Photos Navies Of All Nations

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FR Yugoslav Navy of Serbia and Montenegro
Two Kotor Class Frigates stationed at the port of Bar, Montenegro

 

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Greece:
The modified Pisa-class armoured cruiser built in Italy for the Royal Hellenic Navy, Georgios Averof, one of the only ships of this type still in existence

 

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France:
Cruiser Suffren leaves Alexandria harbour after a 3 year stay, June 23, 1943

 

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USN:
Attack aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CVA-63) steams the Pacific Ocean 21 July 1969. Photographed by Photographer's Mate First Class D.B. Wood. Catalog # USN 1140842 National Archives from Naval History and Heritage Command.

U.S.S. Blue (DD-744) pitching in the sea during UNREP, 1962. Photo taken from the flight deck of U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31).

U.S.S. Columbus (CG-12), U.S.S. Collett (DD-730), and U.S.S. Blue (DD-744), 1965

 

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Imperial Italy:
The Soldato-class torpedo boat destroyer Artigliere, commissioned into the Regia Marina in 1907, was a rather typical pre-war destroyer, with a rather small displacement (415 t full load), a top speed of 28.5 knots and an armament of four 76 mm (3-inch) guns and three 450 mm (17.7 inch) torpedo tubes.

It saw extensive action in the Italo-Turkish War, participating in the Battle of Kunfida Bay and the Battle of Prevesa, respectively in the Mediterranean and in the Red Sea. It also served in WWI, as part of the III Squadriglia Cacciatorpediniere (3rd Destroyer Flotilla).

It was de-rated to torpedo boat in 1921 and decommissioned in 1923.

Protected cruiser Calabria moored at Fremantle, Western Australia, November 1905. The Regioni-class protected cruiser Calabria undertook no less than four circumnavigations of the globe, between 1897 and 1912. This picture was taken in November 1905, during its third voyage round the world.

 

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RN:
HMS Nelson entering Portsmouth Harbour before 1936. The tram gives us the date clue

Adventure-class scout cruiser HMS Attentive

 

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Russia:
Lead ship of the class, Admiral Gorshkov, passed by the two vessels that his namesake helped bring to life, Peter the Great and Dmitriy Donskoi during Navy Day 2018 in St Petersburg 29 July 2018

 

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Sweden:
Aircraft cruiser HMS Gotland in the Caribbean. 1938

 

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USN:

USS America (CV-66) conducting operations in Vestfjord, Norway, during exercise Ocean Safari 85

PEARL HARBOR (July 7, 2010) The Oliver Hazard Perry-class fast frigate USS Ford (FFG 54) departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to support Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2010 exercises. RIMPAC is a biennial, multinational exercise designed to strengthen regional partnerships and improve multinational interoperability. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jason Swink/Released)

 

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Germany:
Light cruiser Karlsruhe underway off San Diego, California, United States, 27 Mar 1934. The asymmetric position of the turrets in clearly seen in this image.

Light cruiser Frankfurt, left, and the battleship Baden, aground in Swanbister Bay, Scapa Flow, sometime soon after the majority of the interned German battle fleet was scuttled on 21 June 1919.

 

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Norway & Russia:
Norwegian frigate KNM Otto Sverdrup (F312) watching Russian corvette Soobrazitelny somewhere in the North Sea. Photo: NATO, march 2020.

 

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USN:
USS Enterprise (CV-6) and other ships of her screen in action during the Battle of Santa Cruz, 26 October 1942. USS Enterprise (CV-6) is at left, with at least two enemy planes visible overhead. In the right center is USS South Dakota, firing her starboard 5/38 secondary battery, as marked by the bright flash amidships. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Heavy cruisers of the U.S. fleet’s Scouting Force execute a starboard turn during a 1939 exercise off the California coast. At the time, the key wartime roles the service envisioned for cruisers was fleet scouting, protection of carriers, and protection of the battle line against hostile destroyer attack

 

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RN:
Royal Navy ships anchored in Gibraltar March 1982- just before the falklands. In this photo, HMS Antrim, HMS Battleaxe, HMS Brilliant, HMS Coventry, HMS Sheffield and HMS Glamorgan can be seen. Of these ships, only 4 returned fully intact

 

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USN:
USS Michigan (BB-27) entering Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii, with the U.S. Fleet Second Observation Group, 7 March 1920.

USS West Virginia (BB-48) at the Presidential Review, 1934.

USS Bernadou (DD-153) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1921.

USS Comfort (AH-3) serving as hospital ship, 1918

200305-N-ZZ999-002 USS Nipsic at the Puget Sound Naval Station, Bremerton, Washington, while serving as a station hospital. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph, NH 44601)

 

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Italy:
Torpedo boat Spica at La Spezia, date unknown; on 18 July 1912 she and four other torpedo boats executed a daring, if ultimately unsuccessful raid in the Dardanelles, during the Italo-Turkish War

Heavy cruiser Bolzano, being illuminated at night, in the 1930s

 

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Pakistan:
PNS Babur (former HMS Diadem light cruiser of the Royal Navy) being officially commissioned in the Pakistan Navy in 1957.

 

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RN:
The last photo taken of HMS Hood, taken from HMS Prince of Wales, as the two ships prepare to engage Bismarck - 24th May 1941

Sponging out the 15" guns of HMS Barham after being in action, circa 1940/1941.

 

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USN:
USS Alabama

USS Abraham Lincoln CVN 72

USS Wasp and USNS Medgar Evers

USNS Carson City (T-EPF- 7) entering the Black Sea on Aug. 15, 2018.
Carson City will be “conducting routine operations in accordance with its primary mission of providing rapid transport of military equipment and personnel in theater,” according to a U.S. 6th Fleet news release.

Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) reaches another milestone in its construction as their dry dock area is flooded three months ahead of its slated production schedule leading up to the christening of the second Ford-class aircraft carrier, scheduled for Dec. 7, 2019

 

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RN:
HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry steaming south in 1982, Neither ship returned home.

HMS Sheffield was hit on 4th May by one AM39 Exocet, Of the 281 crew members, 20 died as a result of the attack with another 26 of the crew injured, She sank on the 10th May.

HMS Coventry was struck by three 1000lb bombs, two of which exploded, tearing open the port side and starting a fierce blaze. Within 20 minutes Coventry had been abandoned and had completely capsized. Coventry sank shortly after. 19 of her crew were killed and a further 30 injured.

Note the black stripes painted through her funnel to her waterline, This served as identification that they were British ships as the Argentine Navy operated two T42 destroyers (ARA Hercules and ARA Santisima Trinidad)

 

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USN & RN:
Allied warships at Scapa Flow, April 1942 - USS Wasp, USS Wichita, HMS Victorious, USS Washington and a King George V-class battleship