Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Portugal & USN:
The Portuguese frigate NRP Alvares Cabral (F 331) steams alongside USS La Salle (AGF 3) as part of a formation of U.S. Navy and other multi-national warships during Majestic Eagle 2004. July 12, 2004. USN photo.

 

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Italy:
Light cruiser Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Taranto, 1937

 

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RN:
HMS London at Gibraltar, September 10, 1937.

Aerial photo of HMS FORMIDABLE returning to Sydney from her special mission of repatriating British and Australians who were imprisoned by the Japanese.

HMS Anson during trials in the North Sea, stern view, June 1942

 

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USN:
USS Matanikau (CVE-101) shortly after her commissioning, July 1944

 

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Imperial Japan & USN:
HIJMS Naniwa and USS Boston, possibly in Hawaii (c1893)

 

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JMSDF:
Destroyer Nagatsuki (DD-167) and the training ship Katori (TV-3501) docked at a pier in New York Harbor during the International Naval Review, 4 July 1986

 

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USN:
Joint Venture, High Speed Vessel Experimental One (HSV X1) pulls a Special Boat Team (SBT) Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) out of the water, 25 May 2003

 

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Russia:
24th April, 2020. Last Survivor of Project 1134B (Nato: Kara class) The "Kerch" left Sevastopol to be scrapped. Other ships said goodbye with sirens and "Farewell of Slavianka" military march marked the end of an era.

A Katabatic wind engulfs museum ship Mikhail Kutuzov in Novorossiysk harbor in the Black Sea

 

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RN:
HMS Warspite spent the last of her strength and ran aground at Prussia Cove

You say you have no subject
And your brushes all have dried;
But come to Marazion
At the ebbing of the tide.
And look you out to seaward,
Where my Lady battle scarred
Hugs the rock that is more welcome,
Than the shameful breakers yard.
Paint her there upon the sunset
In her glory and despair,
With the diadem of victory
Still in flower upon her hair.
Let her whisper as she settles
Of her blooding long ago,
In the mist that mingles Jutland
With the might of Scapa Flow.
Let her tell you, too, of Narvick
With its snowy hills, and then
Of Matapan, Salerno
And the shoals of Walcheren;
And finally of Malta,
When along the purple street
Came in trail the Roman Navy
To surrender at her feet.
Of all these honours conscious,
How could she bear to be
Delivered to the spoiler
Or severed from the sea ?
So hasten then and paint her
In the last flush of her pride
On the rocks of Marazion,
At the ebbing of the tide.

LtCdr R A B Mitchell

 

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USN:
USS Abraham Lincoln

 

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RN:
HMS Ark Royal conducting trials with Merlin HM1

HMS Eagle in 1955, with AEW Skyraiders, Wyverns and Sea Hawks lined up for take off

 

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USS Essex (CV 9)..Scene on the flight deck, looking aft from the carrier's island during her shakedown cruise, 20 March 1943. Planes parked on deck are F6F-3 fighters (in foreground, with wings folded) and SBD-4 scout bombers.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (photo # 80-G-K-698).



Underway at 1615 hrs. during May 1943, in position 37 05'N, 74 15'W, as photographed from a blimp from squadron ZP-14. Among the aircraft parked on her flight deck are 24 SBD scout bombers (parked aft), about 11 F6F fighters (parked in after part of the midships area) and about 18 TBF/TBM torpedo planes (parked amidships).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (photo # 80-G-68097).



USS Essex (CVA-9) WestPac 1954–55. F9F-6 Cougars from VF-24 "Corsairs" (left) and F2H-3 Banshee from VC-3 Det. A "Blue Nemesis" (right). Note pirate emblem on plane with side number 112.



In June 1964 Essex took 312 midshipmen for a 7-week training cruise to Europe. Liberty calls were made at Le Havre, France; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Portsmouth, England. Here she is seen in the harbor of Copenhagen, on July 4th, 1964.



Island of USS Essex (CVS-9), early 1960s.Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR (Ret.)

 

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Belknap was severely damaged in a collision with the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1975 off the coast of Sicily. A fire broke out on Belknap following the collision, during the fire her aluminum superstructure collapsed after it was weakened by the heat. Seven sailors were killed on Belknap and one on John F. Kennedy.

Shortly after the fire began, boats from other vessels operating with John F. Kennedy and Belknap began to pull alongside the burning ship, often with complete disregard for their own safety. The guided missile destroyer Claude V. Ricketts and destroyer Bordelon moved in on both sides of Belknap, their men directing fire hoses into the amidships area that the stricken ship’s crew could not reach. Bordelon was also badly damaged in a collision with Kennedy the following year which forced her removal from service. Claude V. Ricketts moved in and secured alongside Belknap’s port side, and evacuated the injured while fragments from exploding ammunition showered down upon her weather decks. The frigate Pharris closed in the carrier’s starboard side to provide fire-fighting assistance.[1] Ammunition from Belknap’s three-inch ready storage locker, located amidships, cooked off, hurling fiery fragments into the air and splashing around the rescue boats. Undaunted, the rescuers pulled out the seriously wounded and delivered fire-fighting supplies to the sailors who refused to surrender their ship to the conflagration.

The ammunition ship Mount Baker was involved later in the rescue and salvage of Belknap, escorting her to an ammunition depot and then providing electric and water services as Mount Baker's Explosive Ordnance Disposal team retrieved all of the remaining ammunition from Belknap. Mount Baker also took aboard most of Belknap's crew until they could be transferred to a way station for re-assignment.

