Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
HMS Diamond in the Med 2016

HMS Dragon approaching New York City, November 2019

May, 2015, HMS Vigilant returning to HMNB Clyde after her extended deployment, escorted home by HMS Tracker, taken by CPOA(Phot) Thomas McDonald, winner of the Peregrine trophy, the Royal Navy’s annual photographic competition

 

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Imperial Germany:
U-155, converted from the merchant sub (blockade runner) Deutschland, raided allied ships in 1917-1918

 

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RN:
Pre-Dreadnought HMS Lord Nelson looking toward the main battery and bridge.

 

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USN:
USS Juneau (CL-52) off New York City, 1 June 1942, with a Lee and Simmons company barge alongside. Note differing camouflage schemes applied to hull and superstructure.

Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer USS Waldron (DD-699) underway on July 13 1944, during her shakedown period

USS Benson (DD-421) underway at sea, circa 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 3D

USS Moffett (DD-362)

 

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Finland:
Minelayer Ruotsiinsalmi, named after the 1790 battle, which served during WW2 and until 1975.

 

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RN:
HMS Swift sinking off Sword Beach, June 24, 1944 after striking a mine.
HMS Swift was an S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. The ship belonged to the January 1941 order of the Royal Navy from the War Emergency program. The destroyer was launched from the shipyard J. Samuel White in Cowes on 15 June 1943 and was put into service on 12 December 1943.

In early 1944 Swift saw service escorting Arctic Convoys to and from the Kola Inlet. The ship participated in the Normandy landings providing fire support. She was sunk off Sword Beach by mine on 24 June 1944 with 53 casualties.

HMS Illustrious departing Devonport

HMS's Courageous, Glorious and Furious, in the Grand Harbour, Malta, c. 1929-1931

 

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USN:
Three gun salvo from Turret Three of USS Saint Paul (CA-73) while bombarding at Inchon, Korea, circa 21-31 January 1951.

USS St. Paul (CA-73) fires at the Cong Phu railroad yard as it is bracketed by North Vietnamese shells in this August 1967 photo

USS Beale (DD-471). Crewmembers use a fire hose to cool the barrel of the ship's forward 5/38 gun. Possibly taken during Beale's mid-1966 naval gunfire support operations off Vietnam. USN photo.

 

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Italy:
Destroyer Francesco Stocco in July 1918, after suffering light damage in a brief night engagement with Austro-Hungarian destroyers and torpedo-boats.

The Sirtori-class destroyer Francesco Stocco was part of a force (five coastal and two large torpedo-boats, supported by seven destroyers) that, in the night between 1 and 2 July 1918, operated in the Piave delta region, bombarding enemy positions and pretending to undertake a landing to take the enemy's attention away from the simultaneous land operations.

At around 0310 h, the Italian units met with an Austro-Hungarian force, including the destroyers SMS Balaton and SMS Csikòs and the torpedo-boats TB 83F and TB 88F, sortied from Pola to support an aerial attack against Venice, and that had evaded a MAS attack (that had launched a torpedo against Balaton and had missed). In the brief engagement, both sides launched torpedoes with no success (the Stocco evaded two), while the Italian destroyer and both Austro-Hungarian ones suffered damage from gunfire, before both sides disengaged, the Italians to return to their coastal operations, the Austro-Hungarians to return to base.

 

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Egypt:
Gowind corvette "El Fateh"

 

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Russia:
Ships of the Pacific Fleet, which were withdrawn from the Russian Navy. Early 2000s

Project 667BDRM Delfin/Delta IV SSBN Bryansk (K-117) breaking through polar ice.

Project 955/Borey-I class SSBN lead boat Yury Dolgorukiy (K-535) in Murmansk, 26/02/2019. Photo by Andrey Stavanov.

Project 22160 patrol ship, the Pavel Derzhavin, being towed to Novorossiysk for factory tests. It was laid down at Zelenodolsky Shipyard but completed at the Zaliv shipyard in Crimea

 

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RAN:
HMAS Melbourne (FFG 05) with her 8-cell Mark 41 VLS tubes and Mark 13 Missile Launcher sailing in the Pacific towards Rimpac 2018.

HMAS ADELAIDE L01 operating with RAN MH-60R helicopters off the Queensland coast, March 2020

 

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RN:
HMS Jamaica refueling at sea, Sept., 1944

HMS Duke of York as seen from the top of a crane. 3 of her pom pom mounts are visible

HMS Vanguard taken whilst the ship was fitting out for the Royal Cruise, and before the hull had been painted, Jan. 1947

RFA Petronel, a Pet-class "Water and Spirits Carrier" which supplied the Royal Navy's Atlantic Fleet. Three Pet-class tankers were built, two were used as "spirits carriers" and Petronel, the third, was a pure water tanker.
Delivering water at Scapa. GRT 475. Built Port Glasgow. Spent most of her life as a water boat for the Atlantic Fleet. Sold 1945, renamed PASS OF GLENCOE, ATHELGLEN, MOLAGLEN. 1958 Broken up at Demerera River, British Guiana.

HMS Belfast's turrets covered with ice

 

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Italy:
Aboard an Italian cruiser, 9 July 1940; on the forecastle, the white lime identification paint can be seen, later replaced by permanent red-and-white diagonal stripes

A single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tube mount on an Italian torpedo-boat, summer 1941

Submarine Reginaldo Giuliano moored at Gotenhafen (Gdynia) in October 1941; she was serving as training boat for Italian commanders and crews at the 27th U-Boot Flotilla

 

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USN & USCG:
USCGC Stratton with USS McCampbell during Talisman Sabre 2019

 

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Russia & USN:
Admiral Tributs Project 1155, NATO Udaloy I class, and the American tanker USNS Pekos in the Persian Gulf, 1992-1993.

 

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USN:
Morning Prayer Circle Before Flight Ops, USS George Washington, September 11, 2003 moments before tragedy struck. GW was performing routine flight quals off the Virginia coast. An arresting cable broke sending a Hornet over the side. The pilot punched out and was pulled out of the drink. He was okay, but a dozen guys were injured, some severely. They were all airlifted off the GW. Incredibly, no one was killed.

 

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PLA(N):
A Type 054A frigate and a Type 818 Cutter, both ships are built on the 054's hull. 2017

 

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USN:
USS Lea (DD-118) in San Diego Harbor, California, April 17, 1933.

 

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JMSDF:
JMSDF Nagatuski (DD-167) passing in review during the International Naval Review celebrating the centennial of the Statue of Liberty, July 1986.

JDS Kirishima in Takamatsu

 

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Vietnam & Russia:
Gepard class frigate 487 built for the Vietnamese navy moored alongside light cruiser museum ship Mikhail Kutuzov, October 2017