So, how big is YOUR air wing? USS Lexington (CV-2) launching aircraft. Unsure of the exact date, though her foredeck was widened in 1936, so sometime before then. [1774x2618]

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SS Robert Rowan (Liberty ship K-40) explodes amongst the Sicily invasion fleet. Hit with three bombs by JU-88 bombers on July 11, 1943. All 421 soldiers and sailors safely abandoned ship before the many tons of ammunition on board exploded. She was torn in half and burned for two days.

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Postcard from scenic San Diego, 1946. Piles and piles of surplus warships. Some would be restored to service, some sold to foreign countries, most would be scrapped. [1280x881]

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The French almost always tread a different path than their contemporaries. Example: battleship Richelieu. The pros & cons of a two forward turrets with four guns each can be argued ad nauseum, but it makes for an imposing sight! [2100x1326]

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Famous straight-on view of Bismarck. Quoting Sabaton will get you a 3 week suspension. [2422x1666]

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Civilians look at a turret salvaged from the wreck of the battleship Mutsu, early 1970's. [1200x825]

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If you ever wanted to know what those torpedo booms on pre-WW1 era battleships looked like when deployed, well, here you go. HMS Hotspur with torpedo booms and nets out. Photo taken in 1887. [2000x1609]

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A family gazes at a turret salvaged from the wreck of the battleship Mutsu, circa early 70's. [1200x825]

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Cabins in a fancy hotel? Nope. Cruise ship? Nope. Ocean liner? Nope. Officer's quarters on the Italian battleship Roma? YES. [1000x669]

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The rarely seen 'ass stinger'* rear 5 gun casemate is clearly seen on this picture of Battleship Number 35, USS Texas. Picture taken during builders trials. The stinger was removed in 1918 for being completely useless along with several other 5 mounts. [2678x1798]

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A very glamorous shot of HMS Rodney showing off her big 'ol frontside. They put all the guns on the front because she was so incredibly slow they figured she'd always be chasing whatever it was they were shooting at. [3400x1631]

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Kapitanleutnant Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, commander of U-96, stands watch. A wonderfully evocative photo. U-96 was on her 7th War Patrol when she was accompanied by photographer & journalist Lothar-Gunther Buchheim, who would later write Das Boot. [1890x1161]

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IJN heavy cruiser Takao. Launched in 1930, she saw heavy action EVERYWHERE during WW2: Invasion of the Philippines, Java Sea, Aleutian Islands, Guadalcanal, Bismark Islands, Leyte Gulf, etc. Badly damaged, she was moored off Shanghai- where she was when the war ended. [2880x1980]

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A beautiful waste(?) of resources: for the price of a North Carolina class BB and a couple dozen destroyers you can have two Alaska-class battlecruisers. Let the debate begin! Shown, with one of the sweetest paint jobs of the war, is USS Guam (CB-2). [1800x947]

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The guns of HMS Rodney. They would see a lot of action during WW2, including finishing off the crippled Bismarck and destroying German positions in Normandy. [2400x1328]

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HMS Furious' double stacker flight decks. After her 1920's conversion to a traditional aircraft carrier you could launch aircraft from the main deck as well as the hangar deck! This configuration wasn't particularly successful and was not repeated in later Royal Navy carrier designs. [1211x892]

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On this day in 1812 (December 29th) USS Constitution defeated HMS Java in a single-ship engagement. Fantastic painting by John Steven Dews. [2000x1362]

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The hardest, dirtiest job in the pre-oil fired Navy: coaling. Sailors loading sacks of coal from barges moored alongside USS Georgia (BB-15). Not fun. [3765x5451]

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Yamato. Painting by Noriyoshi Orai. [1373x768]

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In honor of passing the 150K subscriber mark here's the largest photo I've ever posted here (probably). I remember when there were two dozen subscribers and 20 upvotes was a lot! Nuts! Anyways, here's USS Alabama (BB-60) in all her glory. [11408x7152]

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Banana boat! USS Siboney (CVE-112) with helicopters from Marine Corps squadron HMX-1 (before they got the job of taxiing the prez around) on deck. The helos are Piasecki HRP-1 & 2's. The destroyer in the background is USS O'Hare (DD-889). Photo is part of a series by LIFE 1951/52. [1024x1024]

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Jean-Pierre Beltoise's V12 powered Matra MS12. Photo taken sometime during 1968 Formula 1 season.

