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World War Ship Stock Photos

Browse 16,605 world war ship photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images.

hms centurion - world war ship stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

World War II, World War One, Navy

Foggy morning view of the starboard side of the WWII ship, Intrepid, which serves as the base for the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum , Midtown...

battleship uss missouri in pearl harbor - world war ship stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Battleship USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor

World War II, Battleship, US Navy

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Close-up front of Battleship U.S.S. Alabama with retro tint

Warship, Military Ship, Battleship

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Military Ships and Elements

Aircraft Carrier, In Silhouette, Military Ship

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Military Battleship Docked at Norfolk, VA, Navy USS Wisconsin

Norfolk - Virginia, Navy, Warship

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USS Alabama detail

US Navy, Navy, Warship

Launch of a "Liberty Ship" cargo ship at the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard as part of the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during the World...

Launch of a Liberty Ship.

American Soldiers from 20th Armored Division and units of 9th Army, celebrate on SS John Ericsson as they return home, Pier 87, North River, New York...

American Soldiers from 20th Armored Division and units of 9th Army, celebrate on SS John Ericsson as they return home, Pier 87, North (Hudson) River, New York City, New York, USA, photo by Al Ravenna, World Telegram & Sun, August 6, 1945

USA, World War II, Army Soldier

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Military Ship, Warship, USA

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Sunset behind USS North Carolina

US Navy, Military Ship, Battleship

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Aerial view/Fighter aircraft used for national defense

Aerospace Industry, Fighter Plane, US Military

Liberty ship being fitted out at an American shipyard, circa 1943. Liberty ships were built in large numbers by U.S shipyards for wartime use by the...

World War II, War, Cargo Ship

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British battle cruiser, 1914

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View to Tower Bridge at sunrise, London

Royal Navy, London - England, World War II

Nine liberty cargo ships docked at the outfitting yard of the California Shipbuilding Corporation are readied for delivery to the U.S. Maritime...

World War II, Ship

Deutchland class cruiser of the German Kriegsmarine flying a nazi standard with Nazi insignia on the prow. Source of image: KGB archive Ukraine 2010....

Deutchland class cruiser of the German Kriegsmarine flying a nazi standard with Nazi insignia on the prow. Source of ima

Kriegsmarine, World War II

digitally restored vintage world war ii photo of american troops wading ashore on omaha beach during the d-day invasion on june 6, 1944. - world war ship stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Digitally restored vintage World War II photo of American troops wading ashore on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944.

D Day, 1944, Normandy

Imperial Japanese Navy airplanes attacking the US Navy deep-water naval base on Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941.

Attack on Pearl Harbour.

Pearl Harbour Attack, War, Bombing

The Royal Navy Invincible-class battlecruiser HMS Indomitable of the1st Cruiser Squadron in August 1908 at Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co....

HMS Indomitable

World War One, Govan, Battle of Jutland

With the Empire State Building and the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop and escorted by tugboats the Midway-class aircraft carrier of the United...

Brooklyn Bridge

Shipyard, World War II

The German cruiser 'Breslau' in the bay at Constantinople, where she was seconded to the Turkish Navy and renamed 'Midilli'. On the right is the...

World War One, Istanbul

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Diving on the SS Thistlegorm wreck in Egypt

Shipwreck, Ship, Sea

Coast Guardsmen on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer watch the explosion of a depth charge which blasted a Nazi U-boats's hope of...

Coast Guard Sinks Nazi U-Boat

Battle of the Atlantic, World War II, Exploding

Two battleships of the King George the 5th Class, the Anson and Howe, sister-ships of the Duke of York.

Anson And Howe Battleships

Royal Navy, World War II, UK

Missiles streak through the sky from a US Navy LSM firing at Japanese installations on Okinawa, Japan, during World War II .

World War II, Japan, Archival

Rear view of an American military officer looking out over the Pacific Ocean, naval vessels in silhouette on the horizon, during the Battle of Iwo...

