Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
HMS Vanguard leaving Portsmouth for the last time, August 1960

Vanguard ran aground while in Portsmouth and there was a nearby pub on the shore where you could get a front-seat view.

This image is just before she started to drift to her port side heading for Spice Island where thousands were gathered to watch Vanguard leave. The pilot quick thinkingly dropped the starboard anchors to catch the old chain ferry chains on the harbour floor, this worked slowing the ship down and away from the crowds before she ran aground.

The tugs had to be assisted by larger tugs and was freed within an hour, initially they had to hold Vanguard in place whilst attempting to free her. This was to prevent her stern swinging out into the harbour blocking it even further!

 

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Japan & USN:
PHILIPPINE SEA (Nov. 11, 2016) (JMSDF) ship JS Ashigara (DDG 178),at Keen Sword 17 (KS17). KS17 is a biennial, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-directed, U. S. Pacific Command-sponsored Field Training Exercise (FTX). KS17 is designed to meet mutual defense objectives by increasing combat readiness and interoperability between Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and U. S. Forces. Shiloh is on patrol with Carrier Strike Group Five (CSG 5) in the Philippine Sea supporting security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.

 

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France & Italy:
Aquitaine class frigate FS Languedoc (D653) with cousin Carlo Bergamini class frigate ITS Virginio Fasan (F 591), June 2021

 

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New Zealand:
HMNZS Te Kaha at Devonport Naval Base

 

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Denmark:
HDMS Sehested (P 547) was a Willemoes-class fast attack craft, decommissioned in 2000

 

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Japan:
Towada Class Fleet Support Ship HAMANA (AOE 424) (right front), two MDF Hatsuyuki Class Destroyers (right rear), three Asagiri (Morning Mist) Class Destroyers (left front) including MDF ASAGIRI (DD151) (left) and MDF SAWAGIRI (DD157) (center), two Tachikaze Class Destroyers (left rear) and a Shirane Class Destroyer MDF KURAMA (DDH 144) with three Mitsubishi HSS-2B Sea King Helicopters. The ships are participating in RIMPAC 92 (Rim of the Pacific Exercise 1992), 1st June, 1992

 

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Russia:
Project 11540 Yastreb, Neustrashimyy-class frigate Yaroslav Mudry in the English Channel, 20th April 2018

 

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Imperial Italy:
Armoured cruiser San Giorgio,

Commissioned in 1910, the ship was badly damaged when she ran aground before the start of the Italo-Turkish War in 1911, although she was repaired before its end. During World War I, San Giorgio's activities were limited by the threat of Austro-Hungarian submarines, although the ship did participate in the bombardment of Durazzo, Albania, in late 1918.

 

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RN:
01 May 1942, North-East of Iceland. British light cruiser HMS Kenya is on her patrol duties, provides distant cover for Convoy QP 11 (Murmansk - Loch Ewe).

USN F4F Wildcats and TBF Avengers on the deck of HMS Victorious (R38)

This photo:
Features Victorious, one of perhaps the most beautiful class of aircraft carriers ever constructed
Allied interoperability - US aircraft operating from a British ship alongside British aircraft
Allied interoperability II - British ship refuelling from a US tanker

On 12 July Victorious replenished under way from the USN tankers Cimarron and Kaskaskia, taking on 3,270 tons of furnace fuel oil, 30,283 gallons of avgas, 625 gallons of lubricating oil and 20 gallons of ice cream. On 20 July, however, she ran out of potatoes and 800lb of dried potato powder were flown from Saratoga in an Avenger dubbed the ‘Spud Express’, which also brought a Chief Commissary Steward who demonstrated to the RN chefs how he considered the powder should be reconstituted with water to make four tons of ‘perfect’ mashed potato

 

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Japan & USN:
White Beach Port Facility, Okinawa, Japan (Feb. 28, 2003) - A busy day for the White Beach Port Facility in Okinawa, Japan as the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD-2), (JMSDF) ships Shimakaze (DDG-172), Myoukou (DDG-175), Hamagiri (DD-155) and Natusio (SS-584) sit moored pierside. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class James G. McCarter. (RELEASED)

 

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RN & USN:
HMS Victorious, then USS Robin, together with USS Saratoga in Nouméa, 1943.

 

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Imperial Japan:
The captured battleship Nagato pictured at anchor, probably at Yokosuka Naval Base. 1945

 

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RN & USMC:
VMFA-211 Ordnance technicians load AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles and GBU-12 Paveway II bombs onto F-35B on HMS Queen Elizabeth in preparation for combat missions over Syria. 23rd June 2021

 

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USN:
USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) underway, ferrying aircraft, circa 1953.

USS Springfield (CL-66) during her conversion at the Fore River Yard of the Bethlehem Steel Co. at Quincy, Massachusetts (USA), on 3 July 1959. Springfield arrived at the Fore River Yard on 5 May 1957 and was recommissioned as CLG-7 on 2 July 1960.

 

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RN:
Torpedo boats, possibly of the TB.34 class, at The Quays in Waterford city (IRE). Introduced in 1885 the survivors were sold or scrapped in 1919 at the end of WW1.

 

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South Korea:
ROKS Marado (LPH-6112) is the second ship of the Dokdo-class amphibious assault ship, launched on 14 May 2018 at the shipyard of Hanjin Heavy Industries & Constructions Co. in Busan. Presently Marado is undergoing sea trials

 

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USN, India, Japan & Australia:
Exercise MALABAR 2020, Arabian Sea

 

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India:
Kiev-class aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya

 

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RN & USN:
HMS Victorious, then USS Robin, together with USS Saratoga in Nouméa, 1943.
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Wow, I had no idea! Here's the story:

Armoured Aircraft Carriers

The ship that never was: USS Robin HMS Victorious' sojourn in the USN, with USS Saratoga November 23, 1942, to September 26, 1943

www.armouredcarriers.com

 

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USN:
The badly damaged USS Selfridge's 5-Inch twin gun mount hangs off her bow after the Battle of Vella Lavella, October 6, 1943.

On the night of 6 October 1943, Selfridge, O'Bannon, and Chevalier intercepted an enemy force of six destroyers, three destroyer transports, and smaller armed craft some 12 miles off Marquana Bay as it attempted to evacuate land forces from Vella Lavella. In the ensuing Battle of Vella Lavella, Chevalier was torpedoed and damaged beyond repair. She was sunk on the 7th by an American torpedo. Selfridge and O'Bannon were both heavily damaged; Selfridge by an enemy torpedo, O'Bannon by enemy action compounded by collision with Chevalier just after the latter had gone dead in the water. Personnel casualties on board Selfridge amounted to 13 killed, 11 wounded, and 36 missing."