Photos Navies Of All Nations

[BravoZulu]

Italy:
Battleship Giulio Cesare after her reconstruction, 1937

 

[BravoZulu]

USN:
Battleship USS Nevada (BB-36) with Measure 21 camouflage pattern, 1943

 

[BravoZulu]

Imperial Germany:
SS Kronprinz Wilhelm. German liner used as a raider during WW1. She sunk 16 ships without the loss of a single life. Shown during her US internment in 1916. Later taken over by the USN & renamed USS Von Stueben & used as a troopship.

 

[BravoZulu]

Imperial Japan:
Aircraft carrier Hiryu nearing completion, March 20, 1939, at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal.

 

[BravoZulu]

Italy:
Battleship Duilio making a lot of smoke when leaving Genoa harbour, likely for trials in early 1915

 

[BravoZulu]

RN:
Forward superstructure of HMS Queen Elizabeth, June 2nd 1943, in Hampton Roads, after she was refitted at Norfolk Navy Yard.

A cheer for King George VI as the Royal Barge pulls away from HMS Renown after a visit to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, Aug 16, 1943

 

[BravoZulu]

France:
Tourville class frigate De Grasse (D 612). Decommissioned 2013

 

[BravoZulu]

Germany:
Charles F Adams class destroyer D186 Mölders, museum ship, the closed door on the left just inside the water-tight door is the ASROC launcher control room access. The opened water-tight door on the right is the magazine where missiles to reload the launcher are stored.

 

[BravoZulu]

France:
Armoured cruiser Dupuy de Lôme. Laid down in 1888, she was fast & had excellent range, which was ideal for her intended job of commerce raiding. After her time as a warship was over she was converted into a merchant ship in 1918. Her career as a merchant ship was very brief- she broke down on her first voyage & it was discovered that her cargo of coal had caught fire. Too expensive to fix, she was scrapped in 1923.

 

[BravoZulu]

USN:
USS Saratoga taking North Atlantic water over the bow, F-4B Phantom IIs of VF-31 "Tomcatters" and VF-103 "Sluggers" secured on the deck, Dec 2 1967

USS Enterprise steams into the wind of the South China Sea as she launches an A-4 Skyhawk for an air strike on North Vietnam, 28th May, 1968

 

[BravoZulu]

RN:
Battlecruiser HMS Repulse launching a torpedo during an exercise.

For anyone wondering what those balls are forward of the torpedo, it's a rack for a 'night life buoy'. These took the form of a wooden cross, with a spherical copper float at the end of each arm. They also had a chemical canister on either side; these ignited on contact with water, producing smoke and flames for about 30 minutes. If someone went over the side at night, the buoys were jettisoned, giving them a float and a marker.

View onboard battleship HMS Nelson when she ran aground in Portsmouth on January 12, 1934.

**The date on the image is incorrect, Nelson wasn't commissioned until 1927**

 

[BravoZulu]

Portugal:
Vasco da Gama class frigate NRP Corte-Real (F332) participates in a pass and review during the North Atlantic Council at Sea Day, 10 July, 2009

 

[BravoZulu]

Imperial Japan:
View looking aft from the bridge of battleship Musashi, circa June-July 1942.

Important figures on the bridge of battleship Musashi, June 1943. On the left is Emperor Shouwa (Hirohito), in the middle is Admiral Koga Mineichi, and on the right is staff officer Doi Kazuo.

 

[BravoZulu]

USN:
Troop transport USS George Washington ID-3018, formerly a German ocean liner, carrying President Woodrow Wilson to Brest, France to attend the Paris Peace Conference, December 13, 1918.

USS Mississippi (BB-41) transiting the Panama Canal during the 1920s

 

[BravoZulu]

France:
Destroyer Epervier, pennant number X-112, escorting the French troopship Chenonceaux loaded with Polish soldiers to Harstad, May 1940

 

[BravoZulu]

NATO:
The task group for Exercise Cold Response 22, as seen from HMS Albion

 

[BravoZulu]

France & RN:
Mistral-class LHD Dixmude and Albion class LPD HMS Albion off the coast of Norway, March 2022

 

[BravoZulu]

USN:
Battleship USS Maryland (BB-46) fires her forward 16"/45 guns at Tarawa, during the landings there, circa 20 November 1943.

USS Ranger, (CV-4), at anchor at Pearl Harbor, sometime between 3 August and 18 October 1944. Note her camouflage paint scheme Measure 33 Design 1A

 

[BravoZulu]

USN:
USS Saratoga, (CVA-60), and USS Northampton, (CLC-1), with multiple escorts during NATO exercise "Operation Strikeback", in 1957

 

[BravoZulu]

USCG:
Fast response cutter USCGC Cutter Emlen Tunnel (WPC 1145) operates in the Gulf of Aqaba, during the International Maritime Exercise/Cutlass Express (IMX) Feb. 13, 2022,