Italy:
Winter 1939, Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico shipyard, Trieste. Battleship Andrea Doria undergoes 43-month long reconstruction. She will rejoin the fleet in October 1940.
Superstructure and secondary armament of battleship Roma, summer of 1942
France:
Steam screw-driven frigate L’Astrée (1859). A photo of the ship at full speed in 1869.
Coaling was hard and dirty work but the monotony of the task was softened a little by music from the ship’s band. Here, it looks like the battleship Provence in taking on coal from a collier tied up alongside. Coal is brought out of the hold in sacks or baskets and emptied out onto the deck from where it is shovelled down into the bunkers. One of the saxophonists has a lapel badge of a musician but the others are a rather motley crowed in ragged jackets and an assortment of headgear. Maybe even the musician have to take their turn at coaling.
USN:
Summer 1971, off Yokosuka. A Bendix RIM-8H Talos missile is being loaded on board guided missile cruiser USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) before she starts one of her combat missions in Vietnam. Photo by Phillip R. Hays.
France:
The fourth nuclear-powered submarine, "Le Terrible," sits at its launch in Cherbourg, France, on Friday, March 21, 2008.
The two Foudre-class LPDs (Foudre left, Siroco right) moored side by side in Toulon just before Foudre was sold to the Chilean Navy in 2011. Siroco was sold to Brazil in 2015
FS Charles de Gaulle entering dry dock in Toulon, to go through a year and a half long refit, 2016
USN:
All three battleships of the New Mexico-class; USS Idaho, USS New Mexico, and USS Mississippi, moored abreast at Pearl Harbor, 17 December 1943.
SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft flying over USS Washington and USS Lexington in the Pacific Ocean en route toward the Gilbert Islands, 12 Nov 1943.
20 November 1943, 8:00 am, Butaritari atoll, Kiribati. Heavy cruiser USS Minneapolis (CA-36) supports USAAF bombarding of the Japanese fortifications at an early stage of the Battle of Makin.
USS Indiana (BB-58) fires a salvo from her forward 16/45 guns at the Kamaishi plant of the Japan Iron Company, 250 miles north of Tokyo. A second before, USS South Dakota (BB-57), from which this photograph was taken, fired the initial salvo of the first naval gunfire bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands. The superstructure of USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is visible directly behind Indiana. The heavy cruiser in the left center distance is either USS Quincy (CA-71) or USS Chicago (CA-136) .
Japan:
Main & secondary battery of battleship Fusō trained to port, sometime after her first reconstruction, circa 1930s/40s
Battleship Musashi firing her forward guns during gunnery trials in 1942. This photograph was provided to a newspaper by the family of Captain Tameshige Nagahashi who was a gunnery officer on Musashi.
Battleship Yamato photographed during the Operation Ten-Go by an aircraft from USS Yorktown (CV-10). The battleship is on fire and visibly listing to port.
Aircraft carrier Taihō during her sea trials, 1944
USN:
USS Lexington CV-2, an Omaha-class cruiser, and various Standard battleships of the Colorado, Tennessee, and New Mexico-classes moored in Puget Sound, 1937.
RN:
Battleship HMS King George V at Seydisfjordur, Iceland after she collided with the destroyer HMS Punjabi, 3 May 1942
At 1545 hours [1 May 1942] north east of Iceland in thick fog the Battlefleet was zigzagging when they ran into a thick bank of fog; immediately KING GEORGE V made a signal to cease zigzagging. Destroyer PUNJABI failed to receive the signal and carried on zigzagging and crossed under the flagship's bows. KING GEORGE V travelling at 25 knots cut PUNJABI clean in half; PUNJABI's stern sank almost immediately. The collision caused a 40 foot gash in the bow of KING GEORGE V and also under water damage. As the stern of PUNJABI sank her ready use depth charges exploded directly under the keel of the WASHINGTON the vessel immediately astern of KING GEORGE V, causing slight damage to WASHINGTON.
The fore section of PUNJABI sank slowly which enabled many of her crew to abandon ship. Destroyers MARNE and MARTIN were able to pick up 201 survivors. 49 were lost mainly from the stern section.
Battleships HMS King George V and HMS Howe at Port-of-Algiers, 24 July 1943. The two ships were part of a reinforcement of British forces in the Mediterranean for Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily.
RN:
HMS Albion leads a Royal Navy Task Group taking part in exercise OP VELA 2006, off the coast of Sierra Leone. Included in the Task Group are, HMS Enterprise, RFA Wave Knight, HMS Southampton, HMS Argyle, HMS Ocean, RFA Sir Bedivere and RFA Fort Austin
France:
Battleship Richelieu docked next to HMS Colossus as she's about to be loaned for 5 years under the name Arromanches, Portsmouth, August 2-6th 1946
Battleship Richelieu and the newly acquired aircraft carrier Arromanches in the harbour of Cherbourg, France in 1946
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