Photos Navies Of All Nations

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France:
Loire-class Metropolitan Support and Assistance Ship (BSAM) Seine observed from the deck of a Mistral-class LHD.

 

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Brazil:
8th Nov 2011, Inhaúma-class corvette Cv Barroso (V34)

 

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An SM-2 standard missile is launched from HMAS Hobart missile firing off the coast of Hawaii during Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2020.

 

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USN:
Operation Magic Carpet, 1945. Returning veterans of the Pacific fill the hangar deck of USS Enterprise (CV 6)

USS Ticonderoga arriving at Tacoma, Washington, as part of Operation Magic Carpet, Oct 27, 1945.

 

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RN:
Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, 3:55 pm. HMS Lion is under gunfire of SMS Lützow. Photo taken from destroyer HMS Lydiard.

The conning tower and forward turrets with 15 inch guns of battlecruiser HMS ‘Repulse’ at John Brown & Co’s Clydebank yard, August 1916

 

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USN:
USS Enterprise (CVN-65), 2006

SUEZ CANAL (May 9, 2019) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transits the Suez Canal.

 

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Australia:
STS Young Endeavor passing by ANZAC class frigate HMAS Perth (FFH-157) 2009

STS Young Endeavor is a 1986 constructed Tall Ship gifted by the British to the Australian Governments.

Its manned by Navy personnel and has a compliment of up to 24 young people as training crew. People under the age of 23 take part in a voyages where they must operate the vessel 24/7 often sailing a large portion of the East coast of Australia.


ANZAC class frigate HMAS Ballarat (FFH-155) fires her 5/54" gun, 2017

ANZAC class frigate HMAS Parramatta (FFH-154) without Harpoon launchers installed. 2019

 

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Canada:
HMCS Harry DeWolf and HMCS Summerside operating off the coast of NS, 2020. As of August 3, Harry DeWolf will be embarking on the first circumnavigation of North America through the Northwest Passage by the Royal Canadian Navy since November, 1954.

 

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USN:
USS Alabama (BB-60), (foreground) and USS South Dakota (BB-57) in the vicinity of the Marshall Islands, Feb 1, 1944

USS Hancock in Dazzle paint scheme Measure 32, Design 3A during sea trials on her transit from Boston, Massachusetts to Norfolk, Virginia, 22 May 1944

19 February 1945, Iwo Jima. Event: USS Nevada (BB-36) shells Japanese bunkers on the very first day of The Battle of Iwo Jima (Operation Detachment).

USS Ticonderoga steams down Puget Sound, Washington, on her trials after substantial repairs from battle damage, April 16, 1945.

 

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RN:
HMS Prince of Wales fires her 14-inch guns, June 1941. The foreground is dominated by her main Director Control Tower.

HMS Prince of Wales, 1941, some time before her 24 May engagement with Bismarck; note Supermarine Walrus aircraft beinghoisted

The 2nd Escort Group in line ahead, making for open sea on patrol. From front to back: HMS Loch Fada, HMS Wren, HMS Dominica, and HMS Loch Killin. September 1944

The 2nd Escort Group (also known as 2nd Support Group) was formed to assist merchant ships at sea.

They were intended to move from convoy-to-convoy to provide reinforcements and, if opportunity presented itself, brake off to pursue "wolf-packs" following an attack without leaving the convoy vulnerable.

The 2nd Escort group was considered the most successful support group, being credited with the sinking of 22 U-boats.

 

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Australia:
Modified Leander class light cruiser HMAS Perth in the Mediterranean, 1941

 

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RN & USN:
Battlecruiser HMS Renown and battleship USS Texas, at anchor at Hvalfjord, Iceland in 1942

 

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USN:
USS Oklahoma (BB-37), underway on preliminary trial at standardization course at Rockland, ME., 15 January 1916

Three Blue Jackets looking out of the 14 inch guns of the USS Idaho (BB-42), April 10, 1919

USS Connecticut (BB-18) seen here on visit in Oslo, Norway 1921

 

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RN:
Type 23 Duke class frigate HMS Kent at the Firth of Forth, Scotland.

 

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USN:
USS Antietam (CVS-36) in drydock at Norfolk, Virginia, on 29 July 1961

 

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France:
La Fayette-class light frigate FS Aconit sailing with the replica of the Hermione

Lafayette-class light frigate FS Aconit, 2020

 

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USN:
USS Essex (LHD-2) fires one of its Mk. 38 25mm guns.

 

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France:
Destroyer Fantasque on trials in Casco Bay on 13 June 1943, after refitting and requalification as a light cruiser, photographed from a US Navy aircraft.

Cruiser "Gloire", underway, with 6" gun turrets trained out, probably during exercises off north Africa, circa late 1943 or early 1944

 

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Imperial Japan:
Battleship Nagato firing her main armament. May 21, 1936. Nagato would survive the war and would ultimately sink 5 days after she was part of an atomic bomb test

 

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Imperial Germany:
Kaiser class battleship SMS Friedrich der Grosse (Frederick the Great) with the III Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet prior to Jutland.