Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
Hunt Class destroyer HMS Aldenham, seen from her sister ship HMS Exmoor. June 1943

On 14 December 1944, Aldenham was sunk by a naval mine in the Adriatic Sea off Pag Island after she led a Royal Navy force in a bombardment mission against targets on the island of Pag and near the town of Karlobag in support of the Yugoslav Partisans. Although the rest of the force came to pick up survivors, cold weather and severe damage to Aldenham permitted the rescue of only 63 of her crew. Her wreck, broken in two by the explosion, was discovered in 1999–2000. The wreck has been declared a war grave, where 126 crew members and two partisans aboard Aldenham at the time of the mining died. She was the last Royal Navy destroyer lost in World War II.

 

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Australia:
HMAS Canberra (L02) off the coast of Queensland Australia for Ex Talisman Sabre 21

 

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HMAS Brisbane steams under Tower Bridge as she departs London.

 

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RN:
Type 23 frigate HMS Richmond conducts Replenishment At Sea (RAS) with RFA Fort Victoria. Fuel, food and stores. 1st Aug 2021

 

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USN:
USS Iowa visits Portsmouth, 1986

 

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Russia:
Veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, the protected cruiser Aurora.

 

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USN:
Battleship USS South Carolina (BB-26) drydocked at the Brooklyn Navy yard, September 1912.

 

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RN:
Swimmers watch as battleship HMS Howe passes through the Suez Canal, 14 July 1944

 

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RN:
Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender during a Replenishment-at-Sea during CSG21, Pacific, 1st Aug 2021

 

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USN:
July 18, 2015, an SM-2 Standard missile explodes just after launch and damages USS The Sullivans.

USS The Sullivans (DDG-68) suffered only cosmetic damage following the unexpected explosion of a SM-2 missile shortly after launch on July 18, Navy officials told USNI News on Thursday.

Following an assessment, the service determined The Sullivans would only need about $100,000 in repairs to fix the damage caused by the fire caused from the debris from the missile.

 

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RN:
HMS Ark Royal (R-09) in 1960

 

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Greece:
1 Aug 2015. Type 209 submarine Amphitriti

 

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Norway:
Coastal defence ship Norge in Copenhagen, Denmark 1910

 

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Imperial Germany:
Late July 1915, Rufiji River estuary, Tanzania. Light cruiser SMS Königsberg lies on the riverbed, scuttled following a battle with two RN monitors several days prior.

Königsberg initially attempted to raid British and French commercial traffic in the region, but only destroyed one merchant ship in the course of her career. Coal shortages hampered her ability to attack shipping. On 20 September 1914, she surprised and sank the British protected cruiser HMS Pegasus in the Battle of Zanzibar.

Königsberg then retreated into the Rufiji River to repair her engines. Before the repairs could be completed, British cruisers located Königsberg, and, unable to steam into the river to destroy her, set up a blockade. After several attempts to sink the ship during the Battle of Rufiji Delta, the British sent two monitors, Mersey and Severn, to destroy the German cruiser. On 11 July 1915, the two monitors got close enough to severely damage Königsberg, forcing her crew to scuttle the ship. The surviving crew salvaged all ten of her main guns and joined Lieutenant Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's guerrilla campaign in East Africa. Königsberg was partially broken up in 1963–1965 for scrap, and the remains sank into the riverbed.

 

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USN:
A Japanese Type 99 (Allied codename Val) trails smoke as it dives toward USS Hornet (CV-8), during the morning of 26 October 1942. This plane struck the ship's stack and then her flight deck. October 1942

USS Reno (CL-96) ) under salvage after she was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-41 on 3 November 1944, while operating off the Philippines. The photograph was taken the following day and shows the tug USS Zuni (ATF-95) alongside

RENO anchored at Ulithi on 10 November. During the elapsed week, RENO had traveled 700 miles and weathered a typhoon. Approximately 1100 tons of water had been pumped from flooded compartments and the forward emergency generator and forward propulsion plant had been placed back in operation. Temporary above-water repairs were made at Ulithi and RENO proceeded to Manus where a temporary patch was installed in ABSD-2 prior to the voyage to the mainland. RENO arrived at Navy Yard, Charleston, on 22 March 1945 where all battle damage was repaired and approved alterations were accomplished. RENO was returned to service on 30 September 1945.

 

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Russia:
Kirov-class cruiser Admiral Nakhimov being towed out of the pool/dry dock at Sevmash shipyard on 18 August 2020

 

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Germany:
Type VIIC U-Boat U-977 commissioning Day at Hamburg, May 6, 1943

3/4th of WWII German Submariners perished in combat. U-977 made it to Argentina after the war.

 

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RN:
Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Magnificent in dry dock, Gibraltar. 1907

 

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Egypt:
Divers swimming next to a Type 209/1400 submarine

 

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USN:
April 1969. Baltimore class light cruiser USS Saint Paul (CA-73) bombards shore fortifications amid one of her five combat deployments to Vietnam.