Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Three German F125 class wannabe destroyers frigates during sea trials… I love it that the Chief of the German Navy posted these on his twitter captioned "No words needed here". Boys will be boys.

 

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USS John F. Kennedy (CVA-67), USS Saratoga (CVA-60), right, and USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42), center background, at Naval Station Mayport, Florida on 20 February 1973

I was aboard JFK when this photo was taken. We were only in port about six hours to off load our JAX area squadrons.

 

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RN:
Royal Navy monitor HMS Marshal Ney underway during trials 26th August 1915

The Marshal Ney-class monitors were built to use the two modern 15-inch turrets made available by the redesign of Renown and Repulse as battlecruisers.

County class cruiser HMS Shropshire, 1941

County class cruiser HMS Norfolk, Hampton Roads, September 1933

HMS Renown with Force H in the Mediterranean, Nov 1944

 

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Netherlands:
HNLMS Karel Doorman fitted with her new angled flightdeck formerly known as HMS Venerable.

 

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Russia:
Vasily Bykov, the lead Project 22160 OPV

Russian Combat Diver (unit/branch unknown) exiting 533mm torpedo tube during training

One of the first three Boreis moored opposite the Dmitry Donskoi (note the 12 added torpedo tubes) at SevMash; also seen is the heavy cruiser Admiral Ushakov, retired 2002

 

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USN:
USS Laffey (DD-459) in harbour, probably at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, with survivors of USS Wasp (CV-7) on board. Wasp had been sunk by a Japanese submarine on 15 September 1942. Note Laffey's 127 mm/38 guns, depth charges, and life rafts. The light cruiser in the center background is USS Juneau (CL-52).

Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, August 1942: Allied ships manoeuvring during the Japanese torpedo plane attack on the Tulagi invasion force, 8 August 1942. Several Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack planes (Mitsubishi G4M "Betty") are faintly visible at left, center and right, among the anti-aircraft shell bursts. The destroyer in the foreground appears to be USS Bagley (DD-386) or USS Helm (DD-388). A New Orleans-class heavy cruiser is in the left distance, with a large splash beside it. The column of smoke in the left center is probably from a crashed plane.

USS Richmond (CL-9), off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 24 June 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 32, Design 3d.

USS Long Island (CVE-1) (originally AVG-1 and then ACV-1) was lead ship of her class and the first escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was also the second ship to be named after Long Island, New York.
She was laid down on 7 July 1939, as the C-3 cargo liner Mormacmail, under Maritime Commission contract, by the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Chester, Pennsylvania as Yard No 185, launched on 11 January 1940, sponsored by Ms. Dian B. Holt, acquired by the Navy on 6 March 1941, and commissioned on 2 June 1941 as Long Island (AVG-1), Commander Donald B. Duncan in command. Long Island received one battle star for her World War II service.
Long Island decommissioned on 26 March 1946 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 April, she was sold to Zidell Ship Dismantling Company of Portland, Oregon on 24 April 1947 for scrapping. However, on 12 March 1948, she was acquired by the Canada-Europe Line for conversion to merchant service. Upon completion of conversion in 1949, she was renamed Nelly, and served as an immigrant carrier between Europe and Canada. In 1953, she was renamed Seven Seas. In 1955, she was chartered to the German Europe-Canada Line. On 17 July 1965, she had a serious fire and was towed to St John's, Newfoundland. She was repaired and started her last voyage on 13 September 1966. She was bought by Rotterdam University the same year and employed as a students' hostel until 1977, when she was scrapped in Belgium.

 

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USN:
PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 13, 2019) The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) departs its homeport of Naval Base San Diego. America departed San Diego to join the forward-deployed naval forces in Sasebo, Japan, where it will serve as the flagship for Expeditionary Strike Group 7. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Chad Swysgood/Released)

PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 7, 2019) Sailors clean the barrel of a Mark 45 5-inch gun aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), Dec. 7, 2019. Rafael Peralta is underway conducting routine training in the eastern Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason Isaacs/Released)

ARABIAN SEA (Jan. 2, 2020) Hide Caption
An SA-330J Puma helicopter attached to the dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE 8) transports cargo to the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), not pictured, during a replenishment-at-sea as the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) transits nearby in the Arabian Sea, Jan. 2, 2020. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and the Pacific through the western Indian Ocean and three strategic choke points. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jake Carrillo (Released)

PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 11, 2019) Sailors assigned to Coastal Riverine Squadron (CRS) 3 Mark VI patrol boat company conduct maritime infrastructure protection training exercises provided by Coastal Riverine Group (CRG) 1 training and evaluation unit. The Coastal Riverine Force is a core Navy capability that provides port and harbor security, high value asset security and maritime security in the coastal and inland waterways. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Boatswain's Mate Nelson Doromal Jr./Released)

 

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PLA(N):
Type 726 LCAC.

