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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 17 Nov 2019 12:20
by MikeJames
Lovely clear shot of the Flower-class corvette HMCS Rosthern. She served primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She is named for Rosthern, Saskatchewan.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 20 Nov 2019 08:22
by MikeJames
Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser Blücher on sea trials. She had a very short wartime career, being lost to shore batteries during the invasion of Norway in 1940.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 22 Nov 2019 08:43
by MikeJames
Restigouche-class destroyer escorts HMCS Restigouche in foreground with HMCS Kootenay
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 22 Nov 2019 09:02
by MikeJames
German Navy Panzerschff (armoured ship), popularly known as pocket battleships, in this case Admiral Scheer at sea in the Baltic.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 26 Nov 2019 14:00
by MikeJames
British destroyer flotilla forming line ahead, lead by HMS Fury (H76) at Scapa Flow during destroyer manoeuvres during World War II.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 28 Nov 2019 08:51
by MikeJames
French destroyer Mogador, leadship of her class of extremely fast destroyers, capable of reaching over 43 knots
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 30 Nov 2019 06:35
by MikeJames
HMS Gay Archer
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:26
by MikeJames
HMS Devonshire with her Supermarine Walrus aircraft landing on the water next to her. In the background is HMS Malaya. Taken from HMS Adamant, Freetown, 14 April 1942.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:27
by MikeJames
Flower-class corvette HMCS Kitchener braves Atlantic swells, unknown date.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:43
by MikeJames
Colossus-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Netherlands Navy, HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81).
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 14 Dec 2019 12:45
by MikeJames
Queen Elizabeth-class dreadnoughts HMS Valiant, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Barham. The differences between the modernised Valiant and QE on one hand and Barham on the other are obvious, and probably led to her loss.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 15 Dec 2019 09:35
by MikeJames
Admiral Graf Spee enters the neutral port of Montevideo, Uruguay, following the Battle of the River Plate, first major naval engagement of WWII.
Surprised no one has built one in 1:72 given the whole Pocket Battleship story.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 15 Dec 2019 09:38
by MikeJames
French aircraft carrier Arromanches in the Gulf of Tonkin, mid 1950's
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 15 Dec 2019 14:52
by BsHvyCgn9
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 17 Dec 2019 23:42
by MikeJames
Type 22 frigate HMS Broadsword (F88) alongside HMS Belfast with HMY Britannia moored in the stream
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 19 Dec 2019 14:20
by MikeJames
Panzerschiff "Admiral Graf Spee" off Spithead, 1937. Ship in the background is Deutschland.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 19 Dec 2019 14:35
by MikeJames
The first escort carrier, HMS Audacity, underway in coastal waters, 1941.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 22 Dec 2019 15:09
by MikeJames
HMS Naiad shadowing a Soviet Kiev class carrier during the Cold War
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 24 Dec 2019 21:15
by MichaelB
HMS Effingham in 1932 as flagship of the Far Eastern Squadron wearing the China Station scheme of white hull with light grey upperworks and funnels.
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 06 Jan 2020 12:04
by MikeJames
SS Spruance (DD 963) manoeuvring in the Med. 2002
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 07 Jan 2020 12:01
by MikeJames
HMS Illustrious steams past HMS Hermes as the official hand over of duties from the veteran to the new kid on the block, 20 July 1982.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 07 Jan 2020 12:20
by MikeJames
Italian Battleships Vittorio Veneto and Giulio Cesare during the Battle of Cape Spartivento, I
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 08 Jan 2020 12:12
by MikeJames
Japanese aircraft carrier Taihō on sea trials, she would be sunk only 4 months after being commissioned.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 08 Jan 2020 13:09
by MichaelB
Two ships during the raid on Taranto aka Pearl harbour Mk 1.
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 09 Jan 2020 12:44
by MikeJames
The 16 inch guns of HMS Rodney
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 13 Jan 2020 11:55
by MikeJames
HMCS Ontario at dock, 20 May 1948.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 14 Jan 2020 13:32
by MikeJames
Russian battleship Oslyabya leaving Bizerte, 9 January 1904
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 14 Jan 2020 13:36
by MikeJames
HMNZS Leander underway on the Brisbane River. Photographed taken from the auxiliary cruiser HMAS Kanimbla, 1941.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 16 Jan 2020 08:32
by MikeJames
Swedish Göteborg-class destroyer camouflaged during WW2.
Colourised image
B&W
This might help
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 18 Jan 2020 11:19
by MikeJames
Royal Navy's torpedo ram HMS Polyphemus (1881) in a drydock. There's a torpedo tube in the centre of the ram.
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