JS Aki AOS-5203

Picture from Japan MOD via http://www.navalpost.com

Spanish Cruiser Navarra

Picture via naval-encyclopedia.com

And again thanks to Slabo for another great tip!

Spanish cruiser Canarias

Picture via naval-encyclopedia.com

Thanks to Slabo for the great tip!

USS Lewis B. Puller ESB3 – IMO 9656008

Picture by Andreas Schlatterer via http://www.shipspotting.com

Yamashiro

Dunno Source via Reddit

Thanks to Gus K for the tip!

DDG-1000 USS Zumwalt

Picture via http://www.meta-defense.fr/

Thanks to Doug B. for bringing this one back to my attention.

US Navy Albany-class cruisers

Picture by Nick Thorne via http://www.navsource.org

A long long time ago (actually in October 2009) I published this post about the USS Long Beach in which I mentioned that “She had the highest bridge of any ship in the US Navy smaller than an actual aircraft carrier”. Gus K tipped me about the Albany-class cruisers which came second on that ranking scale.

Here is the Chicago next to the Long Beach, for comparison:

Picture by JohnSlaughter via htwww.navsource.org

Except for that factoid we can also see that they were kinda ugly…..

Picture by Brian Kroenung via hwww.navsource.org

If you fancy looking at some more pics of all 3 vessels, do a clickerdieclick on the links below:

USS Albany (Oregon City-class) (CA-123/CG-10) 

USS Chicago (Baltimore-class) (CA-136/CG-11)

USS Columbus (Baltimore-class) (CA-74/CG-11) 

Many thanks for the tip (and the well documented emails) Gus!

HNoMS GNIST P965

Picture by Geir Vinnes via http://www.shipspotting.com

Paolo Thaon di Revel (P 430)

Dunno source, via the Interwebs

Ghost

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HMCS REGINA FFH334

#coolpaintjob
#melikes

Dunno source via Reddit

More info here.

Mikasa

Picture via Wikipedia

 

The battleships of this era are all kinda ugly, form over function I guess, but this one is indeed spectacularly so.
Thanks to Colin C. for the tip.

USS Annapolis (AGMR-1)

US Navy Photo via http://www.wikipedia.com