Photos Navies Of All Nations

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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.

 

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Italy:
Battleship Vittorio Veneto on her way to La Spezia from Trieste, 3 May 1940

 

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USN:
USS Lunga Point (CVE-94)

USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) pumping out water over her quarterdeck, after being torpedoed in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, on 12 August 1945. Note hoses leading out through her aft 14" guns.

**a young Ensign named Johnnie Carson (later of The Tonight Show) was assigned to oversee the recovery of her dead lost in this attack.

 

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France:
Cadet's having fun on the aft 155 mm guns of training cruiser Jeanne d'Arc

 

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Russia:
Project 1164 Atlant/Slava class guided missile cruiser Varyag. Photo Aleksandr Schwartz.

Project 636 Varshavyanka class (NATO Improved Kilo) Krasnodar (B-265)

 

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RN, USN, Spain:
HMS Invincible, USS Forrestal, USS Wasp, Principe De Asturias, Exercise Display Determination '91

 

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USN:
USS Langley (CV-1) in 1927

 

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RN:
Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Resolution

Iron Duke-class battleship HMS Marlborough shines her searchlight, September 1928

 

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USN:
The mast of the future Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29) lifted into place. Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD-29) will be the 13th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship of the United States Navy

 

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USN:
USS Iowa (BB-61) and USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7) underway in 1987 ‎

 

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Germany:
Late on the night of 11 September 1943 the German submarine U-617 was attacked in the western Mediterranean by a Wellington aircraft of 179 Squadron, RAF. The U-boat was seriously damaged, and after fifteen minutes moved off slowly on the surface for the North African coast. In the early hours of 12 September another Wellington from 179 Squadron also attacked and damaged the submarine. U-617 beached herself on the shore of Spanish Morocco at 2:00am. The crew abandoned ship under gun fire from the requisitioned Dutch trawler Haarlem. The corvette HMS Hyacinth, with HMAS Wollongong (I) under her orders, later arrived at the scene and the two ships shelled the U-boat. The destruction of U-617 was officially credited to the two aircraft of 179 Squadron, Haarlem, Hyacinth and Wollongong (I).

Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen as USS Prinz Eugen, before the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll for Operation Crossroads. Photo taken 14 June 1946. **Note the radar van sitting on top of the bridge**

 

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RN:
Hoisting in paravanes on HMS King George V, while taking Lord Halifax to the United States, Jan 1941

Paravanes are streamed from the bow to attempt to cut the mooring lines of submerged mines before they are dragged into contact with the hull

20 November 1942, Mers El Kébir. Assigned to Force H, HMS Nelson in a new naval base as Admiral François Darlan ordered all French forces in North Africa to join Allies 10 days prior.

 

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France:
Mistral-class amphibious assault ship FS Tonnerre (L9014) in exercise Jeanne d'Arc 21 - photo from around Cape Horn in the last few weeks - June 20, 2021

 

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Imperial Japan:
Second and last Nagato-class dreadnought battleship IJN Mutsu, the last senkan made before the Yamato class, at Yokosuka, 1937. Colourised by Irootoko Jr

 

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Croatia:
Helsinki-class(RTOP-41 Vukovar, RTOP-42 Dubrovnik) and Končar-class(RTOP-21 Šibenik)

 

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USSR:
Sarancha class hydrofoil small missile boat MRK-5 in floating dock in 1980.

 

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RN:
RFA Tidespring on approach to HMS Queen Elizabeth for a Replenishment at Sea during recent operations in the Mediterranean. 30th June 2021

 

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USN:
Benjamin Franklin class USS Kamehameha (SSN-642), ex. SSBN reclassified to an SSN after conversion to a Dry Deck Shelter/swimmer delivery platform. Photo by Michael P. Wood. Decommissioned 2 April 2002

 

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USN:
USNS Guadalupe (T-AO 200) refuelling two Arleigh Burke class destroyers USS Howard (L) and USS Dewey (R)

 

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Small missile ship Ingushetia (Buyan-M project) of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy tracking the frigate HNLMS Evertsen of the Dutch Navy in the Black Sea.