Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USSR:
Destroyer Tashkent being launched at the Odero-Terni-Orlando shipyard of Leghorn, Italy, 28 December 1937

 

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The battleship "Petropavlovsk", 1910-1953. (From 1921 to 1943, the battleship bore the name "Marat"). Member of the First World War and World War II. Active participant in the defense of Leningrad (USSR)

It was a sturdy ship with a heroic crew. September 3, 1941 a bomb hit the powder warehouse of tower number 1 and destroyed the entire front of the ship. Killed about 300 people from the crew. The rest continued to repel the attacks of enemy aircraft. Despite serious damage to the ship, gun turrets No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 were ready for battle, and until the end of the blockade of Leningrad, the ship continued to shell German positions.
The ship actually turned into a floating battery. After the war, the battleship was partially restored and until 1953 served as a training ship.

Colour: Alex Wolf Alex Colors Studio

 

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The battleship USS Pennsylvania Number BB-38 photographed from port anchored on December 13, 1916. Spectacular the two triple forward turrets with 360 mm guns. In total the ship was armed with twelve 360 mm guns distributed in four triple turrets two forward and two aft. Their secondary artillery was made up of 127 mm guns.

 

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19 century round ships of admiral Popov.

 

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RN:
HMS Sheffield - Off Merrydown Town - 1st Shakedown 1976.

 

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USN:
NEW YORK (April 30, 2020)
The hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departs New York Harbor after treating patients in New York and New Jersey. The ship and its embarked medical task force remain prepared for future tasking. The Navy, along with other U.S. Northern Command dedicated forces, remains engaged throughout the nation in support of the broader COVID-19 response. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Brendan Fitzgerald (Released) 200430-N-MX527-1228

 

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France:
Triomphant-class strategic nuclear submarine Le Terrible (S619)

 

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France:
The Liberté, of 14630- tons and 430-feet length, was one of the four ships of the class to which she gave her name and which were the last pre-dreadnoughts to serve in the French Navy. Liberté was obsolete at time of her launch and she entered service in 1908, a year after Britain’s HMS Dreadnought had changed the battleship paradigm. Her four 12-inch cannon represented a puny armament when compared with the Dreadnought’s ten. Liberté did however also mount ten 7.6-inch weapons, six in single turrets and four in casemates.

Liberté was moored in the harbour in Toulon on 25th September 1911 when an explosion erupted in one of the forward magazines of the 7.6-inch guns. The situation was serious, but not yet fatal, and the commander, Captain Louis Jaurès, sent a party forward to flood the magazines to prevent an explosion in the main magazines. A major design fault was now manifested, for the flooding valves were located beneath the magazines. Two heroic attempts were made to reach the valves but were beaten back by fire and smoke. A third attempt was in progress when the main magazine exploded, tearing the ship apart.

The violence of the detonation was sufficient for the pre-dreadnought République, moored over 200 yards away, to be damaged seriously when a 40-ton section of Liberté’s armoured plate was thrown against her side. The death-toll was some 250 and state funerals for these victims were attended by the president. A relief fund for the bereaved families received massive support across the nation.

The subsequent inquiry ended up concluding that the propellant used by the Marine Nationale, the Poudre B, could be dangerously unstable and was likely the culprit for the loss of the ship. Of its crew (part of which, luckily, was out on leave) 286 officers and men died and a further 188 were wounded; more servicemen died on nearby ships, struck by splinters.

 

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USN:
USS Mendota on the James River, Virginia, c. 1864

USS Olympia 1901

USS Florida in New York, c. 1912 (main deck hidden by smoke from the tug alongside)

USS Breck (DD-283) at Toulon, France, 1927

USS Langley off Cristóbal, Panama Canal Zone, 1930

 

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Italy:
Vittorio Veneto forward guns are preparing to open fire on the British cruisers near the island of Gavdos, Battle of Cape Matapan, March 28, 1941.

Battleship Duilio passing through the Canale Navigabile of Taranto

Battleship Giulio Cesare, likely in the early 1920s

 

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RN:
HMS Cornwall Visiting Hawaii, 31 August 1928

HMS Duke of York, in the Firth of Forth, 24th October 1941, preparing for sea trials

HMS Duke of York at Alcântara pier, Lisboa, Portugal

HMS Duke of York

Y turret and the aft superstructure of battleship HMS Prince of Wales, April 1941

 

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USN:
Tanker War - USS Chandler rescuing the crew from the Cypriot-flagged oil tanker Pivot after it was attacked and set ablaze by RPGs fired from Iranian Boghammar speedboats, 12 Dec. 1987

August 1st, 1987. A port bow view of the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS LONG BEACH (CGN-9) as the ship enters port.
Location: NAVAL STATION, SUBIC BAY, LUZON PHILIPPINES (PHL)

PEARL HARBOR (Feb. 7, 2009) The Pearl Harbor-based guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal (CG-73) takes a starboard list as the USNS Salvor (T-ARS-52) tries to free the ship after it ran aground Feb. 5 about a half-mile south of the Honolulu airport while off-loading personnel into a small boat. The salvage ship USNS Salvor (T-ARS-52), which included an embarked detachment of Mobile Diving Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1 personnel, the Motor Vessel Dove, and seven Navy and commercial tugboats freed Port Royal off a shoal on Feb. 9. (U.S. Navy photo)

USS San Jacinto (CG-56) in New York Harbor, May 30, 2017

Watson-class, USNS Leroy Grumman in Boston, August 2011

 

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USN & Italy:
USS Gonzalez (D66) and ITS Alpino (F594)

USN & Russia:
The view of the USS George Washington (CVN-73) from a Russian Pacific Fleet Il-38 maritime patrol aircraft.

