Historic Naval Images

[MikeJames]

Hi guys, I know I run the 'Shot of the Day' and 'The Old RAN' image feeds, but this thread is for images of older warships of any navy.

There are some great shots out there.

The German light cruiser Emden in Honolulu, February 1936.



Mike

[MikeJames]

Flagship of the British Pacific Fleet, HMS Duke of York. Pictured at Woolloomooloo Wharf, Australia, 23 November 1945



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[MichaelB]

KGV herself probably Melbourne

[MikeJames]

Annapolis-class destroyer escort HMCS Annapolis with Gearing-class destroyer USS William C. Lawe, 1982.



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[MikeJames]

Italian destroyer Antoniotto Usodimare in the 1920's at Taranto. The Andrea Doria or Caio Duilio is in the background.



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[MichaelB]

Chilean destroyers, Almirante Riveros and unidentified County Class

[MikeJames]

HMS Cleopatra and HMS Devonshire, taken from HMS Swiftsure, 1952.



Mike

[fastone045]

Here are some interesting coloured photos.

Craig

[MikeJames]

The heavy cruiser (battle cruiser really) USS Alaska (CB-1) sporting Measure 32 camouflage in August, 1944



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[MikeJames]

The 'Evil I", USS Intrepid, underway in the Pacific in 1944.



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[MikeJames]

IJN Nagato with seaplane on top of turret #2. July 1927



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[MikeJames]

Three generations of RN frigates at the Portsmouth Navy Day, August 1980: Type 12 HMS Torquay, Type 81 HMS Tartar, Type 21 HMS Active.



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[MikeJames]

A Sea Harrier takes off from the ski-jump while various ordinance and handling gear, helicopters and vehicles crowd the flight deck of HMS Hermes during the Falklands War.



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[MikeJames]

An Iroquois-class destroyer, a Mackenzie-class destroyer and a Protecteur-class supply ship make a five-day patrol of Canada's North Atlantic fisheries zone in 1975.



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[MikeJames]

USS Cimarron refuels USS Robin (HMS Victorious) on July 12, 1943 during her deployment as a member of the US Pacific fleet.



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[MikeJames]

Battleships of the US Pacific Fleet complete a formation turn and train their batteries on target during exercises in the mid-1930s.



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[MikeJames]

HMS Blake, helicopter cruiser of the Royal Navy



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[SlatsSSN]

Conks comes home..

Conqueror's return to Faslane Holy Loch in 1982.. Click the image for full size

The thing I really like about this from a modelling perspective is how much reserve buoyancy is on show above the water line. Compare this to a US nuke that has typically about 9-11% reserve buoyancy where the WL is about halfway up the casing again.

[SlatsSSN]

Here's HMS Valliant in 1986 - the Valliant boats are almost completely externally identical to the Churchill class (to which Conqueror belongs) that succeeded them. The Churchills class is also known as "Improved Valliants"

[MichaelB]

HMS Blake, helicopter cruiser of the Royal Navy



Mike

Lion and Superb showing how nice Blake looked before it was butchered.

[MikeJames]

Ex-USS Independence (CV-62), Kitty Hawk (CV-63), Constellation (CV-64), and Ranger (CV-61) mothballed in Bremerton, WA



Mike

[SlatsSSN]

HMS Blake .. quite the workhorse ... Harrier's practised vertical take-off and landings on her too.

[SlatsSSN]

Blake with Harrier aboard ... photo from IWM..

[MikeJames]

Blyskawica (Lightning), a Grom class WWII destroyer, now a museum ship in Gdynia, Poland



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[MikeJames]

1940, Italian battleship Andrea Doria after a significant reconstruction in the 1937-40 period.



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[fastone045]

A range of Japanese ships from WWII

IJNS Takao was the lead vessel in the Takao-class heavy cruisers, active in World War II with the Imperial Japanese Navy

IJNS Maya was also a member of the Takao Class

I-402, was one of three completed Sen Toku I-400 class submarine aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy

I-38 was a Japanese Type B1 submarine in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

IJNS Atago was a another member of the Takao Class

The Sen Toku-class I-401 was once the largest submarine in the world. Capable of carrying three two-seat Aichi M6A1 "Seiran" (Mountain Haze) float torpedo bombers

IJNS Atago

[MikeJames]

The battle cruiser HMS Hood passing by an improvement project on the Panama Canal, 1923.



Mike

[MikeJames]

Imperial Russian Navy armoured cruiser Gromoboi during her 1901 visit to Australia.



Mike

[MichaelB]

A nice aerial shot of Musketeer in 1944

[MikeJames]

HMS Warspite, hard aground on rocks after refusing to go quietly to the breakers, this battle-scarred veteran of two world wars went on her own terms, running aground under tow in 1947 on rocks near Prussia Cove, Cornwall, and was eventually broken up nearby.



Mike