Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
USS Ohio's (BB-12) forward 12"/40 calibre guns in the Mark 4 turret. Circa 1907-1908

May 1915, New York Harbor. An impressive light show becomes a part of a big-scale Naval review attended by Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States.

 

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Croatia:
Omiš-class Omiš (OOB-31) and the old Mirna-class patrol boats

Mirna-class patrol boat OB-04 Hrvatska Kostajnica

 

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USN:
7 December 1941, Pacific Ocean. Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull conducts a demonstration flight at a request of the Life magazine staffs who work on board USS Portland (CA-33). News of the Pearl Harbor is coming in a couple of hours. Photo by Robert Landry.

A Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bomber passing over USS Enterprise (CV-6) under heavy AA fire of Task Force 58 off Saipan, during the Mariana Islands campaign.

USN Ashland-class dock landing ship USS Oak Hill packed with an LCT and LVT(A)-1, April 1944.

Ships assigned to the SWPA sit at anchor in Seeadler Harbor in the Admiralties, Oct 6, 1944.

USS Minotaur (ARL-15) about to spend 6 months (June-Dec) 1945 in Buckner Bay off Okinawa repairing landing craft.

 

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USN:
Battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) enroute to the United States Naval Facility, Subic Bay Philippines. 12 July 1983

Newport-Class Tank Landing Ship USS Racine (LST-1191) underway, 1987

USS Frederick (LST-1184), dropped its bow ramp to take on U.S. Marines and equipment, Hilo, HI, 29 March 1996

 

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RN:
HMS Middleton on a sunny day in Weymouth Bay. June 2021

Type 23 frigate HMS Northumberland in the North Atlantic, with a Merlin helicopter on deck, c. July 2021

 

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Chile:
Crew on board the corvette General Baquedano, July 1931

 

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Australia:
HMAS Darwin (04), taken from the starboard bridgewing of HMAS Stuart (153). Pre-Dec 2017

HMAS Melbourne coming alongside for the final time before decommissioning in 2019. Note the red devil on the forecastle!

HMA Ships Canberra (L02) and Sirius (O266) prepare to conduct a replenishment in the Philippine Sea during the Regional Presence Deployment 2020

 

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Germany:
February 1939, Island of Tenerife. Heavy cruiser Deutschland takes a brief pause from fleet gunnery exercises. Note Heinkel He 60 reconnaissance seaplane at her stern.

 

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USA:
Interior of the recovered American Civil War Confederate Navy submarine CSS Hunley, 1st sub to sink a warship and manually powered with the long crank. Hunley sank USS Housatonic off Charleston attaching it an explosive charge to her. Hunley was lost in the action too. 17 Feb 1864.

It had already sunk (and been recovered from the sea floor) twice before the mission on which it was lost for good. Ultimately 21 men died on that vessel, which only held a crew of 8.

 

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Russia:
View from the ramp of Admiral Kuznetsov as two Su-33 Flankers are prepared. 1990s

 

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Italy:
Aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi, La Spezia 2018

Aircraft carrier Cavour prior to receiving an air wing and Oto Melara 76mm guns, along with the Horizon-class frigate Andrea Doria and a Maestrale-class frigate.

 

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France:
SSBN Le Terrible in dry docks at DCNS (now Naval Group). 2008

Suffren SSN First-in-class submarine “Suffren” during sea trials in 2020

 

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USN:
Fletcher class destroyers USS Walker (DD517) and USS Taylor (DD468) in Hong Kong. April 20, 1966.

USS Ticonderoga recovery of the Apollo 17 capsule, 19 of Dec 1972

 

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France:
Battleship Richelieu and destroyer Desaix (ex-Z5) at the Brest naval review, May 30th 1948

 

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Norway:
Skjold-class corvette KNM Storm and a DA-20 Jet Falcon electronic surveillance plane operating in Porsangerfjorden, Northern Norway; 10th March 2015.

 

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South Korea:
Je Min class patrol vessel (1511) during a 2013 Maritime Exercises in the East Sea

 

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RN:
HMS Broke in dry dock on Tyneside after suffering damage from Jutland, 1916.

1. Night Surface Action at Jutland. If there's one word to sum up all of those actions, it's "chaos".
2. Broke makes a recognition signal towards a vague outline of a line of battleships.
3. The German battleship Westfalen (and possibly Rheinland) and cruiser Rostock answer with searchlights and a hail of gunfire. Rostock was hit by two shells from Broke (probably) and a torpedo from Contest or Ambuscade and withdraws, but was later scuttled when Dublin showed up.
4. Broke immediately regrets her decision and turns away to disengage.
5. Rostock hits Broke in the wheelhouse, jamming her steering.
6. Broke starts circling and plows into Sparrowhawk astern, striking just forward of the bridge. Both ships are locked together.
7. The rest of the flotilla attempt to avoid, but Contest slices off Sparrowhawk's stern.
8. Broke is able to free herself and limps away to the north, reaching port on 3 June. Sparrowhawk survives until morning (witnessing Elbing sink and rescuing a raft of survivors from Tipperary), but her bow later dropped off and a towing attempt by Marksman failed, so she was scuttled.

 

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Imperial Germany:
Battleship SMS Westfalen underway, circa 1915-16

U-155 Deutschland inside the Port of London, one of over a hundred German U-boats surrendered to England following WWI, December 2 1918

 

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Germany:
Aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin under construction1938-39. Work in progress on the "Atlantic" bow.

 

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Russia:
Slava-class cruiser Marshal Ustinov at the anchorage near Kronstadt as a participant for the Navy Day celebrations