Imperial Russian Navy armoured cruiser Gromoboi during her 1901 visit to Australia.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Gromoboi

Austro-Hungarian predreadnought battleship SMS Babenberg.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Babenberg

French light cruiser Lamotte-Picquet in Taikoo dry dock, Hong Kong, April 2nd-3rd 1939.

To tighten up her rudder and examine some of her turbines. Afterwards she departed for Vietnam.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cruiser_La_Motte-Picquet

Unfinished Italian battleship Littorio, Genoa, December 1938.

Ship details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Littorio

Battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Princess_Royal_(1911)

Light cruiser USS Duluth, May 17th 1947.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Duluth_(CL-87)

German light cruiser Karlsruhe circa 1930.

One of the photos on the Wikipedia page shows the exact same ship orientation & configuration, along with the same sea waves, but with a markedly different cloud pattern. Obviously the background was altered in one of those (probably the one I used for this blog, though it had a higher resolution), I'm guessing for use as a postcard.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Karlsruhe

Birdseye view of the Imperial Japanese Navy Mogami class light-heavy cruiser Suzuya.

This is while she had triple 155 mm (6.1-inch) turrets, up to 1939, and was thus a light cruiser. Later she was re-armed with with twin 203 mm (8-inch) guns, like her sister ships of the the Mogami class, and became a true heavy cruiser.
Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Suzuya_(1934)

Imperial Russian Navy predreadnought battleship Georgii Pobedonosets in Sevastopol, 1890.

She had an unusual arrangement for her main armament, with two forward turrets located on each side of the bridge and a single centrally-located turret aft. Unlike the other three, earlier, vessels in her class, which had compound armour made of iron and steel, Georgii Pobedonosets's armour consisted solely of steel.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Georgii_Pobedonosets

French central battery and barbette ironclad Le Redoutable in 1889.

She was the first warship in the world to be built mainly of steel rather than iron. You can see one of her 10.6" breech loaders in the aft barbette near her stern flag pole.


Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ironclad_Redoutable

Stern view of the battleship HMS Dreadnought in drydock.

 Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)

Giuseppe Garibaldi class Italian armoured cruiser Varese.

Class details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi_class_cruiser

Armstrong 100-ton gun being lowered on board of the Italian transport ship Europa, United Kingdom, probably 1870s.

This was a 17.72" muzzle loader as seen on the Duilio & Dandolo Italian predreadnought battleships, the so-called 'monster gun' that defined a short-lived era of battleship construction.
Gun details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100-ton_gun

The USS Missouri arrives at Long Beach harbour, 1951.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Missouri_(BB-63)

German battlecruiser Gneisenau.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Gneisenau

Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Mutsu.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mutsu

Imperial Russian Navy predreadnought battleship Knyaz Suvorov, 1901-1904.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Knyaz_Suvorov

French predreadnought battleship Saint Louis, early 1900s.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Saint_Louis

Battleship HMS Valiant in floating dock at Invergordon, late 1918 or 1919.

Quote from http://www.theinvergordonarchive.org/picture/number1462.asp:

"The gun tampions have a cockerel emblem confirming that she is H.M.S. Valiant. The flying-off platforms were fitted to the ‘B’ and ‘X’ turrets in 1918 so the date of this picture is either late 1918 or 1919."


Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Valiant_(1914)

Unidentified US battleship being very wet forward.

Italian battleships Conte di Cavour and Giulio Cesare, Napoli, 1938.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conte_di_Cavour_class_battleship
Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Giulio_Cesare

Postcard featuring the German predreadnought battleship SMS Deutschland passing the Levensau High Bridge on the Kiel Canal.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Deutschland_(1904)

Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser Ashigara prior to the Spithead Coronation Fleet Review, May 19th 1937.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Ashigara

French coast defense predreadnought battleship Jemmapes in Toulon.

Note the turtledeck/whaleback bow and the two single large guns.
Ship details: http://www.cityofart.net/bship/fr_jemmapes.html

Forward main guns on the Russian battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna (Paris Commune) circa 1940.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Sevastopol_(1911)