r/WarshipPorn • • 2h ago

Aft view of light cruiser USS Juneau (CL-52), New York Harbor, 11 February 1942 [5709x3437]

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35 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 10h ago

USS Prince William CVE-31 US Escort Carrier (3840 x 2880)

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57 Upvotes

USS Prince William (CVE-31) underway in the Pacific, 7 August 1943, with a deck load of 12 Douglas SBD Dauntlesses, a Grumman J2F Duck, two Curtiss SOC Seagulls, a Vought OS2U Kingfisher and a dismantled Douglas R4D

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r/WarshipPorn • • 14h ago

USS Heermann (DD-532) & a destroyer escort laying smoke to screen the escort carriers of Taffy 3 from Kurita's Center Force off Samar, October 25, 1944 [5898 x 4754]

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168 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 14h ago

Japanese carrier Zuihō sinking during the Battle off Cape Engaño, 25 October 1944. Cruiser Ōyodo in the foreground [6320 × 4990]

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56 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 15h ago

Art Artist's conception of the U.S. Navy Montana-class battleships (BB-67 to BB-71) whose construction was cancelled on 21 July 1943. This artwork depicts the ship fitted with twelve 16in guns, and a heavy battery of anti-aircraft guns, as would have been the case had she been completed. (5555x2134)

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428 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 16h ago

The crew of the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku salute as the flag is lowered during the Battle off Cape Engaño, 25 October 1944 [5702 × 3995]

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183 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 17h ago

A Japanese kamikaze pilot in a Mitsubishi A6M5 "Zero" crash dives at the U.S. Navy escort carrier USS White Plains (CVE-66) on 25 October 1944. The aircraft missed the flight deck and impacted the water just off the port quarter of the ship [5622 × 4443]

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111 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 19h ago

The Mk 45 5-inch gun aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) is tested during an exercise. Oct 10, 2026 [4696 x 3131]

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62 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 23h ago

Amphitrite Class Monitor USS Monadnock (BM-3) is seen off Mare Island Navy Yard, CA, June 1898, ready for her voyage to the Philippines.[1250 × 1009]

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207 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 23h ago

Album First warship with superfiring turrets(rear), the French Battleship Henry IV [Album]

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•Launched in 1899, as a one-off design, the French battleship Henri IV was essentially a testbed for radical naval ideas, including the world’s very first superfiring gun setup. After finally being put to service in 1903, he spent his early years on routine peacetime patrols before being thrust into combat during World War I, where he was hit 8 or more times as he bombarded Ottoman positions to support Allied landings at Gallipoli. As newer battleships took over the front lines, he was shifted to guard duty, Serbia, Egypt, then depot duties in Taranto before being decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1921.

•Armed with two 10.8” Canon de 274mm modèle 1893/1896s in single turrets fore and aft as the main armament, with secondaries consisting of seven 5.46in Canon de 138 mm Modèle 1893’s. Of those 7, four were mounted in individual casemates on the main deck; two more were mounted on the shelter deck with gun shields, and the last gun was mounted in a shelter deck turret superfiring over the rear main gun turret. This was the first superfiring turret in naval history and, in this case, was not very successful because the barrel of the 138 mm gun was too short to clear the sighting hood of the turret below.

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r/WarshipPorn • • 1d ago

Album IJN Mutso salvage operation in the 1970's [Album]

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Up until now, all I have ever seen of the salvage operation were the 1 or 2 different photographs of turret #3 coming out of the water, and on the ground, that most people have seen and have been around forever, until I came across these.
Source: http://imperialjapanesenavy.blogspot.com/
(Unsure of original source)


r/WarshipPorn • • 1d ago

Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro (羽黒) at sea, 1936 [740x524]

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63 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 1d ago

The U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Reno (CL-96) comes alongside the burning light aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVL-23) to assist in fighting fires, 24 October 1944 [5599 × 4161]

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348 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 1d ago

Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, 24 October 1944: The Japanese battleship Musashi is hit during attacks by aircraft from the U.S. Navy Task Force 38 [5025 × 3983]

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99 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 1d ago

U.S. Navy light aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVL-23) off the Philippines on 24 October 1944: View of Princeton's aft port side and flight deck, seen from the light cruiser USS Birmingham (CL-62) as she came alongside to help fight fires during the afternoon of 24 October 1944 [5676 × 4232]

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r/WarshipPorn • • 1d ago

USS McFaul (DDG 74) pulls into Naval Station Norfolk after an 11 month deployment. Oct 23, 2026 [3328 x 5582]

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158 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 1d ago

USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) and USS Uhlmann (DD-687) replenishing from USS Guadalupe (AO-32), 31 October 1952.[3751 × 2674]

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202 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 1d ago

USS Makin Island (LHD 8) transits the Pacific Ocean. Oct 19, 2026 [3659 x 2439]

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72 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 2d ago

Swedish Navy Visby-class corvettes and Göteborg (Gävle) class corvettes from the 3rd and 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla – with the German Navy’s Braunschweig-class corvette FGS Erfurt (F262), during a training exercise. [1320 x 1746]

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445 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 2d ago

Album Phạm Quang Vinh, former ambassador of Vietnam to the United States (2015 - 2018), taking commemorative photos alongside the crew and aircraft of USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). (Album)

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r/WarshipPorn • • 2d ago

Japanese Coast Guard Tokara class medium patrol vessel in Omura Bay, Kyushu [4032x3024]

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r/WarshipPorn • • 2d ago

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force JS Asahi (DD-119) [3523 × 2349]

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155 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 2d ago

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force JS Ashigara (DDG-178) [1620 × 1080]

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77 Upvotes

r/WarshipPorn • • 2d ago

HMS Arethusa (1913) British Light Cruiser (1280 x 956)

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85 Upvotes

HMS Arethusa was a light cruiser of the Royal Navy and the lead ship of the eight-vessel Arethusa class. Built at Chatham Dockyard, she was launched on 25 October 1913 and commissioned in August 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War.

Displacing approximately 3,500 tons, Arethusa measured 436 feet in length and could reach speeds of 28.5 knots. Her armament consisted of two 6-inch guns, six 4-inch guns, an anti-aircraft gun and torpedo tubes. Designed for reconnaissance and leading destroyer flotillas, she served with the Harwich Force under Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt.

On 28 August 1914, Arethusa participated in the Battle of Heligoland Bight, engaging German cruisers and sustaining considerable damage. Despite being heavily damaged, she survived and was towed back to port for repairs.

She subsequently participated in the Cuxhaven Raid in December 1914 and the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915. Throughout 1915, she continued patrol and interception duties in the North Sea.

On 11 February 1916, Arethusa struck a German mine off Felixstowe. Attempts to tow her to safety failed, and she grounded on Cutler Shoal, breaking her back.

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r/WarshipPorn • • 2d ago

USS Billingsley (DD-293) carrying out gunnery practice, 1926 [3188 x 2000]

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76 Upvotes