Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Japan:
Takao-class heavy cruiser Chōkai fires a broadside during gunnery exercises in 1933.

 

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RN:
HMS Adamant (A164) with submarines in Falmouth Bay. Pre 1965
It looks like either HMS Explorer (S30) or HMS Excalibur (S40) outboard on the trot at Adamant’s starboard quarter - these boats had particularly distinctive lines for the times. They were experimental HTP powered boats and paid off in 1965 and 1968 respectively but this photo predates 1966 the year HMS Adamant (A164) paid off (disposal list 1968).

 

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France:
Battleship Dunkerque's crew relaxing on her deck and turrets, late 1930's

 

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USN:
Lead battleship of her class, USS South Dakota (BB-57) cruising in Puget Sound on August 21, 1944.

 

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USN:
The bow of the Iowa cless battleship USS Missouri (BB-63)cutting through the water while underway on September 1, 1986. The ship was steaming towards Hawaii at the time, starting a cruise that would take her around the world.

Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Vincennes (CG-49) underway off the coast of California, 1987 .

 

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USN:
Sole aircraft carrier of her class ( reduced size Yorktown class) ,USS Wasp (CV-7) sits at anchor in Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, UK in April or May 1942. Sunk by torpedo in the Pacific 15 September 1942.

Starboard side view of Essex-class carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) with an F6F-3 Hellcat fighter of VF-1 on the flight deck above the athwartship hangar deck catapult, June 1943.

 

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RN:
Battlecruiser HMS Repulse at Portsmouth, 1939.

 

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Japan:
Battleship Yamato in the late stages of construction alongside of a large fitting out pontoon at the Kure Naval Base, Japan, 20 September 1941. The aircraft carrier Hōshō is visible at the extreme right. The store ship Mamiya is anchored in the center distance. Note Yamato's after 18.1" main battery gun turret, and superfiring 6.1" secondary battery gun turret.

 

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Casablanca class escort carrier ex-USS Makassar Strait (CVU-91) met her end on the rugged shores of San Nicolas Island, California. Used as a Pacific Missile Range target ship, she served one final purpose before breaking up on the coastline.

She was declassified and decommissioned on 9 August 1946. She was reclassified as CVU-91 on 12 June 1955. On 28 August 1958, she was authorized to be used as a target and destroyed, and she was struck from the Navy list on 1 September 1958. During the next three years, she was used by the navy to gather data on the use of surface-launched missiles. During April 1961, while under tow to San Clemente Island off Southern California, she accidentally ran aground on San Nicholas Island in the Channel Islands. The Navy then sold her for breaking in situ on 2 May 1961. However, she was not scrapped, partially due to her less than optimal position. In 1965, it was known that she had not yet been broken up and was still being used as a target by the navy. Notably, by then, the entire escort carrier had since been split in half by the grounding

 

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USN:
Virginia class submarine inbound to Faslane in freezing condition on the Clyde. 12 Dec 2022
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China:
A Type-056A (NATO Jiangdao) class corvette, followed by a Type-052D (NATO Luyang III) class destroyer Changsha (173) and a Type-075 LHD

 

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Spain & Turkey:
Santa Maria (Oliver Hazard Perry) class frigate of ESPS Santa Maria (F81) and Gabya/G-class (OHP) frigate TCG Gökova (F496) (USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13)) fueling from lead auxiliary ship TCG Ütğm Arif Ekmekçi (A-575) during joint exercises off the coast of Somalia. 8 Jan 2025

 

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Turkey:
Istif/I-class frigate TCG İzmit (F-517) was launched at Anadolu Shipyard, Istanbul. 11 Jan 2025

 

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USN:
Flight IIA Technology Insertion Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) leaving Pearl Harbor. January 10, 2025

 

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Taiwan
Ex-Kidd destroyer

 

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Spain
Frigate Almirante Juan de Borbon

 

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Germany
Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee in 1937

 

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Indonesia:
Thaon di Revel class PPA, Ruggiero di Lauria (P435) fiitking out and bought while under construction. Will be commissioned in August 2025 as KRI Prabu Siliwangi (321)

 

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Japan:
ASW cruiser Kashii sunk by torpedo and bombs from US aircraft off the French Indochina coast. January 12th, 1945.
Of Kashii's crew, 621 men went down with the ship and only 19 were rescued.

 

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Germany:
Gunners aboard name light cruiser of her class, Königsberg training with 88mm SK L/45 in high-angle mounts in 1932