Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Italy:
Curtatone class destroyer Curtatone, 1923-41. Sunk by mine 20 May 1941. Only 34 crew members of the Curtatone were saved: the other 94 (5 officers, 16 non-commissioned officers and 73 sub-chiefs and sailors), including Commander Tassara, had sunk with the ship. Two others would later die from their injuries.

 

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Spain:
Aircraft carrier Dedalo (R-01) underway, 1st June,1988

 

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USN:
Brooklyn class light cruisers USS St. Louis (CL-49), USS Honolulu (CL-48), and USS Helena (CL-50) off Espirtu Santo, June 1943

USS Muir (DE-770) on her commissioning day at Tampa, FL, Aug 30, 1944

ABSD-1 with USS Antelope (IX-109) and USS LST-120 in the dock at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Islands, 8 January 1945. US National Archives photo # 80-G-314233

USS Artisan (ABSD-1), later redesignated as (AFDB-1), was a ten-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock, capable of docking Iowa class battleships

The partially completed battleship USS Kentucky (BB 66), never completed and subsequently scrapped. The barbettes for the turrets are prominent. February 4, 1946.

 

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RN:
Aircraft carriers HMS Victorious, HMS Ark Royal and HMS Hermes sail together in 1960

 

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Italy:
Durand de la Penne class destroyer Francesco Mimbelli (D 561), 2018

 

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Russia:
A sailor sits on a P-700 Granit anti ship missile of a Project 949A Antey, (NATO Oscar II) class cruise missile submarine

Project 68-bis (NATO Sverdlov) class light cruiser Mikhail Kutuzov in dry dock for refit as a museum in Novorossiysk, Sevastopol 2001

 

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USN:
USS Chicago (CG-11) CO, Captain S.H. Moore is seen skeet shooting on the fantail, February 1965

 

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Italy:
Sparviero class hydrofoil-missile Nibbio P-421 underway. 1982

Sparviero class, also known as the Nibbio class, are small hydrofoil missile boats capable of traveling at speeds of 46 knots (85 km/h; 53 mph).
1 × Rolls-Royce Proteus 15 M560 gas turbine driving waterjet, 3,761 kW (5,044 shp)
1 × Isotta-Fraschini ID38N6V diesel, 1 propellor, 220 kW (290 bhp)
1 × Otobreda 76 mm gun
2 × Otomat Anti-ship missiles

 

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imperial Japan:
The first naval launched air raid took place during the Siege of Tsingtao in Sep 1914. Seaplane carrier Wakamiya lowered 4 Maurice Farman seaplanes into the water, they took off to attack German forces at Tsingtao (now Qingdao, China) and were retrieved later by Wakamiya.

 

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USN:
Crane Hercules, lifting turret #2, USS New York (BB-34), from shore to deck, shown swinging clear, weight 220,000 pounds, 8th May,1913

USS Arkansas (BB-33) ca. 1927, probably in Hampton Roads

USS Arkansas (BB-33) seen in 1927, probably that September during ceremonies in commemoration of Frenchmen lost at Yorktown in 1781, when the French and their fleet had made the creation of America possible through their intervention against the British. The dreadnought had been modernised just the year prior, sacrificing her cage mainmast for the modern tripod seen between turrets 4 & 5 here. Other benefits of spending nearly all of 1926 in Philadelphia included additional deck armour and new boilers, an aircraft catapult and pole recovery crane (on the stern), and the removal of several wet, useless 5" casemates up a level into a new "air castle." She had also been reduced to one stack, thanks to her new oil-fired boilers. She also had her hull bulged with anti-torpedo blisters at the time. Information by u/HazeGreyHistory
Photo is from the public domain, held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France via Gallica, Agence Rol 124423

 

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USSR:
Project 611 (NATO Zulu) class diesel-electric submarine (launched ca. 1952 -54), photographed on 20 December 1965 West of Sicily

 

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USN:
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) transiting the strait of Gibraltar, 15th Dec, 2021

 

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RN & USN:
HMS Java fighting against USS Constitution by Montardier [French, active 1814-ca.1823] The War of 1812

 

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USN:
Then-Capt. Chester Nimitz commanded the destroyer base at San Diego in 1931–1932 and quartered his family aboard tender Rigel (shown here in the middle of the 32nd Street waterfront), where the ship’s chart house was converted to his son’s bedroom.

 

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Imperial japan:
Aircraft carrier Akagi off Osaka, October 1934. Deck is loaded with Mitsubishi B1M and B2M torpedo bombers.

 

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USN & Italy:
Contemporary propaganda artwork of the claimed sinking of the battleship USS Maryland by submarine Barbarigo, May 1942

On 20 May 1942 Capitano di Corvetta Enzo Grossi, commander of the submarine Barbarigo (assigned to BETASOM and operating in the Caribbean Sea), claimed to have fired two torpedoes at a "Maryland- or California-type battleship", and to have seen her sink after the said torpedoes were heard detonating. Over the objections of his direct superior, BETASOM commander Romolo Polacchini (skeptical of such a claim), the claim was taken at face value by Italian and German propaganda. Grossi would be promoted to Capitano di Fregata and decorated with a Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Militare.

In October, he would again claim a similar feat, saying his submarine had sunk a "Tennessee-type battleship", and he would be again promoted (to Capitano di Vascello), decorated with another MOVM and named to replace Polacchini in command of BETASOM.

After the war, access to American documents proved that the claims were unfounded (as the American media had said during the conflict, mocking the Italian assertions): instead, Grossi had attacked without success much smaller ship, the old cruiser USS Milwaukee in the first case and the corvette HMS Petunia.

Two enquiries of the Marina Militare, in 1949 and 1962, took note of the facts above, and revoked Grossi's promotions and decorations.

 

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Russia:
Project 1135 Burevestnik (NATO Krivak) class frigate "Ladny" at Sevastopol, 13th December 2021

 

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RN & Italy:
The RN admiral in command of the Red Sea station is welcomed aboard heavy cruiser Trento, 1932

 

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Iran:
Modified BH.7 class missile hovercraft (ex British Hovercraft)

 

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USN:
Battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) at Norfolk, USS Coral Sea (CV-43) on right, 11th oct, 1988