 

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Dominican Republic:
PA-301 Almirante Didiez Burgos
The flagship of the Dominican Navy, it was transferred by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) in 2001. It is used for coastal patrol, navigational aid maintenance, midshipman cruises, humanitarian assistance, naval training exercises, troop transport, and at sea refueling. It is armed with two M-2 0.50 caliber machine guns and two single Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, but it can also be armed with two extra 0.50 cal. machine guns, two M60 machine guns and one 3/50 (single) gun.
Ex USCGC Buttonwood WAGL-306/WLB-306 Bouy Tender. Transferred to the Dominican Republic Navy June 2001

 

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USSR:
Battleship "Oktiabrskaya Revolutia", view of the After 12 inch turret, looking forward, date unknown but probably 1935-1940 .

 

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Imperial Japan:
Deck view of a Kaba class torpedo boat destroyer operating in the British home waters during WWI.

IJN Kuha was a unit of the Momo class, which were built during the first World War. This photo was probably taken in the China area in 1928-30. At that time Kuha was a unit of the 9th Destroyer Division. Circa 1930

 

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USN:
USS Robinson (DD-88) in Santa Barbara Channel, California, 12 October 1918.

USS S-16 (SS-121) during launch at the Lake Torpedo Boat Co. Bridgeport, CT, on 23 December 1919

USS Elcano (PG-38) during the Christmas season, circa December 1917, while on the Yangtze River Patrol

 

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France:
FS Pascal, a variant Redoutable-class submarine cruiser, leaving Toulon in 1941; note that, aside from 4 bow 550 mm torpedo tubes, she carries a triple turnstile 550 mm launcher amidships, and a mixed 2 x 550 mm + 2 x 400 mm aft - which was typical of French submarines in the Interbellum

 

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PLA(N), Russia, Iran:
Gulf of Oman, December 28, 2019
Day 2 of the 4 day naval drill between Russia, China, and Iran. In the foreground is the Chinese navy Type 052D destroyer "Xining" (117). On the center left is the Iranian navy British-made Vosper Mk V frigate "Alborz" (72). On the center right is Iranian navy "Bayandor" (81) class corvette of same name. In the background is Russian navy Neustrashimyy class frigate "Yaroslav the Wise" (777).

Russian frigate "Yaroslav Mudry" (foreground), Iranian corvette "Alborz" (middle), and Chinese destroyer "Xining' (background), conducting joint exercises in the Gulf of Oman, Dec 2019.

 

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USN:
USS Tappahannock (AO-43) passes jet aircraft fuel to the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), while USS Bainbridge (CGN-25) comes alongside to starboard to receive mail, circa 1969

USS Des Moines Description: (CA-134) Crew practicing manning the rail in advance of President Dwight D Eisenhower's visit to the ship, 15 December 1959. Des Moines was Sixth Fleet flagship at the time. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Catalog #: USN 1045041

USS Perry (DE-1034) Christmas lighting aboard ship while at Key West Naval Station Annex, Key West, Florida. The winner for Destroyer Division 601, 25 December 1961

 

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Italy:
Battleship "Conte Di Cavour" during 1937-39, following her 1933-37 reconstruction. Her sister "Giulio Cesare" appears just to the left; the destroyers "Antonio Usodimare", "Antonio Da Noli", "Ugolino Vivaldi", and "Luca Tarigo" appear to the right.

Cruiser Trento, photographed early in her career at an unidentified port.

 

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RN:
HMS Courageous, the "Large Light Cruiser" designed after Parliament told Jack Fisher to stop building battle cruisers

Battlecruiser turned aircraft carrier, HMS Courageous with a destroyer escort.

RN & France:
HMS Furious followed by the FS Richelieu while on a sweep with the Eastern Fleet, February 1944

 

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RNZN:
HMNZS Te Kaha (F77), one of New Zealand's 2 Anzac-class frigates

 

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USN:
Sonar image comparison of USS Independence (CVL-22) before and after two atomic bomb tests and seventy years on the seafloor

 

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USN:
USCGC Southwind (WAGB 280), ex-USS Atka (AGB 3) and ex-Адмирал Макаров (Admiral Makarov), hoists Soviet-recovered Apollo mockup BP-1227 aboard in Murmansk, Russia, 1970
Commissioned as USCGC Southwind in 1944, she was transferred to the Soviet Union in 1945, where she served as the Admiral Makarov. In 1950 she was returned to the US, where she recommissioned into the Navy as USS Atka. In 1966 she was returned to the Coast Guard, where she resumed service as USCGC Southwind.

The Apollo mockup, (or boilerplate, as they were known), was used for recovery practice by Navy ships. Details are unclear as to how this one ended up in Soviet hands. Speculation is that she was lost during an exercise or washed overboard during heavy weather. Recovered by a Soviet fishing trawler in the Bay of Biscay, it was returned to the Soviet Union. Southwind was making a port call in Murmansk, the first US military ship to do so since the end of WWII, and the Soviets decided to return the capsule to the ship. It appears the cutter was unprepared to receive it, and was possibly unaware until it showed up on the pier! She took it onboard and finished her patrol, making multiple European port calls before offloading BP-1227 in England. BP-1227 is now on display in Grand Rapids, Michigan.