[2820 x 1880]USS Albany (CG-10) laid up in reserve at the Navy's deactivated ships pier, located across from the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Oct. 8, 1989

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[1000 x 717] SMS Emden, beached on North Keeling Island, after being pummeled by the HMAS Syndey.

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[800 x 460] IJN Hiyo at anchor. Orginally a fast passenger liner, she was subsidized (to the tune of 60%) by the Naval Ministry, and was designed to be converted to a carrier in the event of war.

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[5996 x 4522]U-58 sinking alongside the USS Fanning (DD-37), 17 November 1917.

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[4982 x 6170]USS Forrestal (CV-59) at sea on 29 August 1959.

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[624 x 468] Aerial reconnaissance photo of Gneisenau in a floating dry dock, March 1942, after an air attack.

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[4252 x 2835] German frigate Sachsen (F-124) launching a type SM 2 missile.

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[1279 x 949] USS Honolulu (CL-48) underway, Feb 9, 1939.

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[2886 x 1272] USS Mississippi (AG-128) firing Terriers, the former battleship became a gunnery training ship following WWII. She'd be scrapped in 1957.

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[481 x 799] Bridge view of Mogami's damaged bow, following her collision with Mikuma at Midway. The tanker Nichiei Maru is seen ahead. June 1942

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[1024 x 601] Four-Piper Friday! USS Renshaw (DD-176), she had a very short service life, just under 3 years. She'd be sold for scrap in 1936.

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[1920 x 877] Japanese seaplane tender Akitsushima on April 18, 1942.

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[1280 x 825] IJN escort carrier Chuyo at anchor, Truk, 18 May 1943. A converted passenger-freight liner, she was sunk by the USS Sailfish (SS-192) in Dec. 1943 with a heavy loss of life, including US POWs

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[3010 x 1950] USS Chicago (CG-11) laid up at Puget Sound, Jan 25, 1990. To the right is the USS Hornet (CVS-12), to the left USS Menhaden (SS-377) and USS Oriskany (CV-34)

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[1000 x 715] HMS Glowworm (H-92) on fire as she attempted to ram the DKM Hipper. As seen from the DKM Hipper. April 8, 1940

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[1920 x 1121] Unfinished battlecruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich (left) and Bayern-class battleship Wurttemberg in Hamburg after the war, in about 1920.

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[1600 x 1028] A beached French coastal patrol craft at low tide at Dunkirk. The ship is armed with a 75mm canon on its foredeck and probably dates from the First World War. Note apparent shell hole in port side

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[800 x 354] An Argentine Navy boarding party inspects German u-boat U-530, July 1945 after her surrender at the Mar del Plata Naval Base

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[3000 x 1929] USS Washington (SSN-787) under trials prior to acceptance to the USN. She was accepted by the Navy on May 26, 2017. She commissioned on Oct 7, 2017.

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[800 x 616] HMS Implacable (R-86) being towed down the Clyde, 1944.

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[925 x 592] USS Toledo (CA-133) anchored in Tokyo Bay, in 1959

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[800 x 1045] Launch of the IJN Tosa, Dec 18, 1921. She'd be used as a target in accordance to the Washington Naval treaty, and later scuttled.

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[1431 x 882] USS Quincy (CA-71) Starboard bow aerial view during the war.

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[6080 x 4930]USS Shamrock Bay(CVE-84), left foreground About to leave Pier Number Two at Astoria, Oregon, 6 April 1944. Photographed from an airplane attached to USS Shipley Bay (CVE-85). The other two escort aircraft carriers visible are unidentified.

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[3024 x 2363] The former IJN Sakawa awaiting atomic bomb testing, 1946.

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[2426 x 1078] An aerial port beam view of the Soviet Kiev class aircraft carrier Minsk underway, Feb 1983.

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[6234 x 4918]USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) aircraft wreckage on the flight deck, after most fires were out following hits by two Kamikazes off Okinawa, 11 May 1945.

