Photos Navies Of All Nations

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PLA(N):
Type 071 amphibious transport dock Changbai Shan conducts an amphibious assault exercise. 2016

 

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USN:
Seaman Marcus White stands watch aboard the USS Chancellorsville during breakaway after a replenishment with the USS Ronald Reagan in the Philippine Sea, June 30, 2019

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) returned to San Diego, after 15 years serving in the Forward Deployed Naval Forces (FDNF) in Japan, July 22.

 

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Italy:
Armed pontoon 'Valente' anchored near Venice. It was armed with a 305 mm/46 Model 1909 naval gun installed on an old Austro-Hungarian self-propelled iron barge, captured in 1915.

The Italian Navy operated heavily armed pontoons like these, along with shallow-deaft monitors, pretty extensively along the the Adriatic coast of the Italo-Auatrian front in WWI.

Their shallow draft allowed them to navigate much further up the extensive network of lagoons along this coast than normal warships and monitors could, and allowed the Italians to bring very heavy bombardments down upon Austrian forces positioned near the coastal areas. This proved particularly important in countering the general shortage of heavy artillery within the Italian army, and weapon caliber employed ranged included 381mm, 305mm, 203mm, 190mm, 152mm, 120mm, and 76mm.

These unusual vessels played a major role in helping to curb the advance of Austro-German forces towards Venice in the aftermath of Caporetto and then aided in inflicting their subsequent defeat in the First Battle of the Piave.

 

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USN:
USS Beale (DD-40) in Queenstown, Ireland 1918

 

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Italy:
Battleship Littorio possibly the day after the attack at Taranto, 12 Nov 1940

 

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USN:
USS Intrepid (CVA-11), USS Saratoga (CV-60), and USS Independence (CVA-62) commemorate 50th anniversary of US naval aviation.

USS Lockwood (DE 1064) shown during trials off Seattle, Washington, 1970

Ships laid up in reserve at Bremerton, 19 March 1970. They are, from left to right: USS Fort Marion (LSD-22), USS Missouri (BB-63), USS Roanoke (CL-145) and USS Worcester (CL-144).

 

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Brazil:
March 1951, Philadelphia. Commissioned into the Brazilian Navy on January 29 as Almirante Barroso (C-11), former light cruiser USS Philadelphia (CL-41) is being prepared to depart for her new home.

 

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RN:
An Atlantic convoy bound for Britain, seen from the catapult deck on the battleship HMS King George V, March 1941

Battleship HMS Warspite as seen during Madagascar operation.

Operation Ironclad was a British campaign to capture the Vichy French-controlled island Madagascar during World War II. The seizure of the island by the British was to deny Madagascar's ports to the Imperial Japanese Navy and to prevent the loss or impairment of the Allied shipping routes to India, Australia and Southeast Asia. It began with Operation Ironclad, the seizure of the port of Diego-Suarez (now Antsiranana) near the northern tip of the island, on 5 May 1942

 

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Finland:
Hamina-class missile boat FNS Pori (83)

 

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Netherlands:
HNLMS Rotterdam supporting an amphibious landing. Feb 2016

 

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Japan:
JS Murasame (f) and JS Izumo (r) conducting UNREP, 2019

 

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Imperial Germany:
Aerial view of the German submarine UC-97, surrendered to the United States following World War I. She was used to raise liberty bonds across the Great Lakes. Photos taken 1919 in Toronto, and she was sunk in Lake Michigan in 1921

 

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USN & RN:
USS Hancock (CV-19) and HMS King George V (41), during the Allies Joint Naval Operations in Pacific, 1945

 

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PLA(N):
Two warships of the South China Sea Fleet fire missiles during a competitive training in South China Sea Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007. Dozen of warships of the South China Sea Fleet were deployed in the competitive training to improve combat capability of the fleet. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zha Chunming)

 

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Japan:
Two diesel-electric attack Sōryū-class submarines with an Oyashio class submarine in the middle of the nest. 2020

 

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USN:
Oliver Hazard Perry (OHP class frigates USS Nicholas (FFG 47) conducts a passing exercise with USS Underwood (FFG 36) in the Pacific Ocean. Underwood is deployed to Central and South America and the Caribbean in support of Southern Seas 2012. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Stuart Phillips) 8th May 2012

PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 13, 2019) Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) conducts a crashback maneuver, in which the ship comes to a full stop and proceeds to sail in reverse. Michael Murphy is conducting routine operations in the eastern Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin R. Pacheco)

 

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USN:
USS Chiwawa (AO-68) sometime between 1942-1946 and a photo of how she appears now after being converted into a self unloading bulk carrier (1960) and being renamed Lee A. Tregurtha (1989). Included is an image of her battle ribbons that are painted on her pilot house

 

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USN:
May 2021. Ex USS Nassau, an amphibious assault ship arrived at the Port of Brownsville on April 30, 2021 for breaking up. She was decommissioned in 2011

 

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RN:
HMS Ocean with Royal Navy Wildcats and Merlin, Army Air Corps Apache and RAF Chinooks. HMS Ocean was sold to Brazil in 2017

 

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RN:
Monmouth-class armoured cruiser HMS Essex