Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USS Forrestal (CVA-59) - 1989 Fleet week in New York NY by Captain Martini, on Flickr

USS Saratoga(CVA 60) ca.1958 by Andrew Breeden, on Flickr

USS Ranger (CVA 61) in San Diego Harbor, March 1982 by Gene Spesard, on Flickr

USS Independence (CVA 62)..late 1950s by Michel ANTONI, on Flickr

 

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USSR:
Project 1143.6 "Riga" (Varyag/Liaoning) on the slipway of the black sea shipbuilding plant, Mykolaiv, Ukrainian SSR

"Kotlin"-class destroyer Besslednyi (022, at left), seen from the deck of the American destroyer USS Walker (DD-517), was photographed by a U.S. Navy cameraman a short time before the two ships collided in the Sea of Japan during the morning of 10 May 1967.

 

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Italy:
Torpedo Boat MAS 342.

A Caproni Ca.133 bomber being unloaded from the Italian seaplane carrier Giuseppe Miraglia at Massawa, Eritrea, during the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1936

Mines embarked on the destroyer Ugolino Vivaldi, in October 1940

Heavy cruiser Gorizia during the Second Battle of Sirte, on 22 March 1942

 

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USN:
USS Independence launching Douglas A3D Skywarrior in April 1959.
This photograph was originally published by LIFE Magazine.

Douglas A3D/A-3 Skywarrior (known as Whale by the crews) was largest, heaviest and one of the longest serving carrier-based aircraft in the history, entering service in 1956 and being retired in 1991.

Initially designed and used as a carrier-based strategic and nuclear bomber, it was quickly rendered obsolete by the SLBMs, and it spent the majority of its service life in secondary and support roles, as an electronic warfare platform, tactical reconnaissance aircraft, and aerial refueling.

SSN-571 USS Nautilus, world's first nuke sub, entering New York harbor for Armed Forces Week, May 1956

U.S.S. Long Beach (CGN-9), 1965

USS Hazelwood's (DD-531) "DASH" (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter) in free flight, March 22, 1961
Suspended under the drone's body is a homing torpedo, mainstay of the DASH system. The drone produced by Gyrodyne Co. of America, Inc., of Long Island, New York, is designated model DSN-1. It made the world's first free flight of a completely unmanned drone heli. At the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MA, in August, 1960.

 

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Greece:
Battleship Kilkis, sunk at the naval base at Salamis, after German air attacks on 23 April 1941. Photographed from a German Heinkel HE 60 seaplane after the base was occupied by the German Army. Note bomb damage to the nearby pier. Kilkis is the former USS Mississippi (BB-23).

 

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RN:
HMS Agincourt, 1913. HMS Agincourt, doing the USN Wyoming class one better, with 7 twin 12" turrets. For this particular ship, the Royal Navy neither numbered nor lettered the turrets, instead naming them for the days of the week, from Sunday (forward), to Saturday (aft). Originally Brazilian, briefly Ottoman, a full 14 gun broadside produced such a sheet of flame and smoke that some observers were convinced she had blown herself up.

 

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RAN:
The battle between the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran was a single-ship action that occurred on 19 November 1941, off the coast of Western Australia. Sydney, with Captain Joseph Burnett commanding, and Kormoran, under Fregattenkapitan Theodore Detmer, encountered each other approximately 106 nautical miles (196 km; 122 mi) off Dirk hartog Island. Both ships were destroyed in the half-hour engagement.

All hands were lost with HMAS Sydney

 

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Imperial Japan:
IJN Kaga at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan, 20th of November 1928

IJN Mutsu, likely pre-war.

 

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Thailand:
Coast defense ship Dhonburi, (Background); and Torpedo Boat, Kantang (Foreground) at Bangkok in 1967

 

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USN:
USS Arkansas CGN-41 during shock trials in March 1982

USS George Washington (CVN 73) and guided missile destroyer USS Arthur W. Radford (DD 968) conduct replenishment at sea. Western Mediterranean, 11 July 1996. Photo Photo Jim Vidrine

 

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Germany:
Admiral Graf Spee in the English Channel, April, 1939

U-505, postwar

Heavy cruiser Blücher en route to Norway, as seen from the light cruiser Emden

 

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USN:
USS L-1 sailed across the Atlantic and served during the First World War as the USS AL-1 out of Bantry Bay, Ireland and operated on Anti U-Boat patrols. Here she is, likely before the US's entry into the war, in Boston next to the USS Constitution. This is a pre-First World War photo as no "Chariot Style" bridge is installed, those were a wartime modification to the L class submarines.

