Photos Navies Of All Nations

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India:
Leander-class light cruiser INS Delhi makes a visit to the Port of Fremantle, Victoria Quay 1969. Formerly the HMNZS and HMS Achilles she was renowned for her part in the famous Battle of the River Plate in 1939. Achilles also won Battle Honours at Guadalcanal in 1942-43 and Okinawa in 1945. In 1948 she was sold to the Indian Navy and recommissioned as INS Delhi. Delhi served with the Indian Navy until 1978.

Achilles played herself in the British film Battle of the River Plate in 1956.

 

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RN:
On 18 August 1942, Berkeley escorted the Dieppe raiding force. During a 19 August air attack, she was hit by two bombs dropped from Focke-Wulf Fw 190s, which broke her keel and killed 13 ratings. As the damage was beyond control, she was abandoned and then scuttled by torpedoes from the escort destroyer Albrighton.

Hunt-class destroyer HMS Berkeley (L17) in1942

HMS Berkeley settling down in the water after being bombed during the Combined Operations daylight raid on Dieppe. One of the destroyers boats is still alongside, empty but still attached to its davits. HMS Berkeley was torpedoed shortly afterwards by British forces

HMS Berkeley hit by torpedo from HMS Albrighton to scuttle her. 19 Aug 1942

 

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Australia:
Hobart class destroyer HMAS Sydney fires an Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile at Exercise Pacific Dragon during a Regional Presence Deployment. Aug 12, 2022 Photographer: LSIS David Cox

 

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Australia:
HMAS Canberra (L02) sailed alongside HMA Ships Supply (A195) and Warramunga (DDH152)for the HMAS Canberra (I) 80th Anniversary Commemorative Service. 500 members gathered for a sunset service to remember the 84 lives lost on August 9, 1942.

 

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France:
Protected cruiser Suchet (1894-1905)

Flagship of the Far Eastern Division, armoured cruiser Dupleix arrives in Colombo from her home port of Saigon. Jan 1911

 

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Canada:
Apollo-class protected cruiser HMCS Rainbow. Painting by Bo Hermanson (°1939).

 

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Australia:
Collins class submarine HMAS Rankin heads out to the open sea from HMAS Stirling, April 2004

 

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Germany:
Admiral Graf Spee at the 1937 Spithead Naval Review

 

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RN:
Battle class destroyer HMS Barrosa traveling through turbulent water roiled up by the detonations of her Squid anti-submarine mortar system. Post WW2

 

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USSR:
Soviet helicopter carrier Moskva underway in the mid 1970s

 

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USN:
Marine from 31st MEU practices VBSS aboard USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5), USS New Orleans (LPD-18) in the background. 17 Aug 2022

USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) fires it's Phalanx, 18 Aug 2022

 

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USN:
Benjamin Franklin class fleet ballistic missile submarine USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641), shown from the stern as she runs on the surface, circa 1965

USS Tolovana (AO-64) refueling USS Bennington (CVS-20) in the Western Pacific, December 1966

 

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Japan:
JS Kashima (TV-3508) and JS Shimakaze (TV-3521) return to Yokosuka Naval Base after completing their round-the-world voyage, including a visit to Europe, on August 20, 2022

 

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USN:
Battleship USS Alabama (BB-60) the day before her launching Feb 15, 1942 at the Norfolk Navy Yard

USS Iowa being repaired by floating drydock ABSD-2 shortly after being damaged by Typhoon Cobra.

 

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USN:
USS Manhattan (Civil War Monitor) at League Island Navy Yard, 1898

 

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Italy:
Torpedomen at their place on a triple launcher, aboard an Italian destroyer, 9 July 1940

The crew of a twin 100 mm DP mount at work, aboard the heavy cruiser Zara, January 1941

 

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France:
Cruiser Algerie after scuttling, this picture was taken in port while she was still burning. Toulon, November 1942. She was raised and scrapped in the 1950s

Aerial view of the two Dunkerque class battleships Dunkerque and Strasbourg at anchor.

 

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RN:
A Stingray training variant torpedo is fired from Type 23 frigate HMS Westminster during an exercise, 1 Feb 2014

 

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France:
Battleship Richelieu being scrapped, 1960's

 

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RN:
HMS Indefatigable enters Waitematā Harbour, NZ with destroyers HMS Urchin and HMS Wizard. 12 December 1945