Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
USS Bainbridge CGN-25 as it transits the Suez Canal. photo by PH3 P. Savelli

Battleship USS Wisconsin BB-64 and USS Normandy CG-60 arrive for New York's Victory Celebration in honour of the coalition forces that liberated Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm. (2830x1870) June 6, 1991.

 

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Sweden:
Destroyer HSwMS Hälsingborg showing her neutrality stripes during WWII.

 

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Germany:
Battleship Bismarck firing her aft main battery at HMS Hood & Prince of Wales, 24 May 1941

 

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Russia:
Project 1123 Kondor helicopter carrier Moskva, Sevastopol 1996, Sevastopol 1996

Admiral Kuznetsov in drydock PD-50 prior to it sinking, 2017

Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate Admiral Makarov and Turkish Coast Guard 80 Class patrol boat in Bosphorus, 2017

 

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Italy:
Battleship Conte di Cavour, left, and the heavy cruiser Fiume, right, sometime between 1937 and 1940

Battleship Andrea Doria, her newly rebored 320mm guns trained to port, at Pola in October 1940, upon completion of her reconstruction

 

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RN:
June 1941. HMS Suffolk cutting a parallel path to the edge of the ice while on arctic patrol.

A destroyer flotilla carrying out a sweep for enemy submarines in the Mediterranean, seen from HMS Jervis. February 1942

County-class heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland in 1942. A Walrus Amphibian aircraft is having its wings unfolded

HMS Saracen returning to harbour at Algiers after a successful patrol. February 1943

During her short career Saracen saw fair success, Sinking the submarines U-335 and Granito as well as about 16,000 tons worth of other ships.
She would be lost shortly after the midnight of Friday the 13th, August 1943 during her 13th patrol after being forced to surface by a pair of Gabbiano-class corvettes and subsequently scuttled.

 

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USN:
USS Arizona in the East River, New York City, circa mid-1916

Paulding-class destroyer USS Trippe (DD-33) at Queenstown, Ireland, 1918

USS Ward (DD-139) off Mare Island Navy Yard, September 1918, shortly after she was commissioned.

 

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Norway:
HNoMS Helge Ingstad. 2018

The investigation has shown that efforts to prevent the frigate from sinking and prioritisation of the right measures could have helped to gain control of the situation on board. For the crew to be able to consider actions other than those that were taken, however, they would have needed a better understanding of the frigate’s stability characteristics. Furthermore, they would have needed additional competence, training and practice, and better decision support tools than those that were available to them. Given the crew’s knowledge at the time, the situation they faced and the prevailing circumstances, it is, after all, understandable that a decision was taken to evacuate the frigate rather than put human life and health at risk.

The crew attempted to pump water out of the vessel, but were never able to make effective use of the bilge system. The investigation has shown that, even if effective pumping had been initiated, the flooding would eventually have become too extensive for the system to handle the large volumes of water.

Doors, hatches and other openings in the frigate that were supposed to be closed to maintain stability and buoyancy were not closed at the time of evacuation. A shutdown of the frigate could have prevented her from sinking. In this context, stability calculations show that neither the grounding nor the flooding through the hollow propeller shafts was a decisive factor in causing the frigate to sink, as the failure to shut her down would have caused her to sink in any case.

 

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RN:
A Dragonfly helicopter from the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle prepares to land on the quarterdeck of HMS Vanguard while the battleship is oiling at sea during Exercise Mariner, Sept 1953.

 

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Italy:
Horizon class destroyer Andrea Doria (D 553) during Ex Steadfast Defender 21

Deep-submergence rescue vehicle SVR-300 with mother ship ITS Anteo (A-5309).

 

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USN:
USS Idaho (BB-42) (foreground) and USS Texas (BB-35) Steaming at the rear of the battle line, during Battle Fleet practice off the California coast, circa 1930.

 

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Russia:
The launch of Admiral Gorshkov class (Project 22350) frigate Admiral Golovko at Severnaya Verf, Saint Petersburg. 22 May 2020. Photo by Viktor Chumakov.

Currently outfitting and preparing for sea trials which will last until late 2022.

 

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Russia:
Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Gorshkov She was launched in 1982, and was in service from 1987 to 1991 in the Soviet Navy as Baku, and from 1991 to 1996 in the Russian Navy as Admiral Gorshkov. In 2004, she was sold to India and converted into a STOBAR carrier now named INS Vikramaditya.

Pr.1135 Burevestnik (NATO Krivak I class) Ladny.

Project 949A Antey (NATO Oscar II class),K-456 Tver, formerly known as K-456 Vilyuchinsk (ex Kasatka) loading torpedoes

 

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PLA(N):
Type 073A Landing Ship Songshan LST-946 with a ZBD-05 IFV disembarking

 

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Netherlands:
HNLMS Karel Doorman in Hollandia, New Guinea. Due to a lack of tugs in the area, the crew used the propeller thrust of aircraft chained to the deck to nudge the carrier into the docks without tug support.

RAN also used this method to get alongside with HMAS Melbourne. Saw it in action in 1975 in Sydney, chained her S-2G Trackers to the deck and pushed her into the wharf as the damn dockies were on strike (again!)

 

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France:
Submarine Surcouf visiting Casablanca, Morocco, in 1938.

November 27, 1942. Light cruiser La Galissoniere as seen after having been scuttled in Toulon. Note her twin torpedo tube.

Battleship Courbet scuttled to serve as a breakwater ("Gooseberry") off Sword Beach in Normandy, June 1944

 

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USN:
Ex USS Bonhomme Richard arriving in Brownsville, Texas where she will be scrapped

 

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Imperial Japan:
Students at the naval school at Sasebo practice flag semaphore aboard a warship, September 1941

Destroyer Amatsukaze manoeuvres at high speed away from the disabled carrier Ryūjō to evade a high-level bomb attack from US B-17s, 24 August 1942

Photograph was taken from one of the attacking US B-17 aircraft during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. The other destroyer in the photograph is Tokitsukaze, which can be seen reversing away from the bow of Ryūjō to evade the attack. She along with Amatsukaze had moved in to assist and pick up survivors from Ryūjō after she had been disabled by dive and torpedo bombers from the carrier USS Saratoga, when they came under high-level bomber attack from B-17s. None of the Japanese ships were damaged in the attack however.

 

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Denmark:
Thetis class ocean patrol vessel HDMS Thetis in Greenland

 

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Spain:
S-81 Isaac Peral blow test of the ballast tanks. 7 May 2021. Credit photo: Antonio Gil and Pablo Sánchez / AGM. La verdad Murcia.