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USS Oakland (CL 95). 6,000 ton light cruiser, 32.5kns, 12 x 5 guns. Launched 1942, served in TG 58/38 throughout the war in several major engagements earning 9 battle stars. As a lifetime Oakland Athletics fan & native of the Bay Area I had to put a pic up! [2802x2208]

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The lovely rear end of HMS Courageous. Photo taken pre-war. Only days after the war began and while she was foolishly being used in u-boat 'hunter-killer' groups she was, you probably guessed it, sunk by a u-boat (U-29). [2500x1668]

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Night action off Cape Matapan, Greece, 28 March 1941. Painting by the superb Norman Wilkinson. Two Italian cruisers were turned into unmanageable, doomed wrecks in 3 minutes by three undetected Queen Elizabeth-class battleships. [1205x913]

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Damage control teams at work, July 29th 1967, USS Forrestal (CV-59). [6200x4942]

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Bow-on look at Bismarck while at Kiel, 1940. [1522x2074]

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USS Constitution (44) re-approaching the dis-masted hulk of HMS Java (38) after drawing off to make temporary repairs. Painting by the late, great, Tom Freeman. [1286x900]

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Heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen during Operation Cerebus (the Channel Dash). Considered a lucky ship, Prinz Eugen survived the war. She was nuked at Bikini Atoll. Currently rests upside down in the lagoon at Kwajalein Atoll. [939x1280]

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HMS Victorious photobombed by a Blackburn Buccaneer, mid-late 60's (probably). [1600x970]

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French WW2 battleship superstructures were incredibly imposing- here's Strasbourg showing off her main battery, and then some. [3113x3553]

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USS Tennessee's backside. After her post-Pearl Harbor rebuild her beam increased from 97 and a half feet to a very substantial 114ft- too substantial for the Panama Canal. For reference the Iowa's were a svelte 108ft. [6112x4968]

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HMS Rodney lightens her load sometime in the 1930's. This photo was likely hand colorized at that time and used as a postcard, a relatively common occurrence in the 20's & 30's. [1350x1126]

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Russians on drugs: Novgorod, circular monitor. 2,500 tons, 2 x 11 guns. Laid down 1871. Lets just say... in practice their drawbacks waaaay outweighed their theoretical advantages*. Scrapped 1912 [2751x1912]

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USS Washington (BB-56) working up in Puget Sound after her late war refit (Sept 10, 1945). Just about every bit of deck space has an AA gun on it. [3000x2431]

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On December 29th, 1812, USS Constitution defeated HMS Java in a single-ship engagement. Fantastic painting by John Steven Dews. [2000x1362]

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Good shot of USS Canberra (CA-70), named after HMAS Canberra which had been scuttled after taking severe damage during the Battle of Savo Island. USS Canberra was at the time the only US ship to be named after a foreign warship or capital city. [4680x2752]

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About five weeks of parbuckling had USS Oklahoma (BB-37) nearly upright. Her list is a paltry 10 degrees, though her decks are half awash, showing there is a substantial amount of water remaining to be pumped out. [5680x4565]

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Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Malaya steaming in company with USS South Dakota (BB-57) and Alabama (BB-60), July 1943. [2000x1300]

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Radio controlled Coastal Battleship Number 4 (formerly USS Iowa BB-4) bracketed by a salvo from USS Mississippi (BB-41) during Fleet Problem I, off the Panama Canal Zone, 1923. [3889x2364]

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HMS Warspite and her brood of destroyers entering Ofotfjord, intent on scouring out German destroyers, during the Second Naval Battle of Narvik (April 13th, 1940). Painting by Norman Wilkinson. [1244x947]

