USS Santa Fe (CL-60) & USS Franklin

 Uss Santa Fe CL-60 a Cleveland class coming alongside the stricken Franklin to assist in fire fighting and rescue efforts March 19 1945.

HMS Rodney

HMS Rodney approaches Rosyth while an LNER J38 crosses The Bridge on a Northbound freight

USS Mount Hood (AE-11)

Mystery Explosion

This photo captured the massive explosion of USS Mount Hood (AE-11) at Seeadler Harbor in the Admiralty Islands on 10 Nov 1944. The smoke trails are fragments from the 4000 tons of multiple types of shells, powder and other explosives on board the brand new ammunition supply ship. Although the disaster wasn't due to enemy fire, there was a big investigation by the US Navy. They never did determine a cause.

249 men on board Mt. Hood were instantly vaporised. However, 18 incredibly lucky men from her crew had gone ashore less than 30 minutes before the explosion. Two of them were taken to the brig for an unspecified court-martial proceeding, but the charges were dropped by the Navy after their ship exploded.

Meanwhile, USS Mindanao (ARG-3) was moored about 350 yards away and the repair ship was riddled. Mindanao recorded 82 of her crew killed with a further 98 injured. A total of 371 more injuries were reported on multiple ships in the area.

The explosion went over 7000 feet high, encompassing a blast radius of over 500 yards. It dug a trench in the ocean floor about 1000 feet long, 200 feet wide, 40 feet deep.

Source: WW2 Today

SMS Emden

The swan of the east- SMS Emden. Of the Dresden class. built at the Kaiserliche Werft

HMS Iron Duke

HMS Iron Duke.

HMS Iron Duke.
Battleship ordered under the 1911 Programme and built by HM Dockyard, Portsmouth. The ship was laid down on 15th January 1912 and launched by the wife of the 4th Duke of  Wellington on 12th October 1912 as the 2nd RN ship to carry the name, previously used for an ironclad in 1870. The build was completed on 9th March 1914. She was deployed in the Grand Fleet during WWI and was Flagship of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. After the armistice, she took part in Black Sea operations to support the White Russians. She remained on the Active List until 10th December 1931 when Paid-of and de-militarised. B and Y turrets, the torpedo tubes and some of the armour plating were removed. The ship was then deployed at Portsmouth as Gunnery Firing Ship and after 1936 used as Boys Training ship. In August 1939 she attended the Review of the Reserve Fleet and took up her war station on 26th August for use as a Depot  Ship at  Scapa Flow.
(pic, Scapa Flow 1939)

RM Littorio Class Battleship Vittorio Veneto

Littorio class battleship Vittorio Veneto, Taranto in Summer of 1941

SMS Thüringen

View on the starboard side of battleship SMS Thüringen of Helgoland - class. Very clear view on the gun arrangement of both main - and secondary artillery.

Source -theFranks.com

IJN Battleship Mutsu

Mutsu was the second and last Nagato-class dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) at the end of World War I. It was named after the province, In 1923 she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake. The ship was modernized in 1934–1936 with improvements to her armour and machinery, and a rebuilt superstructure in the pagoda mast style. Other than participating in the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in 1942, where she did not see any significant combat, Mutsu spent most of the first year of the Pacific War in training. She returned to Japan in early 1943. That June, one of her aft magazines detonated while she was at anchor, sinking the ship with the loss of 1,121 crew and visitors. The IJN investigation into the cause of her loss concluded that it was the work of a disgruntled crew member. The navy dispersed the survivors in an attempt to conceal the sinking in the interest of morale in Japan. Much of the wreck was scrapped after the war, but some artefacts and relics are on display in Japan, and a small portion of the ship remains where it was sunk.

IJN Haruna

The Japanese KONGO Class Battlecruiser IJN "HARUNA" seen here on 4 Apr 1916, she would be the only one in her class to suffer any damage during the first World War. HARUNA struck a mine believed to have been laid by the German auxiliary cruiser WOLF in the summer of 1917. The damaged was severe, as the flooding was extensive. The KONGO class was "offensively" the most powerful Battlecruisers in the world at the time of their commissioning. HARUNA managed to attain a trial speed of over 28 knots during her running trials on 24 Nov 1914. She was the fourth & last battlecruiser of the KONGO class, amongst the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built.

USS New York (CA-2)

USS New York (CA-2) Pictured at the Victory Fleet Review  -  New York 1898.

USS Texas (BB-35)

USS TEXAS BB-35 hammering away with her 14" rifles at German positions on and near Omaha beach, dog green sector, June 6th 1944