Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
USS South Dakota (BB-57) during shakedown training at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. June 1942

USS South Dakota (BB-57) and sister USS Alabama (BB-60) enroute to the Marshall Islands to deliver some high explosives to the Japanese garrison on Roi and Namur Islands the following day (February 1st, 1944)

USS Massachusetts (BB-59) filling up her tanks, October 17th, 1944. Cimarron-class oiler USS Kaskaskia (AO-27) is at right.

 

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Italy:
Battleships Conte di Cavour and Giulio Cesare with an unidentified cruiser. Bay of Naples, 5 May 1938

 

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RN:
Bow view of Type 26 HMS Glasgow during fitting out

 

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RN:
Battleship HMS Vanguard seen from astern. Note the sextuple Bofors on the stern.

 

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USN:
USS Constitution during the 1931-34 National Cruise. A crew of 81 officers, sailors & Marines set off on a 3-year tour around the US. A public “thanks” to the men, women, and children who, from 1925-30, donated money & materials to support the ship 1927 restoration.

 

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Germany:
Brandenburg class pre-dreadnought battleship SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm in 1899

In 1910, Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm was sold to the Ottoman Empire and renamed Barbaros Hayreddin. She saw heavy service during the Balkan Wars, primarily providing artillery support to Ottoman ground forces in Thrace. She also took part in two naval engagements with the Greek Navy—the Battle of Elli in December 1912, and the Battle of Lemnos the following month. Both battles were defeats for the Ottoman Navy.

In a state of severe disrepair, the old battleship was partially disarmed after the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers early in World War I. On 8 August 1915 the ship was torpedoed and sunk off the Dardanelles by the British submarine HMS E11 with heavy loss of life.

 

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Russia:
Communications ship Ural (SSV-33) in the floating drydock PD-41 in 1999

 

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Italy:
Battleship Andrea Doria, 1917; notice the basements for the 76mm gun mounts atop Turret 1

 

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Italy:
Paolo Thaon di Revel-class offshore patrol vessel Thaon di Revel (P430)

 

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Japan:
Akizuki-class destroyer JS Fuyuzuki (DD 118) Jan 18, 2023

 

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HMS Hermes passes HMS Victory as she enters Portsmouth harbor on returning from the Falklands on 21 July 1982

 

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USN
Mk48 torpedo passes under Dealey class destroyer escort USS Bridget (DE-1024) during an exercise in 1972.

 

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USN:
Aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13) attacked during World War II, March 19, 1945.
Photographed by PHC Albert Bullock from the cruiser USS Santa Fe (CL-60), which was alongside assisting with firefighting and rescue work.
Photo #: 80-G-273880, Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
The carrier is afire and listing after she was hit by a Japanese air attack while operating off the coast of Japan - the crew is clearly seen on flight deck.
After the attack the vessel lay dead in the water, took a 13° starboard list, lost all radio communications, and broiled under the heat from enveloping fires. Many of the crewmen were blown overboard, driven off by fire, killed or wounded, but the hundreds of officers and enlisted who voluntarily remained saved their ship through sheer tenacity. The casualties totalled 724 killed and 265 wounded, and would have far exceeded this number if it were not for the exemplary work of many survivors.

 

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Australia:
Daring class destroyer, museum ship Ex HMAS Vampire (D11) being moved to Garden Island for hull restoration work. 18 Jan 2023

 

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Russia:
Komar-class missile boat (Project 183R), they were first to sink another ship with anti-ship missiles in 1967 when boats belonging to Egyptian Navy sank Israeli destroyer Eilat.

 

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USN:
A closer view of the HELIOS laser aboard USS Preble (DDG 88) from Jan 17, 2023.

 

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RN:
Hoisting the colours on board battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth, flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, C in C Mediterranean Fleet, can be seen on the right saluting as the colours are hoisted and the National Anthem played by Royal Marine Band.

 

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Germany:
Type 24 torpedo boat Jaguar, 1934

 

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USN:
(Jan. 17, 2022) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) sails through the South China Sea.

 

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Japan
JMSDF JS Mogami FFM-1