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The Queen's Spithead Review of the Fleet 1977.

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Italian heavy cruiser Gorizia at Messina, 23 March 1942, just after the Second Battle of Sirte.

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An older shot of HMS Belfast in the Thames, prior to her repainting in the current Normandy invasion camouflage.

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Chilean light cruiser Almirante Latorre (former Swedish Göta Lejon) on gunnery exercises. Spring 1982, off Valparaiso.

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Another light cruiser, this time the Italian cruiser Garibaldi showing the camo scheme used in Nov 1941.

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Regia Marina Littorio-class battleship Roma, underway south of Italy in 1942

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Italian Soldati class destroyer Fuciliere, late 1939.

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Sirius in full camo in 1942
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Seafires on HMS Indomitable in the Mediterranean in 1942 or 43

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French pre-dreadnought.

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British battleship HMS Barham comes under a group attack of Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero torpedo bombers while escorting a convoy en route from Alexandria to Malta amid Operation Tiger. No hits were scored. 10 May 1941, South-East of Malta.

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View from battleship Musashi's bow in 1942.

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The crew doing calisthenics on deck gives a hint of its size.

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Russian armored cruiser Gromoboi while visiting Australia in 1901. Russia sent her there for the celebrations when Australia became a Federated Commonwealth.

Gromboi conducted port visits in Sydney and Melbourne.

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Four fantastic detail images of the IJN heavy cruiser Takao, taken May 1, 1938 at the Yokosuka arsenal

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HMS Devonshire at Freetown Harbour, 14 April 1942.

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Heavy cruiser HMS York sails past the Finnish sea fortress Suomenlinna/Sveaborg.

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Polish destroyer ORP Blyskawica H34 seen during service with the RN during WW2

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Amazing how much Takao changed during the war years Mike.

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Nice colourised image there Craig

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HMS Delhi at Naples, 1944, she was unique in the RN for being fitted with US weapons and fire control.

The RN found it to a much better system for AA fire than their own but the USN had no spare capacity to fit RN as well as US ships with it.

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A small part of the United States Navy's fast carrier strike fleet, (Task Force 58) anchored in Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands in April 1944. the distinctive shape of USS Enterprise can be seen in the right foreground

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The French Navy's pre-dreadnoughts certainly had a 'distinctive; design philosophy...

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German battleship Tirpitz, escorted by several destroyers, steaming in the Bogenfjord in October 1942

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Japanese heavy cruiser Ashigara, shown pre-war in European waters for King George VI's coronation review in May, 1937. German 'Panzerschiff' Graf Spee is in the background.

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1950s shot of HMS Tumult with the erupting Mount Vesuvius in the background.

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The damaged HMS Falmouth in a picture taken from HMS Tartar in 1976. You can see her damaged bow after two collisions with the Icelandic Gunboat Týr during the Third Cod War.

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Dido class cruiser HMS Euryalus leaving Grand Harbor, Malta, circa 1950

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The definition of a tight fit, the Essex class carrier USS Yorktown making her way through the Panama Canal on her way to join the Pacific War.

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Behold! From the country that brought you the Citroen 2CV & Renault Avantime, I bring you the FNS Carnot.

Commissioned 1897. 17+knots on a good day with a following wind. 2 x 305mm, 2 x 274mm & 8 x 138mm guns. And don't forget the sweet, sweet, tumblehome design. And lets throw in some windows for good measure. A warship that makes Allan's Hoche seem, somehow, elegant.

Mercifully removed from service by 1914.

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The cruiser ARA La Argentina, image taken of the coast of Argentina in the 1960s.

La Argentina was a light cruiser, designed for training naval cadets, built for the Argentine Navy. The ship was authorised in 1934, and the contract was put out to tender in 1935, being won by the British company Vickers-Armstrongs at a cost of 6 million pesos.

La Argentina was built in Barrow-in-Furness, England. She was laid down on 11 January 1936, launched 16 March 1937 and not completed until 31 January 1939, being delayed by the British re-armament programme. She was decommissioned in 1972 and scrapped.

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