Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine HMS Trenchant (S-91) seen in 1999. She was being painted with an experimental light blue colour to reduce visual detection from above in North Atlantic waters, although this idea was eventually abandoned, and the submarine returned to her original black colour.

Type 42 destroyer HMS Cardiff (D108) in Portsmouth, 2005

 

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France:
D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso, also known as the A69 type aviso Commandant Bouan monitoring the luxury yacht le Ponant, just freed from Somali pirates after a ransom was paid. French authorities' boats are visible aft of the ship. The pirates were later intercepted and captured on land by Commandos Marine. April 2008

 

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Russia:
Project 1135 Burevestnik (NATO Krivak) class frigate Ladny

 

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Imperial Japan:
Shiratsuyu-class destroyer Yamakaze, sunk with all hands by USS Nautilus on June 25, 1942

0831 Sound heard pinging from 196 relative.

0835 Sighted destroyer and commenced approach. This was not the same destroyer sighted at 0522

0854 Fired first of 2 torpedoes. First torpedo was seen to be a bull's eye and flame issued from number two stack and amid-ships portion raised a few feet, but no other damage was immediately apparent. Fifteen seconds later the second torpedo hit forward and the damage was terrific. She immediately started sinking by the bow and heeled over to starboard. By 0858 the destroyer was seen to be sinking fast.

0905 Heard several explosions and destroyer sunk.

Noted in the action report:

Destroyer sank in 10 minutes -- torpedoes broke her back.

Fubuki-class destroyer Shirayuki being strafed during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March 1943. In an Allied air attack on 3 March, a skip-bomb exploded in her aft magazine, severing her stern, and killing 32 crewmen

Back of this image carries this inscription:

Herewith are pictured incidents of the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, in which Allied bombers destroyed a 22 ship Japanese convoy, with an estimated loss to the enemy of 15,000 lives and 90,000 tons of shipping. 12 of the ships were troop transports and 10 cruisers and destroyers. Allied plane comes in at low level to attack a Japanese destroyer during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Note the Japanese taking cover, and the logs on the deck for use in landing operations.

 

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Imperial Austro-Hungary:
Torpedoboats of SMS Tb 82 to 74 F classes

 

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France:
Stern view of battleship Brennus. 1891-1914

 

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USN:
Battleship USS Idaho (BB-24) Photographed in 1909. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

USS Colorado (BB-45) in Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal, passing Gold Hill Sept 3, 1924

 

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Australia & New Zealand:
Pulling to her berth at Port Melbourne, the bare-decked aircraft carrier HMAS SYDNEY [III] is seen over the 5.25 inch guns of the 5,950 tons [standard] Dido Class cruiser HMNZS BLACK PRINCE. The two ships are about to depart on an almost five months voyage to Britain to participate in the Coronation Review at Spithead, saluting the new young Queen Elizabeth II.

 

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Australia:
A member of the famous 10th Destroyer Flotilla, Tribal class destroyer HMAS WARRAMUNGA shows her own sleek lines to advantage and the yachts at the Olympics sailing competition on Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne 1956

 

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Argentina:
A F9F Panther of the Argentinian Navy flying over the ARA Independencia (Ex HMS Warrior), the first aircraft carrier of Argentina, late 50's-early 60s

 

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USCG:
USCGC Bertholf WMSL-750 a Legend Class medium security cutter of the US Coast Guard off Alaska, August 2021

 

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The helicopter carrier DDH-161 Hyuga of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces in the fog. November 2021.

 

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France:
Battleship Richelieu with heavy cruiser Suffren and light cruiser Émile Bertin. Toulon, early 1950s

 

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USN:
Ex USS Oriskany (CV-34) sinking to the ocean floor, 22-miles south of Pensacola, Florida (FL) in approximately 212-ft. of water in the Gulf of Mexico, May 17, 2006

 

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USN:
Museum ship USS Wisconsin, an Iowa class battleship, decorated with Christmas lights for the holiday season

 

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USN:
Gleaves class destroyer USS Gleaves (DD-423) off Boston Navy Yard, May 31, 1942

Marine B25H on the USS Shangri-La for carrier suitability Trials 15 November, 1944

Battleship USS Iowa in heavy seas, 26 January 1946

 

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USN:
Battleship USS Arizona (BB 39) at anchor, date unknown

Battleship USS Maryland (BB-46) starboard beam, underway, 23 Aug, 1935

Battleship USS California BB-44 in Panama Canal 1936

 

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Germany:
S-22 running on maximum speed during a trial run in June/July 1939. The motor torpedo boat S 22 was launched on Jan. 31st, 1939 by the Friedrich Lürssen Werft, Bremen-Vegesack, yard number 12763, and commissioned on May 12th, 1939

 

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RN:
Paddle sloop HMS Virago near Fort Macquarie, Sydney Harbour, c. 1867-71

A glass plate negative, produced between 1867 and 1871, shows the Royal Navy paddle sloop 'HMS Virago' (1841-1876) which was a unit of the Royal Navy's Australia Station between 1867 and 1871. The ship was used mainly in survey work on the east coast of Australia, including Norfolk Island and the Great Barrier Reef. She also surveyed large sections of the coastline of New Zealand.

 

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Germany:
Aug 1958, sailors enter the German Federal Navy U-HAI (ex Type XXIII U-2365). Scuttled in 1945 and raised in 1957 to join the post-war Kriegsmarine. In Sep 1966 foundered in Dogger Bank in a gale, 19 of the 20 crewmen were lost, one of the worst German Navy disasters post-WW2