Naval Fleet Operations and History

Images portray historical naval fleet operations, featuring warships and submarines in various military contexts from the early to mid-20th century.

1910s - The Huntington cruiser is escorted by a fleet to France.

On board the steamer. 1924

Massachusetts - Graves. The Graves, looking East.

Hm Submarine Thrasher Damaged by Bomb Dropped From Enemy Aircraft. 6 March 1942, Alexandria Harbour. A wired view showing the hole in the conning tower of HMS THRASHER caused by a bomb which failed to explode after it was dropped from an enemy aircraft.

German armored ship. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Arrival Corps Special troops (KST) to priok. Abandoned troops with packing the landing vessel (LCT). January 29, 1949. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Tandjong Priok

World War Two: French navy on patrol at sea 1940

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Normandie Under Guard -- Three U.S. Coast Guardsmen stand on a deck of the French luxury liner Normandie today, part of a force of ten men placed aboard the ship last night in the Federal government's latest move against foreign shipping. Boarding action by Coast Guardsmen placed a dozen or more French flag vessels under protective custody. May 16, 1941. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

The US Ironclad Roanoke during the American Civil War

World War I (1914-1918). The British submarine E-8. Sank a German destroyer in the North Sea.

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Crewmen use a crane to lift a piece of a rocket engine aboard the salvage ship USS PRESERVER (ARS-8) during the salvage operation for the space shuttle orbiter Challenger. Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Ferret destroyer, 1911, United Kingdom, drawing.

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The Royal Navy during the Second World War- the Dieppe Raid, August 1942 A British destroyer rescues soldiers from a landing craft which was sunk during the Combined Operations daylight raid on Dieppe. One man holds on to a rope thrown from the destroyer whilst two more men are close by.

Beached Japanese Amcigi Naval Vessel Along Inner Harbor Of Kure, Japan. March 1946.

Navy Victor A. Hermann pictured in lower left corner by the USS Akron. Contruction of first hangar at Moffett Field

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