijk (F-828) in NY Harbor, Sept 3, 2019