Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Italy:
A recent (1 October 2019 ) photo of helicopter cruiser Vittorio Veneto (former C 550). Plans to turn her into a museum at Taranto fell through due to the cost involved and the asbestos present within the ship, so she will be scrapped. Her pennant (C 550) is currently held by the carrier Cavour, and before Vittorio Veneto, it was held by the light cruiser Duca degli Abruzzi (In service from 1937 to 1961, held the pennant from 1953 to 1961).

The Italian cruiser the Duca Degli Abruzzi, wearing the flag of the C in C Italian Naval Forces, Vice Admiral Vittorio de Pace, entering Grand Harbor, Malta, July 23 1955

 

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RN:
HMS Glamorgan (D19) HMS Tiger (C20) HMS Fearless (L10) HMS Hermes (R12) HMS Ark Royal (R09) Silver Jubilee Spithead Fleet Review 1977

 

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USN & RN:
USS Kearsarge (BB-5) (R) steams past a pair of British Majestic class battleships, during a visit to an English port in 1903. Crewmen are manning the rails and superstructures of all three ships. Photographed by West & Son, Southsea, England.

RN:
HMS Albion aground at Gaba Tepe, being shelled by Turkish batteries. HMS Albion was taken in tow by HMS Canopus (just visible in the foreground) May 1915

HMS Gannet in Chatham dockyard. The Doterel class were a development of the Osprey-class sloops and were of composite construction, with wooden hulls over an iron frame. The original 1874 design by the Chief Constructor, William Henry White was revised in 1877 by Sir Nathaniel Barnaby and nine were ordered. Of 1,130 tons displacement and approximately 1,100 indicated horsepower, they were armed with two 7" muzzle-loading rifled guns on pivoting mounts, and four 64-pound guns (two on pivoting mounts, and two broadside). They had a crew of around 140 men.

 

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USN:
USS Colorado and USS St. Louis, 10 October 1944.

USS Arizona BB-39 - Sheet 4 - Second Deck, Third Deck, First Platform

 

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Algeria:
Erradii (910), lead ship of the Eradii class frigates of the Algerian Navy

 

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RN:
This image is several weeks old as HMS Dauntless (on the left) now has her S1850M Long Range Radar (LRR) fitted. She's in a maintenance period before sailing in 2020 for trials and to transit up to Cammell Laird for the Power Improvement Project (PIP) to fit 3 new more powerful diesel generators in place of the existing 2 smaller ones.

HMS Diamond (on the right) is in dry dock for maintenance following a period of operations earlier this year. She will sail in the new year for trials before once again departing on operations.

HMS Ocelot and HMS Gannet as seen from the bridge of HMS Cavalier

 

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France:
Aircraft carrier 'Bearn' in Colombo Harbour, Ceylon, Oct 1945

Aircraft carrier 'Arromanches' in the Gulf of Tonkin, mid 1950's

File photo show Rafale and Super Etendards fighter jets are parked prior to a mission aboard France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier sailing in the Gulf, January 28, 2016. France will deploy its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to the Middle East in the autumn to participate in operations against Islamic State militants, the French President said July 13, 2016. Picture taken January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo

 

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Imperial Japan:
A violent explosion staggers a Japanese destroyer escort after bombing run by North American B-25's of Air Apaches Group off the China Coast, April 6, 1945.

 

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RN:
HMS Anson holding divisions for inspection, June 28, 1942

