Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Germany:
Coastal battleship SMS Siegfried. Baltic Sea, 1909.

Dreadnought battleship SMS Bayern, accompanied by a Zeppelin on scouting duties, en route for Saarema (Osel) Island, October 1917

 

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USN:
Des Moines-class heavy cruiser USS Salem (CA-139) in 1954

 

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Philippines:
Pohang class corvette Conrado Yap (PS 39) in the South China Sea. Apr. 14, 2023

 

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RN:
HMS Protector (A-173) visits Deception Island as part of its routine ice patrol 14 November 2022

 

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USN:
USS Mahanna (AG-8) alongside at Norfolk Navy Yard, VA, 1921

Mahanna was one of several hundred wooden freighters built under the auspices of the Emergency Fleet Corporation during World War 1, being an example of EFC Design 1003 (also known as the Hough-type.)

The idea was to make a bunch of cheap, expendable freighters to carry cargo to Europe that could be built faster than German U-boats could sink them. However, the project was pretty much a waste of money, as most of the wooden ships were completed after the armistice of Nov. 11, 1918, made few, if any voyages, and were largely disposed of within a few years- they were generally poorly built, often out of green lumber that rotted quickly, had awful handling characteristics, and there was a glut of surplus merchant ships of much higher quality on the market. (The Mallow's Bay ship graveyard in Maryland contains the wrecks of some 230 of these ships that were partially scrapped.)

Mahanna was completed in 1919 and scrapped in 1923.

 

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Canada:
Upholder class submarine HMCS Windsor (SSK877) ex HMS Unicorn (S43)

 

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Norway:
Skjold-class corvettes (skjold means "shield" in Norwegian) are a class of six light, superfast (60 knots), stealth missile corvettes

 

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France:
General purpose frigate La Fayette (F-710) turns 30 while on deployment. April, 2023

 

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USN:
USS Lexington (CV-2) supplying electricity to Tacoma, WA, Dec. 1929 - Jan. 1930

 

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Japan:
Frigate JS Mogami (FFM-1) (L)and training support ships JS Tenryū (ATS-4203) and JS Kurobe (ATS-4202) (R)

 

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RN:
Parnall Peto submarine-launched naval reconnaissance seaplane with HMS M2 submarine. In 1927 the old M2 was converted into a submarine aircraft carrier and the Parnall Peto was specifically designed for them. Only 2 were built as the concept did not stick

 

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Thailand

Tapi Class Corvette HTMS Khiriat FF-432 And Ratanakosin Class Corvette HTMS Sukhotai FS-442

 

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Japan
JS Kumano FFM-2

 

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USN
USS Michael Monsoor, and various US and allied destroyers docked after RIMPAC 2022.

Good reference image to realize sheer size of the Zumwalts Class destroyers, compared to Alreight Burke destroyers and Ticonderoga cruisers!

Hands down, these ships must reclassified as Cruisers, and refit with all the surface to Air missiles possible including the ones that can hit satellite..and balloons

 

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Japan:
JS Kaga (DDH-184) with her new bow. April 2023

 

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Germany:
Type 212A Batch II-class U-36 (S-186) at the 1. Ubootgeschwader (1. UG) base at Eckernfoerde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 18/04/2023

 

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South Korea:
Chamsuri-class guided-rocket patrol boat PKMR-219 operating off the eastern coastline

 

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Italy:
Battleship Roma fitting out, 1940-42

 

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Italy:
Aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi (551) and replenishment oiler Vulcano (A-5335) Ex Mare Aperto 23, 19 April 2023

 

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USN:
Puritan-class monitor USS Puritan (BM-1) fitting out at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It is unclear when this photo was taken as she was launched in 1882 and took a ridiculous 14 years and 4 days to be commissioned. Congress back then wasn't authorizing any construction of new ships so the Navy had to pretend they were "rebuilding" the Civil War era monitor USS Puritan. However, they weren't- they were building a new ship. The process was significantly extended because the fundamentals of her design changed on several occasions.

Installation of a 10" gun on Amphitrite class monitor USS Monadnock (BM-3), January 6th, 1896.

Future USS Monadnock on the ways, circa 1880's. Curiously, her hull was built at the Greenpoint Brooklyn Yard of the Continental Iron Works then broken down and shipped west by rail in sections. She was reassembled by Phineas Burgess on Mare Island (seen here), the only ship he built.