Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
Minotaur-class armoured frigate HMS Agincourt in drydock, circa 1860s.

The Minotaurs were poor sailors, never exceeding a speed under sail of about 9.5 knots with all sail set and a favourable wind. They were, in spite of the number of masts they exhibited, the most sluggish of all British ironclads under sail. They were regarded as good sea-boats, and were considered to be among the steadiest ships in the battle-fleet. They were slow in manoeuvre under hand-steering, but were regarded as good after steam steering was fitted.

 

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USN:
Essex-class aircraft carrier aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain (CVA-39). Circa 1955

 

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USN:
View of the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) with aircraft of Carrier Air Group 5 (CVG-5) warming up, circa in November-December 1943. Visible are 18 Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 5 (VF-5), 17 Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless of Bombing Squadron 5 (VB-5) and seven Grumman TBF-1 Avenger of Torpedo Squadron 5 (VT-5).

Fletcher-class destroyer USS Charrette (DD-581) screening USS New Jersey (BB-62) during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 24 October 1944.

Sailors inspect damage from Japanese 110 kg bomb aft of aircraft elevator, USS Fanshaw Bay, (CVE-70), which struck 17 June 1944 during the Marianas and Palau Islands campaign. Photo taken at Pearl Harbor, 5 July 1944

 

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USN:
Los Angeles (Flight I) class USS Albuquerque (SSN-706) during exercises in September 2006.

Philadelphia Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Sept 2016. A slew of OHPs, 3 Ticos, Charles F Adams, some dock amphibs, an LST, some LKAs

 

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USSR:
Project 1859 fleet replenishment ship Berezina approaching aircraft cruiser Tbilisi for resupply and refuelling during its sea trials in 1990

Project 1234.1 Ovod (NATO Nanuchka III) missile corvette (small missile ships in Soviet classification) Mirazh (Mirage) in dry dock. Decommissioned in 2020

 

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Italy:
The Cantiere San Marco at Trieste, early 1937; from left to right, the light cruisers Giuseppe Garibaldi (fitting out) and Luigi Cadorna, and the battleship Andrea Doria (being dismantled for its rebuild)

 

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USN:
Battleship USS Arkansas (BB-33) moves through the Panama Canal. 26 July 1919.

 

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Imperial Japan:
From left to right: Akagi, Kirishima, Kongo, Mikuma, Ryujo, Kumano and Fuso off the coast of Tsingtao, China, March 1938.

 

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Indonesia:
Kapitan Pattimura-class corvette KRI Cut Nyak Dhien (375), formerly the Parchim-class Lübz (221) of the East German Volksmarine, off the Spanish port city of Málaga, March 1994

 

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USN:
Swim call on Los Angeles Flight I class USS Olympia (SSN-717), RIMPAC 2018. Done this many times myself but admittedly not from a submarine!
Photos by Fire Control Technician Senior Chief Vien Nguyen

 

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Norway:
NoCGV Harstad sails from Leith with the NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS) embarked, returning to Norway for a submarine rescue exercise, 1st May 2022

 

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Australia:
So first pic: Amphibious warfare ships HMAS Canberra (L02) and HMAS Adelaide (L01).
The second pic is Bay class landing ship HMAS Choules, ex-RFA Largs Bay and Hobart class destroyer HMAS Brisbane
The third pic you have Hobart class destroyer HMAS Sydney

 

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RN:
1 May 1982 "The Day of the Sea Harrier". Flight deck operations on board HMS Hermes. A Sea Harrier takes off from the ski-jump while various missiles, helicopters and vehicles crowd the flight deck of the carrier. The arms front to back include: 1000lb GP bombs with type 114 'Slick' tails, 1000lb GP Bombs with Type 117 parachute 'retarded' tails, Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and Sea Skua air-to-surface missiles.

BOMBARDMENT

The RAF opened proceedings with the legendary long-range raid by a Vulcan bomber which dropped a stick of bombs across the runway at Stanley's airport.

But Saturday May 1st was really the day of the Sea Harrier.

