Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Italy:
Harbour of Taranto, 1923.

On the right is the old Sardegna, a Re Umberto-class ironclad, that would meet her end in that same year. In the middle is Nino Bixio-class scout Nino Bixio with Italia on the left

Torpedo boat Procione during her short career.

Commissioned on 31 March 1938, scuttled by her crew on 9 September 1943. Apart from plenty of escort work, she notably participated in the Battle of Skerki Bank, suffering severe damage and three killed aboard.

This picture was taken on 3 September 1942, in Pyraeus.

 

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Turkey:
03 September 1913, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom. Ottoman dreadnought-type battleship Reşadiye is launched. She will be seized by Royal Navy upon completion and renamed Erin.

 

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France:
Battleship Dunkerque unloads its gold shipment from the Banque de France under the watch of a Canadian Mountie, Halifax, December 17th 1939

Battleship Richelieu fires at British forces at Dakar, with HMS Barham as her primary opponent.

Free French destroyer Léopard disembarks 74 marines to rally Réunion Island, November 27-28th 1942

 

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Canada:
HMCS Vancouver (FFH-331) alongside HMCS Algonquin (DDG-283) at Pearl Harbor, July of 2006

 

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Russia:
Pr. 1135M Pytlivy

 

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Germany:
Panzerschiffe Admiral Graf Spee on her Atlantic cruise, December 1939. (Note the false twin turret)

Heavy cruiser Blücher under reconstruction at Deutsche Werke, Kiel, Germany, 1940

 

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RN:
View looking forward from the bridge of HMS RODNEY in rough seas, showing two of the three 16 inch turrets trained on either beam, the barrels of the third turret can be seen in the foreground.

King George V class battleship HMS Howe, c. 1942-43

 

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Imperial Japan:
Battleships Mutsu (left) and Nagato (right) on operations by Lukasz Kasperczyk

http://www.kasperczyk.art/world_war_two.html

 

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USN:
USS Missouri (BB-63) fires a salvo from her 16-inch guns during a firepower demonstration, Exercise RIMPAC 88

 

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Japan, France & Australia:
Warships from French Navy, JMSDF and Royal Australian Navy sail together for ARC-21 exercise

A pair of Hayabusa-class patrol boats, JS Asahi, a La Fayette-class frigate, a Hyuuga-class DDH, an Anzac-class frigate, a Mistral-class LHD, an Atago-class destroyer, an Oosumi-class landing ship, and a Kongo-class destroyer.

 

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RN:
Battleship HMS Warspite in her youth, c. 1920-24

 

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Italy:
Light cruiser Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi, Muggiano, La Spezia 1936

Submarines Marea (left) and Onice (right) moored at Bermuda, in 1944; the two boats were operating as targets for ASW training, attached to the US Navy's Submarine Squadron Seven

 

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Netherlands:
Walrus-class submarine Zr.Ms. Zeeleeuw

 

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Philippines:
Frigate BRP Jose Rizal (FF-150) sailing on her maiden voyage to the Philippines. May 2020

 

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Greece:
Battleships Kilkis (foreground) and Lemnos (background) seen sunk in shallow water at Salamis, Greece, April, 1941

 

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Australia:
29 April 1919. HMAS Australia transits Suez Canal en-route from Portsmouth to Fremantle, effectively returning home after 4.5 years

 

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Japan:
Maya-class destroyers JS Maya (L) & JS Haguro (R)

 

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USN:
USS New Jersey (BB-62) fires a nine 16-inch gun salvo during bombardment operations against enemy targets in Korea, adjacent to the 38th parallel. Photo is dated 10 November 1951. Smoke from shell explosions is visible ashore, in the upper left. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

 

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Poland:
Destroyer ORP Wicher during the 1930's

 

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Imperial Italy:
Ironclad battleship Sicilia (1895-1914)