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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 27 Sep 2019 21:21
by MikeJames
The Type II Hunt class escort destroyer HMS Calpe alongside battlecruiser HMS Renown. In the background, the battleship HMS Rodney.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 30 Sep 2019 11:04
by MikeJames
For the first time, a Seaslug missile roars away from HMS Devonshire's twin launcher. At this early stage of firing, the boosts can be seen still attached to the weapon, May 1962.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 02 Oct 2019 07:13
by MikeJames
Commencement Bay-class escort carrier USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116) sails toward Korea with Marine F4U Corsairs onboard to support combat operations July 14, 1950.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 04 Oct 2019 12:57
by MikeJames
Battle class destroyer HMS Agincourt after her conversion to a radar picket, July 1962.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 05 Oct 2019 15:08
by MikeJames
Turkish flagship Yavuz with side manned as HMS Ajax passes during a port visit, Sept 1945

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 10 Oct 2019 14:01
by MikeJames
HMS Furious (right) with either HMS Glorious or HMS Courageous off Gibraltar, interwar period.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 13 Oct 2019 10:16
by MikeJames
Italian Condottieri class light cruiser Armando Diaz in a pre-war image

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 13 Oct 2019 10:39
by MikeJames
USS Bainbridge CGN-25, definitely a pre-stealth design

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 13 Oct 2019 10:47
by MikeJames
USS Albany (CG-10) underway during trials in October 1962, how to turn a warship into an abomination

As it was built

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As re-built

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 15 Oct 2019 13:31
by MikeJames
USS Canberra (CAG-2), 9 Jan 1961

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 19 Oct 2019 10:37
by MikeJames
Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate USS Halyburton (FFG-40), Souda Bay, 12 March 2009

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 20 Oct 2019 09:43
by MikeJames
HMS Squirrel strikes a mine, 1945.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 22 Oct 2019 14:00
by MikeJames
Unfinished WW2 Italian Navy carrier Aquila.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 23 Oct 2019 15:16
by MikeJames
Van Speijk-class frigate HNLMS Evertsen and Leander-class frigate HMS Ariadne, Amsterdam, 26 May 1979

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 23 Oct 2019 19:06
by MichaelB
INS Delhi in colour. A classic cruiser

Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 24 Oct 2019 19:59
by MikeJames
Jeanne D'Arc (r97), French helicopter cruiser/training ship.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 26 Oct 2019 12:56
by MikeJames
Six Imperial Japanese Navy carriers conducting the dawn fly-off of the attack force bound for Pearl Harbor,7 December 1941.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 29 Oct 2019 09:47
by MikeJames
Friesland class HNLMS Overijssel (D815) at sea

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 29 Oct 2019 19:05
by MikeJames
Crewmen on USS Birmingham (CL-62) play fire hoses on the burning USS Princeton (CVL-23), as their ship comes alongside to assist in damage control measures, 24 October 1944. An onboard explosion aboard Princeton sprayed shrapnel across Birmingham's topsides, 239 men died, 408 were wounded, and the bodies of four were never recovered. With Princeton's fires unable to be controlled, she was evacuated and left to sink.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 30 Oct 2019 07:56
by MikeJames
HMS Ajax seen departing Malta. The other three King George V-class battleships (King George V, Centurion and Audacious) can be seen in the background.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 30 Oct 2019 08:15
by MikeJames
USS Langley (CV-1) in the Panama Canal, 1924

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 05 Nov 2019 13:09
by MikeJames
USS Charles F. Adams firing an "ASROC" anti-submarine missile Nov 18, 1960

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 06 Nov 2019 10:38
by MikeJames
R07 Ark Royal

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 08 Nov 2019 08:50
by MikeJames
USS Chicago aerial view after conversion into Guided Missile Cruiser CG 11 (1964 - 1976).

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 08 Nov 2019 09:00
by MikeJames
French Duquesne-class heavy cruiser Tourville pictured pre-war with a float plane.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 11 Nov 2019 12:30
by MikeJames
One for Allan seeing he is building York. HMS York while approaching Washington, DC March 28, 1938.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 11 Nov 2019 19:14
by MichaelB
More York to get him going.

Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 12 Nov 2019 19:24
by MikeJames
HMS Illustrious (87) at sea in the Indian Ocean, 1944.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 11:16
by MikeJames
HMS Echo leading HMS Eclipse leaving harbour, Iceland, 3-9 March 1942. Photograph taken from the destroyer HMS Fury.

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Re: Historic Naval Images

Posted: 17 Nov 2019 07:21
by MikeJames
Lead ship of her class of destroyers for the Swedish Navy, HSwMS Halland (J18).

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