Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
USS Laffey (DD-724) Severely damaged by four bombs and five kamikaze hits on April 16, 1945. In action some 30 miles north of Okinawa. Seen here is No. 3 5" mount, port view looking forward from aft.

11 May 1945, South-East off Okinawa. Light cruiser USS Pasadena (CL-65) provides cover for aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) which is heavily damaged after two kamikaze hits.

 

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USN & India:
USS Halsey (DDG 97) and INS Kochi (D 64), image taken from USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), June 2021

 

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Imperial Italy:
Torpedo-boat Euterpe, built by Thornycroft in 1883

Fourteen units of these early torpedo-boats (classified as 4th class torpedo-boats, "torpediniere di 4a classe") were built by Thornycroft for the Regia Marina. Designed to be embarked and deployed by capital ships, were instead used for defence of the major naval bases.

 

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USN:
USS Missouri, October 1986. Derwent River, Tasmania.

USS Wisconsin (BB-64) firing a broadside to port with her 16/50 and 5/38 guns, circa 1988-91. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

 

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USN:
USS Halsey (DDG 97) on RAS approach with USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) June 2021

Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Tulsa (LCS 16) conducts routine operations in the Philippine Sea. Tulsa, as part of Destroyer Squadron Seven. June 13, 2021. USN photo.

USS Alaska (SSBN 732) pulls into the Port of Gibraltar. June 29, 2021

USS Stout (DDG-55) in dry dock, 30 June 2021

At the BAE shipyard for a Drydocking Selected Restricted Availability, which costs $76.2 million ($100.5 if options exercised), scheduled to be completed by November. After setting the new record of 214 consecutive days at sea due to COVID

 

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Russia & USN:
Admiral Grigorovich class frigate Admiral Essen and Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Laboon, Black Sea. Image taken from HMS Defender, June 14, 2021

 

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Canada:
Former HMCS Annapolis beginning her final journey. She was sunk, after some years of legal disputes over environmental concerns, as an artificial reef and long-term marine habitat in Halkett Bay Provincial Park off Gambier Island in Howe Sound on 4 April 2015

HMCS Harry De Wolf, lead vessel in class, under construction in the Halifax Shipyard May 2018

 

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RN:
HMS Queen Elizabeth R08 passes by the Round Tower in Portsmouth. 1st May 2021

Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender in Batumi Port, Georgia. 26th June 2021

HMS Tamar looking dazzling at sunset off the South coast, UK, 27 June 2021

 

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Australia:
Heavy cruiser HMAS Australia, after the Second World War. Visible is the 4.5" armour belt added in 1938-39

By this point Australia had landed her 'X' turret - the only one of the Kent group to do so. Also prominent abreast her forward superstructure is a Quad 40mm Bofors mount. This was mirrored by another Quad 40mm on the other side of the superstructure. As of mid-1945 the plan was for there to be a 3rd Quad 40mm Bofors on the quarterdeck, two twin 40mm Bofors where X turret used to be, plus her two Octuple Pom Poms, and up to 4 single 40mm Bofors and 4 single 20mm Oerlikons. With the end of the war it is likely that not all of these were fitted, and some - such as the octuple pom poms - are clearly missing in this photo.

 

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Norway:
Decommissioned HNoMS Trondheim takes a hit from a Naval Strike Missile in 2013.

 

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PLA(N):
Newly completed Type 039C submarine seen alongside

 

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France:
Destroyer Le Terrible (X103) leaves Le Havre for Brest after Navy Days, June 21th 1939

Battleship Bretagne sinking during the attack of Mers-el-Kebir, July 3rd 1940

Taken from Strasbourg as she slips her moorings and gains speed, and with seaplane tender Commandant Teste in the background.

Light cruiser Marseillaise, Toulon, July 1941

June 1950, off Toulon. Former Italian light cruiser Scipione Africano continues her active service in a new status. She is with the French Navy now, known as Guichen.

 

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France:
La Galissonnière-class light cruiser Georges Leygues sank a German blockade runner in the South Atlantic on 13 April 1943

Light cruiser Gloire off New York City, July 22nd 1943

 

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Canada:
Majestic class light fleet carrier, HMCS Magnificent (CVL 21), visiting Rotterdam, 24 Oct 1955.

 

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Japan:
JS Sawakaze demonstrates to the public its complement of weaponry including a Mk. 13 missile launcher and a separate ASROC launcher, Sasebo 2006.

The ASROC launcher of a Haruna-class destroyer (DDH) is demonstrated to the public. The last of the class decommissioned in 2011

 

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RN:
Escort carrier HMS Avenger with half a dozen Hawker Sea Hurricane on deck

HMS Avenger had a short operational life. She was commissioned on 2-March-1942 and was sunk with a heavy loss of life (516 perished) by U-155 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Adolf Piening on 15 November 1942, just west of Gibraltar. Struck by only one torpedo, she quickly sank. Only twelve members of her crew were rescued.

 

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PLA(N):
Aircraft carrier Type 003 update. The island has been installed.

 

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Italy:
Bergamini-class FREMM frigates in 2014. An ASW version leading an GP version

 

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USN:
The damage incurred by battleship USS Wisconsin and destroyer USS Eaton following their May 1956 collision.

 

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Imperial Japan:
Naval parade of the Imperial Japanese Navy in October 1940, dedicated to the 2600th anniversary of Emperor Jimmu's accession to the throne. 98 warships and support ships appeared before Emperor Hirohito, many of them presented to the public for the first time.

The photo shows (from left to right) the battleships Haruna, Kongou, Mutsu, and Nagato, and then the aircraft carriers Hiryuu and Akagi. Flying boats of the type Kawanishi H6K "Mavis" pass over the ships in formation.
Of the six easily identified ships, three sunk by the US/scuttled at sea, one sunk in harbour, one sunk in an accident, and one sunk by nuclear weapons after the war.