Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Canada:
Submarine HMCS Corner Brook proceeding partially under her own power after finally returning to the water following a decade long repair period, June 13, 2021. Photo credit to Master Corporal Nathan Spence.

 

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USN:
August 1972, Gulf of Tonkin. 8-inch triple turret of USS Newport News (CA-148) is in heavy use during one of three North Vietnam deployments.

During a fire mission off Vietnam in October 1972, USS Newport News (CA-148) suffered a premature projectile explosion in the center gun of Turret II that killed twenty crewmen. The projectile explosion was caused by a faulty auxiliary detonating fuse and this ignited a further nine cartridges in the ammunition hoists. The explosion caused extensive damage to the mounting and split the forward slide structure.

 

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USCG:
Hamilton class high endurance cutter USCGC Morgenthau (WHEC-722)

On April 18, 2017, USCGC Morgenthau was decommissioned at the Coast Guard Station, Sand Island, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Post decommissioning: After removal of classified equipment and specified weaponry the Morgenthau was designated for purchase by Vietnam.

The United States transferred the Morgenthau to the Vietnam Coast Guard on 28 May 2017, pursuant to the Excess Defense Articles program. Vietnam has commissioned the ship as CSB 8020

 

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Russia:
Project 885M, Yasen-M class submarine Kazan (K-561), January 2020

 

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Imperial Germany:
High Seas Fleet at sea, circa 1914

 

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HMS Hood at the port of West Australian Fremantle, Empire Cruise 1924.

 

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Colombian Navy School Vessel ARC Gloria

 

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Australia:
View of HMAS Australia's bridge in September 1944. About a month later, she would be struck on the foremast by a Japanese aircraft, killing 30 including the Captain (Wearing shades and facing right)

Emile Frank Verlaine Dechaineux, DSC (3 October 1902 – 21 October 1944) was an Australian mariner who reached the rank of Captain in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. He was killed by a Japanese aircraft in what is believed to have been the first ever kamikaze attack, in the lead-up to the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

 

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USN:
USS Bennington showing the damage to her flight deck after Typhoon Connie

In Dec 1944, elements of Admiral William Halsey's United States Third Fleet sailed into Typhoon Cobra where three warships and 790 lives were lost. After regrouping and one more very successful fleet sortie, Halsey faced a Court of Inquiry about the typhoon but no negligence was assigned. This was followed by a pre-scheduled four-month planning period away from the fleet before he returned 27 May 1945 as the fleet continued its assault on Okinawa. A mere ten days after Halsey's return, it happened again.

The storm that would later be named Typhoon Connie was a compact, tightly swirling, powerful tropical cyclone. Throughout the night of 4 Jun 1945, Clark's ships recorded increasing winds, plummeting barometers, and deteriorating seas. Just before daybreak on 5 Jun 1945, Hornet was recording steady winds at 100 knots with gusts up to 120 knots. The seas were described has having steady "mountainous pyramidal" parallel waves exceeding 60 feet from crest to trough. The escort carrier USS Attu reported riding over "the granddaddy of all waves." Both USS Hornet and USS Bennington had the leading 24 feet of their flight decks collapse over their bows in the rough seas. Heavy cruiser USS Pittsburgh had 110 feet of her bow completely break away. Twenty-nine other ships also sustained storm damage ranging from moderate to severe. At least 100 fleet aircraft were also damaged or destroyed. Thankfully and unlike Cobra, no ships were lost and only 7 men died.

 

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USN:
A heavy lift lowers the main propulsion module into the hull of USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) at Ingalls Shipbuilding. The module consists of two General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines and a Westinghouse gear reduction unit. 6 August 1984

USS Iowa (BB-61) on keel blocks in Dry Dock No. 4, Norfolk, Jan 5, 1985

 

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France, Japan, Australia & USN:
French, Japanese Australian and US warships gathered 22 May, 2019 for Exercise La Perouse in the Bay of Bengal. FS CHARLES DE GAULLE R91 and IZUMO D183 took part, with Aussie submarine HMAS COLLINS leading.

 

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RN:
The Royal Party watch a 14-inch shell being moved across the deck on the battleship HMS King George V, 29 October 1944

Ammunition would be loaded typically from a barge / lighter. Shells would be hoisted onto the weather deck via a davit set up for that purpose.
The trolley (called a Shell Perambulator) could take 3 shells at a time, and were used to move shells about the weather deck. Each turret had two sets of shell-embarkation gear, at opposite corners. (The other corners were for cordite). One shell at a time per embarkation gear was lowered vertically to the shell rooms via a davit powered by a hydraulic press. It was then tipped over so it was horizontal and stored in a shell 'bin'.

The Royal party consisted of the King and Queen as well as the Princesses Elizabeth [future Elizabeth II] and Margaret.

 

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PLA(N):
The ongoing construction of PLA-Navy's Type 003 aircraft carrier.

 

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USN:
101008-N-4856N-018 STRAIT OF MALACCA (Oct. 8, 2010) Lighting flashes as the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transits the Strait of Malacca. Abraham Lincoln is underway on a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 7th and U.S. 5th Fleet areas of responsibility.

Damage sustained by USS Fitzgerald from her collision with MV ACX Crystal in June 2017. The bulbous bow caused worse damage below the waterline.

191229-N-DX868-1183 GULF OF TADJOURA (December 29, 2019) Coastal Riverine Squadron (CRS) 1 patrol boats provide point security for the USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE-6), a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship, in the Gulf of Tadjoura. The Amelia Earhart is supporting the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. CRS-1 is forward-deployed with Combined Task Group 68.6 at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti.

 

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RN:
HMS Renown at an unknown location, 1934. An unidentified Leander class cruiser is seen in the background.(Photo courtesy of Ted Ormiston)

 

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USN:
A Nakajima B5N Kate torpedo bomber passing over heavy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-26),heading for USS Hornet (CV-8) during Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.26 October 1942.

06 November 1942, East of Azores. Vought OS2U Kingfisher reconnaissance floatplanes are tossed around after USS Massachusetts (BB-59) was caught up by a heavy Atlantic storm en route to Morocco.

Third Fleet outside Tokyo Bay, Japan, Aug 1945 soon after the Japanese surrender. Visible are at least five fleet carriers, three light carriers, three battleships, and numerous escorts.

 

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USN:
Sunset as Carrier Strike Group 5, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), transits the Strait of Malacca. 18th June 2021

USS America (LHA 6) visits Okinawa, June 2021

 

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USN:
USS Saratoga CV-3 beside a 1/4 scale replica of HMS Victory in 1927.

USS Chicago (CA-29) passing under the Golden Gate Bridge, late 1930's.

 

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France:
Pre-dreadnought battleship Charles Martel. View from the port quarter

 

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Argentina:
Battleship Rivadavia about to enter dry dock #4, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 6th August, 1913