Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN & RN:
Hvalfjord, Iceland. May-June 1942. USS Washington (BB-56) in foreground loading supplies and HMS Norfolk in rear. USS Wichita (CA-45) in middle.

 

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Imperial Japan:
Battleship Hyuga after her first overhaul, May/June 1927

Cruiser Aoba underway with a seaplane on the catapult, circa 1930s.

Battleship Mutsu showing her forward 410 mm (16.1 in) guns.

 

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Imperial Russia:
The Pacific squadron is on its last ever visit to Vladivostok. Battleships Sevastopol, Peresvet, Retvizan, Petropavlovsk, Poltava with cruisers Gromoboi, Rossia, Bayan, Bogatyr are seen here. Only 3 of them will return to Baltic after the Russo-Japanese war.

 

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USN:
Apra Harbor, Guam, 6 December 1952. USS Helena (CA-75) has just arrived at Guam to take President-Elect Dwight D. Eisenhower on board and transfer him to Pearl Harbor.

 

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RN:
Battleship HMS Rodney fires her 6-inch guns, 1940

HMS Nelson in the process of re-ammunitioning. 16 inch armour piercing shells, each on a trolley, are pushed along the deck on board HMS Nelson, before being hoisted down in to the shell magazine. Some of the 16 inch guns that the shells will be fired from can be seen in the background." 30 June 1941

U class submarine HMS P38 leaving harbour with members of the Russian Naval Mission on board for a practice dive. October 1941.

P38 had an extremely short and unsuccessful career, her only "successful" attack being against an Italian merchant ship that was carrying Allied PoWs.

on 23rd February 1942, she attempted to intercept an Axis convoy off Tripoli but was sighted by the escorts and sunk with no survivors.

HMS Duke of York seen from HMS Ashanti, Dec 1941

 

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USN:
USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98) in the Atlantic Ocean

USS Dewey (DDG 105) next to USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) at Yokosuka. Sept 2021

 

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Imperial Italy:
Taranto, August 3, 1916, The capsized battleship Leonardo da Vinci looms over the surface of the Mar Piccolo; visible behind the hull are the anchored battleships Duilio, Giulio Cesare, and Andrea Doria.

She capsized in Taranto harbor, in 11 meters (36 ft) of water, after an internal magazine explosion on the night of 2/3 August 1916 while loading ammunition. Casualties included 21 officers and 227 enlisted men. The subsequent investigation blamed Austro-Hungarian saboteurs, but unstable propellant may well have been responsible.

 

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Saudi Arabia:
Al Jubail (828), the first of the Al Jubail-class corvettes built by Navatia has just started sea trials.

 

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RN, Netherlands, USN, Japan:
CSG-21, the US 7th Fleet, and the JMSDF vessels in Yokosuka Harbour, Sept 2021

HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) departing Yokosuka in company with helicopter destroyer Ise

 

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India:
IAC1 Vikrant during sea trials. 5th Sept 2021.

 

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France:
The quad 330mm (13") turrets of battleship Strasbourg. 1930s

Battleship Richelieu, Brest Navy Review, May 30th 1948

 

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PLA(N):
Type 052DL destroyer (a stretched Type 052D) (NATO Luyang III-class destroyer) Zibo (156)

 

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RN:
Apollo-class protected cruiser HMS Melampus in the harbour in Kingstown, now known as Dún Laoghaire, Ireland 1893

 

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Canada:
Looking aft from HMCS Preserver during a RAS with HMCS Iroquois

 

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RN:
Rocket-class destroyer HMS Surly (1894-1920)

Part of the British squadron of Admiral Osmond Brock, HMS Iron Duke witnesses the catastrophic 9-day long burning of Smyrna which will mark the end of the Greco-Turkish War. September 1922.

 

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South Korea:
Launched of the 6th Daegu-class frigate ROKS Pohang (FFG-825) yesterday

 

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Myanmar:
type 053H1 frigate UMS Mahar Bandoola,(F21) ex-PLAN (554) Anshun

 

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Germany:
Battleship Bismarck is being loaded with provision prior to her departure for Gotenhafen the next day. Wilhelmshaven, 16 March 1941.

 

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France:
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 7, 2012) A French Amphibious Landing Craft (EDA-R) pulls into the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS WASP (LHD 1) while its home ship, the amphibious assault ship Mistral (L9013), transits in the background during Exercise Bold Alligator 2012.

 

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USN:
USS Iowa (BB-4) circa 1899 - Puget Sound Naval Shipyard - Visitors day, sometime between June 1899 and December 1900

USS Florida (BB-30) off New York City, 23 April 1919