USN:
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) and USS Yorktown (CG-48) with an Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG7) class frigate outboard being scrapped in Brownsville, TX. Taken on January 4, 2023
USSR:
Aircraft cruiser Leonid Brezhnev after being launched into the water at the Black Sea Shipyard in Ukraine on December 6, 1985
This was the Kuznetsov's name upon launch. Built as "Riga", then changed to "Leonid Brezhnev", then on Sea Trials renamed "Tbilisi", before they settled on "Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov"
Germany:
Kaiser-class ironclad SMS Deutschland in 1890
Kaiser class of dreadnought battleship SMS Kaiser on parade for Kasier Wilhelm II, circa 1910-1914
SS Prinz Eitel Friedrich. Launched 1904. Sent to the Far East & converted at Tsingtao, she spent 7 months in the South Atlantic & Pacific, sinking 11 merchant ships. With worn out engines she sailed into Newport News for internment, March 1915.
SS Kronprinz Wilhelm. German liner used as a raider during WW1. She sunk 16 ships without the loss of a single life. Shown during her US internment in 1916. Later taken over by the USN & renamed USS Von Stueben & used as a troopship
RN:
HMS Prince of Wales. Photographed in 1941, sometime prior to her 24 May 1941 engagement with battleship Bismarck. She is lowering a Supermarine "Walrus" amphibian aircraft over the side.
Germany:
Heavy cruiser USS Prinz Eugen (IX-300) at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, February 1946. Both guns from her forward turret are being removed for testing. She later steamed through the Panama Canal to be nuked in Operation Crossroads.
USN:
Essex-class aircraft carriers USS Hancock (CVA-19), USS Oriskany (CVA-34), and USS Bennington (CVA-20) in the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, 3 October 1957
Oriskany is in drydock in the middle of her SCB-125A modernization, which took place from 1 October 1956 to 29 May 1959. She was the last of her class to gain her angled deck, steam catapults, and hurricane bow and would have an exceptionally long life - the last Essex to operate as a combat carrier.
Russia:
Pre-dreadnought battleship Navarin. Lost at the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905. First hit by large calibre shells, later in the day by torpedoes from IJN torpedo boats and finally attacked by IJN destroyers which laid string mines ahead of her. Only 3 men survived
USN:
USS Yorktown (CV-5) Bombing Squadron Five (VB-5) SBD-3 aircraft spotted forward on the flight deck, during operations in the Coral Sea, April 1942
USN:
F/A-18F Super Hornets perform a flyover USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) during VFA-103’s change of command ceremony, Jan. 15, 2023.
16th Independence class littoral combat ship Pre-Commissioning Unit Santa Barbara (LCS 32) arrives at its homeport of San Diego for the first time, January 18, 2023
USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) astern of USNS John Ericsson (T-AO 194) and USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) during an underway replenishment in the Philippine Sea, Jan. 19, 2023
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