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HMS Superb making her way down the River Tyne, 1909. A photo definitely evocative of the Coal Age. [1024x798]

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Doesn't even have her first coat of paint. Battleship Number 35, USS Texas, during builders trails, 1913. 21.792 knots! This was, presumably, at light load. [2906x2174]

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The lovely and ill-fated HMAS Canberra shown in the 1930's. She was a Kent/County-class heavy cruiser that met her fate when she was turned into a flaming wreck in the early morning of August 9th, 1942, during the Battle of Savo Island. Un-repairable, she was scuttled the following day. [2400x1445]

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Sailors standing on top of an 8 turret on USS Iowa (BB-4), though there seems to be a problem. [5718x4440]

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USS Sable (IX-81), formerly the side-paddlewheel passenger ship Greater Buffalo, during her service as a training ship on the Great Lakes. 51,000 landings were made on her during the war. Note the Wildcat nose down on the deck with an interested crowd inspecting the mishap. [2777x1771]

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Warshipporn's favorite argument catalyst: USS Alaska (CB-1). Waste of money and resources or awesome battlecruiser or best heavy cruiser ever. Discuss! (photo taken July 30th, 1944, off the Philadelphia Navy Yard.)[6240x5028]

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The less glamorous (back)side of HMS Nelson. [2760x2298]

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US Pacific Fleet maneuvers, circa 1940. The lead ship is probably USS Mississippi (BB-41) followed by USS Maryland (BB-46) & co. The squadrons overhead are probably from USS Yorktown or Enterprise. [4096x3306]

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Former USS Alabama (BB-8) has her deck rearranged by a 300lb bomb courtesy of the US Army Air Service, Sept 1921. [6056x3284]

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Victory on the Atlantic Chase, 1805. Painting by the superb Geoff Hunt. [1920x1080]

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Graham Hill on the starting grid of the 1968 French Grand Prix in the beautiful Lotus 49. Photograph by Rainer W. Schlegelmilch.

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Part of the French fleet anchored off Cherbourg, circa 1860's or earlier. Within a very short time all of these ships would be rendered obsolete and the Age of Sail would pass into history. [10232x6852]

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On some worst battleships of all time list is USS Massachusetts (BB-2), an Indiana-class battleship shown here on the Hudson River after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. [5928x3642]

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Australia! HMAS Sydney (A 214), Melbourne (R 21), Supply (AO 195) and Yarra (DE 45). Both carriers were Majestic class light carriers. HMAS Melbourne had the ignominious distinction of ramming and sinking two friendly destroyers (HMAS Voyager in 1964 & USS Frank E Evans in 1969). Oops. [2700x2140]

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HMS Repulse (and a seagull), October 30th 1926. [2595x1836]

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The sad wreck of the battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger, lifted from the floor of Scapa Flow and being moved on a floating dry dock. The wreck was floated in 1939 and anchored, upside down, until WW2 ended. She was scraped at Faslane in 1948. [1800x1438]

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Revenge-class battleship HMS Royal Sovereign showing off a pretty cool WW2 era paint job. [2560x1493]

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Keeping the massive US Pacific Fleet in action: Fleet Oiler USS Cimarron (AO-22) seen from the deck of USS Yorktown (CV-10), March 4th, 1945. She earned 21 Battle Stars in her nearly 30 year career. 10 in WW2, 7 in Korea & 4 in Vietnam. Not bad. [3331x2683]

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USS Saratoga (CV-3), circa 1928. Photo taken from an aircraft that has just taken off. [6206x5014]

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Soldiers from the North Carolina National Guard take time out to watch USS New Jersey (BB-62) navigate the Gaillard (Culebra) Cut of the Panama Canal. 4/26/1984. [2810x1870]

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Unfortunate sailors on the main top of USS North Dakota (BB-29) while she is rolling coal. Yes, technically she's always rolling coal, but it looks like this is a forced draft/draught situation. Note the small optical rangefinder- difficult to use when you can't see shit. [1073x1536]

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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. [1280x757]

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USS Mississippi hard aground before the guns of Port Hudson, LA. Unable to free herself, she was abandoned & blown up. 63 men were killed during the action. Previously USS Mississippi had been the flagship during the Mexican-American War and during Perry's Japan mission (1853-55). [5393x4097]

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HMS Colossus and her posse of dreadnoughts and cruisers at anchor in Scapa Flow, 1916. [2729x1776]

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USS North Carolina (BB-55), the Showboat, at rest, circa mid-1943. [2400x1851]

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Why Japan lost the war in the Pacific: US Fifth Fleet at anchor within the Ulithi Atoll. Several hundred ships are present, including TF 58's Murderer's Row. The number of ships in the anchorage reached a peak of 722 in late March, 1945. [2501x1894]

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USS Hornet (CV-8) fighting for her life, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 26th, 1942. Shown here under attack by an Aichi D3A Val dive bomber. During the battle she was hit by 3 bombs, 3 torpedoes and 2 kamikazes*. Abandoned, she was sunk the next day by the IJN. [1295x1029]

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HMS Barham in the Med with her Neutrality Stripes. She's taking water over the forecastle so A turret is swung around about as far as possible to port. [2717x1783]

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USS Saratoga (CV-3) running at full speed in Puget Sound after her last wartime refit, May 1945. Superseded by modern Essex-class fleet carriers and having been something of a torpedo, bomb & kamikaze magnet, Sister Sara had been converted into a training ship. [6236x5018]

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USS North Carolina (BB-55) at Pearl Harbor, November 1942. Which picture is going to get more upvotes- the stern or the bow? [4535x5650]

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USS Planter, a Confederate side-paddlewheel steamer stolen by Robert Smalls, a slave and the ships' helmsman. While the captain was off ship, Smalls cast off and steamed past several rebel forts until reaching the Union blockading fleet where he surrendered the ship, becoming a free man. [1500x1071]

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USS Tennessee (BB-43) after her post-Pearl Harbor rebuild. Puget Sound, May 8th 1943. The Navy added some extra protection and it went straight to her hips. [6142x4898]

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Emerson Fittipaldi, seated in his Lotus 72D, confers with Colin Chapman during the 1971 British Grand Prix weekend.

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How many destroyers can you fit in one dry dock? Six, apparently. Dry Dock #2, Mare Island, California. 6 x 4-stacker destroyers. 1922. Also note the pair of Eagle Boats at top right. [5000x4007]

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Officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser Nisshin pose on the quarterdeck of USS Missouri (BB-11) with their American counterparts. The visit occurred during Missouri's visit to Yokohama during the voyage of the Great White Fleet. [5693x4442]

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Coronation Fleet Review, 1953. In the photo there are 9 aircraft carriers. The battleship HMS Vanguard was anchored directly below the photographer, out of view. [1920x1380]

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USS Oklahoma (BB-37) a little less than a month after the effort to right her with winches began. The complex and slow process included pumping out water and patching holes as she rotated. In this picture she's at 34 degrees. [5616x4566]

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HMS Victorious photobombed by a Blackburn Buccaneer in 1966. The veteran of many hard fought WW2 campaigns would be removed from service in early 1968 and scrapped the following year. In my opinion the scrapping of Victorious was a travesty way beyond the scrapping of Vanguard. [1600x970]

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HMS Devastation, probably the most powerful warship of all-time when she was commissioned in 1873. But, by the mid 1890's when this photo was taken she was getting a little long in the tooth. [3000x2864]

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A very Victorian era ship: the rather low freeboard battleship HMS Trafalgar. Commissioned in 1890, she spend most of her short career as second flagship in the Med or as a training ship. Scrapped in 1912. [3893x3147]

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Here's an old school. Literally. HMS Britannia (l) and HMS Hindostan (r) as cadet training ships, Dartmouth, England. [1600x1200]

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USS Oklahoma (BB-37) nudged into dry dock on December 28th, 1943, a bit over two years after she capsized during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Note the cofferdam (the vertical apparatus) sticking several feet out from the hull on her port side. [5580x4479]

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The Royal Navy ships at anchor, Gibraltar, 1938. Someone in years past thoughtfully labeled most major units, including HMS Glorious, Hood, Warspite, Malaya, Royal Oak, Nelson and Rodney, though there are numerous ships that remained unidentified. [5495x1214]

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Richie Ginther waits as his crew works on his Honda RA273 (3L V12) during the 1966 Italian Grand Prix.

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Alain Prost sits in his McLaren-TAG MP4/3 during the 1987 season.

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USS Lexington (CV-2) fitting out, c1928. Despite what your eyes might be telling you, you're looking at her stern. [1500x1177]

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HMS Warspite doing a couple laps (accidentally) around the hapless cruiser HMS Warrior during the Battle of Jutland (1916), likely saving her from imminent destruction by the High Seas Fleet. Water color by William Wyllie. [1280x503]

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King George V-class battleship HMS Howe- named after Richard (Black Dick) Howe, 1st Earl Howe (nickname coming from his general disposition and swarthy complexion) shown cutting a rug in the North Atlantic. [1060x1485]

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German light cruiser Konigsberg (the 3rd) utilizing camouflage that perhaps doesn't work well in Norwegian fjords. Pre-war photo. [1600x1200]

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Admiral David Beatty, as Vice Admiral, on the deck of his flagship HMS Lion c1916. A dashing and bold figure, he was an inept communicator and an inveterate gloryhound- his actions greatly helped the German High Seas Fleet avoid catastrophe on more than one occasion. [4720x3448]

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The process of righting the overturned hulk of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), 9th of March, 1943. The technique of turning her over (in this case using 21 winches attached to 21 A-frames attached to the hull) in this manner is called parbuckling. [5697x4572]

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HMS Warspite sporting her Spanish Civil War Neutrality Patrol stripes on B Turret. [2333x3022]

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USS Northampton (CA-29) steaming into Pearl Harbor on December 8th, 1941. Note the fake bow wave. Northampton would survive for one year, less seven days, and would be on the bottom of Iron Bottom Sound on December 1st, 1942. [5650x4427]

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USS Shangri-La (CV/CVA 38). My favorite USN vessel name! Shown in the early 60's. Essex class carrier with a SCB-125 refit. Launched in 1944, decommissioned 1972, scrapped 1982. [1926x1026]

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HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Indian Ocean, April 1944. The last time I posted this photo I noted that the original QE, a veteran of two world wars and 30 years of hard service has a wiki page less than half the length of the new QE, which has been in service for 3 years. [5123x1927]

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Captain Chuck Yeager, USAF, broke the sound barrier in level flight 70 years ago today (October 14, 1947) in the rocket powered Bell X-1, named Glamorous Glennis after his wife. [2280x2278]

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The state of the battleship Mikasa in 1948. Togo's flagship at Tsushima had been turned into a concrete encased museum ship in the 1920's. Neglected during the war and for over a decade afterwards, she was revitalized in the 1960's (in part with the assistance of Admiral Nimitz). [1024x714]

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USS Enterprise (CV-6) and her battle group in the Panama Canal Zone, post war, after a job well done. The most decorated ship in the history of the US Navy. [1988x1601]

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HMS Royal William, 100 gun first rate. Model housed in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Originally HMS Prince and launched in 1672, it was rebuilt and renamed in 1692. Rebuilt again in 1719 and again in 1754. Finally broken up in 1813. [982x1280]

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HMS Iron Duke (foreground), HMS Revenge and Ramillies (background), 1939. Note that Iron Duke's B and Y turrets have been removed (Y turret replaced with a 5.25 DP mount). At this time she was a gunnery training ship. [2297x2557]

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USS Oklahoma (BB-37) in dry dock with the cofferdam removed, Jan 1, 1944. The damage seen here was caused by as many as eight torpedo strikes and the result of resting on her port side during the salvage operation. [5007x4022]

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Fletcher-class destroyer USS Jenkins (DD-447). Jenkins was Everywhere during WW2, earning 14 Battle Stars. She later earned another during Korea. Then spent time providing fire support for the Marines in Vietnam. Finally decommissioned in 1969. [2925x2297]

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In a time before decks were cluttered with AA guns- SMS Baden. The rough equivalent to the Revenge-class super-dreadnoughts, Baden would be the last battleship ever completed by the Kaiserliche Marine. [3620x2442]

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Gorgeous Italian battleship Littorio traveling to Malta after the public declaration of the armistice between Italy and the Allies, September 1943. This photo seems to have been touched up somewhat, but is always a pleasure to look at. [2500x2000]

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King George V's Silver Jubilee Fleet Review, July 16th, 1935. Shown here is a small portion of the 160 warships participating. The King would be dead in 6 months and they'd have to do it all over again in May 1937 for George VI's coronation review. [1417x1771]

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A sad end for a great ship. The vanquisher of Scharnhorst, HMS Duke of York, being broken up at Faslane, Scotland, August 6th, 1958. [1542x1025]

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Good closeup of a plane taking off from HMS Malaya. Remarkable how little distance was needed for aircraft of that era to get airborne- without a catapult. [959652]

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Wartime photo of HMS Warspite. Note the baffles on the funnels and mainmast whose purpose was to confuse German optical rangefinders. I'm not sure how well they actually worked. [1140x742]

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USS Saratoga (CV-3) and Lexington (CV-2) anchored off Honolulu, February 2nd, 1933. Diamond Head can be seen in the background. Sara is easily identified at this time by her large funnel stripe. [2398x1700]

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HMS Queen Elizabeth, a painting by Oscar Parkes, 1918/19. [1985x1659]

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USS Monadnock (BM-3) at anchor in Shanghai, 1901. The Navy Department, to get funds for her construction, lied to an extremely tight fisted Congress, telling them that they were rebuilding the Civil War era monitor Monadnock (that ship had, in fact, been scrapped some years earlier). [3000x2165]

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Old Hoodoo, USS Texas, the first battleship built by the United States. When commissioned in mid-1895, she was badly obsolete. The 6,000 ton Texas was lucky she didn't have to fight a first rate navy (the 16,000 Majestic-class was commissioned the same year) instead of the Spanish. [5870x4596]

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IJN Kaga, pre-war photo, circa 1930. Note the Imperial Seal of Japan (the Chrysanthemum Seal) on the tip of the bow and the three, yes, three flight decks. [3104x2040]

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HMS Repulse, fitting out basin, John Brown & Co, Clydebank, Scotland, 1916. Note the 200 ton Titan Crane on the right (built 1907). The shipyard no longer exists but the fitting out basin & crane are still there. [2300x1685]

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Day eleven of USS Oklahoma (BB-37) on the turn. She's at 90 degrees at this point. [5647x4548]

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HMS Warspite beginning her leisurely trip to the breakers. Easy right? [2808x1626]

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Top down of battlecruiser HMS Renown, sometime in the 1920's. [2048x1007]

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The Great White Fleet enters San Francisco Bay through the Golden Gate on May 6th, 1908. Fort Point, which can now be seen under the Golden Gate Bridge, is just beyond the house in the foreground. [4075x703]

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For the last three months we have averaged 1.2 posts of the new HMS Queen Elizabeth per day. No joke. For those of you who are a bit tired of it, here is the OG HMS Queen Elizabeth, circa early WW2. [2632x1575]

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Civilians look at a turret salvaged from the wreck of the battleship Mutsu, early 1970's. [1200x825]

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Pre-war photo of HMS Courageous. The battlecruiser turned aircraft carrier was the first major RN warship to be sunk during WW2. Mainly due to the ill-advised idea of using her to hunt U-boats. [2048x1327]

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Riga (L) and Tbilisi (R) c1990. Riga is fitting out and Tbilisi is just about (or is) in commission. Riga later became Varyag and is now PLA(N) Liaoning. Tbilisi was originally Riga, then Brezhnev, then Tbilisi and currently Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov. Easy! [2040x1203]

