Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Germany:
German Type 206A class Submarine. Small and agile submarines built during the Cold War to operate in the shallow Baltic Sea The pressure hulls were built out of non-magnetic steel. S197 was sold to Colombia in 2011 for parts

 

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Spain:
Diesel/Elec Spanish mini-subs Class Foca (Seal). German engineers exiled in Spain after WW2 built these for the Spanish Navy based on the Seehund. They carried 2 external torpedoes, in service from 1963-69.

 

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Germany:
Admiral Graf Spee in flames after being scuttled off Montevideo, Uruguay, after the Battle of the River Plate, 17 December 1939.

 

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USN:
USS New Jersey, BB-62, silhouetted against the sea and clouds, as seen from a minesweeper, western Atlantic, 26 October 1943

USS Lexington at anchor off Honolulu, Hawaii, 8 Apr 1938

Launch of USS Ranger, CV-4, at Newport News Shipbuilding, 25 February 1933

USS RANGER (CV-4) - Launching at Newport News, Virginia, 25 February 1933.

Two U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver dive bombers of Bombing Squadron 83 (VB-83) fly against the backdrop of ships of Task Group 38.3 operating off Okinawa. VB-83 operated from USS Essex (CV-9), pictured in foreground, during the period March-September 1945. Note the geometric identification symbols ("G-symbols") of the aircraft from the Essex. In the background are the battleship USS Washington (BB-56), a long-hull Essex-class carrier and an Independence-class light carrier.

USS Boise, CL-47, shelling the coast of New Guinea in early 1944

 

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RN:
HMS Kenya during the Korean War

 

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USN:
Battleships of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet steaming in column formation, circa 1914. The leading ship is either Wyoming (BB-32) or Arkansas (BB-33). Note the dense smoke produced by these coal-burning ships. USNHC # NH 105079 Photographed by Enrique Muller, New York.

U.S. Atlantic Fleet battleships entering the straits (of Magellan) en route to the Pacific, circa 7-8 February 1908, during the World cruise of the Great White Fleet. Photographed from the afterdeck of USS Georgia (Battleship # 15). Note her quarterdeck whaleboat, on davits in left centre, and dotter gunnery practice aiming device at right. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. .

 

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Nov. 11, 2019) The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales (R09) completes sea trials prior to her first entry to Her Majesty's Naval Base Portsmouth as seen from the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley (DDG 101). Gridley is underway on a scheduled deployment as the flagship of Standing NATO Maritime Group One to conduct maritime operations and provide a continuous maritime capability for NATO in the northern Atlantic. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Cameron Stoner/Released)

 

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Vietnam:
Gepard-class frigate

 

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RN:
HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Dragon in Portsmouth.

 

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Russia:
Project 1144.2M/Kirov class battlecruiser 'Pyotr Velikiy'

Yankee Big Nose: K-403 (later Kazan) served a decade as an SSBN, before being fitted for testing the sonar for Sierra and Akula SSNs, and later, as seen here, for Yasen SSGN; Yankee Big Nose (Project 09780 Akson-2) is an additional modification of K-403 Kazan for trials of an acoustic system for fourth-generation Russian submarines: the Irtysh sonar system, in combination with the spherical antenna Amfora, occupies the entire nose section of the submarine

 

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USN:
PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 27, 2019) The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), left, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Russell (DDG 59) and USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) transit the eastern Pacific Ocean, Nov. 27, 2019. Pinckney is underway conducting routine training in the eastern Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Erick A. Parsons/Released)

HAAKONSVERN NAVAL BASE, Norway (Oct. 18, 2019) Sailors assigned to the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Minnesota (SSN 783) work alongside Norwegian crane operators to guide an MK-48 Advanced Capability torpedo into the submarine during an ordnance onload at the Haakonsvern Naval Base in Bergen, Norway, Oct. 18, 2019. Minnesota, the 10th ship of the Virginia class, is on a regularly scheduled deployment in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Travis Simmons/Released)

PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 30, 2019) The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Omaha (LCS 12) pulls alongside the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) for a practice fueling at sea, Nov. 30, 2019. Theodore Roosevelt is underway conducting routine training in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Terence Deleon Guerrero)

NORFOLK (Oct. 21, 2019) The Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center's (MARMC) floating dry-dock Dynamic (AFDL 6) conducts docking testing during a Board of Survey Inspection (INSURV) at Joint Expeditionary Base (JEB) Little Creek-Fort Story, Oct. 21. Dynamic provides dry-docking services for docking vessels of the mine countermeasure, patrol craft, landing craft units, and other small vessels. (U.S. Navy photo by Hendrick Dickson/Released)
"For the past 75 years, Dynamic has served as an auxiliary floating dry dock, capable of lifting ships out of the water for inspections and repairs. The dock was delivered to the U.S. Navy March 11, 1944, and with the exception of USS Constitution, is the oldest active vessel in the fleet."

