Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Imperial Germany:
A turret is lowered into the barbette of pre-dreadnought battleship SMS Kaiser Karl der Grosse during her construction at the Blohm & Voss shipyard

 

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Imperial japan:
Ibuki, the lead ship in the Ibuki class of armoured cruisers fires her guns, 1909.

 

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Germany:
KMS Gneisenau in the North Atlantic, 1941

Admiral Hipper, scuttled in her dry dock at Kiel, after being badly damaged while undergoing a refit there by Avro Lancasters of Nos 1 and 3 Groups on the night of 9/10 April 1945.

 

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USN:
Warships from Rear Admiral. A. S. Merrill's cruiser - destroyer force shelling Munda Airfield, New Georgia, from Blanche Channel, at 0300 hours. This attack was delivered in support of U.S. Land operations against the Japanese positions at Munda

Ships taking part were Task Force 36 cruisers USS Montpelier, Columbia, Cleveland and Denver (CruDiv12), and destroyers Farenholt, Buchanan, Gwin, Ralph Talbot, Maury, Pringle, Waller, Philip, Renshaw and Saufley.

USS Bogue (CVE-9) wearing Measure 32/4A camouflage scheme, somewhere in the Atlantic. An Avenger torpedo plane is in a landing pattern.

 

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USN:
USS Columbus (CG-12) on sea trials in 1962.

USS Enterprise (CVN-65) seen through the periscope of German Navy's Type 206 class SSK FGS U-24 (S-173) during war games. 2001

 

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Ireland:
Irish navy in the fog, LÉ Niamh in the foreground

 

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France:
SSN Suffren on its first day of sea trials (including first dive), April 28th 2020

 

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USSR:
Project 941 Akula (NATO: Typhoon)

 

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USN:
USS Iowa firing her main battery in the 1980s while working with NATO warships

USS Bronstein FF-1037, the USN's first modern ASW frigate, 1986

 

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RN:
HMS Queen Elizabeth conducts F-35B operations in company with HMS Dragon during WESTLANT19

 

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Italy & Nigeria:
Luigi Durand de la Penne (D 560) on exercise with OPV NNS Unity (F 92), Gulf of Guinea 28 August 2018

 

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Italy:
Submarine Balilla
The interwar Italian submarines (in which the Balilla-class was the first class of ocean-going submarines, being laid down in 1925) had as a prominent feature large superstructures, with tall support columns for its periscopes, as they were largely meant to operate and attack while submerged; also, the huge superstructures offered plenty of space for habitability, as showers and toilets were placed there.
German submariners, upon inspecting some of them in 1940, were reportedly shocked. As these superstructures contributed to the long diving times (120 seconds for the larger ocean-going submarines), they would be cut down into German-style ones during drydock times, in wartime.

 

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RN:
HMS Vanguard being broken up at Faslane, 1960

A Sea Hawk aircraft just catapulted from the flight deck of HMS Bulwark for a flight over Oslo, in a Royal Navy salute to Norway, May 1955

 

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RN:
HMS Comus alongside Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard, seen from south side of River Tyne, circa 1915

 

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UK:
The smallest boat to answer the call to evacuate British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a humble 4.2 m (14 foot) fishing boat named "Tamzine".

 

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RN:
HMS Ark Royal (R-09) entering New York in February 1972. WTC towers in the background are still under construction

 

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USN:
USS Turner Joy was a Forest Sherman-class destroyer that served in the US Navy from 1959 to 1982. She would see extensive service during the Vietnam War and now lies as a museum in Bremerton in Washington State.

USS John Adams (SSBN-620) alongside Fulton-class submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19). Nov 1973

USS Long Beach (CGN-9) underway off the coast of Southern California, 21 June 1989.

USS Olympia (SSN-717) swim call

10 May 2013, Virginia Block II class USS Minnesota (SSN-783) during trials.

 

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RN:
HMS Nelson in the Pedro Miguel locks, Panama Canal, circa 1930

 

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RAN:
Collins Class submarines HMAS Collins, HMAS Farncomb, HMAS Dechaineux and HMAS Sheean in formation while transiting through Cockburn Sound, Western Australia. 18th Feb 2019

HMAS Anzac FFH-150, date and location not available.

 

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USN:
USS Indiana, steaming with Task Force 58.1 on 27 January 1944, en route to attack Taroa Island airfield, Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands. Taken by a USS Enterprise (CV-6) photographer.

USS California (BB-44) bombarding Guam during the invasion operation, July 1944

USS Schroeder (DD-501) underway in the Pacific Ocean on Oct. 9, 1945

Cruiser USS Santa Fe (CL-60) coming alongside the badly damaged aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13) to pick up survivors and offer assistance. (Photo by US Navy