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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

TOKYO, Japan - The file photo taken on Dec. 7, 1941 shows U.S. battleships bursting into flames following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

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S. Korea, U.S. launch joint maritime drills involving U.S. aircraft carrier

STORY: S. Korea, U.S. launch joint maritime drills involving U.S. aircraft carrier DATELINE: Sept. 26, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:23 LOCATION: Seoul CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of S. Korea-U.S. joint naval exercise (Yonhap TV) (file) 2. various of jet flights and sailors on deck (Xinhua, shot on Sept. 23, 2022) STORYLINE: South Korea and the United States on Monday launched their joint maritime drills near the Korean Peninsula, involving a U.S. aircraft carrier and over 20 warships from the two sides. The South Korean defense ministry said the combined naval exercise was scheduled to continue for four days from Monday in the South Korean eastern waters. Mobilized for the exercise will be more than 20 battleships, including a 7,600-ton Aegis destroyer and a 4,400-ton destroyer from the South Korean side as well as the USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike group that arrived in the South Korean southeastern port city of Busan on Friday. The strike group consists of the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered

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The Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Naval Manoeuvers

The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 - Japanese Naval Battle Manoeuvers Date: circa 1905

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Japanese warship Hiei - Kongo Class Battlecruiser

Hiei - warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War I and World War II. Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, the second of four Kongo-class battlecruisers - formally commissioned in 1914. Battlecruisers carried less armour than Battleships, allowing them more speed, but often had similar weaponry and were of a similar size. Date: circa 1915

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Japanese battleship Yamato hit by bombs

Japanese battleship Yamato hit by American bombs in the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea in October 1944, part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, a huge naval battle off the Philippines in World War Two. Date: October 1944

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Japanese battleship Yamato

The Japanese battleship Yamato at sea, which, with her sister ship Musashi was the biggest ever built (by the time of the Second World War) displacing over 70,000 tons at deep load. Date: c.1942

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Japan - Yokohama - The Grand Pier

Japan - Yokohama - The Grand Pier. The HMS Rawalpindi (left) was a British armed merchant cruiser (a converted passenger ship - as it was at the time of this photograph - as the P&O vessel the SS Rawalpindi) that was sunk in a surface action against the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during the first months of Second World War. On the right is the Hikawa Maru - a Japanese ocean liner that was built for the Nippon Yusen KK line by the Yokohama Dock Company. She was launched on 30 September 1929, and made her maiden voyage from Kobe to Seattle on 13 May 1930. Date: circa 1931

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Russo-Japanese War - Battle of Tsushima

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese sailors celebrate the sinking of Russian fleet at the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905. The battle was a devastating loss for the Imperial Russian Navy, which lost all of its battleships, most of its cruisers and destroyers, and effectively ended the Russo-Japanese war in Japan's favour. Date: May 1905

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War in the Pacific

Pages from The Sphere, 20th December 1941, with an article and accompanying photographs and illustrations about the loss of the British battleship 'Prince of Wales' and the battlecruiser 'Repulse', sunk off Malaya in action against the Japanese on Wednesday 10th December 1941. Date: 20th December 1941

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Hydroplanes, motor boat, and man-of-war

A busy scene out on the sea with a hydroplane, a man of war ship and a motor boat (or speed boat) whizzing around. Date: c.1925

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The Imperial Japanese Navy, Second World War, 1941

British estimate of the strength of the Imperial Japanese Navy, during the Second World War, 1941. The ships illustrated range in size from battleships and aircraft-carriers to minesweepers.1941

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THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE

THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE [BR 1956] Date: 1956

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THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE

THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE [BR 1956] Date: 1956

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SINK THE BISMARCK!

SINK THE BISMARCK! SINK THE BISMARCK! Date: 1960

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Model of battleship Yamato at maritime museum in Hiroshima

Visitors observe the one-10th scale model of the Yamato, one of the world's largest battleships, which was sunk in 1945, at the Yamato Museum in the western Japanese city of Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on April 23, 2015, the 10th anniversary of the launch of the museum. Nearly 9.9 million people have visited it since then. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

TOKYO, Japan - The file photo taken on Dec. 7, 1941 shows U.S. battleships bursting into flames following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. (Kyodo)

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40 battleships converge in Thailand to mark ASEAN's 50th anniversary

A ship boarded by spectators including Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha sails off the Thai resort city of Pattaya on Nov. 20, 2017, to observe an international fleet review in which 40 battleships from around the world took part to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo