HMS Queen Elizabeth off the U.S. east coast, in June 1943, following repair and overhaul at the Norfolk navy yard.
Acorazados del Mundo...
- Tema iniciado chalupa
- Fecha de inicio
During Operation Juno on June 8th, 1940 after 1738hrs, the port rear duel 15cm secondary turret of battleship Gneisenau engages the unseen destroyers HMS Ardent & HMS Acasta as they try to protect the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious. *photograph from a private collection
USS North Carolina (BB-55) inside cofferdam for repairs, Wilmington, North Carolina, June 2020
Knyaz Suvorov, Russian pre-dreadnought. Clearly taking cues from the French. Sunk at Tsushima, 1905, with the loss of 900 sailors.
Japanese battleship Fusō, at speed, during trials after her 1933 rebuild. The towering "pagoda" superstructure was becoming a hallmark of Japanese naval designs at this time. Fusō would be sunk at Suriago Strait in 1944. Only 10 of her 1,900 crew would survive.
Profile of the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth after her reconstruction, 1941
A German König class battleship steams to Scapa Flow to be interned, 21 November 1918
USS Indiana (BB-1) at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Jan 13, 1911
Sailors of the German battleship Scharnhorst prepare her 28cm main battery for use, circa 1939
Italian battleship Dante Alighieri sailing in the Mare Piccolo ("Little Sea") of Taranto, Italy, 25 February 1917
A photograph between June 9th & 20th, 1940. Trondheim, Norway hosts battleships Gneisenau (front) & Scharnhorst (back), heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper (middle), repair ship Huascaran (between the battleships), and the salvage ship Parat. Munkholm Island is in the background on the left.
USS Mississippi (BB-41) during the 1927 Naval Review.
USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) in her early years. I love a straight stem on a standard.
I count about 147-ish 14" shells on the deck of USS New Mexico (BB-40). Each shell weighed 1,500lbs (680.3886kg). So that's about 220,500lbs (100,017.118kg) of ordnance lying around. Also, note the sun bathers at bottom left.
Close up shot on the superstructure on HMS King George V, in late 1945
USS California (BB-44) at her christening ceremony on the 20th of November, 1919. She remains the largest warship ever built on the West Coast.
When USS California (BB-44) was launched the braking mechanisms were inadequate and she crossed the Napa River, wrecked a small dock and got stuck in the mud stern first (as seen in this photo). She was not damaged and was refloated with the next tide.
Fecha: Otoño de 1925. Lugar: Mar de Liguria, frente a La Spezia, Italia. Acontecimiento: El acorazado italiano Andrea Doria realiza ejercicios de artillería tras su reparación de 4 meses. 5 de sus 13 cañones de 305 mm/46 Modelo 1909 están disparando. Estado actual: Desguazado en 1960-62, vida útil de 50 años.
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