Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 08 May 2020 12:38
Looking down from the director tower on the Hipper class cruiser Prinz Eugan
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 10 May 2020 10:26
Ottoman Cruiser Hamidiye in Instanbul
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 11 May 2020 12:00
The unmistakable shape of the air warfare destroyer FNS Suffren (D-602), seen here underway in 1983
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 13 May 2020 22:57
Scharnhorst encountering heavy Atlantic seas during the winter of 1940/1941.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 15 May 2020 20:05
View of the forward flight deck of the Brazilian aircraft carrier Saõ Paulo (A-12), in 2003. Four McDonnell Douglas AF-1 (A-4) Skyhawk fighters and an Argentine navy Grumman S-2T Tracker are visible.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 15 May 2020 20:06
Type 42 Destroyer 'ARA Santísima Trinidad' of the Argentinian Navy shortly after she sank in Puerto Belgrano Naval Base due to lack of maintenance, January 2013.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 19 May 2020 18:07
HMS Danae was the lead ship of the D-class cruisers, serving with the Royal Navy between the world wars and with the Polish Navy during World War II as ORP Conrad.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 20 May 2020 15:00
Peruvian navy cruiser BAP Almirante Grau after modernization
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 23 May 2020 18:23
Almirante class destroyer Almirante Williams (DDG-19) of the Chilean Navy.
Ordered by the Chilean Navy from Vickers in the UK and commissioned in March 1960, Williams was armed with 4 x 4" dual-purpose guns mounted in single turrets.
Almirante Williams was decommissioned in 1995 & sunk as a target in 1998.
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Ordered by the Chilean Navy from Vickers in the UK and commissioned in March 1960, Williams was armed with 4 x 4" dual-purpose guns mounted in single turrets.
Almirante Williams was decommissioned in 1995 & sunk as a target in 1998.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 28 May 2020 20:09
HMS Loch Killisport and the guided missile cruiser USS Galveston at Hong Kong, 25 January 1964.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 28 May 2020 20:23
HMCS Haida off Korea
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 29 May 2020 19:29
MikeJames wrote:Almirante class destroyer Almirante Williams (DDG-19) of the Chilean Navy.
Ordered by the Chilean Navy from Vickers in the UK and commissioned in March 1960, Williams was armed with 4 x 4" dual-purpose guns mounted in single turrets.
Almirante Williams was decommissioned in 1995 & sunk as a target in 1998.
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An interesting ship, one off turrets and actually served wearing camouflage.
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 01 Jun 2020 20:51
HMCS Restigouche, River-class destroyer. May, 1942.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 02 Jun 2020 18:25
A shot of ships attending the Coronation Fleet Review at Spithead, an interesting game can be played trying to identify ship classes.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 05 Jun 2020 11:47
A Vosper 70ft torpedo boat, she was originally ordered for the Royal Hellenic Navy but was taken over by the RN. Commissioned in June 1941, she was lost in August 1942.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 05 Jun 2020 12:20
The Town class (Ex-USN flush deck) destroyer HMS Leamington cunningly disguised as an iceberg, the ship reached Halifax after a severe gale on 22 January 1943, coated with ice varying from 2 to 10 feet thick.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 05 Jun 2020 12:45
Fairey Swordfish I of 820 Squadron over HMS Ark Royal, 1939
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 05 Jun 2020 12:54
The Admiral Graf Spee seen in Montevideo Harbour with the battle scars from the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 05 Jun 2020 13:00
Forward view of HMS Kelvin from the crow's nest.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 12 Jun 2020 14:54
A colorized image of the IJN's aircraft carrier Shinano, undergoing sea trials in Tokyo Bay
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 25 Jun 2020 10:24
French battleship Richelieu at anchor during the 1950s
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 29 Jun 2020 17:00
HMNZS Gambia during her time with the British Pacific Fleet.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 29 Jun 2020 17:27
Providing a deployed base for US Navy PBR (Patrol Boat Riverine) and UH-1B light gunship helicopters, the former LST-786, now USS Garrett County, AGP (Patrol Craft Tender) 786.
Would make an interesting model.
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Would make an interesting model.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 29 Jun 2020 17:30
Seen from the flight deck of HMS Victorious, a Fairey Albacore takes off from HMS Indomitable, while HMS Eagle brings up the rear during Operation Pedestal
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 13 Jul 2020 12:58
HMCS Sackville
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 13 Jul 2020 16:51
USS Prinz Eugen (IX-300) in the Gatun locks, Panama, March 1946 on her way to Bikini Attol and her date with destiny.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 13 Jul 2020 17:01
One for Bruce!
A closeup of JDS Hiei, a helicopter destroyer of the JMSDF
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A closeup of JDS Hiei, a helicopter destroyer of the JMSDF
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 16 Jul 2020 08:50
The French training ship Jeanne d'Arc.
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 24 Jul 2020 17:58
USS Witek DD 848 showing her newly installed experimental pump-jet propulsion system at Boston Navy Yard Dec 1959
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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 24 Jul 2020 17:59
Kanin class Destroyer Gordyy between 1979 - 1982
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