Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Australia:
HMAS Hobart, late 1960's - early 1970's

 

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Australia:
HMAS Queenborough, 1960's

HMAS Queenborough (G70/D270/F02/57) (originally HMS Queenborough (G70/D19)) was a Q-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
..Constructed during World War II as part of the War Emergency Programme, Queenborough was laid down in 1940 and launched in 1942, serving in the Arctic, Mediterranean, and Pacific theatres. After the war ended, the ship was transferred on loan to the RAN in exchange for an N-class destroyer, then given to Australia as a gift in 1950.
Queenborough (or Queen B) was converted to an anti-submarine frigate, and served with the RAN until 1966.

15 May 1968
The Attack class fast patrol boat HMAS ARCHER, (LEUT A. V. R. Horne, RAN), was commissioned. ARCHER was laid down at Walker's Yard, Maryborough, QLD, in July 1967, and launched on 2 December 1967.

 

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New Zealand:
HMNZS Te Kaha with a new paint job, dry dock at Devonport Naval Base, NZ

 

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USSR:
Light cruiser Mikhail Kutuzov in reserve, Sevastopol 1994

 

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PLA(N):
DDG-101 Nanchang underway

 

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Japan:
JDS Chōkai (DDG-176), comes along side USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) to receive fuel during a replenishment at sea. Dec 2002

 

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RN:
OPV HMS Tamar entering HMNB Portsmouth, May 2021

RFA Mounts Bay L3008 arriving at Rosyth late this morning 14/05/2021.

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USN:
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) departs Norfolk Naval Shipyard after 10-month maintenance, May 2021

USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) passes USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard

 

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USN:
Launching Day, USS America - by Geoff Hunt

The USS America was the first ship-of-the-line built for the Continental Navy, even though before her launch she was ceded to France as a gift.

Authorized (with two others) by the Continental Congress in 1776, she was laid down in May 1777 in a shipyard on the Piscataqua River in Kittery, Maine. Progress was slow, because of lack of seasoned timber; in 1781 Captain John Paul Jones was assigned as her commanding officer and worked hard to launch and get her ready for sea.

However, on 3 September 1782 Congress decided to gift the ship to Louis XVI of France, as replacement of the ship-of-the-line Magnifique (grounded while entering Boston harbour) and token of friendship and appreciation for French help in their struggle. Disappointed, Jones nevertheless managed to launch America on 5 November of the same year. After fitting out, she sailed under her French captain on 24 June 1783 and reached Brest on 16 July 1783.

Armed with 18-pounders, and thus with a weaker broadside than contemporary French vessels, the America's career would be nonetheless cut short by the inadequate timber used during her construction; in 1786 an examination found her damaged by dry rot beyond economical repair, and she was duly scrapped, replaced with a larger, French-built vessel of the same name.

 

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USN:
A long queue of aircraft taxiing to be loaded onto USS Yorktown (CV-5) at NAS North Island in June 1940.

 

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Canada:
Minotaur class light cruiser, HMCS Ontario arrival at Esquimalt Harbour 1945. Note an unidentified Tribal class destroyer ahead of her. Ontario is going astern to avoid an unsightly incident

 

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USN:
28 March 2001, Panama Canal locks. USS Iowa (BB-61) while being towed from Newport to Suisun Bay where she will join the Reserve fleet.

 

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Australia:
Leander class light cruiser HMAS Perth ex-HMS Amphion

 

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Imperial Germany:
Two sailors push a torpedo into the torpedo tube of a U-boat docked in Germany, Jan 1914

SMS Hindenburg being raised from Scapa Flow circa 1930

 

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New Zealand:
Crown Colony class cruiser HMNZS Gambia (48) with her crew manning the rails as the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Saratoga was leaving the Indian Ocean on 18 May 1944. The crew of the Saratoga is rendering honours in the foreground.

 

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Italy:
Battleship Littorio, 1939

 

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Imperial Russia:
28 May 1905, North-West of Maizuru, Japan. Former Russian battleship Oryol approaches Maizuru Naval Arsenal several hours after her surrender to the Imperial Japanese Navy in The Battle of Tsushima.

 

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USN:
The Continental Brigantine Andrew Doria under way with CAPT. Nicholas Biddle in command.

The Andrew Doria, formerly the merchant brig Defiance, was acquired in November 1775 and converted into a warship, named after the 16th century Genoese admiral and statesman Andrea Doria.

She participated in the Battle of Nassau on 3-4 March 1776, and on 16 November of the same year, as she sailed into the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius, saluted the fort with a 13-gun salute, receiving a reply; it was the first instance of the American flag being saluted by a foreign power, and it was widely reported at the time.

She was burned in the Delaware River in 1777, to prevent her from being captured by British forces.

 

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USN:
Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Topeka undergoing inclining experiment at New York Naval Shipyard, 9 April 1960

 

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USN:
EAST CHINA SEA (April 20, 2020) Avenger-class mine countermeasure ship USS Chief (MCM-14) transits the East China Sea in front of Mt. Iodake. Chief, part of Mine Countermeasures Squadron 7, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response platform for contingency operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Information Systems Technician 2nd Class James Greeves)