The fire and the resultant damage and deaths, which would have been less had Belknap's superstructure been made of steel, helped persuade the US Navy to pursue all-steel construction in future classes of surface combatants.[2] However, in 1987 the New York Times cited cracking in aluminum superstructures such as what occurred in the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates, rather than fire, as the reason the Navy returned to steel on some ships.[3] The first USN combatant ships to revert to all steel superstructure were the Arleigh Burke class, which were commissioned beginning in the 1990s. Belknap was reconstructed by the Philadelphia Navy Yard from 30 January 1976 to 10 May 1980. Since the hull was still in good condition the Navy decided to use this as a test platform for the Aegis class cruiser electronics and updated weapons systems. Until the Aegis class cruisers came along Belknap was one of the most powerful warships in the world and saw service in Beirut as part of the multinational peacekeeping force, becoming the first ship to fire on an enemy since the Vietnam War. It was the ship's Naval Tactical Data Systems' (NTDS) reliability during this time in Beirut which was named as the defining reason that the Belknap was chosen as the Sixth Fleet flagship.

USS Belknap DLG/CG-26-Napoli Dec.75 by Carlo A.G. Tripodi, on Flickr

22Nov 1975 collided at night with USS J.F.Kennedy in the Ionian Sea. Seven crew were killed and 47 injured. Towed in Napoli, after some works al local shipyard the ship was towed at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Where she was repaired. Sunk as target on 24 SEP 1998.



The U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Belknap (CG-26), flagship of the U.S. 6th Fleet, underway in the Mediterranean Sea on 21 July 1992. Belknap was decommissioned on 15 February 1995.

 

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USN:
USS Olympia, 1899

 

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RN:
RFA Stromness, a Ness-class fleet stores ship which saw action in the Falklands War and was later bought by the US as USNS Saturn. Sunk as a target in 2010.

RFA Pearleaf, a Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker, 1986

Sailors on board HMS Hermes sunbathing on the flight deck as the naval task force heads for the Falkland Islands following the Argentinian invastion, April 1982. (Photo by Martin Cleaver/Pool/Getty Images)

4 Swiftsure class nuclear fleet submarines HMS Spartan, HMS Sovereign, HMS Splendid and HMS Sceptre just outside HMNB Clyde (date unknown)

These boats have a rich history; both Splendid and Spartan were deployed to the Falklands, and although unlike HMS Conqueror, neither submarine was ordered to destroy any targets, although they both provided important intelligence, and HMS Splendid was tasked to hunt down the Argentine Aircraft carrier ARA 25 de Mayo. She was unable to do this, as the 25 de Mayo stayed in shallow waters, meaning that Splendid couldn’t achieve her submerged top speed of 28 knots.

Other notable incidents include HMS sceptre crashing into the Russian submarine K-211 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka in the early 1980s. Interestingly, the crew were told they hit an iceberg, and the automatic emergency reactor shutdown was overridden.

In the late 1990s, splendid became the first British vessel to be armed with tomahawk, and in 1999, the BBC were allowed on board to film the firing of Tomahawks against Yugoslav targets in Belgrade in the Kosovo war.

She also fired the same weapons in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, against Iraqi targets.

The class were finally decommissioned in 2010, although interestingly, 2 out of the original 6 boats were already retired due to mechanical or structural problems

 

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USN:
USS lowa firing full broadside during practice off Vieques islands, Puerto Rico, 1st July 1984

USS Midway, San Diego

BB-62 USS New Jersey

 

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RN:
HMS Iron Duke after damage inflicted by the Luftwaffe in Oct 1939, she'd be run aground and used as anti-aircraft platform the remainder of the war

HMS Duke of York, HMS Berwick, and HMS Liverpool at Rosyth, Nov 11, 1943

HMS Trinidad in 1941

HMS Illustrious, early in the Second World War

HMS Laforey on trial. She was one of the first destroyers to be armed with DP guns

 

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Germany:
Bismarck at sea en route to Norway, circa 19-20 May 1941, prior to her Atlantic sortie. Photographed from the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.

“Caesar” turret of the Kriegsmarine battleship Tirpitz during operations in the Baltic Sea, 1942.

Launching of Graf Zeppelin, Kiel, Germany, Dec. 8, 1938

Cruiser Königsberg, lead ship of her class visiting Britain in 1934 and flying the White Ensign as a salute to the British. She is also flying the 1933-1935 variant of the Reichskriegsflagge from her stern. At this time the German Navy still operated as the Reichsmarine.

U-Boats frozen in ice at Gotenhafen, Jan. 1942

 

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USSR:
Battleship Marat after losing her bow during an air-raid on Kronstadt, Sept 1941. Tug “Izhorets” alongside.

 

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USN:
USS Omaha (LCS-12) on the day of her commissioning on February 3rd 2018, in San Diego. USS Midway CV-41 in the background.

The guided missile cruiser en:USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) conducts an emergency breakaway exercise after completing an underway replenishment with the Military Sealift Command (MSC) oiler USNS Pecos (T-AO 197) and the aircraft carrier en:USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). Nov. 10, 2004 in the Pacific Ocean.

PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 13, 2007) - A RIM-7P NATO Sea Sparrow Missile launches from mount four aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during a stream raid shoot exercise. Lincoln's self-defense systems fired four Sea Sparrow missiles, engaging and destroying two BQM-74E turbojet-powered drone aircraft, and a High-Speed Maneuvering Surface Threat (HSMST) remote controlled Rigid Hulled Inflatable Boat (RHIB) during the event. Lincoln and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 are underway off the coast of Southern California conducting Tailored Ship's Training Availability (TSTA). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class M. Jeremie Yoder

USS Hurricane (PC-3) Cyclone-class coastal patrol ship in Hamillton Ontario, September 2012.

USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) & USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) docked in Seattle, June 2017. Polar Sea has been out of service since 2010, her sister ship Polar Star is still in service. The Healy is the US's largest and most technologically advanced icebreaker.