Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
Battlecruiser HMS Hood, as the public visit to Princes Pier, Port Melbourne, to see naval ships of the Special Service Squadron, 1924

 

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USSR:
Heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Kiev, showing 13 Kamov Ka-25 "Hormone" ASW helicopters on deck. Caption implies that Kiev was photographed while participating in a Soviet Naval exercise with 15 other ships about 500 miles south of Iceland, circa 1978

 

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Germany:
Heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen under repairs at Trondheim, Norway, after being torpedoed by HMS Trident on 23 February 1942 off Norway. This view shows the cruiser's wrecked stern being cut away.

 

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Netherlands:
G13 class torpedo boats HNMS G13 and HNMS G16, commissioned in 1914.
HrMs G16 was scuttled at Den Helder to prevent her capture by the Germans on 14 May 1940. Raised by the Germans and commissioned by them as TFA 9
HrMs G 13 managed to escape to the U.K. Transferred to the Royal Navy on 9 August 1940. Returned to the Royal Netherlands navy on 27 July 1942. Scrapped in February 1943.

 

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USN:
PCU Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) departed HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division Tuesday. DDG 125 will be commissioned Oct. 7, 2023 at a ceremony in Tampa, Florida, before sailing to its homeport in San Diego

 

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India:
Research vessel and missile range instrumentation ship INS Dhruv (A40), Mumbai. Sept 2023

 

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France:
Aquitaine-class FREMM frigate Lorraine (D657) leaving Toulon, France, Sept 25, 2023

 

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Sweden:
Sverige-class coastal defence ship, HSwMS Drottning Victoria, 1930

 

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Turkey:
Barbaros-class frigate TCG Barbaros (F 244), Yavuz-class frigate TCG Yıldırım (F 243), a Preveze class (Type 209T1) and an Ay-class (209/1200) submarines passing in the early morning hours northbound through Istanbul. 27 Sept, 2023

 

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Russia:
Project 1155/Udaloy I-class destroyers Admiral Tributs (564) and Admiral Panteleyev (548) from the Pacific Fleet in the Port of Qingdao, China, on August 21, 2023

 

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Netherlands:
Admiralen-class destroyer HNLMS Witte de With at Den Helder, c. 1935

Witte de With was one of the eight Admiralen-class destroyers built by the Netherlands in the late 1920s to replace their existing inventory of pre-World War One destroyers. The ships were designed by the British shipbuilder Yarrows, and was derived from HMS Ambuscade, being altered to suit Dutch requirements and constructed in Dutch shipyards. Entering service in 1930, Witte de With spent much of her career in the Dutch East Indies, ultimately being scuttled on March 2, 1942, having been damaged in a Japanese air attack the day prior.

 

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Sweden:
The Hårsfjärden disaster was an event in the Swedish Navy during World War II. A series of accidental explosions, it caused by far the worst damage to Swedish Navy units during the era of that war, in which Sweden was not a combatant.

The disaster occurred on 17 September 1941. Three Swedish Navy destroyers were berthed in Hårsfjärden fjord near Stockholm when the torpedoes or oil tanks of Göteborg exploded; flames then also enveloped Klas Horn and Klas Uggla in an inferno.

The three destroyers were sunk, and thirty-three sailors killed, a major blow to the Swedish Navy. All three ships were later raised. Klas Uggla never again saw service; the other two ships did, after repairs

The destroyer HSwMS Klas Uggla in flames

 

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USN:
Twenty Fletcher-class destroyers tied up at the repair base, San Diego, while undergoing inactivation, early in 1946 (NHHC Image)

 

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RN:
HMS Eagle visiting Istanbul in 1956.

 

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USN:
USS Lexington (CV-2).

USS Tennessee (BB-43) after her post-Pearl Harbor rebuild. Puget Sound, May 8th 1943

USS Yorktown (CV-10) passing through the Panama Canal. July 1943

USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) fitting out at Newport News on April 22, 1944. She had been laid down under the name Hancock barely 14 months previously, an astonishing build time for a fleet carrier.
A name swap with CV-19, then building at the Fore River Shipyard at Quincy, MA occurred. This renaming was done in response to an offer from the John Hancock Life Insurance Company to conduct a special bond drive to raise money for the ship if that name was used.

 

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Australia:
HMAS Sydney (R17) on the day of her commission at Devonport Dockyard, UK where she was built on December 16, 1948. The RAN's first aircraft carrier, she had originally been laid down as Terrible, a Majestic class light fleet carrier for the RN.

Sydney would serve with distinction until the more modern HMAS Melbourne (R21) replaced her in 1955 when she was placed in reserve. She would later be reactivated in 1962 as a fast troop transport for the Vietnam War and was decommissioned for the last time on November 12, 1973.

 

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RN:
In April 1922, battlecruiser HMS Renown entering Yokohama Harbour to bring the Prince of Wales to Japan for a formal visit

Battlecruiser HMS Hood likely off Australia during the Special Service Squadron World Tour, 1924

 

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Italy:
Ammiragli (Durand de la Penne class) class destroyer, Francesco Mimbelli (D561)

Decommissioned and struck Sauro-class submarines, laid up at the Arsenale di La Spezia, 2021

 

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RN:
With the 'test fitting' complete, No. 3 gun is removed from a Quadruple 14-inch turret destined for the battleship HMS King George V, 30 April 1940. Note the workman in the casement for a sense of scale

The newly (nearly) completed KGV class battleship HMS Duke of York, 9 September 1941

 

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RN:
Battleship HMS Vanguard leaving Grand Harbour, Malta