Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Germany:
SSS Horst Wessel, flagship of the Kriegsmarine sail training fleet, at sea under sail in 1936

Commissioning ceremony of battleship Bismarck, 24 Aug 1940

April 10, 1940, the Deutschland-class panzerschiff Lützow is in the Maurangsfjord for Operation Weserübung. The cruiser's guns are covered to avoid attention from British aircraft. In just a few days, the German invasion force lost 3 cruisers and 10 destroyers.

 

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Imperial Italy:
Monitor Faa di Bruno, 1919

Seamen posing under a triple 305 mm (12 inch) turret of the battleship Giulio Cesare, 1926

Crewmen of the destroyer Giosué Carducci posing near one of its 120 mm twin mounts, between 1937 and 1941

Light cruiser Eugenio di Savoia passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, early 1939

 

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RN:
HMS Defender using her Sea Viper air missile defence system during Exercise Formidable Shield, a multinational air defence exercise which took place at the Royal Navy Hebrides training range, in the Western Isles of Scotland, 20th May, 2019

 

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RN:
Queen Elizabeth class battleship HMS Malaya in 1941.

HMS Talybont, Type 3 Hunt class escort destroyer, at anchor. May 1943

King George V class battleship HMS Howe, c. 1942-43

Late January, 1944, South-East of Nettuno, Italy. Assigned to the X-Ray Force, light cruiser HMS Penelope provides fire support to the US 3rd Infantry Division amid the Battle of Anzio (aka Operation Shingle).

 

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Imperial Japan:
B25 skip bombing a IJN type C patrol vessel and the devastating aftermath

 

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Imperial Japan:
Bombs rain down on IJN Yahagi during Operation Ten-Go. She has already been disabled by a torpedo hit to the engine room, killing the entire engineering crew.

Aircraft carriers Katsuragi & Kaiyō under air attack by carrier planes from Task Force 58, Kure, Japan, 19 March 1945

 

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Imperial Italy:
Ironclad Roma

The Roma was laid down in February 1863 at Genoa; mainly because of financial reasons, work proceeded very slowly, and she wasn't launched before December 1865, and finally commissioned in May 1869. Of wooden construction with external iron plating, she was already obsolescent, if not obsolete, when she finally entered service.
Her career was largely uneventful; the Roma was reduced to a floating battery at La Spezia in 1890, struck in 1895 and her hull was used for ammo storage. On 28 July 1896, during a storm, she was struck by lightning and caught on fire; to avoid a catastrophic explosion, she was torpedoed and deliberately sunk. Her wreck was raised after a month to be scrapped.

Left to right, the ironclad gunboat Varese and the paddle sloop Tukery moored at Naples, around 1867

 

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Kim Jong Un takes a ride on an (obsolete) Project 633 class (NATO Romeo) class submarine, 2014

North Korea operates 20 Romeo class submarines. Seven were directly imported from China between 1973 and 1975, and the remainder locally assembled with Chinese supplied parts between 1976 and 1995. One apparently sank in an accident in 1985. Four Chinese imported units are based on the western coast

 

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France, Italy & India:
A detachment of TF 465 sailing off the coast of Somalia, including French LHD Tonnerre and light stealth frigate Surcouf, Italian frigate Carabiniere and Talwar-class frigate INS Trikand. 18/19 June 2021

 

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RN:
HMS Courageous comes up to assess damage from a Harpoon strike on the ex-USS Hissem, 1981

 

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USN:
USS Mobile (LCS 26) arrives at its new homeport in San Diego, CA, June 26, 2021. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Rosalie Chang

 

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France & USN:
FS Charles de Gaulle sailing with USS Boxer in the Andaman Sea, June 2019

 

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USN:
Submarine chaser USS PC-1264 with her crew manning the rails. She was the only US Navy warship during WWII whose enlisted complement was entirely African-American.

At the time of the United States' entry into WWII, African-American crewmembers were only permitted to serve as messmen due to the Navy's fears that integrated crews would negatively affect the efficacy and discipline of the warships, despite integration being successfully done as far back as the Civil War. However, continued pressure from the NAACP and subsequent requests from President Roosevelt led to the Navy to allow African-Americans to enlist into general service starting June 1942 and plan two warships to have predominantly black crews, destroyer escort USS Mason and submarine chaser USS PC-1264.

Both ships retained an all-white officer complement throughout their wartime careers and originally their crews had a number of white petty officers aboard in order to train the sailors until their COs deemed them sufficient to take over, however USS Mason retained those petty officers for the entirety of her career while USS PC-1264 transferred them off after several months, making her the only one of the two to have a fully African-American crew. After her decommissioning in February 1946 she would be commanded by Ensign Samuel L. Gravely Jr, who would be in charge of her until she was put out of service; he would be the first African-American to serve aboard a US Navy warship as an officer, the first to command a warship, the first fleet commander, and the first flag officer.

While she and her crew did face a significant amount of prejudice at several points in her career, the officers onboard seemed to have treated them fairly and on one occasion the white crew of another submarine chaser defended her crew from a group of civilians intending to attack the ship, and both her and USS Mason's performances and conduct were very highly regarded within the Navy and played a considerable role in the reevaluation of its discriminatory policies postwar. Though it should be noted one of Mason's meritorious actions was not properly acknowledged and awarded until half a century later in 1994.

 

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Bangladesh:
BNS Nabajatra (New beginning), Type-035G Ming-class submarine. The navy bought two of these as part of their "How to submarine" program.

Bangladesh ordered two off the shelf Type 035G submarines from China in 2013 worth $203 million. The boats underwent refit in China. The Bangladesh Navy took delivery on 14 November 2016 of its first submarines. Bangladesh Navy ship names and pennant numbers of the submarines are BNS Nabajatra (S 161) and BNS Joyjatra (S 162) respectively. They were commissioned on 12 March 2017.

 

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RN:
HMS Bulwark at sea in Nov 1954

Light cruiser HMS Bermuda leaving Malta, March 25, 1959

 

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USSR:
Silhouetted starboard view of a Kiev class aircraft carrier (CVHG) as seen from across the deck of a Sovremenny class destroyer, 8th January,1986.

 

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USN:
USS Enterprise (CV-6), probably at Honolulu, mid-September 1940.

USS Duluth (CL-87) is entering drydock ABSD 6 at Guam to make structural repairs she sustained during the June 5 1945 typhoon.

USS Franklin in NYC for repairs 1945

 

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Italy:
This ship was the only operational "aircraft carrier" of the Royal Italian Navy during the Second World War. A Re.2000 fighter aircraft ready for takeoff, on a catapult of the Regia Marina seaplane carrier Giuseppe Miraglia, Mediterranean Sea, southwest of Italy, May 1942.

 

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USN & India:
INDIAN OCEAN (June 24, 2021) The Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) transits with the Kolkata-class stealth guided-missile destroyer INS Kochi (D-64), centre, and the Talwar-class frigate INS Teg (F-45) during a bilateral exercise.

 

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USN & France:
Freedom-class LCS USS Sioux City with Floreal-class surveillance frigate Germinal during a bilateral maritime exercise, June 23, 2021.