 

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USN:
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) at sea in the Western Pacific on 6 August 1945. Note the scoreboard painted on the carrier's island. On deck are various aircraft of Carrier Air Group 86 (CVG-86).

 

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USN:
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Oct. 29, 2019) The aircraft carrier Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) reaches another construction milestone, Oct. 29, 2019, as its dry dock area is flooded three months ahead of its slated production schedule leading up to the christening of the second Ford-class aircraft carrier, scheduled for Dec. 7, 2019. The flooding of the dry dock follows other milestones, including the laying of the ship's keel on Aug. 22, 2015, the placement of the 588-metric ton island superstructure on May 29, 2019, and the arrival of the crew on Oct. 1, 2019. Kennedy is currently under construction at Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Adam Ferrero/Released)

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) transits through the Strait of Gibraltar, Dec. 5, 2019. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (CSG) is conducting operations in U.S. 6th Fleet to support maritime security operations in international waters, alongside our allies and partners. The Harry S. Truman CSG last operated in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in 2018, demonstrating its ability to operate from the High North to the east Mediterranean. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Scott Swofford (Released) 191205-N-GC347-0627

SASEBO, Japan (Dec. 6, 2019) Sailors man the rails as the America-class amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) arrives at Sasebo, Japan to join the forward deployed naval forces. America is assigned to Amphibious Squadron Eleven and will serve as the flagship for Expeditionary Strike Group 7 while conducting routine operations in the western Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent E. Zline/Released)

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (Oct. 22, 2019) The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Olympia (SSN 717), departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for the last time. Olympia is heading to Bremerton, Washington, to begin the decommissioning and inactivation process. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Michael B. Zingaro/Released)

 

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Russia:
"Peter the Great"

Zubr class hovercraft "Evgeniy Kocheshkov"

Project 1144 Orlan/Kirov & Project 1144.2M/Kirov class battlecruisers Kirov & Pyotr Velikiy

A Karakurt and an Ovod/Nanuchka in Kronstadt

 

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USSR:
Project 1144 Orlan/Kirov class battlecruisers Kirov & Kalinin

Nakat was a unique Project 1234.7 Ovod/Nanuchka, fitted for then-experimental P-800 Yakhont

 

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Slovenia:
Patrol Boat "Triglav" .It's an export version of the Russian Svetlyak-class Patrol Boat, with a displacement of 375 tonnes and a complement of 28 men. It boasts a 30mm cannon, 6 anti-ship missiles, 16 Russian manpads and 2 smaller 14.5mm machine guns.

This ship was acquired when the Russian government agreed to pay a multimillion debt to Slovenia with this ship in 2009. It was laid down the same year and finished in 2011. It's namesake is Triglav, the highest mountain and the national symbol of Slovenia.

 

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RCN:
HMCS Ypres was a gate-ship for the anti-submarine net guarding Halifax Harbour during WWII, when it was rammed and sunk by the battleship HMS Revenge. For the rest of the war, the other gate-ships would go through an exaggerated "abandon ship" drill every time Revenge approached

 

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Imperial Japan:
"Type A" Midget Submarine, sunk by USS Monaghan (DD-354) in Pearl Harbor during the 7 December attack, at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard in December 1941. Subsequently buried in a landfill. The submarine's hull shows the effects of depth charges and ramming. A hole visible in the after part of the conning tower may be from a 5" shell. The upper background had been overpainted for censorship purposes

Type 99 Carrier Bombers (Val) prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier during the morning of 7 December 1941. Ship in the background is the carrier IJN Soryu.

 

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USN:
USS Iowa looking extra mean during exercise Northern Wedding 86

 

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RN:
1st Battle Squadron of the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea, April 1915. Visible are HMS Marlborough (2R), HMS Colossus (3L) and HMS Hercules (4L). Other visible ships are HMS Superb, HMS St. Vincent, HMS Collingwood and HMS Vanguard, April 1915