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| RHS Georgios Averof |
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| HMCS Ontario of Canadian Navy |
This is the second article (after the article Battleships and Men) that is dedicated to crew photos together with their warships. After battleships, the largest surface combatants once in the world, the second largest are the cruisers (and the largest surface combatants today) of which some of them exceeded even the 200 meters in length (for example the American Des Moines class heavy cruisers had a length of over 218m and a crew of about 1,800 men!). Therefore, I felt that I had to create a post about them and their crews, similarly I did about battleships, in order to have a complete collection of massive surface combatants and their numerous crews. This is a collection of over 45 crew photos of various countries' cruisers. So, enjoy some nostalgic photos of
these former but also some of the today's elegant and powerful rulers of the seas with their crews! If you have similar photos, please do not hesitate to contact me!
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| HMAS Australia's ships company on the occasion of a visit from Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, March 1954 |
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| Russian cruiser Bayan |
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| HMS Encounter circa-1913 |
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| HMAS Sydney |
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| USS Augusta in 1935 |
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| HMS Nigeria |
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| HNLMS De Ruyter and Queen Juliana |
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| HMAS Shropshire |
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| HNLMS De Ruyter and Queen Wilhelmina |
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| HMS King Alfred |
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| HMS Hawkins in 1929 |
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| HMAS Canberra |
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| HMAS Sydney |
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| HMAS Perth |
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| HMS Calypso |
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| USS Houston |
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| HMCS Ontario |
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| HMS Newfoundland and Queen Elizabeth |
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| HMS Ajax |
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| HMS Nigeria |
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| French cruiser Lamotte Picquet |
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| HNLMS Sumatra with Princess Juliana and Queen Wilhelmina aboard |
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| Greek armored cruiser Georgios Averof |
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| HNLMS Java with Princess Juliana and Queen Wilhelmina aboard |
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| USS Houston |
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| USS Minneapolis |
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| USS Cleveland and her crew in 1922 |
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| USS Tuscon and her crew |
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| USS Astoria |
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| USS Augusta |
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| USS Indianapolis |
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| USS San Francisco |
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| HMCS Uganda |
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| Italian cruiser Zara |
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| German cruiser Emden |
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| HMS Lion |
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| HMS Ceylon in 1956 |
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| Queen Elizabeth aboard HMAS Australia |
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| FS Colbert missile cruiser |
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| Spanish Nationalist Cruiser Libertad in 1936 |
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| Italian light cruiser Bolzano |
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| French cruiser Algerie |
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| HMS Blake |
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| Aircraft carrying cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi as she was known initially due to her heavy (initially) armament |
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| A Russian Slava class cruiser and her crew |
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| Sailors on deck of four-funnel cruiser HMS Powerful, Australian Squadron, Sydney Harbour, circa 1905 |
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| Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Gettysburg |
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XPu8VhEeBNM/Vx9amyGk3jI/AAAAAAAAG4w/YzQU26N71Dk40AdR_-D169qXp9WgT6AaACLcB/s1600/russian.jpg - this is russian battleship Andrei Pervozvanny (1906).
ReplyDeleteThank you very much! I've removed the photo and I will add it later to the Battleships & Men post.
DeleteYou have HMS Newfoundland mislabelled as HMCS (she never served in the RCN), while you have her Colony - class sister Uganda potentially mislabeled as HMS (she was transferred to the RCN in 1943,after being repaired due to damage sustained off Italy from a German radio-controlled glider bomb).
ReplyDeleteThank you so much James and sorry it took me so long! I have fixed the labels.
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