Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
Formidable-class pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Irresistible abandoned and sinking after her engines were disabled by a naval mine. On 18 March 1915, she struck a naval mine that caused extensive flooding and disabled her engines. Without power, she began to drift into the range of Turkish guns, which laid down a withering fire. Attempts to tow her failed, so her surviving crew was evacuated and Irresistible was abandoned and eventually sank. Her crew suffered around 150 killed in the sinking.

 

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USN:
Armoured cruiser USS Maine (ACR-1) entering Havana Harbor on 25 January 1898, where she would explode three weeks later

New York-class battleship USS Texas (BB-35) during standardization trials, run number 9 specifically. 23 October 1913

New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho (BB-42) at the 1927 Fleet Review.

 

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Germany:
July 1942, Königsberg class light cruiser Köln is heavily camouflaged as to appear to be part of surrounding fjord. The photo was taken in Fætten Fjord outside Trondheim, Norway.

Type XXI U-boats U-2513, U-3008 and Type IXC U-boat U-505 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, USA circa 1945.

 

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Italy:
Gunboat Mario Bianco sails through the Canale Navigabile di Taranto, 5 June 1923. Launched in Japan as a fishing trawler (named Fukuhaku Maru), she was taken over by the Regia Marina in 1916 for wartime needs, classified minelayer and renamed G 24; in 1921 she was reclassified gunboat and given the name Mario Bianco (after an Ensign who had been killed in the landings at Benghazi in 1911, during the Italo-Turkish War). In 1928 she was again repurposed as a hydrographic ship first, then used for lighthouse servicing. She would be sunk in 1941 at Benghazi during a British air raid.

Heavy cruiser Trento sailing through the Suez Canal on its way to the Far East, 9 February 1932

Launch of a seaplane from seaplane tender Giuseppe Miraglia, likely in 1934

A 1936 Regia Marina enlistment poster, showing the Dardo-class destroyer Saetta - artwork by Paolo Klodic

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PLA(N):
Lushunkou naval base in 2018 and 2022, 4 Type 051-class destroyers of the 10th Destroyer Squadron (pictured left) were decommissioned at the same time in mid-2019. Replaced by 4 Type 052D along with 6 Type 052D destroyers + 6 Type 054A frigates + 2 Type 053H3G frigates.

 

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PLA(N):
Type 037IG missile boat (NATO: Houxin class) It is the anti-ship version of the Type 037 submarine chasers, armed with missiles rather than torpedoes. A Type 035G (ES5E) diesel/electric submarine (NATO Ming class) in the background. The Type 035 is a heavily improved redesign of the older Type 033 submarines (NATO Romeo)

 

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USN:
Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CV/CVA/CVS-14) arrives at Tacoma, Washington, for scrapping, circa 1975.

Six Spruance-class destroyers fitting out at Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi in May 1975. From left: USS Paul F. Foster (DD-964); USS Spruance (DD-963); USS Arthur W. Radford (DD-968); USS Elliot (DD-967); USS Hewitt (DD-966) and USS Kinkaid (DD-965).

 

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France:
Landing craft transporting 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment AMX-10 RCs in the well dock of Mistral-class LHD Tonnerre (L9014), with the LHD Mistral (L9013) visible in the background. Exercise Orion 2023

General purpose stealth frigate La Fayette (F710) off Sri Lanka, March 2023

 

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Norway:
Type 210 Ula-class KNM Utvær (S-303) operating in the Bjørnafjord, south of Bergen, during the exercise ARCTIC DOLPHIN 2023 (6-17 February 2023)

 

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Ecuador & Colombia:
Esmeraldas-class corvette BAE Manabí (CM 12) with OPV-80 class ARC 20 de Julio (PZE-46), 2022

 

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USN:
Launch of North Carolina class battleship USS Washington (BB-56) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, June 1, 1940

Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Oct 6, 1944

"The Battle off Samar: The Sacrifice of “Taffy 3”" by Takeshima Satoshi.
USS Samuel B Roberts (DD-413) about to start her run25 October, 1944

 

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West Germany:
Frauenlobstrasse (Type 394) class coastal minesweeper FGS Loreley (M2665) during the preparation for a mine search

 

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Australia:
County class heavy cruiser HMAS Australia docking at New York City, in 1932

County class heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra following the action at Savo Island. After being struck by at least two Japanese torpedoes and numerous enemy salvos, she was deemed unsalvageable and consequently evacuated and sunk off Savo Island on 9 August 1942. 84 were killed (74 during the battle, 10 dying later from wounds), and another 109 were wounded.

Destroyers remove the crew from the sinking Royal Australian Navy heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra (D33) after the Battle of Savo Island, 9 August 1942. USS Blue (DD-387) is alongside Canberra´s port bow, as USS Patterson (DD-392) approaches from astern.

 

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RN:
Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose enters Portsmouth for the final time prior to decommissioning, 17 March 2023

 

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USN:
Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) while berthed at Changi Naval Base, Singapore, 2023

 

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USN:
San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD-23) and Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Oakland (LCS-24) Alongside Changi Naval Base, Singapore, Feb 2023

Future Arleigh Burke class destroyers Flight III USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG-126) and Flight IIA USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG-127) under construction at Bath Iron Works. 2023

Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) departs Souda Bay, Crete following a scheduled port visit. March 16, 2023

 

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Italy:
Aircraft carrier Cavour (550)

 

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Russia:
A turret of battleship Sissoi Veliky exploded on March 15th, 1897 during gunnery practice in the Mediterranean, blowing off the turret roof & killing 22. This is the aftermath showing the 305 mm (12 inche) guns.

 

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Norway, Germany, Estonia & France:
Ships from Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group One (SNMCMG1) sailing through a Norwegian Fjord, 2023

 

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France & USN:
Mistral class amphibious assault ship Dixmude (L9015) and Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18) off Sri Lanka, March 2023