Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
Bellerophon-class dreadnought battleship HMS Temeraire, before the First World War

Lion class battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal. She was at the battles of Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank and Jutland

 

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RN:
Battleship HMS King George V preparing to fire a salvo from her 14-inch guns, October 1941

 

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USN:
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) transits the Atlantic Ocean

 

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USN:
Museum ship USS Edson (DD-946)

Forrest Sherman class destroyer. One of two remaining. Edson is currently a museum ship in Bay City, Michigan

 

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Russia:
On July 30, 2021 Project 949AM (Antey modernized) (NATO Oscar II) submarine Orel K-266, lost power while transiting in the Baltic Sea near Danish waters. The sub was with the tug Altay and the Udaloy-class destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov, and was escorted by HDMS Diana.

 

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India & Norway:
Frigate INS Tabar with Royal Norwegian Navy Skjold-class stealth patrol craft HNoMS Storm in Norway's Bergen harbour for a maritime partnership exercise yesterday

 

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USN:
USS Lexington off Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. 16 February 1932

 

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USN:
USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) at Brisbane, Australia, in mid-1941, while wearing false-bow-wave camouflage

USS Detroit (CL-8) ship's forward superstructure and bow area, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 18 February 1942.

USS Nashville (CL-43) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 30 July 1943

USS Indianapolis, possibly before her late 1944 refit at Mare Island. (Colorized by Irootoko Jr.)

 

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Imperial Japan:
Kure, October 1945. IJN Ise rests on a seabed in shallow waters since Vought F4U Corsairs from USS Hancock (CV-19) sank her in late July.

Photo by George Silk for LIFE magazine. He took over 1000 pictures in Japan after the Surrender, including 188 of the remains of the Japanese Fleet, this being one of them.

 

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RN:
Revenge class battleship HMS Royal Sovereign fires her guns during gunnery practice 1917-1918

Battlecruiser HMS Renown is ready for her third voyage with the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) aboard, departing for the Far East this time. Captain's quarter is pictured here. 1921, Portsmouth.

County class heavy cruiser HMS Kent off Shanghai, 11 December 1930, full dressed in honour of the anniversary of King George V's accession.

 

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Ottoman Turkey:
Battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim arrives at Trabzon bringing troops, ammunition and an Albatros C.III biplane with her. She will be engaged in the shore bombardments of advancing Russian troops in the weeks to come. February 1916.

 

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Italy:
Condottieri class light cruiser Duca degli Abruzzi during sea trials. 1938

Mirabello class destroyer Augusto Riboty in Brindisi, 1943.

 

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Australia, USN & RN:
Persian Gulf, 16th Dec 2002. Security Council Coalition ships. (From left to right) Her Majesty's Australian Ship HMAS Darwin (FFG 04), the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60), the U.S. Navy Spruance-class destroyer USS Fletcher (DD-992), Her Majesty's Australian Ship HMAS Anzac (FFH 150), and the Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer HMS Cardiff (D108). The Security Council Coalition ships are conducting Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO) in the Central Command Area of Responsibility in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

 

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RN:
Storeroom of battleship HMS King George V. The man in the photo is George H. J. Monk, who was a civilian NAAFI Canteen Assistant on board HMS King George V.

A 14-inch gun is lowered into 'B' turret on HMS Duke of York during her construction, July 1941

Corvette HMS Hibiscus escorting a convoy, seen from the sloop HMS Fowey. September 1941

Commissioned early in the war, Hibiscus would escort more than 40 convoys over the course of two year before being loaned to the USN as Spry in May 1942.
She would remain with the Americans until the end of the war, where she was returned to the Royal Navy and later sold into civilian service.

Pacific Fleet, Sept 1944, HMS Indomitable, HMS Howe, HMS Victorious

 

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Brazil:
Light cruiser Almirante Tamandaré, formerly USS St. Louis (CL-49), in Rio de Janiero, July 1953

 

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France, USN & Imperial Japan:
French Cruiser Jules Michelet (left), USS Huron (CA-9) (center), and the Japanese Cruiser Shoho (right) moored in the Whangpoo river, Shanghai, China, 1925

 

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RN:
HMS Queen off Malta Hospital, c. 1859-64

HMS Queen was the last purely sail driven Line of Battle ship to be ordered and launched as such, subsequent ships being hybrid sail and steam vessels.
Launched in 1839, she took part in the Crimean War, being lit on fire multiple times during the Bombardment of Sevastopol (1854) before withdrawing.
In 1859 she was razed to two decks and reduced to 86 guns. Serving in the Mediterranean between 1859 and 1864. She was broken up in 1871.
Her mascot during the Siege of Sevastopol; Timothy the Tortoise died in 2004 at the tender age of 160.

 

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RN:
Type 23 frigate HMS Richmond (F239) arrived at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo on7th Aug 2021

 

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Imperial Japan:
Aircraft landing on aircraft carrier Hosho, off Shanghai, China, 1932.

IJN Hōshō (foreground) and IJN Kaga (background) at an unknown location during the China Incident in 1937.

Heavy cruiser Aoba lifts her Aichi E13A reconnaissance seaplane amid fleet drills prior to the planned bombardment of the US Navy Henderson Airfield Base. October 1942, Shortland Island.

 

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France & UAE:
Aquitaine class FREMM FS Languedoc (L) with the missile corvette Abu Dhabi during exercise Tiger Eel 21