Photos Navies Of All Nations

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France:
Graveyard at Landévennec, 2007. Cruiser "Colbert" flanked by destroyers "Duperré" (port) and "Galissonnière" (starboard)

 

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RN:
RFA Lyme Bay departs Merseyside

Firefighting teams practice on the deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth prior to the arrival of the F35Bs

HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales

HMS Defender

HMS Duncan escorting merchant ships

 

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USN:
Virginia-class submarines Texas (SSN-775), Hawaii (SSN-776) and North Carolina (SSN-777) under construction in Northrop Grumman Newport News' Ring Module Shop, March 2002

NORFOLK (Dec. 19, 2010) An F/A-18 Hornet is decorated with Christmas lights on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kevin J. Steinberg/Released)

 

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USSR:
An unidentified Soviet cruiser, very possibly KALININ (1943-circa 1965) of the Pacific fleet, circa 1957. This photo is very similar to one of KALININ credited to a photographer named N. Verimuchka.

 

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USN:
RGM-84 Harpoon SSM being launched from a Mk-16 box launcher aboard the Knox class Frigate USS Badger (FF 1071) - 1980

 

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Russia:
"Dmitriy donskoi", some of his crew and a long wake

RFS 494 Admiral Grigorovich

Frigate Admiral Gorshkov

Oscar class submarine Orel

 

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Germany:
KMS Scharnhorst sailors standing on the ship's after deck with a Christmas tree, circa December 1939. The ship was then under repair at Wilhelmshaven

KMS Bismarck fires a partial salvo at British battleship HMS Prince of Wales during the Battle of the Denmark Strait

 

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Mexico:
ARM Cuauhtémoc is a sail training vessel of the Mexican Navy, named for the last Mexica Hueyi Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc who was captured and executed in 1525.
She is the last of four sister ships built by the Naval Shipyards of Bilbao, Spain, in 1982, all built to a design similar to the 1930 designs of the German firm Blohm & Voss, like Gorch Fock, USCGC Eagle and the NRP Sagres.
Like her sister ships, Colombia's Gloria, Ecuador's Guayas and Venezuela's Simón Bolívar, Cuauhtémoc is a sailing ambassador for her home country and a frequent visitor to world ports, having sailed over 400,000 nautical miles (700,000 km) in her 23 years of service, with appearances at the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races, ASTA Tall Ships Challenges, Sail Osaka, and others.

 

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France:
Léon Gambetta was a French Navy armoured cruiser of 12,400 tons, the lead ship of the class of that name. The Léon Gambettas were larger than previous armoured cruisers of the class, but they lacked the heavier firepower. They also were vulnerable to underwater attacks.
On the night of 27 April 1915, when 15 miles (24 km) south of Santa Maria di Leuca (the south-eastern tip of Italy in the Ionian Sea) in position 39°30′N 18°15′ECoordinates: ?39°30′N 18°15′E, she was torpedoed twice by Austro-Hungarian submarine U-5 under the command of Korvettenkapitän Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp (later to be known as patriarch of the Von Trapp Family Singers).[2]
Léon Gambetta was part of the French fleet based at Malta blockading the Austrian Navy in the Adriatic, usually from a position south of the Strait of Otranto. At this time the blockade line was moved further north because of expected Austrian naval activity – the Allies were negotiating with the Italians which shortly led to them declaring war on Austria-Hungary. In spite of the growing threat from Austrian and now German U-boats in the Mediterranean, the armoured cruiser was patrolling unescorted at a reported 7 knots (13 km/h) on a clear, calm night just to the south of the Otranto Straits when she was torpedoed by the U-5.
Léon Gambetta sank in just 10 minutes. Out of 821 men on board, 684 including Rear Admiral Victor Baptistin Senes, commander of the 2nd Light Division, were lost along with all commissioned officers. There were 137 survivors. The French cruiser patrol line was moved South to the longitude of Cephalonia, western Greece. Other sources place her loss 20 miles (32 km) off Cape Leuca.

