Photos Navies Of All Nations

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India:
INS Sumedha Saryu-Class Patrol Vessel

INS Kolkata Kolkata-Class Stealth Guided-Missile Destroyer

INS Tarkash Talwar-Class Frigate

 

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USN:
USS Wisconsin (BB-64), USS New Jersey (BB-62) and USS Iowa (BB-61) at the Phila. Navy Yard in mothballs, April 1967.

USS Wisconsin (BB-64), USS New Jersey (BB-62), USS Iowa (BB-61) in 1977.

 

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RN:
24 May, 1941. The last ever picture of HMS Hood taken from HMS Prince of Wales

HMS Hood's 6m tall rudder, still locked in it's final turn to port.

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HMS Prince of Wales as seen hoisting a Walrus. Royal Navy official photographer Coote, R G G (Lt) © IWM (A 3897)

Force H comprised of Renown, Ark Royal and Sheffield at sea. All three would take part in the hunt for the Bismarck

Aerial view of HMS SUFFOLK as she patrolled the Denmark Straits.June 1941

 

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RN:
Type 45 Destroyer HMS Dauntless near Gourock,Scotland, prior to commissioning (2007-2010)

 

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USN:
USS West Virginia (BB-48) in Gatun Locks Panama 1930.

USS Houston (CA-30) as seen from USS Lexington (CV-2), 1939

26 October 1942. North of Duff Islands, The Solomons. Heavy cruiser USS Northampton is attacked (with no success) by a Nakajima 5N torpedo bomber during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.

U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless, Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat, and Grumman TBF-1 Avenger aircraft of Carrier Air Group Ten (CVG-10) on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6), on 2 May 1943. The battleship USS Washington (BB-56) is visible astern. The ships were part of Task Force 16 and were enroute to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA), after leaving Noumea, Espiritu Santo, on 30 April. TF 16 arrived at Pearl Harbor on 8 May 1943.

USS Guam (CB-2) Coming out of a turn, circa 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Catalog # NH 97131

PT-810 running trials in Chesapeake Bay. PT-810 was armed with two 40mm guns (fore and aft) and two twin 20mm guns and the prototype 81mm mortars. Surface-search radar has not yet been fitted, but the mast does show UHF dipoles as well as an HF whip.

 

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France:
FS Charles de Gaulle near Petit Minou lighthouse, Brest. Sept 2020

Frigate FS Normandie (D651) off the coast of Brest,France. Photo by: Ewan Lebourdais

 

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Germany:
Prinz Eugen crew cleaning 20,3 cm main battery gun, 1940.

U-123 prepares for firing on a transport ship

Battleship Bismarck as seen engaging the Hood and Prince of Wales. 24 May 1941

 

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RN:
"The Battle of the Denmark Strait, 24th May 1941: The loss of H.M.S. Hood" by Ian Lowe

Sub-Lieutenant Brooke was in the aft gunnery director control tower of Prince of Wales. He described the run into battle as so:

"Alarm starboard! Enemy in sight! Battleship bearing green five-0. Follow director. All guns with armour-piercing shell load!"
Click went the loudspeaker and "This is your Captain speaking. The two enemy ships are in sight and we shall be opening fire any minute now. Good luck to you all."
I could see nothing except the the unbroken straight line of the horizon, but of course the forward director was a good deal higher than ours and could see further... The loudspeaker came on air again.
"This is the Padre speaking. I am going to read a short prayer." This he did. ("O Lord, thou knowest how busy we must be today. If we forget thee, do not thou forget us.")
Though by no means irreligious I must admit I found this distracting. But not for long. Something suddenly came up over the horizon to grow slowly but distinctly; the top of a mast. Then a little to its left something. I shall never forget the thrill of that moment. A squat grey lump on a stalk, with bars protruding each side - the Bismarck's main armament director.... It grew by the second like a serpent rearing up while our rangetaker spun his wheel, trying to converge his two half-images in the face of the driving spume. After widening out into a fighting top of some sort, one saw that the stalk was really the top of a tower; other excresences appeared and between these and the mast, the pointed cowl then the full width of a massive funnel. Guns began again:
"Range two-seven-0" (27,000 yards). "Inclination one-two-0 left. Speed three-0."
Down below in the transmitting station they would be winding hand-wheels and pressing buttons as the details came to them.
Mesmerised, I watched the Bismarck's superstructure swell as more and more of its pyramid shape - seen so often in diagrams - came into view.

 

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RN:
HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08)

HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) departs Portsmouth, May 2021. Image by Shaun Roster.

 

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Russia:
Slava-class cruiser Varyag in San Francisco, 2010.

Launch of a Kh-35 Uran anti-ship missile from Udaloy class destroyer 'Marshal Shaposhnikov

Project 12411T "Kuznetsk" (ex R-129) (NATO Tarantul class corvette) launching a P-15 Termit AShM

Black Sea fleet flagship, guided missile cruiser Moskva (ex-Slava) in dock.

 

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France:
Battleship Dunkerque seen from another vessel. A still from the movie "Marine 1939"

Destroyer Mogador (X61)

Destroyer Volta (X62), Toulon, July 1941

A Loire 130 flying boat is being launched from the catapult of battleship Strasbourg, destroyer Volta (X62) in the background, 1941

Battleship Strasbourg's superstructure, sailors are on leave, Toulon, July 1941

Battleship Strasbourg heading out for a training exercise, July 1941

Strasbourg heading out for a training exercise, Toulon, July 1941

 

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USN:
USS Saint Paul bombarding positions near Hungnam, South Hamgyong Province, Korea, 26 Jul 1953

 

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RN:
HMS Southampton firing during the fleet action off Sardinia, 1940. The flash of the guns can be seen, as can the splashes of the enemy shells seen falling short and astern. Photo taken from HMS Sheffield

HMS Torbay coming home to Portsmouth after deployment in the Mediterranean. Mar/Apr 1944.

Battleship HMS King George V arriving into Melbourne, Australia, 29 October 1945

 

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Japan & India:
Destroyer JS Ikazuchi (DD-107) sails with destroyer INS Chennai (D65) in the Arabian Sea, Ex JIMEX 2020

 

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RN, Australia & NZ:
RFA Wave Ruler, HMNZS Endeavour and HMAS Success (possibly Exercise Bersama Shield 2009)

 

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USN:
USS Lehigh, a Passiac-class Monitor launched in 1863; combat damage visible on the conning tower

September 1899, New York Navy Yard. Meal time on the main deck of the protected cruiser USS Olympia (C-6).

 

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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