Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
Ex-battleship Kearsarge (AB-1) is moored next to the future USS Alabama (BB-60) for lifting the 16" gun barrels into place. Main and secondary gun turrets are being fabricated and the smoke indicates that some of the boilers have been lit off, 1942.

Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13) at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia (USA), on 4 May 1944. Note the 40 mm quadruple mount originally fitted above the stern.

Cleveland class light cruiser USS Santa Fe (CL-60) at sea during operations off of the Philippines on December 12, 1944. In the background, North Carolina class battleship USS Washington (BB-56) can be seen steaming alongside a fleet oiler.

 

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Australia:
GULF OF OMAN (Nov. 4, 2009) ANZAC class frigate HMAS Toowoomba (FFH-156) is underway near the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) during coalition maritime operations. Pre upgrade

 

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Germany:
Elbe-class tender FGS Main (A515) southbound under the Storebaelt Bridge in Denmark - October 7, 2024

 

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USN:
Seas wash over a lowered aircraft elevator as Forrestal class aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CVA 61) steams through heavy swells in the late 1950s

 

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USN:
Flight III 688i (Improved) Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Scranton (SSN-756) prepares to depart the floating dry dock ARCO (ARDM 5) at Naval Base Point Loma, Sept. 2024.

USS Tulsa (LCS 16) Independence-variant littoral combat ship leaving San Diego - October 7, 2024

USS Mahan (DDG 72) Arleigh Burke-class Flight II guided missile destroyer coming into Yorktown, Virginia - October 8, 2024

 

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Peru:
Amsterdam-class replenishment ship BAP Tacna (ARL-158) coming into San Diego - October 7, 2024

 

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Canada:
Bangor class minesweeper HMCS Mulgrave (J313) in Cherbourg, France. She is part of the 31st Canadian Minesweeping Squadron, clearing the French port of mines. On 8 October 1944, the 31st Minesweeping Flotilla was sweeping for mines off Le Havre, France when Mulgrave suffered an explosion. The minesweeper had hit a mine and after damage control efforts saved the ship, sister ship Blairmore took the vessel in tow and brought her to Le Havre where she was assessed as a constructive loss.

 

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Italy:
Coast Guard Diciotti class (Saettia Mark 2) Outer Patrol Boat Fiorillo Michele (CP904) in Crotone, Italy - October 8, 2024

 

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PLA(N):
The sole Type 051B (NATO Luhai) class destroyer Shenzhen (167). Which after her modernisation and receiving 16x YJ-12 AShM has one of the heavier ASuW throw-weights in the PLAN surface fleet. Oct 2024

 

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RN:
Devonshire-class armoured cruiser HMS Antrim (1905)

 

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Australia:
ANZAC class frigate HMAS Stuart (FFH153) arrives at Visakhapatnam, India during Ex Malabar 2024. Oct 2024

 

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USN:
Nevada class battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37) salvage. Looking aft from the forward turrets. March 26, 1943.

On 7 December 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, several torpedoes from torpedo bombers hit the Oklahoma's hull and the ship capsized. A total of 429 crew died; survivors jumped off the ship 50 feet (15 m) into burning oil on water or crawled across mooring lines that connected Oklahoma and Maryland. Some sailors inside escaped when rescuers drilled holes and opened hatches to rescue them. The ship was salvaged in 1943. Unlike most of the other battleships that were recovered following Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was too damaged to return to duty. Her wreck was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm while being towed from Oahu, Hawaii, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay in 1947.

 

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HMS Vanguard
Portsmouth harbour

 

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USN:
Flight III Virginia class submarine USS Illinois (SSN-786) at Ice Camp Queenfish for ICEX 2022. March 2022

USS McFaul (DDG 74) Arleigh Burke-class Flight II guided missile destroyer leaving Faslane, Scotland - October 10, 2024

 

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RN:
Duke class (type 23) frigate HMS Portland (F79) conducting night flying operations in the North Sea. Oct 2024

 

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RN:
Revenge class battleship HMS Ramillies in 1939

Abdiel class minelayer HMS Apollo (M 01) in Feb 1944

S (3rd Group) class submarine HMSM Spark (P 236), April 1944

 

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Chile:
Adelaide-class (OHP class) anti-aircraft frigate Almirante Latorre (FFG 14) (Ex-HMAS Melbourne), Type 22 Broadsword-class frigate Almirante Williams (FF-19) (ex-HMS Sheffield (F96)) and Duke-class frigate Almirante Cochrane (FF-05) (ex. HMS Norfolk) in Puerto Williams, Chile - October 9, 2024

 

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New Zealand:
Multi-role vessel (MRV) HMNZS Canterbury (L421) has deployed to Samoa as part of New Zealand’s support for hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (21-26 Oct).She left Devonport Naval Base yesterday with 3 NH90 helicopters, as well as 5 ambulances and other vehicles and supplies. The ship is also carrying containers of stores and other supplies specifically for the response to the sinking of HMNZS Manawanui.

 

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Philippines:
Gregorio del Pilar-class offshore patrol vessel BRP Andrês Bonifacio (PS-17) (ex-USCGC Boutwell WHEC-719) coming into Brunei - October 7, 2024

 

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RN:
Name ship of the Courageous class of battlecruisers, HMS Courageous in 1916

Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by First Sea Lord John Fisher, the ship was very lightly armoured and armed with only a few heavy guns. Courageous was completed in late 1916 and spent the war patrolling the North Sea. She participated in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in November 1917 and was present when the German High Seas Fleet surrendered a year later.

Courageous was decommissioned after the war, then rebuilt as an aircraft carrier in the mid-1920s. She could carry 48 aircraft, compared with 36 carried by her half-sister Furious on about the same displacement. After recommissioning she spent most of her career operating off Great Britain and Ireland. She briefly became a training ship, but reverted to her normal role a few months before the start of the Second World War in September 1939. A German U-boat sank Courageous by torpedo later that month, with the loss of more than 500 of her crew.