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[3737 x 2922] HMS Eagle (R-05) at Portsmouth’s South Railway Jetty after the 1964 rebuild, with remodeled island

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[1061 x 735] HMS Argonaut (61) November 1943 just after repairs at Philadelphia Navy Yard. She suffered two torpedo hits in Dec 1942.

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[941 x 465] HMS Repulse in August 1918.

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[2500 x 1795]HNLMS Witte de With (F-813) at sea, prior to her sale to Chile.

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[800 x 595] German Destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele was beached during the Battle of Narvik, 4/13/40. She would later break in two, and sink. The wreck is a popular dive site in Norway.

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[800 x 604] HMS Anson (79) on trials in the North Sea, June 1942

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[1325 x 1056] USS Odax (SS-484) surfacing in front of the McDonnell (DE-1043) on 4 July 1970. Photo taken from the flight deck of the Wasp (CVA-18).

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[3096 x 2000] IJN Nenohi (left) in Oct 1933. Shortly after commissioning.

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[1300 x 914]Admiral Graf Spee in flames after being scuttled off Montevideo, Uruguay, after the Battle of the River Plate, 17 December 1939.

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[964 x 768] USS Des Moines (CA 134) and USS Forrestal (CVA-59) refuel from USS Severn (AO-61) en route to the Azores Islands as part of the Suez Crisis. Nov 11, 1956.

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[690 x 499] The pilot's view, USS Shangri-La (CV-38), early 1960's

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[1440 x 510] IJN Submarine I-15 during her initial sea trials in 1940.

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[1279 x 965] USS Intrepid (CV-11), painted in Measure 32, Design 3A, refitting at Hunters Point, June 1944.

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[5460 x 4164] USS Kansas (BB-21) on the Deleware River on 17 June 1909

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[6118 x 4932]Men pass cargo down the line on Japanese Submarine I-400. To the extreme left is the hanger door, which is in the open position. Date unknown

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[4608 x 2592]HMS Queen Elizabeth (R-09) as seen from the Staten Island Ferry as the sun sets over NY Harbor. Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in background, 10/22/2018 [OC]

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[6168 x 4984]USS Louisville (CA-28) at Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Aug 27, 1930

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[595 x 468] Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye, at an unknown location.

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[6232 x 5024]USS Newport News (CA-148) on her arrival to Yankee Station, Oct 11, 1967

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[1000 x 695] French battleship Strasbourg after being scuttled in Toulon, November 1942.

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[1300 x 974]French cruisers Duquesne (left), and Suffern (right), in Alexandria, April, 1942

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[1024 x 761] German Navy patrol craft (S-79) Wiesel. Unknown location.

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[1024 x 816] Sailors and Marines stand at attention on the pier alongside the USS Nassau (ACV-16) following her commissioning ceremony at the Puget Sound Navy Yard on 20 August 1942. Note the bow art used to inspire the Navy Yard workers, in 1943 she'd be reclassified as CVE-16.

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[1024 x 669] USS Taussig (DD-746) August 18 1944 at New York Navy Yard.

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[800 x 1167] The twenty-eight chief shipbuilders of IJN aircraft carrier Shokaku pose at the ship's prow prior to launching (30 May 1939).

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[720 x 541] HMS Howe (32) underway, circa 1943.

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[2765 x 1659] IJN Hosho. The world's first purpose designed and built aircraft carrier. Running full power trials, Dec 4, 1922.

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[1024 x 826] IJN cruiser Kashii sinking off the coast of French Indochina after an attack by U.S. Navy carrier aircraft, 12 January 1945. Of Kashii's crew, 621 men went down with the ship and only 19 were rescued.

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[2767 x 1456] USS Alaska (CB-1) around the time of her commissioning.

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[4608 x 2592] USS San Antonio (LPD-17) arriving for Fleet Week, 2015, May 20, 2015 [OC]

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[743 x 411] Italian battleship Andrea Doria after her 1937-1940 reconstruction.

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[800 x 520] HMS Glorious at anchor, 1935; the doors to the lower hangar deck are open.

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[623 x 480] Canadian seamen raise the White Ensign over U-190 in St. John's, Newfoundland in 1945, after she surrendered to the RCN. Note the Schnorkel below the edge of the conning tower.

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[1507 x 1400] USS Guam (CB-2) Aerial stern view, 25 October 1944

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[800 x 630] Officers of HMS Kent (54) enjoying a free for all game of deck hockey under the shadow of the cruiser's 8 inch guns. Date and location unknown.

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[3072 x 2048] Spanish frigate, SPS Asturias (F-74), unknown location and time.

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[1024 x 820] IJN Kaga conducts air operations om May 11, 1937. On deck are Nakajima A2N, Aichi D1A, and Mitsubishi B2M aircraft

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[726 x 884] USS Portland (CA-33) in a drydock at the Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, Australia, circa in late December 1942.

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[1899 x 1438] USS Albany (CA-123) outbound off Virginia Capes, 31 August 1956.

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[1919 x 726] Japanese light cruiser Kinu off Kyushu in 1931. The bridge had an aircraft hanger incorporated into it.

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[600 x 765] USS Oakland USS Oakland (CL 95) Plan view, aft, at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 27 October 1943. USS St. Louis (CL-49) is off on the left. Note depth charge rack on the Oakland's stern.

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[1920 x 1178] HMS Tiger (C-20) April 1965. Note how the Type 960 radar's dipole array at the top of her mainmast.

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[740 x 555] USS Savannah (CL-42) hit by a German Fritz-X radio-controlled bomb, while supporting Allied forces ashore during the Salerno operation, Sept 11, 1943. The ship was nearly lost as the bomb penetrated turret 3 and exploded deep in the ship.

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Fallschirmjager with map at Monte Casino, Jan. 1944

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[1024 x 667] USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) at Gibraltar in February or March 1948.

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[2583 x 1990] USS Indiana (BB-58) and USS Massachusetts (BB-59) operating off Honshu. The Massachusetts is firing. The USS South Dakota (BB-57) can be seen behind her.

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[2090 x 1490] HMCS Restigouche (H00) early in WWII, a C class destroyer, she was originally HMS Comet, and transferred to the RCN.

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[1536 x 864] Secondary armament 5 Mounts, USS New Jersey (BB-62) April, 2004 [OC]

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[954 x 1300]HMS Eagle entering Gibraltar Harbor with her Company manning ship in tropical rig, June 13, 1946

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[1909 x 1313] HMAS Melbourne (R-21) on a port visit to Pearl Harbor, 1958. Her crew is spelling Aloha on deck.

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[1325 x 936] USS South Dakota (BB-57) and USS Alabama (BB-60), 1943, with the British Home Fleet in the Atlantic

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[1280 x 884] Shell damage to the German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger after being engaged by British warships at the Battle of Jutland

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[1050 x 856] Broadside view of USS Louisville (CA-28) off Mare Island on 17 Dec 1943. She was in overhaul at Mare Island from 8 Oct until 24 Dec 1943.

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[1280 x 768] IJN Ibuki in Sasebo, just before being scrapped, October 22, 1946

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[4608 x 2592] Forward Superstructure, USS Iowa (BB-61), Sept 2015 [OC]

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[2048 x 1536] The sail of the USS Cod (SS-224), in Cleveland, OH, showing her record. July 2012. [OC]

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[6166 x 5008]IJN Kuha was a unit of the Momo class, which were built during the first World War. This photo was probably taken in the China area in 1928-30. At that time Kuha was a unit of the 9th Destroyer Division. Circa 1930

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[800 x 615] HMS Fury (H-76) leading a flotilla of destroyers at Scapa Flow in 1942.

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[800 x 1142] Ibrahim el Awal (Egyptian Navy) being towed to the port of Haifa after being captured by the Israeli Navy. This ship is unusual, it served in 4 different navies.

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[627 x 485] HMAS Perth underway, in early 1942. She would be lost with the Houston during the Battle of the Sundra Straight.

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[4990 x 3836]French cruiser Tourville in the Gatun Lake, Panama canal zone, on 1 May 1929

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[967 x 768] USS Leutze (DD-481) in Elliott Bay, Washington, 5 April 1944

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[581 x 744] Aft view of IJN Jun'yo's island, 19 October 1945 at Sasebo.

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[2592 x 1944] HMS Enterprise (H-88) in Dartmouth, July 2008

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[1141 x 760] IJN heavy cruiser Takao (center) heads towards Guadalcanal on 14 November 1942 followed by the battleship Kirishima (far background) to bombard Henderson Field. The photograph was taken from cruiser Atago.

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[1358 x 912] USS Concord (CL 10) and USS Mississippi (BB 41) entering the Gatun Locks while transiting the Panama Canal in October, 1945

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[2200 x 1808] USS Idaho (BB-42) underway in the mid 1930's.

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[1967 x 1095] IJN light cruiser Isuzu after modifications at Mitsubishi Yokohama in 1944.

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[3116 x 2048] IJN Yamashiro crew tests the ship's torpedo defense net at Yokosuka, Japan, 1917.

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[2992 x 1838] IJN Destroyer Momi, 4 September 1944.

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Paratroopers jumping from Junkers Ju 52 3/m transport planes over Crete, May 1941

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[900 x 602] Aft turrets of HMS Hercules.

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[6022 x 4946]IJN Hibiki off the China coast during the late 1930s. She was the Japanese Navy's first all welded ship.

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[Width x Height] USS St. Paul (CA-73), off Vietnam 1966, note 5 & 8 powder cans stacked on fantail.

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[800 x 589] Operation Pedestal, 12 August 1942: HMS Kenya (14) under air attack on her return voyage to Gibraltar.

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[1280 x 864] A North Korean Navy Tral Class Corvette in 1993

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[1024 x 907] IJN heavy cruiser Nachi breaking up and sinking, Nov 5, 1944.

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[1891 x 1459] Dropping in for tea! F-4B Phantom from the USS Ranger (CV-61), operating from HMS Hermes (R-12) in 1963.

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[900 x 504] HMS Queen Mary at sea with torpedo net booms folded against her side. She'd be lost at Jutland.

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[835 x 532] HMS St Vincent at the Coronation Review, Spithead, 24 June 1911.

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[943 x 681]USS Providence (CLG-6) underway, in 1970

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[1920 x 757] Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Kavkaz in WWII.

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Question about the 1970's Reds uniforms. In the attached image, all the players are shown with low stirrups. Was this team policy at the time that everyone wears them like this? TIA

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[1280 x 960] Italian destroyer Andrea Doria (D-553) at La Spezia, Oct 31, 2010

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[2073 x 1001] IJN Nagato firing her guns in 1936

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[962 x 919] Gneisenau during Operation Berlin Jan-March 1941

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[770 x 578] HMS Glasgow (C21), left, and USS Quincy (CA-71), right, during the bombardment of Cherbourg in support of the advancing Allied troops, June 25, 1944

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[600 x 470] The surrender of U-889 near Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 13 May 1945.

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[4608 x 2592]USS Intrepid (CV-11) on a crisp autumn afternoon, Nov 25, 2018, NYC [OC]

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[1920 x 1111] SMS Friedrich der Grosse heading toward Scapa Flow for internment following the conclusion of WWI.

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[1566 x 1252] USS San Francisco (CA-38) being assisted to her berth at Mare Island Navy Yard on 14 Dec 1942.

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[2760 x 1910] USS Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631) entering Holy Loch, Dunoon, Scotland on 18 March 1991.

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[3000 x 1670] JMSDF Makinami (DD-112) arriving in Vancouver, Aug 25, 1964

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[1531 x 971] Swedish coastal defense ship HSwMS Drottning Victoria underway some point after 1931.

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[3422 x 2732] HMAS Perth. She was acquired by the RAN shortly before the beginning of WWII in June 1939, she was formerly HMS Amphion.

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[800 x 574]HMS Revenge at Greenock after her return from the Indian Ocean in September 1943.

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[2945 x 3714] USS New York, Armored cruiser No. 2 (CA-2), Entering dry dock 1 at Bethlehem Hunter's Point shipyard, 11 June 1903

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[800 x 596] Mine-laying operations on the HMS Apollo (M-01) off the coast of Norway.

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[6112 x 4954]USS Galveston (CLG-3) steaming at sea, 24 August 1964

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[800 x 547] The wreck of the capsized Admiral Scheer in Kiel, after a bombing raid by the RAF, April 9, 1945.

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[800 x 561] Five Royal Navy Hawker Sea Hurricanes and a single Supermarine Seafire lined up in the hangar of HMS Argus (I-49), with several mechanics working on them, circa 1942-1944

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[5902 x 4148]French light cruiser Emile Bertin moving at high speed, national ensign at the fore and main battery trained out to port, circa 1938.

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[740x 493] HMS Unicorn (I-72), British Aircraft Maintenance Carrier, 1953. Moored in a southern Japanese port (probably Sasebo) after a tour of duty in Korean waters.

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[2326 x 3475] HNoMS frigate Fridtjof Nansen (F-310), ploughing the waves at the end of exercise Trident Juncture 2015

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[850 x 850] USS San Juan (CL-54) coming alongside the USS Wasp (CV-7) on 19 August 1942.

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[1174 x 831] The crew of the IJN submarine I-8 in Brest, France, Aug 31, 1943. The only successful round trip of a IJN sub to Germany in WWII. Under a new C.O. later in the war, the crew would be involved in war crimes. (See link in comments)

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[4374 x 3427] USS Vincennes (CL-64) USS steaming off the U.S. East Coast (position 36 52'N, 76 09'W, course 265) at 1700 hours on 28 March 1944.

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[5757 x 4261] USS Topeka (CLG-8) fires a Terrier missile on 18 November 1961 during weapons demonstrations for the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson. The photo was taken from the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63)

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[1259 x 870] Three Navy SH-3A Sea King helicopters, #60, 62 and 55, from Squadron HS-6 Indians, flying over USS Kearsarge (CVS-33). Location unknown. Time frame is probably 1962–1964.

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[800 x 601] Two British officers examine what is left of the IJN Myoko's stern as she sat in Singapore. She was crippled during the Battle of Leyte by the USS Bergall (SS-320) and towed to Singapore where she closed out the war as a floating AA battery.

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[3203 x 3971] The USS California (BB-44) just prior to her launching at Mare Island Navy Yard on 20 November 1919

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[1500 x 668] HMAS Arunta (I-30) in the early part of WWII.

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[680 x 542] HMS Castor likely in the 1920's. She was a veteran of Jutland, she was scrapped in 1936.

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[4608 x 2592] HMS Queen Elizabeth (R-08) on a very windy morning, NY Harbor 10/21/2018 [OC]

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[800 x 465] USS Copahee (CVE-12) left the Garapan anchorage off Saipan on 8 July 1944 with a load of captured Japanese planes (13 Zekes and 1 Kate) and equipment (37 engines) to be used for intelligence and training purposes, and arrived in San Diego on 28 July.

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[4624 x 5884]French cruisers Suffren (right) and Duquesne (left) at a US port (Note what appears to be a four-piper ahead of Duquesne) Oct 15, 1934

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[5768 x 4502] USS Saratoga (CV-3) USS Lexington (CV-2) at Bremerton, June 8, 1932. USS Astoria (CA-34) is under construction, an unknown collier and destroyer are also present.

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[2816 x 822] USS Lexington (CV-16) seen here as a museum ship, docked at Corpus Christi, Texas. She's sporting two 5 gun mounts in approximate locations. These were salvaged from the USS Des Moines (CA-134).

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[600 x 450] The damaged A turret of the Wrecked HMAS Sydney, discovered on March 17, 2008. She was lost in a battle with the German Commerce Raider Kormoran on the night of Nov 19-20, 1941

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[4950 x 3300] SMS Moltke visiting New York City, in May 1912. She had completed trials at the beginning of April 1912. She was the only German Capital ship to ever visit the US.

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[800 x 556] HMS Phoebe (43) at anchor, shown shortly after her completion in 1940.

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[855 x 573] Romanian Marasesti frigate (F-111) during Litoral 06 exercise.

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