Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
LCS-19 PCU St. Louis going through Acceptance Trials in a Wintry Lake Michigan

MOBILE, Ala (Aug. 22, 2019) The expeditionary fast-transport ship USNS Puerto Rico (EPF 11) successfully completed the first integrated sea trials for an expeditionary fast transport ship Aug. 22. Integrated Trials combine Builder's and Acceptance Trials, allowing for the shipyard to demonstrate to the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey the operational capability and mission readiness of all the ship's systems during a single underway period. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Austal USA Navy/Released)

 

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Azerbaijan:
Gusar, built in the 60s, is a former Soviet frigate. Weighting 950 tonnes, with a complement of 90 men, this is the smallest frigate I've seen so far. Stationed in Baku, this boy is operating in the Caspian Sea. It's 81.8m long.
It's main armament are 2x2 76mm cannons and 4 RBU-6000s, though it also has 3 533mm torpedo tubes. It's max speed is 35 knots. It's one of the 8 of these frigates currently active, though there were once 56.
The plan for the ship was issued and approved in the mid-50s. A three shaft machinery layout was chosen with the central shaft powered by diesel engines for economical cruising and the two wing shafts powered by gas turbines for speed. It's overall a pretty old ship. Also, the first frigate of the series.

Project 159 'Storozhevoi Korabl' (NATO Petya) class frigate ARG 'Gusar' (G121) off Baku, Azerbaijan. Jun 24, 2012

 

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Chile:
Training ship Esmeralda (BE-43) entering Auckland Harbour, 1961.

 

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USN:
Workers work to repair damage to USS North Carolina caused by an IJN Type 95 torpedo fired by submarine I-19 on September 15, 1942. The hole measured 32 by 18 feet.

USS North Carolina entering Pearl Harbor in November 1942

USS Iowa during her shakedown period, 1943.

 

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USN:
USS Chancellorsville (CG-62), left, is underway alongside the Navy’s forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) during a fueling-at-sea. Ronald Reagan, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 5, provides a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interests of its allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region on June 30, 2019. US Navy Photo

PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 7, 2017) Sailors assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) fire the Mark 45 5-inch gun during a live-fire exercise. Wayne E. Meyer is part of the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group who will report to U.S. 3rd Fleet, headquartered in San Diego, while deployed to the western Pacific as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of 3rd Fleet into the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelsey L. Adams)

 

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Italy:
Carrier 'Cavour' entering Taranto

The launch of the Italian LHD 'Trieste'

Destroyer 'Caio Duilio'

Frigate 'Carlo Margottini' (F 592) in Doha

 

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RN:
Oberon class HMS Ocelot (S17)
Designed in the '50s to replace the post-war Porpoise-class, they were an improvement in a number of ways, not least stealth. Anything that could make noise was isolated from the hull.
Launched:5 May 1962
Commissioned:31 January 1964
Decommissioned: August 1991
The bulbous nose held an advanced sonar array,
Propulsion machinery consisted of two Admiralty Standard Range 16 VMS diesel generators, and two 3,000 shaft horsepower (2,200 kW) electric motors

Former HMS Ark Royal at the breakers, Leyal Ship Recycling, 2013

HMS Cavalier in the Victory dock

 

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RN:
A port side stern view of HMS Hood off Honolulu in 1924

 

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Russia:
Frigate 'Admiral Gorshkov'

 

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France:
Frigate 'Chevalier Paul' assists sailboat on fire

FS Colbert awaiting scrapping in the Landévennec ships' graveyard. The missiles are replicas from its days as a museum

 

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Tonga
Spring 2016, Tongan Pacific-class patrol boats, VOEA Neiafu P201 float in the harbour in Nuku’alofa, Tonga.

 

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USN:
USS Oriskany (CV-34) with a North American AJ-1 Savage attack plane on her flight deck. Photo by W.M. Cox dated 29 August 1952. Oriskany was operating off the U.S. west coast, preparing for her first Korean War deployment. USN photo.

