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Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 17 Mar 2019 20:24
by MikeJames
USS Long Beach CGN-9
For Bruce
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 17 Mar 2019 20:30
by MikeJames
And another, this one is for Mark.
USS Hazelwood (DD-531), a modified Fletcher-class destroyer and the Navy’s first anti-submarine helicopter destroyer, steams off the Atlantic coast near Newport, Rhode Island. 1959
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 17 Mar 2019 23:57
by MichaelB
Something different, a Royal Fleet Auxiliary refuelling a USN battleship.
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 18 Mar 2019 12:35
by MichaelB
good close up of Fife and her accompanying frigates while replenishing from RFA Tidespring
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 18 Mar 2019 12:53
by MikeJames
French light cruiser Emile Bertin moving at high speed, national ensign at the fore and main battery trained out to port, circa 1938.
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 20 Mar 2019 09:20
by MikeJames
German Imperial Navy battlecruiser SMS Moltke at high speed.
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 21 Mar 2019 12:24
by MikeJames
New Jersey battle group, WESTPAC, 1986. Ships clockwise from bottom of picture:
USS Long Beach, USS Merrill, HMAS Swan, HMAS Stuart, HMAS Parramatta, USNS Passumpsic, USS Wabash, HMAS Derwent, USS Kirk, USS Thatch, HMAS Hobart and USS New Jersey.
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 22 Mar 2019 13:38
by MikeJames
The Italian heavy cruiser “Zara” taken pre-war during a naval review in front of 'Il Duce', Mussolini.
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 22 Mar 2019 15:30
by littoralcombat
Nice colourized image Mike.....unusual. She certainly has the Revs on!
Nige
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 23 Mar 2019 07:43
by MikeJames
The old HMS Tamar - the British naval base in Hong Kong.
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 24 Mar 2019 09:55
by MikeJames
Japanese Fubuki-class destroyers (“Sagiri”, “Amagiri” and “Asagiri”) during naval exercises before the start of military operations against the Allies in the Pacific.
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 25 Mar 2019 20:58
by MikeJames
Eugenio di Savoia, Italian WW2 era Condottieri-class light cruiser, one of four warships named after Prince Eugene
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 26 Mar 2019 18:14
by MikeJames
USS Idaho (BB-42) bombarding Okinawa at point-blank range, April 1 1945
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 27 Mar 2019 20:03
by MikeJames
Graf Spee in the English Channel, April 1939
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 29 Mar 2019 20:03
by MikeJames
Royal Navy destroyers pack into Sliema Creek in Malta in 1956
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 30 Mar 2019 21:02
by MikeJames
Mogami class heavy cruiser Suzuya during trials of Tateyama, in the first half of November 1935
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 31 Mar 2019 17:32
by MikeJames
A Fairey Albacore circles as it prepares to land on the flight deck of HMS Eagle with HMS Malaya in the background.
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 01 Apr 2019 22:20
by MikeJames
French light cruiser Émile Bertin
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 04 Apr 2019 18:22
by MikeJames
HMS Warspite during the Spanish Civil War (1937).
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 05 Apr 2019 22:24
by MikeJames
Colorised image of Flower-class corvette HMCS Amherst (K 148). She served primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic on convoy protection duty during WWII.
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 06 Apr 2019 17:15
by MikeJames
Battleships HMS Nelson, Rodney and "the Mighty" Hood
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 07 Apr 2019 16:39
by MikeJames
USS Alaska (CB-1) and USS Missouri (BB-63) moored at the same pier circa 1944.
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 11 Apr 2019 18:59
by MikeJames
HMS Hood, at the Panama Canal Zone in July 1924
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 12 Apr 2019 09:36
by MichaelB
Ramilles in Wellington Jan 1940 prior to escorting a convoy with the first NZ troops heading oversea in WW2.
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 12 Apr 2019 20:44
by MikeJames
Task Force 38, the legendary Fast Carrier Task Forces, manouvering in very close formation for the camera off Tokyo Bay two days after the Japanese surrrender.
The aircraft carrier in lower right is USS Wasp (CV-18). Also present in the formation are five other Essex class carriers, four light carriers, at least three battleships, plus numerous cruisers and destroyers.
You can see the original, much larger image, at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Task_Force_38_off_the_coast_of_Japan_1945.jpg
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 13 Apr 2019 14:26
by MikeJames
2nd Destroyer Squadron, 1959: HMS Delight (D119), HMS Dainty (D108), HMS Daring (D05) and HMS Defender (D114)
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 13 Apr 2019 15:22
by MichaelB
HMS Leander picking up her Walrus pre WW2
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 15 Apr 2019 14:15
by MikeJames
One of the only pictures of Blücher being sunk at Oscarsborg festning on Norway, in the battle of Drøbak Sound, 9 April 1940
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 17 Apr 2019 18:42
by MikeJames
USS Prinz Eugen at anchor, June 14, 1946. She’s waiting to get nuked.
Mike
Re: Historic Naval Images
Posted: 18 Apr 2019 08:19
by MikeJames
HMS Vanguard in the Med post-war, the RNs last battleship.
Mike
