Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
Reserve fleet laid up at Naval Station San Diego, circa 1950s
The ships in foreground are mostly minesweepers and escort carriers, seven Commencement Bay-class and four Casablanca-class. Among ships in first row are: USS Chief (MSF-315), USS Competent (MSF-316), USS Defense (MSF-317), USS Zeal (MSF-131) and USS Symbol (MSF-123). The light aircraft carrier in the center background is most probably USS San Jacinto (CVL-30). The photo was probably taken before 1959, when the aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) arrived. Zeal was sunk as a target 9 January 1967.

Reserve fleet laid up at Naval Station San Diego, in the 1960s
Identifiable are the aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) and the light aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto (CVL-30), seven Commencement Bay-class escort carriers, three Baltimore-class heavy cruisers and three Cleveland-class light cruisers. The oval things in the lower right are segments of floating drydocks. Bottom left is dry dock USS Alamogordo (ARDM-2) so this image is after 1962.

USS Constitution

 

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India:
Guided-missile destroyer INS Ranvir (D54) is underway with U.S. and Indian navy ships during Exercise Malabar 2012. A floating example of globalisation with an Israeli radar on the main mast and a Dutch radar on the secondary mast

 

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USN:
USS Alaska (CB-1) as seen from fleet oiler USS Taluga (AO-62), March 1945

 

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RN:
HMS Hermes (R12) at Torbay Borough, England. Date unknown

 

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USN, JMSDF, RAN, RCN:
PHILIPPINE SEA (Nov. 11, 2019) Ships from the U.S. Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Royal Australian Navy, and Royal Canadian Navy are underway in formation during Annual Exercise (ANNUALEX) 19. ANNUALEX 19 is an annual, bilateral exercise which further develops coordination and interoperability of the premier alliance between the U.S. Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force/Released)

 

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USN:
US New Mexico-class battleship in floating dry dock World War II Pacific

USS Bowfin SS-287

 

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USN:
USS Alaska (CB-1) as seen from fleet oiler USS Taluga (AO-62), March 1945

The Alaska's really were about the least useful ships built for the USN during WW2. Requiring nearly as many men as an Iowa, but with only a fraction of the Iowa's firepower or protection, they were a poor design that fortunately was limited to just two ships.

 

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RN:
HMS Bulwark (R08) moored next to the Doge's Palace in Venice

Below decks on the HMS Eagle, view taken from lift. The variety of aircraft include, from left above: a Gannet, a Wessex Anti-submarine helicopter, and a Scimitar. Below are Buccaneers, the Navy's low level strike aircraft. Jan 1965

 

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RN & USN:
HMS Queen Elizabeth, USS Philippine Sea, HMS Dragon, USS Truxton, HMS Norththumberland, RFA Tideforce

ICEX 1992, featuring HMS Trenchant, USS Spadefish and a Nimrod MR2

 

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The Alaska's really were about the least useful ships built for the USN during WW2. Requiring nearly as many men as an Iowa, but with only a fraction of the Iowa's firepower or protection, they were a poor design that fortunately was limited to just two ships.

I believe they were envisioned to counter the IJN heavy cruiser force

 

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RN:
Gun deck of H.M.S. SUTLEJ between 1865-1868, a 50 gun frigate of the Constance Class

4" Gun crew of H.M.S. "Partridge", North America and West Indies Squadron. between 1889-1897

 

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USN:
USS Agerholm, DD-826, moments after firing an ASROC with nuclear depthcharge during Operation Dominic/Swordfish, on 11 May 1962

"Able Day" A-bomb cloud, seen from USS Fall River (CA-131) off Bikini, 1 July 1946.

 

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USN:
USS New York (Armored Cruiser #2), breech of 8-inch gun and crew. Photographed by Edward H. Hart, published by Detroit Publishing Company, between 1893-1901

Indiana-class battleship USS Massachusetts

Passaic class monitor, USS Nahant, one-pound gun and crew. Photographed by Edward H. Hart, published by Detroit Publishing Company, possibly 1898

USS Oregon (Battleship #3), 6-pounder and gunner. Photographed by Edward H. Hart, published by Detroit Publishing Company, between 1896-1901

US Navy yacht, USS Vixen (PY 4), Maxim 1pdr pompom and Gunner Smith, sometime between 1890-1901
**Gunner Smith appears to have his "little pompom" well in hand** ?

 

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Italy:
Ships of the Red Sea Flotilla moored in Massawa, Eritrea, in the spring of 1940

 

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USN:
USNS Big Horn (T-AO 198)

USS Monterey, CG-61, fires a Tomahawk land attack missile, 13 April 2018

U.S. Marines attached to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC), conduct MV-22 Osprey operations with USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3)

 

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USN:
Guided missile destroyers (from left to right): USS COONTZ (DDG 40), USS KING (DDG 41), and USS FARRAGUT (DDG 37) docked at the destroyer and submarine piers. The guided missile cruiser USS TICONDEROGA can be seen too. March 8th, 1988, Norfolk.

Nuclear powered guided missile cruiser USS CALIFORNIA (CGN-36) underway off the coast of Southern California, Nov 5th, 1986

 

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USN:
Preparing to launch a Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane from her port catapult, during the October 1943 raid on Marcus Island.

USS Sicily (CVE-118) at New York City, September 1947

 

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India:
INS Viraat

INS Vikramaditya R33

INS Vikramaditya at a dock

 

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USN:
USS Ingersoll (DD-652) experiences a near miss from a round from North Vietnamese Shore Battery while operating in South China Sea, March 1967.

 

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RAN & USN:
HMAS Brisbane (DDG 41) (top) and the U.S. Navy destroyer USS John S. McCain