 

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RN & Italy:
May 1945, A Fairey Barracuda II of 814 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm flying over HMS Venerable and an attendant destroyer, the Italian 'Alfredo Oriani'

 

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USN & India:
Sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97) stand in ranks as the Indian navy destroyer Sapura (F-48) pulls alongside Halsey during a Malabar 2012 exercise.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Christopher Farrington

 

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Brazilian Navy tank landing ship Mattoso Maia G-28 (former USS Cayuga - LST-1186 - Newport-class).

 

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USN:
USS Wasp from a Marine Corps CH-53E

MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Dec. 12, 2019) The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60), back, and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71), front, conduct a replenishment-at-sea with the fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE 6) as the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), not pictured, conducts a vertical replenishment in the Mediterranean Sea, Dec. 11, 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 3rd Class Kaysee Lohmann/Released)

STRAIT OF HORMUZ (Dec. 4, 2019) The guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99), the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) and the guided-missile cruiser Leyte Gulf (CG 55) transit the Strait of Hormuz. Farragut is part of the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and is operating in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and the Pacific through the western Indian Ocean and three strategic choke points. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jack D. Aistrup/Released)

MAYPORT, Fla. (Jan. 17, 2017) The patrol ship USS Zephyr (PC 8) returns to Naval Station Mayport after completing a 64-day patrol in the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations. Zephyr's patrol resulted in one interdiction entailing the seizure of 900 kilograms of cocaine and detaining four personnel in support of Operation Martillo. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Hendricks)

 

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RN:
HMS Hood, date unknown but possibly during the 1923-1924 "Empire" cruise

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HMS Bonaventure around the time of her commissioning in 1940. HMS Bonaventure was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. Bonaventure participated as an escort vessel in Operation Fish, the World War II evacuation of British wealth from the UK to Canada. It was the largest movement of wealth in history.
On 10 January 1941 she, along with HMS Southampton and/or HMS Hereward, shelled and sank the Italian torpedo boat Vega off Cape Bon, Tunisia, Operation "Excess". Two members of her crew were killed by return fire.
On 31 March 1941 she was torpedoed and sunk south of Crete (33°20′N 26°35′E) by the Italian submarine Ambra with the loss of 139 of her 480 crew. 310 survivors rescued by HMS Hereward and HMAS Stuart.

Tanker S.S. Ohio is struck by one of four torpedoes fired by Italian submarine Axum, 12 August 1942 (Operation Pedestal). Two other ships were hit by the same spread.

HMS Volage (R-41) as she arrives in Grand Harbor, Malta after hitting a mine in the Corfu Chanel on 22 October 1946. Volage lost eight men, seven of whom were missing, presumed killed

 

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Myanmar:
Kyan Sittha-class frigate,UMS Kyansittha, a domestically produced ship built by the Myanmar Naval Dockyard, finished in 2012 and commissioned in 31st March 2014. It's named after the king Kyansittha, of the Pagan Dynasty. It's sister ship, the Sin Pyushin, is named after a king from the Konbaung Dynasty. It's expected to have 5 ships in total.
Most of its technology derives from China, Russia and India. It carries 1 helicopter, either the Karbin Z-9 or the Ka-27. It's displacement is 3000 tonnes, with a complement of 300 men.
It's main armament is the C-802 Anti-Ship Missile. It has 6 turret-mounted Iglas, 1 76mm cannon, 3 NG-18 CIWS, some ASW torpedoes and a few rocket launchers.

 

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Russia:
Veteran cruiser Aurora. Saint Petersburg.

Overnight on 15 December, the Russian Navy floating dock PD-16 sank in the South Harbor of Sevastopol. The Tango-class submarine B-380, which had been in drydock awaiting decommissioning, capsized to port and is continuing to sink

Project 667BDR Kalmar/Delta III class SSBN RFS Svyatoy Georgiy Pobedonosetc (K-433

 

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RAN:
Australian carrier group consisting of anti-submarine aircraft carrier R21 HMAS Melbourne and destroyers D08 HMAS Vendetta and D04 HMAS Voyager , 1959