RN & Italy:
Galileo Galilei, under the command of capitano di corvetta (Lieutenant Commander) Corrado Nardi, had sailed from Massawa (Eritrea, then part of Italian East Africa) right after Italy's entry into World War II, for a patrol south of Aden. On 16 June she stopped the Norwegian tanker James Stove, gave her crew time to abandon ship, and then sank her with three torpedoes. On 18 June she stopped the Yugoslav steamer Drava, but then allowed her to proceed as Yugoslavia was still neutral; shortly thereafter, she was forced to submerge by a British aircraft. When Galilei resurfaced to recharge her batteries, after dark, she was attacked by the armed trawler HMS Moonstone, meanwhile despatched to the spot, and submerged again. Moonstone depth charged Galilei without causing damage, and the submarine spent the rest of the night lying on the seafloor; in the morning of 19 June, she went to periscope depth and Nardi saw that there was just Moonstone nearby, so he decided to surface and engage a gun battle against the trawler, as the latter had only one 101 mm gun while Galilei had two guns of the same caliber. As soon as fire was opened, however, the aiming mechanism of Galilei's bow gun failed, while Moonstone's gun soon scored two hits on the submarine's bow gun, killing most of its gunners and the executive officer, and the conning tower. To make things worse for the submarine, after a dozen minutes the aft gun jammed, and shortly thereafter another two shots from Moonstone hit the conning tower and killed Nardi and another four officers. Young ensign Ferruccio Mazzucchi, who was trying to direct the inaccurate fire of the bow gun, was the only officer left alive; when the destroyer HMS Kandahar approached to join the fight, he decided to surrender. Sixteen men, roughly one-quarter of Galilei's crew, had been killed, with several more wounded. The submarine was towed to Aden and later commissioned into the Royal Navy as the X 2 (later P 711), used as a training boat and scrapped in 1946.

 

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USN:
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (July 7, 2008) The guided-missle frigate USS Rodney Davis (FFG 60) transits Pearl Harbor before participating in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2008. RIMPAC is the world's largest multinational exercise and is scheduled biennially by the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Participants include the United States, Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, the Netherlands, Peru, Republic of Korea, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Michael Moriatis

The 6in/47-calibre rifles of USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) send rounds ashore in support of ARVN forces, August 1972.

 

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Imperial Japan:
'Zuihō' with its deck camouflaged to resemble a battleship, 25 October 1944. Photo was taken by an American Gruman TBM Avenger during the Battle of Cape Engano and she is shown here already damaged. She would be sunk soon after with the loss 7 officers and 208 enlisted.

Cruiser 'Myōkō' moored alongside two Japanese operated U-boats at Singapore following their surrender, 25 Sept 1945

 

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USN:
USS Franklin burns and lists heavily after being struck by two Japanese semi-armor piercing bombs, 19 March 1945

USS Texas

 

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Netherlands:
Walrus on the hunt

 

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Germany:
Panzerschiff "Admiral Graf Spee" off Spithead, 1937.

 

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RN:
Mediterranean Fleet, August 7, 1940

HMS Renown off Scapa Flow, Aug 14, 1943

HMS Valiant as seen from HMS Renown before the attack on Surabaya, May 1944

Battlecruiser HMS Repulse, at Haifa in 1938

 

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Djibouti:
EDIC landing craft;
So Djibouti has a navy. They control the entrance to the Strait of Bab Al-mandab. So they have a few 30 ton patrol boats and 2 landing craft. The landing craft, however, are essential to their doctrine, so they're the pride of the fleet here.
With a length of 59 meters, displacement of 386 tonnes, speed of 12 knots and a complement of 18 men, this ship can carry 8 AFVs.

 

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PLA(N):
"The Morning of Xisha", oil painting by An He in 1979. Background is PLAN type 051 guided missile destroyer Zhanjiang(Hull number 165) however, that doesn't look like a PLAN destroyer at all. Its like a Jiangdong or Jianghu frigate with a twin missile launcher. It seems like a totally fictional ship made of different ships put together. I don't think the painter is working from a photograph, but the ship is a figment of his imagination made from different ships he has seen. Nice impressionist painting.

Carrier Ops on 'Liaoning'

Aircraft Carrier Shandong CV-17 at her launching ceremony.

Type 002 Aircraft Carrier Shandong CV-17

Portable Vaccum Cleaners on PLAN Type 002 Aircraft Carrier Shandong CV-17.

 

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RCN:
Halifax-class frigate HMCS Regina (FFH334)

 

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Russia:
Project 887 Smol'nyy class training ship 'Perekop' (310) in Sevastopol, 2017 '

 

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USN:
MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Dec. 9, 2019) The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) fires its aft Mark 45 mod 4 5-inch gun during a live-fire exercise in the Mediterranean Sea, Dec. 9, 2019. The Normandy is part of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (CSG) and is conducting operations in the 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 operations in 2018, demonstrating its ability to operate from the High North to the east Mediterranean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael H. Lehman/Released)

PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) enters the James River for the first time enroute to the outfitting pier at Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipyard 18DEC19