Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
County-class heavy cruiser HMS Kent at the Naval Base, Hong Kong, ca 1930

Town-class light cruiser HMS Belfast as completed in August 1939

 

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Italy:
Cable layer ship Giasone

This kind of auxiliary ship does not seem one to perform active war missions; but instead, that was precisely the case.
Between 10 June 1940 (the day Italy declared war on the UK and France) and 16 August of the same year, this ship and the similar Città di Milano proceeded with cutting the following cable: Tunisia-Yugoslavia, the five cables connecting Malta with Gibraltar, and the two connecting the same island with the French base of Bône (today Annaba, Algeria).
This work had to be done in the few hours of darkness (as summers there don't offer much in that sense), and each cable had to be brought to the surface, identified as enemy (as there were several Italian cables in those areas as well), and cut for a decent length, to make repairs very difficult.
The Giasone unfortunately would not have a long career. On 24 October 1940, sent to Pantelleria with a load of artillery guns, because of a strong current she drifted into a minefield and sank after striking one.
Battleship Vittorio Veneto firing during an exercise in the port of La Spezia, 30 march 1943

 

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USN:
USS Queenfish (SSN-651) and some of her crew are silhouetted against the midnight sun at the North Pole, August 1970.

 

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A Project 861M reconnaissance ship ("Kildin"?) has been spotted in Muscat. Presumably tracking the British AUG.

 

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USN & Turkey:
USS Mount Whitney and USS Porter sail in formation with TCG Yavuz (F 240). 6th Nov 2021

 

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USN & Bulgaria:
USS Mount Whitney and USS Porter sailed in formation with frigate BGS Gordi in the Black Sea. 4th Nov 2021

 

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USN:
Crew in cutlass practice on quarterdeck of the USS Atlanta, at New York Navy Yard, circa 1886

Battleship USS MAINE (BB-10) Crewmen cleaning and oiling the breech mechanism of one of the ship's four 12"/40 guns, circa 1903-1905. Photographed by C.E. Barker. Note Washington Navy Yard manufacturer's mark on the breech, at top.

Battleship USS South Carolina (BB-26)

 

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Italy:
Guided missile cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi sails past training ship Amerigo Vespucci, 1968

 

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USN:
Battleship USS South Dakota, Philadelphia Navy Yard, 4 June 1942

Battleship USS Alabama (BB-60) on shakedown off Maine in early February 1943. Two months later after this photo was taken, Alabama would head east to join the British Home Fleet at Scapa Flow

Battleship USS North Carolina anchored off Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington. 24 September 1944

Fletcher class destroyer USS Stanly (DD-478) off San Francisco, 6 October 1944

 

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Russia:
Submarine "S-49" being towed to Sevastopol, after being transformed into a museum ship

Submarine "S-49" is a Romeo-class submarine commissioned in 1961. During the early 1970s, two Romeo submarines (including "S-49") underwent major modifications, with the addition of the prominent 650mm tubes to test an Anti-Submarine Warfare missile system. "S-49" was decommissioned in 1995, and is scheduled to be towed to Balaclava (Crimea) to become a museum ship.

 

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Australia:
HMAS Yarra (IV), a Huon class costal mine hunter

HMAS Brisbane (DDG 41), Oct 2021

 

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Australia:
Daring class destroyer HMAS Vampire (II) fitting out at Cockatoo Island Dockyard. ca 1956-59

 

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PLA(N):
Type 055 destroyer in Ex Joint Sea 2021

 

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USN:
Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) firing exercise with the Mk 45 Mod 4 5" gun, 2020

Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) sails in formation ahead of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) as the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) simulates a strait transit. USN photo, Oct 2021

 

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Germany:
Cruiser Deutschland at Bilbao, Spain, during Spanish Revolution, 5 August 1936.

Cruiser Prinz Eugen under the guns of the Royal Navy in May of 1945 at Copenhagen. She along with other remaining ships of the Kriegsmarine would surrender to the RN on May 7-9 of 45'. HMS Birmingham and Dido (among others) would arrive to accept the surrender.

 

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Poland:
Lublin class 'Projekt 767' minelayer-landing ship, ORP Toruń (825), sailing out of Gdynia-Oksywie Naval Base, Gdynia, Poland, November 7th, 2021

 

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France, Germany, RN:
Charles De Gaulle carrier strike group in 2016 with Horizon-class air defense frigate Chevalier Paul, Durance-class fleet tanker Meuse, HMS St Albans, Bremen-class frigate Ausburg and the two FREMM Aquitaine and Provence.

 

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Australia:
Replenishment oiler HMAS Sirius, set to be decommissioned later this year.

 

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RN:
A stern view of light cruiser HMS Dido located in Firth of Forth Scotland, February 1941.

 

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USN:
USS Mackenzie and USS Oordanaux (nearest). Photo taken from light cruiser HMS Dido

Battleship USS North Carolina (BB-55) seen from off her starboard quarter on 24 September 1944. She had just completed a refit at Puget Sound Navy Yard following the Marianas Campaign.