Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
USS Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) Caption: At Newport News, probably undergoing tests, circa 1964-65. Note open tubes for Polaris missiles with hatch covers coloured and numbered in billiard ball-style

Ex-USS Alabama (BB-60) is towed into Puget Sound on the start of her last voyage to Mobile, Alabama, where she will serve as a museum ship. June 18, 1964.

Various U.S. Navy aircraft of Attack Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) on deck of the aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CVA-64) during a deployment to Vietnam from 29 April to 4 December 1967. In the foreground are a Douglas A-4C Skyhawk (BuNo 149579, "City of Selma") from Attack Squadron VA-146 Blue Diamonds; a black painted Douglas RA-3B Skywarrior (BuNo 144847) from Heavy Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron VAP-61 World Recorders; an A-4C (BuNo 149508) from VA-55 Warhorses; and a Grumman A-6A Intruder (BuNo 152637) from VA-196 Main Battery

Mitscher-class destroyer USS Willis A. Lee (DL-4; later DD-929) at the Saint Lawrence Seaway, under which passes a road. c. 1959.

 

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Germany:

Schleswig-Holstein, 1939.

Gneisenau in drydock at the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel to have her torpedo hit damage repaired, 1940

 

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USN:
USS Wyoming, BB-32, in dock, between 1910 and 1915 and stern chaser 5"

USS Utah (BB-31) transiting the Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal, in 1924-1925

USS Virginia, BB-13, stretching her legs, most likely between 1910-1913

USS Virginia, BB-13, in port, 1906 or 1907

USS Connecticut (BB-18) being scrapped, circa 1923-24

12" guns of USS Michigan, BB-27, 1910

 

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USN:
USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70) Transporting aircraft on 17 January 1944. Among the planes parked on her flight deck are U.S. Army A-20, P-38 and P-47 types.

USS Edwin A. Howard (DE-346) at anchor in port with a ship's boat alongside, circa 1944-1946.

USS Mahan (DD-364) at Mare Island on June 21, 1944, wearing camouflage 31/23D.

USS Idaho being repaired at Espiritu Santo

 

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RN:
HMS Leviathan (Majestic sub-class) was not completed for the Royal Navy due to the lack of funds, while the other 5 of her sister ships were completed for foreign navies (2 for Australia and Canada each, and one for India), with some being commissioned 15-20 years after being laid down.

Leviathan just didn't have a buyer and was scrapped for spare parts.

 

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France:
RAF Tornado GR1 making a low pass over the French T47 destroyer Du Chayla (D630) during the Gulf War

 

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Austro-Hungary:
The former Austro-Hungarian battleship Tegetthoff being broken up for scrap at La Spezia, around 1924-25

 

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Italy:
Archimede under attack from a PBY-5A Catalina of the USN

On 15 April 1943, the aircraft 83-P-5 of the VP-83 Squadron of the United Stated Navy sighted a submarine off the Brazilian coast. The submarine did not submerge (probably because of a breakdown somewhere, but the lone survivor was unable to clarify), and instead attempted evasive maneuvers, while firing at the aircraft with its twin 13.2 mm MGs. The Catalina dropped on the second pass all four Mark 44 depth charges, causing damage. After forty-five minutes, another Catalina of the same Squadron (the 83-P-12) attacked the beleaguered boat, with four other depth charges, this time causing fatal damage. It is unknown how many crewman were able to survive the Archimede's sinking at the moment: the American aircraft estimated that 30-40 men were in the water, while the survivor first stated in 1943 that twenty-five men got out, only to declare in 1946 that nineteen men (him included) were able to survive. The survivors had two rafts at their disposal (the survivor claimed that, before throwing the rafts, at least one of the Catalinas had strafed the men).

The different versions of the survivor's story drift into the days of drifting. Either on the seventh or the twentieth day, a steamer was sighted; the commander of the boat (Tenente di Vascello Guido Saccardo) took one raft and six men with him and paddled towards it, promising to return with help, and was never seen again. One by one, the eleven men with the survivor died, with him being rescued, in very poor condition, by Brazilian fishermen. As Brazil was by then at war with Italy, he was brought by the relevant authorities and eventually transferred to the USA, where he released his first version of the events; after the war, when he was repatriated, he told Italian authorities his later version.

Out of 60 men aboard, only Giuseppe Lo Coco (who had been a crewman on the Archimede since the start of the war) survived, and died in 2004, 86 years old.

 

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USN:
USS Vermont, Battleship #20,circa 1907-1909, in heavy seas possibly during the cruise around the World of the Great White Fleet

 

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Spain:
Pre-Dreadnought battleship Pelayo, anchored in port, 1889

 

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France & USN:
FS Charles de Gaulle (R-91) and USS Dwight Eisenhower (CVN-69), March 3rd 2020

 

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USSR:
Battleship Sevastopol about 1937 in the Black Sea fleet area.

 

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USN:
Seawolf class USS Connecticut

USS San Jacinto CG-56, in the MED. Photo by LPhot Daniel Shepherd.

 

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USN:
View of aft 13"/35 turret, USS Illinois, Battleship (BB-7), 1902

USS Arkansas (BB-33) or USS Wyoming (BB-32) passing under the Manhattan Bridge, New York City. "A glimpse of one of our first-line sea fighters as she passed under the Manhattan Bridge, New York. The cage mast is used only in our Navy; experiments have proved that it can be considerably damaged by gunfire without falling." Photo published in Sea Power magazine, Washington, D.C. May 1917.

USS Chicago (CL-29) installing forward 8-inch guns, at Mare Island Navy Yard, 9 July 1930. Note her designation changed to "CA-29" in July, 1931.

Airship tender USS Patoka gets ready for a docking mission, 1931-32.

 

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JMSDF:
Atago class DDG

 

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France:
Bretagne class battleship Lorraine, Casablanca, November 1943.

 

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RN:
HMS Duke of York underway in heavy seas

Naval personnel making final checks of landing craft suspended from derricks on troopship HMT Derbyshire at Naples dockside, 17 January 1944. The ship is part of the Allied armada ready for the "Operation Shingle", the Battle for Anzio

HMS Ark Royal sinking

 

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France & Netherlands:
FS Forbin and HNLMS De Ruyter patrolling Hormuz Strait

 

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Russia:
The Project 1241 are a class of Soviet missile corvettes. They have the NATO reporting name Tarantul (not to be confused with the Stenka-class patrol boat, whose official Soviet name is also "Tarantul").
The photo is of R-60, now named Burya

 

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Imperial Russia:
Cruiser Gromoboi at Port Melbourne Railway Pier, May 1901