Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USA
US Navy mounts the Mark 71 8"/55 Lightweight Naval Gun on USS Hull (DD-945) destroyer for trials in 1975.

 

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??NRP Corte Real, ?? FGS Erfurt; water wars at point blank distance!

 

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Front view of JMSDF JS Mogami (FFM-1)

 

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USSR:
Launch of the Soviet aircraft carrier Leonid Brezhnev (better known as Admiral Kuznetsov). 1985, Mykolaiv, Ukraine.

 

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USN:
Battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) fitting out at New York Navy Yard, 1942

USS Texas in the Atlantic. 1 April 1944.

Battleship USS Idaho (BB-42) in floating dry dock ABSD 3 at Guam, May 1945

 

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RN:
HMS Howe, the last of the King George V class battleships, in 1947

 

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Germany:
Battleship Bismarck in floating dry dock, Hamburg, July 1940

 

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USSR:
Light cruiser Murmansk firing one of its 6-inch guns in 1967

Project 1234 Ovod (NATO Nanuchka) class corvette Grad launching a P-120 Malakhit (NATO SS-N-9 Siren) anti-ship missile

 

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Netherlands:
Holland-class offshore patrol vessel HNLMS Zeeland (P841)

 

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Japan:
JS Mogami (FFM-1), Yokosuka Harbour at night, July 9, 2022

Comparison of current generation submarines of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. From left to right, in order of oldest to youngest: Oyashio class, Soryu class, and Taigei class. Yokosuka Naval Base, July 18, 2022.

JS Mogami (FFM-1) and JS Kumano (FFM-2) "dressed overall", Yokosuka Naval Base on the morning of July 18, 2022.

 

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France:
Seaplane tender Commandant Teste. Early 1930s

La Galissonniere class light cruiser La Marseillaise during the Neutrality Patrols, late 1930s

 

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USN:
USS Seawolf, (SSN-575), leaving San Francisco, August, 1977

USS New Jersey (BB-62) approaching the entrance to the Panama Canal (Mira Flores Locks), 1984

Battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) as it enters Port Everglades to take part in Navy Appreciation Week, which is being sponsored by the local Navy League chapter, 7 Oct 1988

 

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Imperial Japan:
Chikuma by Piotr Forkasiewicz

Nagato by Takeshi Kurokawa

Operation "Ten-Go", 7 April 1945: Smoke rises to the clouds shortly after battleship Yamato capsized, exploded and sank after receiving many bomb and torpedo hits from U.S. Navy carrier planes north of Okinawa. An escorting destroyer is visible to the left of the smoke.
Photographed from a plane from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10)

 

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Yugoslavia/Italy:
Destroyer Lubiana in 1943

Completed as Ljubljana for the Royal Yugoslav Navy in December 1939, she ran aground and sank near Sibenik after less than two months of service. Refloated by the Yugoslavs (or, more precisely - and ironically, given her following fate - by an Italian salvage firm that made a contract with the Yugoslav Navy), she was captured by Italian troops in April 1941, while under repair in Sibenik, during the invasion of Yugoslavia. The repairs were completed by the Royal Italian Navy, which commissioned her into its own fleet in October 1942 with the Italianized name Lubiana. In April 1943, while escorting a convoy from Naples to Bizerta, she ran aground again and sank off Tunisia, this time for good.

 

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USN:
Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Birmingham (CL-62) helping to fight the fire onboard Independence-class light aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVL-23). October 24, 1944. Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Casualties on Princeton herself were relatively light considering the intensity of her fires; 108 men (10 officers and 98 enlisted men) were lost, while 1,361 crewmen were rescued. Casualties were much heavier aboard Birmingham which was devastated by secondary explosions aboard Princeton while fighting fires, with 233 killed and 426 wounded from a complement of 1,285.

 

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USN, Italy & France:
ADRIATIC SEA - 220706-N-QI593-1043 ADRIATIC SEA (July 6, 2022) From front, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG 96), the Italian Navy Carlo Bergamini-class frigate ITS Alpino (F 594), the French Navy Aquitaine-class frigate FS Languedoc (D 653), and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67), participate in a maneuvering exercise in the Adriatic Sea

USS Bainbridge (DDG 96), Italian frigate ITS Alpino (F 594), the French frigate FS Languedoc (D 653) and destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67), transit during a maneuvering exercise in the Adriatic Sea, July 6, 2022

 

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Pakistan:
Type 054AP frigate PNS Tughril conducts a PASSEX with JS Harusame off Karachi, June 2022.

 

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Imperial Russia:
Cruiser Aurora, interned in Manila (Philippines) after the Battle of Tsushima, June 1905.

 

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RN:
April 1941. Assigned to the 1st Battle Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet, battleship HMS Valiant is ready to depart Alexandria, Egypt, to support Allied сonvoy GA 15 carrying troops from Crete.

King George VI aboard HMS Howe with Captain C. H. L. Woodhouse and Admiral John Tovey, Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom, date unknown

 

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USN:
Midway-class aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVB-43) port quarter view, Feb 24, 1949

John C. Butler class destroyer escort USS Silverstein (DE-534) and Balao-class submarine USS Stickleback( SS-415) collide 19 miles out from Barbers Point, Oahu Hawaii

On 28 May 1958, Stickleback was participating in an antisubmarine warfare exercise with the destroyer escort USS Silverstein and a torpedo retriever in the Hawaiian area. The exercises continued into the afternoon of the next day when the submarine completed a simulated torpedo run on Silverstein. As Stickleback was going to a safe depth, she lost power and broached approximately 200 yards (180 m) ahead of the destroyer escort. Silverstein backed full and put her rudder hard left in an effort to avoid a collision but holed the submarine on her port side.

Stickleback's crew was removed by the torpedo retriever and combined efforts were made by Silverstein, Sabalo, Sturtevant, and Greenlet, to save the stricken submarine. The rescue ships put lines around her, but compartment after compartment flooded and, at 18:57 on 29 May 1958, Stickleback sank in 1,800 fathoms (3,300 m) of water.