 

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Haiti:
Gunboat 'Crête-à-Pierrot' sinking after her encounter with the German gunboat 'SMS Panther' in the port of Gonaives, 6 September 1902

In 1902 Haiti was enveloped in a civil war over who would become president after the sudden resignation of Tirésias Simon Sam. Crête-à-Pierrot was controlled by Admiral Hammerton Killick and supporters of Anténor Firmin and was used to blockade ports where Pierre Nord Alexis was gathering troops. There was a plan to use Crête-à-Pierrot to transport Firmin to Port-au-Prince while Jean Jumeau marched on Port-au-Prince by land.

In September 1902, Crête-à-Pierrot seized a German ammunition ship, Markomannia en route to provide ammunition to Alexis' forces. Alexis asked Germany for help subduing a pirate ship. In response, Germany sent the gunboat SMS Panther to find and capture Crête-à-Pierrot.

On 6 September, Crête-à-Pierrot was in port at Gonaïves, with Killick and most of the crew on Shore leave when Panther appeared. Killick rushed aboard and ordered his crew to abandon ship. When all but four crew members had evacuated the ship Killick, inspired by the tale of Captain LaPorte, wrapped himself in a Haitian flag, fired the aft magazine, and blew up the ship rather than let the Germans take her. Killick and the remaining four crew members went down with the ship.

An hour later, Panther fired thirty shots at Crête-à-Pierrot to finish it off, then sailed away. The ship's rifles and machine guns were salvaged, along with the bodies of the crew that remained on board.

 

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Netherlands:
HNLMS Van Kinsbergen during WW2.

 

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JMSDF:
JS Asuka (ASE-6102) is a test ship of the JMSDF; commissioned in 1995.

 

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Russia:
Prokect 58 Kynda CG off the coast of Kamchatka, 1990.

 

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RCN:
Able Seaman Allen, 1943 with 2pdr pom-pom ammunition
HMCS Truro (pennant J268) was a Bangor-class minesweeper that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. The minesweeper entered service in 1942 and took part in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Battle of the St. Lawrence.

 

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USN:
USS Solar post detonation of forward magazine
On 30 April 1946, Solar was berthed at Leonardo Pier I of the Naval Ammunition Depot Earle, New Jersey, to discharge ammunition. The operation went smoothly until, shortly after 11:30, one of the crewmen dropped a hedgehog charge. ("The United Press quoted witnesses as saying a shell being passed by Seaman Joseph Stuckinski of Baltimore from the ship to a truck on the pier exploded in his arms and set off the blasts. Stuckinski was not injured.") He was able to escape with relatively minor injuries, but three ensuing explosions blasted the ship near her number 2 upper handling rooms. Her number 2 gun was demolished and the bridge, main battery director, and mast were all blown aft and to starboard. Both sides of the ship were torn open, and her deck was a mass of flames. The order to abandon ship came after the second explosion and was carried out expeditiously. Nevertheless, the tragedy claimed the lives of seven sailors and injured 125 others.

Salvage work on Solar was begun by 15:00, and her wrecked superstructure was cut off to prevent her from capsizing. She was moved to New York, where she decommissioned on 21 May 1946. Solar was then stripped of all usable equipment, towed 100 nmi (200 km) to sea, and sunk on 9 June 1946, in 700 fathoms (1,300 m) of water. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 5 June 1946.

This page has a few contemporary New York Timesreports with a little more detail.

No one seemed certain tonight what had caused the explosion, but what seemed like a possible explanation came from Jack Horne, fireman second class, of Charlotte, N.C. He thought a piece of ammunition carried by Joe Stuchinski, seaman, of Baltimore might have done it. “Ski,” the fireman said, “was carrying a ‘hedgehog’ from the forward magazine. While he was holding it, it just went off. He must have bumped it against something, because those things go off when anything touches them.”

Seaman Stuchinski oddly was not seriously injured. He was deafened, a few minor scratches showed on his chest when he got to the first-aid station and his dungarees were split. “It went off. The thing just went off,” he said.

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Some insight into the series of events leading up to the first explosion was given by the members of a five-man ammunition team, which was passing up hedgehogs, or anti-submarine missiles, from below the decks to topside

“I was passing this equipment,” Stuchinski said, “when it suddenly exploded. I saw a guy blown to pieces and I don’t remember how I got out, but I got out.”

 

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Australia:
ABFC Cape York and an Pacific Islands Guardian Class at Henderson, W.A.