Photos Navies Of All Nations

[BravoZulu]

USN:
Heavy cruiser USS Minneapolis (CA-36) at Tulagi with torpedo damage received in the Battle of Tassafaronga, the night before. The photograph was taken on 1 December 1942, as work began to cut away the wreckage of her bow.

USS New Mexico (BB-40) on October 21, 1944, in Puget Sound wearing camouflage 32/6D.

 

[BravoZulu]

RN & South Korea:
HMS Queen Elizabeth exercises with Dokdo class amphibious assault ship ROKS Dokdo. 31st Aug 2021

 

[BravoZulu]

Italy & RN:
Destroyer Alfredo Oriani escorting HMS Venerable to the Suez canal for operations in the pacific ocean, in the foreground a Fairey Barracuda MkII of 814th Naval Air Squadron, May 1945.

 

[BravoZulu]

PLA(N):
Aircraft carrier Liaoning with accompanying vessels conducting drills in the South China Sea, December 2016.

 

[BravoZulu]

Germany:
U-124 refueling from the supply ship "Python" in the open sea, about 850 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands, Nov 18, 1941

10.5 cm ammunition aboard battleship Tirpitz, circa 1942

 

[BravoZulu]

Germany & Japan:
Type 123 Brandenburg class frigate Bayern and Asagiri class destroyer JS Yuugiri (DD-153) in the Arabian Sea. Aug 2021

Bayern is on her way to the Indo-pacific, as first German warship in two decades. The Yuugiri is part of the anti piracy Task Force 151.

 

[BravoZulu]

USN:
Essex class aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) in Hong Kong Harbour, 1970

 

[BravoZulu]

USN:
Clemson class destroyer USS Brooks (DD-232, future APD-10) making steam at sea trials, 1920.

Between 1931-39 she was placed out of commission. She was recommissioned in 1939 and served in the Atlantic until 1941, switching to the Pacific Theatre during World War II where she was badly damaged at the Battle of Lingayen Gulf in January 1945

As a patrol and escort ship, Brooks operated between California, Washington, and Alaska during the first year of World War II. On 20 September 1942, she arrived at Seattle, to commence conversion to a high-speed transport. On 1 December 1942, her classification was changed to APD-10 and she was assigned to the South Pacific

She served as a transport and minesweeper during the Lae, New Guinea, landings (4–14 September 1943); Finschhafen, New Guinea, landings (22 and 29–30 September); Cape Gloucester, New Britain, assault (26 and 28–29 December); Saidor, New Guinea, landings (2 January-17 February 1944); Admiralty Islands landings (29 February-5 March and 19 March); Hollandia, New Guinea, assault (22–28 April); capture of Saipan (14–22 June); Leyte occupation (18 November-4 December); Mindoro invasion (12–18 December); and the Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, landings (3–6 January 1945)

At 1252 on 6 January 1945, the worst day for the Navy during the costly Invasion of Lingayen Gulf, a Japanese kamikaze crashed into Brooks' port side, causing extensive damage and starting a fire amidships. The main and auxiliary steam lines were severed, the fire main was broken, and the sea valve to the condenser was pierced, causing the forward engine room to flood. Three of Brooks' crew were killed and 11 wounded. A number of Brooks's abandoned survivors, were rescued by the adjacent HMAS Warramunga (I44) and later transferred to her sister ship the USS Hovey, a minesweeper staged in Minesweeping Unit 1 for the Lingayen invasion, as was Brooks. Five more of Brooks's crew were killed when the US Hovey was sunk by an aerial torpedo at 455 on the following morning of 7 January. The badly damaged Brooks was towed to San Pedro, California, Watch Hill and decommissioned there on 2 August 1945.

 

[BravoZulu]

France:
Inert training Masurca anti-air missiles on the decommisionned cruiser Colbert. Landevennec ship graveyard, 2013-14

 

[BravoZulu]

RN:
HMS Rodney at anchor, pre WW2

A crew of the QF 4 inch (102 mm) Mk V anti-aircraft gun engaged in drills aboard battleship HMS Ramillies. English Channel, ca. 1938.

HMS Renown at full speed during the fleet action, south of Sardinia, 27 Nov 1940. The Battle of Cape Spartivento

Sailors posing in front of HMS Nelson's 16 inch guns, 1942. (colourised by u/Routine_Ad)

 

[BravoZulu]

France:
Free French battleship Richelieu fires a broadside, May 1944 during the Eastern Fleet's action at Surabaya

 

[BravoZulu]

Philippines & USCG:
OPV BRP Gabriela Silang (OPV-8301) and USCG Munro (WMSL-755) during a Joint Maritime Drill near the waters of Subic Bay, Philippines. Aug 2021

 

[BravoZulu]

USSR:
Luftwaffe aerial reconnaissance photo of the Ordzhinikidze Yard (Shipyard 189), Leningrad, showing the battleship Sovetsky Soyuz (top) and the cruiser Chkalov under construction, 26 June 1941

Construction was suspended shortly after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, and never resumed. All three of the surviving hulls were scrapped in the late 1940s.

 

[BravoZulu]

RN:
Heavy cruiser HMS Exeter in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, after suffering heavy damage in the battle with Admiral Graf Spee in 1939.

HMS Exeter was a York class heavy cruiser of the British Royal Navy, and the last completed british heavy cruiser. She was laid down in August 1928, launched in July 1929, and comissioned in July 1931. In WW2, she fought against the german Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee in what would later be known as the Battle of the River Plate on 13th December 1939. This picture shows some of the heavy damage she recieved in that battle.

On the left side of the picture, you can cleary see her list to port, which was 7 degrees at the end of the battle. On the right side of the picture, you can see the heavy damage to her forward guns and bridge.