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HMS Barham, looking good. [1207x740]

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IJN sister ships Fuso (l) and Yamashiro (r) during maneuvers off Abaraiyawan, Japan, early-mid 1935. Fuso has all six turrets trained off to starboard. [3088x1628]

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HMS Ark Royal sliding down the ways, 1937. It apparently took 4 tries to break the champagne bottle during the christening ceremony. [1102x1355]

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USS Hornet (CV-12) and friends, Bremerton inactive ship facility. Next up from Hornet is USS New Jersey (BB-62), Oriskany (CV-34), Bennington (CV-20), USS Midway (CV-41) and USS Nimitz (CVN-68). Plus subs, destroyers, transports, minesweepers, etc. circa mid 90s. [5000x4057]

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USS Missouri (BB-63) during her shakedown cruise in August, 1944. She's sporting the superb 32/22D camo pattern. [2000x1556]

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USS Missouri (BB-11), deck plan, circa 1918. Very detailed. If you wanted to know where the butcher's shop or post office is (or the heads for all enlisted) here is your guide. Also, note the amount of space required for coal. [5515x4621]

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HMS Hood, pictured sometime between 1931 & 1937 per info from u/RLoret. [2048x1551]

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An Iowa-class battleship, likely USS Missouri (BB-63), steaming full ahead while putting up a wall of anti-aircraft fire off Okinawa, April 1945. The white splash in the center of the photo is a kamikaze impact. [2840x2222]

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Royal Navy troopship RMS Queen Elizabeth in the Port of San Francisco in March, 1942. My guess is that she's tied up at Pier 35. Note the New Mexico-class battleship moored one pier to the north. [1023x860]

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Let's play count the turrets! ...5, 6... 7 turrets! Making for fourteen 12 guns- the most ever fitted to a battleship. Laid down as Brazilian, then bought by the Ottoman Empire (after a public subscription campaign) and seized by the Royal Navy. Nickname: the Gin Palace. [2000x1271]

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USS South Dakota (BB-57) and sister Alabama (BB-60) enroute to the Marshall Islands to deliver some high explosives to the Japanese garrison on Roi and Namur Islands the following day (February 1st, 1944). North Carolina (not pictured) was also part of the bombardment group. [2069x2404]

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HMS Hood during the late 1930's. Picture taken during the Spanish Civil War- B turret is sporting stripes of the Neutrality Patrol. [1100x890]

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Battlecruiser HMS Tiger. The newest battlecruiser to fight at the Battle of Jutland, she took a pounding during the battle- 18 large caliber hits (almost all by her main antagonist SMS Moltke), but remained in action for the entirety of the battle. [3303x1992]

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Aircraft experts! What are these aircraft taking off from USS Hancock (CVA-19)? Hancock was the first US Navy carrier to use a steam catapult on June 1st 1954 & this photo may have been taken on that day. [5433x4355]

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Harbor defense ram USS Katahdin, a failure of concept and implementation, moored near the long-range cruisers Minneapolis (back) and Columbia (middle). [3086x2467]

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RMS Queen Mary photographed from HMS Revenge, 1942, somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Queen Mary, as a troopship, once carried 16,082 servicemen, which set the record for the most people ever on a moving object at one time. [1877x1340]

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The burned out hulk of the liner SS Morro Castle after drifting onto the beach at Asbury Park, NJ. Inept response to a fire in the very early morning of Sept 8th, 1934, by the crew, nearby ships and Coast Guard contributed to 135 out of 549 passengers and crew losing their lives.

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Battlecruiser HMS Tiger, shown in 1928. Once described by OG r/warshipporn subscriber u/Skruffie as the most gorgeous, beautiful, elegant, seductive(?) and pretty battlecruiser ever launched!. [4086x2493]

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Experimental turbine ship HMS Turbinia after an unfortunate encounter with a recently launched merchant ship (she was repaired). Turbinia was powered by a direct-drive turbine driving 6 propellers and, at 34.5knts, the fastest ship in the world when launched (by far). [1030x788]

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