Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Brazil:
Niteroi class frigate União (F-45)

 

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USN:
Aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43), battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) and Spruance class destroyer USS Scott (DDG-995) moored at Pier No. 11, Norfolk, 30th Dec 1986

Battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) followed by the Battleship USS MISSOURI (BB-63) and the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS LONG BEACH (CGN-9) with other screening vessels follow. Off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan. Oct 14, 1989

 

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RN:
King George V class battleship HMS Duke of York, with her 14-inch guns trained to starboard

Winston Churchill acknowledging the cheers of the crew of HMS Prince of Wales on his return to Britain. 19th August 1941.

 

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Indonesia:
Van Speijk (Leander) class frigate KRI Oswald Siahaan launching an P-800 Yakhont antiship missile, 2011

The supersonic rocket-ramjet Yakhont weighs 3 tons at launch, is over 30-feet long, and uses a liquid propellant for the ramjet, which propels it up to an amazing Mach 2.5. With a range of up to 150-miles and a 660-pound warhead, the Yakhont is thought to only give a 45-second warning from detection to impact on even Aegis-equipped ships. When a ripple of all four of these large instant shipwrecks are fired at one target, even the best-armed vessel would be hard pressed to avoid a hi

 

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USN:
USS Iowa (BB-61) dropping anchor, San Francisco Bay, 1951.

 

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France:
Battleship Jean Bart (Richelieu-class) at sea, in the 1950s

 

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Italy:
Battleship Conte di Cavour before World War II. Probably at an Italian port, dock and crane to left.

An IMAM Ro.43 seaplane on its catapult, on the bow of a Zara-class heavy cruiser, 1940

Destroyer Ugolino Vivaldi in flames near Pantelleria, after an engagement with Force X, early afternoon of 15 June 1942

Sent together with her sister ship Lanzerotto Malocello to strike at the merchantmen, being unable to match the high speed of the other ships of the Italian squadron, the Vivaldi engaged with her guns and with torpedoes (that may have struck and sunk a ship of the convoy) the Hunt-class escort destroyers and eventually HMS Marne and Matchless.

At 0607H the Italian destroyer was struck by a 4.7-inch (120 mm) shell fired by the Matchless, that caused severe damage, and caused a large fire. Forced to come to an almost complete stop, and with a lot of enemy ships firing at her to finish her off (from as close as 4'500 m), while the Malocello sailed around her laying a smokescreen, half an hour later the captain (Ignazio Castrogiovanni) sent a message to Admiral Da Zara: "I shall fight to the end! Long live the King!"

However, that part of the confusing engagement passed, with the Italian ship still afloat and not in sinking condition. At 0646H, restoring power to part of the machinery, it laboriously began to make her way towards the nearby island of Pantelleria; however, the fire was still going strong. Even with the other Italian destroyers coming to help, at 0757H an explosion in the middle ammo magazine shook the ship, that survived only because it had been long flooded. By 0830H all the fire extinguisher had been exhausted, with others being brought onboard by a MAS (four had sailed from Pantelleria to help out as well).

During repeated attempts from the destroyer Premuda to take the crippled ship under tow, the Italian formation had to shrug off repeated attacks by Allied aircrafts, that however failed (a torpedo attack missed, despite the Vivaldi being a rather easy target); finally, at 1015H the cable was ready. By 1400H the burning destroyer finally reached Pantelleria, and two hours later local firefighters came and began to reduce the fire; it would not be completely extinguished until 2200H, at which point the destroyer was finally safe.

During the engagement, the stubborn Vivaldi had paid a price of ten KIA, nine WIA and several other crewmen more or less burned. It was rewarded by becoming one of only two destroyers during the war being decorated with the Medaglia d'Argento al Valor Militare (Silver Medal for Military Valour), other than several decorations for her officers and crew.

 

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USN:
USS Maryland (BB-46) alongside the capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37) during the attack on Pearl Harbor, as USS West Virginia (BB-48) burns in the background

USS New Jersey BB-62, a few hours after launch, December 7, 1942.

 

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Philippines:
BRP Teresa Magbanua (MRRV-9701) the lead ship of her class about to conduct her first sea trial off the coast of Japan. Built by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co. Ltd, she is based on Japan Coast Guard's Kunigami class patrol vessels. December 2021

 

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RN:
HMS Ark Royal (R-07) underway during the International Naval Review at New York, July 4, 1986

 

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USN:
A Spanish Bustamante naval mine, caught by the propellers of battleship USS Texas in the Guantanamo Bay, during the Spanish-American War on display aboard the ship close to a 6-inch/35 Mark 3 gun mount. Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY.