From first light to last, the jets hounded ground and air defences around the Falklands capital.

With the Harrier lethality supported by the guns. of HMS Glamorgan, Alacrity and Arrow - 'The Three Musketeers' which joined in the bombardment, the Argentine forces were firmly on the backfoot.

AVOIDANCE

There was a response from the Fuerza Aerea Argentina, as it sent Daggers - Israeli-built copies of French Mirages aloft, alongside Mirages and veteran A4 Skyhawks - bought second-hand from the USA.

The first dogfight proved inconclusive though, with the Argentines attempting to avoid battle.

By Saturday afternoon, however, Sea Harriers had accounted for four enemy aircraft: two Mirages, an ageing Canberra bomber and one Dagger.

FOX TWO AWAY

Flight Lieutenant Paul Barton - one of several RAF men flying with 801 Naval Air Squadron - was the first to score a hit with a Sidewinder air-to-air missile. With "Fox two away" crackling over the airwaves, squadron CO Lieutenant Commander Nigel Sharkey' Ward watched on:"The missile thundered off the rails like an express train and left a brilliant white smoke trail as it curved up towards the heavens, chasing after the Mirage, which was now making for the stars. "As the Sidewinder made intercept, the Argentine jet exploded, disintegrated and twisted its way. down to the cloud and sea below."

ALL OUT, ALL BACK

Back aboard HMS Invincible that evening, Ward told the carrier's commanding officer, Captain JJ'

Black:"I believe we have given them a good lesson today."

The first raids had been followed by the media aboard HMS Hermes too-acting under wartime censorship guidelines, giving the Falklands war its most famous soundbite, courtesy of the BBC's Brian Hanrahan: "I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but counted them all out and I counted them all back."

 

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France:
Aircraft carrier Charles-de-Gaulle sets sail from the southern French port of Toulon on January 13, 2015 before taking part in military operations in the Gulf.

 

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Australia:
HMAS Stalwart (D 215) The second of her name, destroyer tender 1968 -1990.
She had a full set of workshops on board fully able to make almost anything a fleet unit required. Her nickname was irreverently "Building 215" but affectionately as "The Wart"

 

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Canada:
Halifax class frigates HMCS Vancouver, HMCSWinnipeg and Kingston-class coastal defence vessels HMCS Brandon, and HMCS Edmonton in Vancouver, 1st May 2022

 

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France:
LHD Mistral and La Fayette-class light stealth frigate Courbet on their way to Cape Town during their Jeanne d'Arc 2022 deployment, accompanied by the Floréal-class surveillance frigate Nîvose and the d'Entrecasteaux-class overseas support and assistance ship Champlain from Réunion.

 

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Italy:
Bridge of the LSS, Vulcano with a view on carrier Cavour

Landing helicopter dock (LHD) ITS Trieste (L9890) during sea trials

 

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Sweden:
Sverige-class coastal defence ship HSwMS Sverige in 1937. Commissioned during the last year of World War I and serving into the 1950s. Her cost was approximately 12 million kronor in 1912, and the entire sum was raised in public in a nationwide fundraising campaign that gained over 15 million (approximately 650 MKr, in 2005 Kr). The fundraising was done because of the Karl Staaff government's reluctance to spend money on a new battleship.

The ship off her starboard quarter is HSwMS Drottning Victoria, a half sister, ordered in 1915 and completed in 1921, built by Götaverken Gothenborg. She had an improved design, with an icebreaking bow and different machinery.

 

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France:
Anti-aircraft cruiser De Grasse (C-610)

The De Grasse was designed in the late 1930s, as the lead ship of a series of three cruisers a little heavier than the preceding La Galissonnière class cruisers, notably with an improved anti-aircraft equipment. After the war the hull was eventually launched in 1946. The construction was halted again between 1946 and 1951, when she was towed to the Brest Navy yard to be completed, to a significantly modified design as an anti-aircraft cruiser.
Commissioned: September 10, 1956. Placed in reserve in 1972