During the battle against Admiral Graf Spee, Exeter was hit 7 times by 283mm shells. 2 of these were direct hits to the forward turrets, which left her only with 2 working 8-inch guns in her aft turret for most of the battle, and even that turret was later tempoarily disabled due to flooding. A lot of shrapnel from the hit on "B" Turret reached the bridge, killing almost everyone on there, leaving only 3 survivors. One of them was Captain Frederick Bell, who recieved a wound in his face. He continued to command the ship from the aft conning position.

After the battle was over, Exeter managed to limp to Port Stanley on the Falkland Islands, which was the closed port under direct british control. Emergency repairs lasted until January 1940, after that she returned to the UK for full repairs and modernisation, which lasted over a year until March 1941. A few months later, she was send to Asia. In early 1942, she was attached to the ABDA command, an attempt by the Allies to create a uniform strategy and command structure to coordinate the many different land, sea and air forces that were fighting against Japan at the time. She was sunk at the Second Battle of the Java Sea, on the 1st March 1942.

 

[BravoZulu]

USN:
Battleship USS Wisconsin and aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La together, mothballed in Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1978

USS Iowa firing its main battery during Ex Northern Wedding 1986.

 

[BravoZulu]

USN:
USS North Carolina launches a Kingfisher spotting plane, August 1941.

Nevada-class battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37) salvage operations, 1943

Battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) during battle practice in Chesapeake Bay on 1 August 1944. She is wearing Camouflage Measure 32 Design 22D.

 

[morris]

China's third aircraft carrier "Type 003"

 

[morris]

August 27, 2021 : Japanese new frigate guided missile JS Kumano (FFM-2), Mogami-class coming back from the first sea trials in Japan.

 

[Chazman]

China's third aircraft carrier "Type 003"
View attachment 332519View attachment 332520View attachment 332521View attachment 332522

This one will be interesting.

 

[BravoZulu]

Germany:
Battleship Gneisenau firing at aircraft carrier HMS Glorious. Photo taken from Scharnhorst. 8 June 1940, 6:50 pm.

On the way through the Norwegian Sea the funnel smoke from Glorious and her two escorting destroyers, Acasta and Ardent, was spotted by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (part of Operation Juno) at about 15:46. The British spotted the German ships shortly after 16:00 and Ardent was dispatched to investigate. Glorious did not alter course or increase speed. Five Swordfish were ordered to the flight deck and Action Stations were ordered 16:20. No combat air patrol was being flown, no aircraft were ready on the deck for quick take-off and there was no lookout in Glorious's crow's nest. Scharnhorst opened fire on Ardent at 16:27 at a range of 16,000 yards (15,000 m), causing the destroyer to withdraw, firing torpedoes and making a smoke screen. Ardent scored one hit with her 4.7-inch guns on Scharnhorst but was hit several times by the German ships' secondary armament and sank at 17:25.

Scharnhorst firing on Glorious, 8 June 1940

Scharnhorst switched her fire to Glorious at 16:32 and scored her first hit six minutes later on her third salvo, at a range of 26,000 yards (24,000 m), when one 28.3-centimetre (11.1 in) hit the forward flight deck and burst in the upper hangar, starting a large fire. This hit destroyed two Swordfish being prepared for flight and the hole in the flight deck prevented any other aircraft from taking off. Splinters penetrated a boiler casing and caused a temporary drop in steam pressure. At 16:58 a second shell hit the homing beacon above the bridge and killed or wounded the captain and most of the personnel stationed there. Ardent's smokescreen became effective enough to impair the visibility of the Germans from about 16:58 to 17:20 so they ceased fire on Glorious

One of the last photographs of HMS Glorious, camouflaged and in murky weather.

Glorious was hit again in the centre engine room at 17:20 and this caused her to lose speed and commence a slow circle to port. She also developed a list to starboard. The German ships closed to within 16,000 yards and continued to fire at her until 17:40. Glorious sank at 18:10, approximately at 68°38′N 03°50′ECoordinates:

68°38′N 03°50′E, with 43 survivors

As the German ships approached Glorious, Acasta, which had been trying to maintain the smokescreen, broke through her own smoke and fired two volleys of torpedoes at Scharnhorst. One of these hit the battleship at 17:34 abreast her rear turret and badly damaged her. Acasta also managed one hit from her 4.7-inch guns on Scharnhorst, but was riddled by German gunfire and sank at around 18:20

Glorious in rough weather

Survivors estimated that about 900 men abandoned Glorious. The German ships had suffered extensive damage themselves, and unaware that Allied ships were not in contact with Glorious beat a hasty retreat, and did not try to pick up survivors. The Royal Navy meanwhile, knew nothing of the sinking until it was announced on German radio. The Norwegian ship Borgund, on passage to the Faroe Islands, arrived late on 10 June and picked up survivors, eventually delivering 37 alive to Thorshavn of whom two later died. Another Norwegian ship, Svalbard II, also making for the Faeroes, picked up five survivors but was sighted by a German aircraft and forced to return to Norway, where the four still alive became prisoners of war for the next five years. It is also believed that one more survivor from Glorious was rescued by a German seaplane. Therefore, the total of survivors was 40, including one each from Acasta and Ardent. The total killed or missing was 1,207 from Glorious, 160 from Acasta and 152 from Ardent, a total of 1,519.

HMS Ardent and Acasta (As seen from the German Battlecruisers) lay smoke to screen Glorious from their gunfire (Courtesy of GLARAC)

HMS Acasta

Acasta’s torpedo damage to Scharnhorst – the hole measured 14x6 meters

Glorious, listing, on fire and sinking