Pre-dreadnought battleship USS New Hampshire (BB-25) firing her 12", 8", and 7" guns in a broadside at the San Marcos during gunnery exercises, 1911 - colourised by Irootoko Jr.

Installing a funnel on battleship USS New York (BB-34) 2nd July, 1913

USS Michigan (BB-27) Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia, circa 1916-17. She is wearing horizontal "two-tone" paint scheme, possibly a camouflage experiment.

 

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USSR:
Project 205 Moskit (NATO Osa I) class missile boat with 4 P-15 Termit missiles, early 1980's

 

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USN:
1961, the battleship USS North Carolina collides with the floating seafood restaurant Fergus' Ark on the Cape Fear River in Wilmington. It was the second time a US Navy vessel almost sank the restaurant as a USN submarine hit it in 1955 too

Supplies and crewmen are taken below by elevator aboard the USS Intrepid (CVS-11). Operations taking place in the South China Sea with the USS Camden (AOE-2), December 1968

USS Long Beach (CGN-9) & USS Chicago (CG-11) at Coronado, 1979

 

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PLA(N):
One of PLA(N)'s new small (4,000 ton) hospital ships, November 2021.

Two of these smaller 4,000 ton hospital ships were commissioned last year as Nanyi-12 and Nanyi-13. The ship pictured has since received a new pennant number (pictured) using PLAN's standard three digit system, so it's not clear which ship this is or if their previous names are even still in use.

The two ships are intended to complement PLAN's larger (14,000 ton) 'Peace Ark'/Daishan Dao hospital ship which was commissioned in 2008. PLAN has also experimented with temporary containerised medical conversions of the aviation training ship 81 Shichang and also the civilian container ship Zhuanghe.

 

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USN:
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) is loaded onto the heavy lift transport MV Treasure, Oct 2017

The destroyer was involved in a collision with the tanker ship Alnic MC on 21 August 2017 off the coast of Singapore, which resulted in the deaths of 10 of her crew, and left another five injured.
Investigation into the collision showed that an overly complex touchscreen system used for throttle control and training deficiencies had contributed to a loss of control of the ship just before it crossed paths with a merchant ship in the Singapore Strait, prompting a decision by the Navy to revert ships of this class to mechanical throttle controls fleetwide

 

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USN:
USS Portland (LPD 27) moored in the Port of Djibouti

 

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France:
French and Lebanese troops deploying from Mistral-class LHD Tonnerre during amphibious exercise Cèdre Bleu, 2013

 

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RN:
Battleship HMS Warspite aground in Prussia Cove, Cornwall, 23 April 1947

THE SUBJECT

You say you have no subject
And your brushes all have dried;
But come to Marazion
At the ebbing of the tide.
And look you out to seaward,
Where my Lady battle scarred
Hugs the rock that is more welcome
Than the shameful breakers yard.

Paint her there upon the sunset
In her glory and despair,
With the diadem of victory
Still in flower in her hair.
Let her whisper as she settles
Of her blooding long ago,
In the mist than mingles Jutland
With the might of Scapa Flow.

Let her tell you, too, of Narvik
With its snowy hills, and then
Of Matapan, Salerno
And the shoals of Walcheren;
And finally of Malta,
When along the purple street
Came in trail the Roman Navy
To surrender at her feet.

Of all these honours conscious,
How could she bear to be
Delivered to the spoiler
Or severed from the sea ?
So hasten then and paint her
In the last flush of her pride
On the rocks of Marazion,
At the ebbing of the tide.

 

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India:
INS Khukri (F149) was a Type 14 (Blackwood-class) frigate of the Indian Navy. She was sunk off the coast of Diu, Gujarat, India by the Pakistan Navy Daphné-class submarine Hangor on 9 December 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. This was the first warship sunk in action by a submarine since World War II. It remains the post-Independence Indian navy's only warship to be lost in war to date. 18 officers and 176 sailors were lost in the sinking

 

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Italy:
Italian fishermen coming alongside battleship Conte di Cavour, during the latter's North American tour, Boston harbour, 25 August 1919

A naval squadron visiting San Remo in 1921: inside the harbour are the destroyers Giuseppe La Masa (foreground) and Giuseppe La Farina, while in the roadstead are the battleships Andrea Doria (right) and Giulio Cesare (left)