Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
HMS Renown as seen from a Swordfish. Probably operating with Force H, April 1941

HMS Venturer arriving at Holy Loch soon after her commissioning. August 1943.

During Venturer's career she sank the submarines U-771 and U-864, the latter of which is noted as the only confirmed case of a submarine intentionally sinking another while both were submerged.

After the war she was sold to Norway as Utstein and later scrapped.

 

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USN:
USS Midway (CV-41) with HH-53's parked on the flight deck before Operation Frequent Wind, 1975

USS Michigan (SSBN-727) taken before June of 1982.

USS Enterprise (CVN-65) entering drydock No.4, Hunters Point, San Francisco, 28th Nov 1985

USS Michigan (SSBN-727) underway in the channel heading to Pearl Harbor, 1987.

 

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Russia:
Neustrashimy class frigate Yaroslav Mudry, 2014

 

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France:
Patrol boats (Y Cutters) of the Dinassaut 8 during a mission in the Bassac river, First Indochina War, August 1952

 

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RN:
18 July 1914. Mobilisation of the Grand Fleet. The fleet was then deployed to the fleet anchorage at Scapa Flow on the outbreak of the Great war.

 

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USN:
USS Yorktown under aircraft attack, 6/6/1942. Painting by John Hamilton, official NHHD painting 80-142-V.

 

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Battleships Indiana (BB-58), Massachusetts (BB-59) and Alabama (BB-60) form a line ahead during target practice as seen from the South Dakota (BB-57) during gunnery practise, 1945

 

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Italy:
Frigate Carabiniere (F 593) Carlo Bergamini-class, Apr 2021

 

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Italy:
Light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni, with her 152 mm (6-inch) turrets trained to starboard

An exercise torpedo being fired from the destroyer Espero. Year and location unknown

As an anedocte, I read in an Italian officer's memoirs that the paramount thing, after a torpedo exercise, was to recover all torpedoes fired, because if any were missing, it came off the captain's next paycheck (and they weren't exactly cheap).

After one exercise, all torpedoes fired were recovered, but one. The junior officer supervising that was worried, because he knew that his captain wouldn't be very happy about it, and it would turn the ship into a shitshow all the way back to port. So, in his usual booming voice, he told the bridge: "Commander, all torpedoes recovered!", and then added in a much lower voice, so as not to be heard: "Minus one." So he did his duty, and the captain was happy; at least until they got back home and he had to see his paycheck would be cut, but by that time the officer would be out of the line of fire.

 

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PLA(N):
Type 051C Luzhou class Guided Missile Destroyer. Aft detail

 

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RN:
HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH (R08) entering Portsmouth Harbour, UK in March 2020

 

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USN:
Almost completed battleship USS Utah (BB-31) (Background) and USS Arkansas (BB-33) (foreground) still under construction are seen after launching alongside the destroyer USS Ammen (DD-35) and the large civilian coastal liner Suwantee, circa 1912

 

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USN:
USS Wadleigh DD-689 during the Korean War. Later transferred to the Chilean navy and renamed as Almirante Cochrane (DD-14).

 

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Australia:
HMAS Sheean in Hobart 1st April 2021

HMAS Anzac & HMAS Sirius are participating in Exercise La Perouse, a French-led multilateral maritime exercise in the Bay of Bengal. April 5, 2021

 

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PLA(N):
April 3, 2021. Liaoning 16 entered the Pacific S of Okinawa 3 April at the centre of a 6-ship task group: Type 101 destroyer NANCHANG, Type 052D destroyers CHENGDU 120 & TAIYUAN 131, Type 054A frigate HUANGGANG 577 and Type 901 supply ship HULUNHU 965

 

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Russia:
RFS Admiral Kasatanov and support ships expected to pass through English Channel this evening

 

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RN:
April 7,1940. Lt Cdr Gerard Roope awarded VC for bravery during attack on the German cruiser Admiral Hipper by HMS Glowworm. In a last attempt the captain of Glowworm ordered the crew to ram the German ship, which broke the bow off Glowworm, and she sank shortly afterwards.

Hipper was forced to retire for repairs prompting its captain to contact the Royal Navy to tell of Roope’s bravery.

 

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France:
Battleship Jean Bart leading Richelieu, January 1956

Battleship Strasbourg prior to her scuttling in Nov 1942

 

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USN: Des Moines-class heavy cruiser USS Newport News (CA-148) 1949-75

USS New Jersey (BB-62) passing through Pearl Harbor channel escorted by large harbor tugs, 9 September 1968

 

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RN:
HMS Queen Elizabeth with an F-35 on deck

HMS Lancaster inbound into Portsmouth today, passing HMS Severn outbound