Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Repulse in drydock, early 1939

Revenge-class super-dreadnought battleship HMS Revenge in early August 1939. (At this time, the battleship took part in the review of the fleet by George VI, August 9, 1939, Portsmouth)

County-class heavy cruiser HMS London after her 1939-41 reconstruction

A photograph taken from the bridge of V class destroyer HMS Viscount which gives a good idea of the difficult weather conditions while escorting a convoy during the Battle of the Atlantic. During this operation HMS Viscount and F class destroyer HMS Fame rammed and sank two German U-boats. February 1943

C-class light cruiser HMS Cardiff. 24 February 1943, Greenock, Scotland

 

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USN:
Edsall-class radar picket destroyer escort USS Strickland (DER-333) underway at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA), on 2 October 1958.

 

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USN:
Crew of the Iowa class battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) man the rails as she passes under the Golden Gate Bridge on way to be recommissioned in San Francisco, October 5 1986

In an image taken by a Tactical Aerial Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS) on a U.S. Navy Grumman F-14A Tomcat of Fighter Squadron (VF) 111 flown by the crew of Lieutenant Commander Rice and Lieutenant Old, the aircraft carriers USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), the battleships USS New Jersey (BB-62) and USS Missouri (BB-63), and their escorts pictured underway. Forming the Seventh Fleet Battle Force, the ships were participating in PACEX 1989. 14 October 1989

 

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USN:
Los Angeles-class Flight II (VLS) nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Helena (SSN-725), swim call on the equator, 1990s.

 

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USN:
Caldwell class destroyer USS Manley (AG-28) as a high speed transport, off New York City, May 7, 1939

Fletcher-class destroyer USS Braine (DD-630) transfers wounded to name ship of the battleship class, USS New Mexico (BB-40) for immediate medical attention after being hit by a Japanese 152 mm shore battery off the shores of Tinian in the Mariana Islands on 14 June 1944

Iowa class battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) moored in Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands, 18 May 1945.

 

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Spain:
S-80 Plus-class submarine Isaac Peral (S-81) completing snorkel manoeuvring sea trials, 2023.

 

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RN:
Returned to Great Britain by the Soviets, Revenge-class battleship HMS Royal Sovereign (ex Arkhangelsk) at Rosyth, 1949. In May1944, the Royal Navy transferred Royal Sovereign to the Soviet Navy, which renamed her Arkhangelsk. She then escorted Arctic convoys into Kola until the end of the war. The Soviets returned the ship in 1949, after which she was broken up for scrap

 

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USN:
Wickes class destroyer USS Maury (DD-100) probably in the Hudson River, New York on May 2 1927. While reclassified as a destroyer minelayer (DM-5) in July, 1920, she carried her former destroyer bow number through her active career.

 

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Germany:
Sole ship of her class, light cruiser Emden in the Yangtze River, 1931

 

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Italy:
Thaon di Revel class Multipurpose Offshore Patrol Vessel Raimondo Montecuccoli (P432) in San Diego, 12 June 2024

 

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USN:
A Sea Knight HH-46A (CH-46A modified for #USNavy SAR) over Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarine USS George Washington Carver (SSBN 656) in the Mediterranean Sea on August 1, 1977.

 

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Netherlands:
Holland-class offshore patrol vessel HNLMS Friesland (P842) entering Havana Harbour, Cuba. Nov 2018

 

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USN & France:
SOUTH CHINA SEA (June 6, 2024) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), back, conducts a refueling-at-sea with the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Big Horn (T-AO 198), middle, and Aquitaine-class frigate Bretagne (D 655), June 6, 2024.

 

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UK:
HMIT Queen Mary during an North Atlantic gale whilst transporting 12,000 GI's to the UK.

 

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RN:
Salisbury-class (Type 61) aircraft direction frigate HMS Lincoln (F99) tussling with an Icelandic Coast Guard gunboat during the "Cod Wars" in the 1970's.

 

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Australia:
Majestic class light fleet aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne (R21) at Garden island, Sydney 16 Oct 1973. The former Bathurst class minesweeper Colac is alongside in use as a tank cleaning vessel.

 

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Taiwan
ROCN Kidd class destroyers Su Ao (DDG-1802 ex-USS Callaghan DDG-994) and Ma Kong (DDG-1805 ex-USS Chandler DDG-996) and Harpoon missiles. Photoed at Kaohsiung Port, Jun 15th, 2024.

The american name is still visible at the stern of the Su Ao

 

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(10/15/1983) A view of the destroyer USS PETERSON (DD-969), background, underway near a Soviet Moma Class survey ship and a disabled Victor III class submarine, foreground. USN Image/LCDR CARPENTER

 

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The Indian frigate INS Sahyadri passes the USS Nimitz

 

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A bow on view of the battleship New Jersey (BB-62) leading the American battle line.

She is followed by the battleship Missouri (BB-63) and the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Long Beach (CGN-9) with other screening vessels following astern of the cruiser.

The photograph was taken from the fantail of the Enterprise (CVN-65), possibly during exercise RIMPAC '88 during Jul 1988.