Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
USS Ranger (CV-61), in drydock with USS Hancock (CV-19) and USS Coral Sea (CV-43) at Hunters Point San Francisco. 1971

 

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Spain:
Battleship Jaime I

 

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Canada:
HMCS Regina at Esquimalt Harbour

HMCS Harry DeWolf (AOPV-430) conducts her first-ever helicopter landing on the deck as part of the Ship Helicopter Operating Limits (SHOL) trials, Oct 2020

 

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RN:
Museum ship HMS Belfast, River Thames, London

 

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RN:
July 1906, Shutter Rock, Lundy Island. An epic effort is made to salvage battleship HMS Montagu which ran aground on May 30, but the tides will ultimately damage the ship beyond repairs.

 

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USN:
USS Halyburton (FFG-40) refuels from USS Iowa (BB-61) in the North Atlantic, 6 Sept 1985

 

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USN:
Arleigh Burke class destroyers USS The Sullivans, USS Roosevelt, USS Carney and Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Vicksburg launch a salvo of SM-2MR SAMs during VANDALEX 2003

 

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USN:
Light cruiser USS Atlanta coming alongside heavy cruiser USS San Francisco for refueling, 16 Oct 1942

PT-170, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 10 (MTBRon 10), painted in “zebra” pattern, c. 1942

19 December 1944, East of Luzon Island, Philippines. Stricken by Typhoon Cobra, aircraft carrier USS Monterey (CVL-26) survives a massive fire on her hangar deck which broke after several Grumman TBM-1C Avenger torpedo bombers have slammed into one another.

USS North Carolina (BB-55) transiting the Panama Canal, 11 Oct 1945

 

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Italy:
Heavy cruisers sailing in a line-ahead formation: Trieste, Bolzano and Trento of the same class, followed by Zara, Fiume, Pola and Gorizia (Zara-class)

Light cruiser Armando Diaz

Light cruisers Armando Diaz and Luigi Cadorna during the Battle of Punta Stilo (Calabria), 9 July 1940

Light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni at Taranto in 1936 - colourized by irootoko_jr

 

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Imperial Japan:
IJN Kirishima (L) and IJN Akagi (R) in Tsukumowan Bay, April 27, 1939

 

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Italy:
Horizon-class destroyer (L) Bergamini class FREMM variants (C & R) and a Ninfe-class research vessel at the end of the wharf.

 

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Turkish Navy

 

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Russia:
RFS 375 'Dmitriy Rogachev', a patrol ship of Project 22160 (Vasiliy Bykov Class) arriving in Sevastopol on 23 May 2021. Photo from Novic1975

 

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RN:
On May 25th, 1982 the Bristol Group arrives in the Falklands with eight ships. More than replacing losses so far. Pictured are HMS Bristol, HMS Cardiff, HMS Active, HMS Avenger, HMS Andromeda, HMS Minerva, HMS Penelope and RFA Olna.

 

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Germany:
Spring 1946. Location: Port of Gdynia, Poland. Former battleship Gneisenau lies scuttled as a blockship.

 

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Poland:
Destroyer ORP Piorun, later famous for charging German battleship Bismarck - on patrol, 1940.

 

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USN:
A pair of F-14D Tomcats perform a high speed fly-by over the USS John C. Stennis in 2004

 

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RN:
May 25th: As Skyhawks dive in, one 1,000lb bomb strikes the water, as the second bounces from the waves onto HMS Broadsword's flight deck, gouging a hole in the flight deck and ripping the nose from her Lynx helicopter

May 25th: The last of HMS Coventry, rolled completely over with her propellers visible and lifeboats around her. Waiting for pickup, the crew now gave a stirring rendition of that great anthem, "Always look on the bright side of life."

 

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Imperial Germany:
U-boat U155 in display at the river Thames after the surrender of Germany, December 1918.

 

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France:
Battleship Richelieu in Corsica, 1950s

Richelieu class battleships Richelieu leading and Jean Bart trailing off Toulon, January 1956

The picture was taken from the escort ship Guichen (ex-Scipione Africano)

Left to right, the battleship Jean Bart, the cruiser Suffren (disarmed), Montcalm, and behind, the still active Colbert, Toulon in the early 1960's

Cruiser Océan (ex-Suffren), sold for scrap on November 5th 1975

She would leave Toulon on February 22th 1976, to be scrapped in Valencia, Spain.