USS Constellation, located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
USS Constellation is a sloop-of-war, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy and is the only surviving ship from the Civil War Era. She was built at the Gosport Shipyard between 1853 and 1855 and was named for the earlier frigate of the same name that had been broken up in 1853, and was eventually decommissioned in 1955 after 100 years of service.

USS Wyoming (BB-32) passing through the Galliard Cut, Panama Canal, 26 July 1919.

 

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Italy:
The Giuseppe Garibaldi-class of armoured cruisers, designed by the unjusty little known Italian naval engineer Edoardo Masdea, can be described as very popular and successful, both among the Regia Marina (which eventually had three of these ships in service), and among foreign navies (the Argentine Navy had four of them, and ended up selling two more to the Imperial Japanese Navy, while one more was built for the Spanish Navy, with another cancelled).

The Francesco Ferruccio is notable for being the last ship that can be considered (but that mey be somewhat subjective, I admit) a large, proper capital ship (not to mention RM classification, as these armoured cruisers were officially classified as "second-rank battle ships") in the century-long history of the Arsenale di Venezia, that for countless years had built a huge number of ships for the navy of the Serenissima, and for the Austrian and Italian Navy as well. Unfortunately, the new industrial process and the limits (in space and machinery) of the old plant ended up forcing the RM to bring elsewhere its business, sadly putting an end to a veritable saga.

Francesco Ferruccio

 

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Egypt:
ENS Anwar El Sadat(L1020) of the French built Mistral Class heading to Alexandria after joint exercises with the French Navy,October 2016

 

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Brazil:
Cruiser Bahia, after 1925-26 reconstruction which added a third funnel.

 

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RN:
2nd Battle of Sirte. HMS Kipling at high speed in heavy seas during battle.

During the Second Battle of Sirte the escorting squadron of five light cruisers and 18 destroyers was confronted in very stormy seas by a greatly superior Italian surface force. The convoy also came under attack from several hundreds of German and Italian aircraft operating from Sicily, Libya and Greece. Undaunted, the Royal Navy ships shepherded the four merchant ships under the cover of smoke screen in mountainous seas to keep the battleship at bay until at dusk, the Italian squadron, unable to fight a night action, withdrew back to Messina and Taranto.

The four merchant ships managed to steam towards Malta but one, Clan Campbell, was sunk by the Luftwaffe just short of Grand Harbour and another, Breconshire, was disabled and later sank in Marsaxlokk Bay.

"Italian squadron made of a battleship, 2 heavy and 1 light cruiser and 10 destroyers have been held off by the relatively light convoy defences made up mostly of anti-aircraft cruisers and destroyers. Superior Italian squadron had failed to engage the merchant ships or sink any of the allied ships, and have lost 2 destroyers in a storm in the aftermath."

Lord Cunningham in his book A Sailors Odyssey says:

‘I shall always consider the Battle of Sirte, on March 22nd 1942, as one of the most brilliant Naval actions of the War, if not the most brilliant. As told here it sounds easy; but it is against all the canons of Naval Warfare for a squadron of small cruisers, and a handful of destroyers to hold off a force of heavy ships . . . had the roles been reversed, it is unthinkable that the convoy, or much of its escort would not have been destroyed.’

 

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RN:
HMS Belfast, August 1939

 

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RAN:
HMAS Rankin at Fleet Base West with HMAS Ballarat in the background, March 2020

 

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Russia:
Slava class cruiser Moskva

Frigate Admiral Gorshkov underway Pacific Ocean, May 2019

Marshal Ustinov (055) leaving Sevastopol and returning to their home base at Severomorsk

 

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France:
Battleship Jean Bart, of the Courbet-class, fitting out at Brest in 1911