 

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RCN:
HMCS Halifax sailing through the Atlantic on Op Reassurance

 

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Nigeria:
NNS Thunder
USCGC Chase (WHEC-718) was a Hamilton-class High Endurance Cutter of the United States Coast Guard. She was laid down on October 26, 1966 at Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, launched on May 20, 1967 and commissioned on March 11, 1968. Chase is the fourth of twelve Hamilton class, 378-foot (115 m) cutters, and the third cutter named in honor of Salmon Portland Chase. She was decommissioned on March 29, 2011 and transferred to the Nigerian Navy as an excess defense article under the Foreign Assistance Act as NNS Thunder (F90).

 

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Imperial Germany:
Battleship SMS Ostfriesland in the dry dock. Preparations are underway to repair damage caused by a mine explosion after the Battle of Jutland

 

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USSR, USN:
In February 1988, USS Caron operating with USS Yorktown, entered Soviet territorial waters limit in the Black Sea off the Crimean Peninsula. Under international law, this act could be permissible if the ship was progressing from one point in international waters to another point in international waters via the shortest course possible, but according to the Soviet Union, it was the right of the USSR to authorise or prohibit travel in selected areas within the 12 mile limit. The United States however did not recognise the Soviet's claim in this case.
To prevent it from becoming accepted precedent, the US Navy claimed that it had sailed warships through such areas at regular intervals in the past, which we had, not just two years prior. On this occasion, Caron had onboard a ships signal exploitation spaces system, operated by a crew of 18 in support of the U.S. National Security Agency. This system was capable of recording data on Soviet defence radars and communications.
In response, the Soviets deployed a destroyer and a Mirka II class light frigate as well as a KGB and "civilian" ships to intercept the U.S. ships. Several times, Soviet vessels obtained radar "lock" on the Caron and Yorktown. Both American ships maintained a constant course and speed throughout the incident.
Eventually, the Soviets lightly rammed both ships. No significant damage resulted to any of the ships involved. Both US warships sent an account of the incident to the Commander in Chief of United States Naval Forces in Europe. The Caron reported at 13:20 local time, it was informed on channel 16 VHF by the Bezzavetny: "Soviet ships have orders to prevent violation of territorial waters, extreme measure is to strike your ship with one of ours." The reply of the Caron was "I am engaged in innocent passage consistent with international law." The Yorktown, in its report stated that on 9:56, local time, it was contacted by the Bezzavetny via channel 16 and told to leave Soviet territorial waters or "our ship is going to strike on yours."
Then, according to the report, the Bezzavetny came alongside port side of the Yorktown at 10:03 and bumped it by turning into the ship.

Soviet Mirka II class frigate FFL-824 shortly after ramming USS Caron

 

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USN:
RGM-84 Harpoon SSM being launched from a Mk-16 box launcher aboard the Knox class Frigate USS Badger (FF 1071) - 1980

I thought that those launchers had only ASROCS, I didn´t know they accepted also Harpoons.

 

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I thought that those launchers had only ASROCS, I didn´t know they accepted also Harpoons.

Depending on the class of ship, they also carried up to 16 reloads for the Mk-16 launcher, a mix of ASROC and Harpoon

 

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RN:
HMS Dauntless (D33)

HMS Queen Elizabeth, 2019

HMS Diamond (D34)

April 2018, the anti-submarine frigate HMS Somerset keeps company with the modified Kilo-class submarine Krasnodar as it made its way to Syria.

 

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Mexico:
ARM Reformador

 

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USN:
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) launches a Lockheed P2V "Neptune" bomber with "JATO" assist, during a Task Force 21 cruise, 2 July 1951.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (photo # 80-G-629296).

USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) off Nice, France, on 24 October 1951, with crewmen in formation on the flight deck spelling out "Vive La France".
Courtesy of Captain H.H. Smith-Hutton, USN (Retired), via Captain Paul B. Ryan, USN, 1975.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (photo # NH 81905).

 

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USN:
SOUTH CHINA SEA (Jan. 27, 2010) The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG-67) transits the South China Sea at sunset during Spring Patrol. Shiloh is scheduled to participate in Exercise Cobra Gold 2010, an annual exercise designed to train Thai, U.S. and Singaporean task force personnel. [U.S. Navy photo by Cmdr. Ed Thompson)

Aft Torpedo Room of the Grayback-Class submarine USS Growler.

 

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Japan & USN:
JS Izumo (DDH 183) approaches the pier behind the U.S. Navy's expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Fall River (T-EPF 4) while arriving for the Pacific Partnership 2017 mission in Khanh Hoa