World War II - Battle Of Iwo Jima

1945, Pacific Ocean, Ship

Deutchland class pocket battleship, possibly the Graf Spee, pictured here in North Germany flying the Nazi Kriegsmarine ensign. Scuttled in the...

Deutschland class pocket battleship, possibly the Graf Spee, pictured here in North Germany flying the Nazi Kriegsmarine

Sea, Germany, World War II

The USS Shaw exploding during the Japanese attack on the US Pacific fleet at their base in Pearl Harbour on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

Pearl Harbour Attack, Naval Bases, USA

The USS Missouri, a US Navy IOWA-class battleship, firing the 16-inch guns of its two forward turrets over the water during shakedown gunnery...

World War II, Battleship, Pacific Ocean

Women and children on the gangway as they board the ship transporting them from the 'Panama Canal Zone' detention camp in Panama, 6th April 1942....

World War II - 'Panama Canal Zone' Detention Camp

View of the German battleship Bismarck firing on a merchant ship in the north Atlantic. The Bismarck was sunk after attack by the British fleet on...

Bismarck - North Dakota, Germany, German Culture

Destroyer approaches an aircraft carrier during the Manila offensive in the Philippines. Original Publication: The radar antennas have been censored...

Naval Task Force

Pacific Ocean, World War II, Black And White

Group of shipyard workers dwarfed by the French ocean liner SS Normandie after she was righted at Pier 88, Manhattan, New York City, New York,...

SS Normandie, Pier 88, NYC

Postcard published by the Partito Nazionale Fascista depicting a gigantic Japanese Samurai warrior, backed by Nazi German, Italian and Japanese...

Italy/Japan: Postcard published by the Partito Nazionale Fascista (National Fascist Party) depicting a gigantic Japanese Samurai warrior, backed by Nazi German, Italian and Japanese flags, smashing Allied warships with his sword. Milano, 1943

Japan, Propaganda, World War II

military navy ship view from aerial - world war ship stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Military Navy Ship view from aerial

Ship, Navy, US Navy

aerial view of the various naval vessels around the beaches of normandy in northernmost france. - world war ship stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Aerial view of the various naval vessels around the beaches of Normandy in northernmost France.

D Day, World War II, 1944

Deserted German trawler trapped in ice floes with Coast Guardsmen beside piles of ammunition and food supplies, during the Second World War, on the...

World War II - German Trawler Trapped In Arctic Ice

Map showing the movements of 'HMS Ark Royal', 1939-1941, . Map of the Atlantic Ocean, western Europe and Africa, indicating journeys and principal...

Map Showing The Movements Of Hms Ark Royal

Map, World War II, Norway

1930s USN PACIFIC FLEET AIRCRAFT CARRIERS SARATOGA AND LEXINGTON SEEN FROM FLIGHT DECK OF CARRIER RANGER BEFORE WORLD WAR II

1930s USN PACIFIC FLEET

World War II, Aircraft Carrier, Cockpit

Japanese battleship squadron led by Battleship Fuso during manoeuvres off Malaya. Fuso and Kirisima were built at the beginning of the First World...

Jap Fleet Malaya

Japan, World War II, War

British Ships Of The First World War, Gunboat HMS KILDANGAN in dazzle camouflage, 1918.

British Ships Of The First World War

Ship, World War One, Warship

Olympic in dazzle camouflage while in service as a troopship during World War I, c. 1914-1918.

UK: HMT Olympic in dazzle camouflage while in service as a troopship during World War I, c. 1914-1918

RMS Olympic - Ship, Camouflage, War

One of 402 Japanese planes shot down in a one-day serial battle off the Marianas, as it attempted to attack the USS Kitrun Bay, near the Mariana...

Japanese Dive Bomber

Japan, Navy, Explosive

View of clouds of black smoke rising from the USS 'Bunker Hill' aircraft carrier after it was hit twice by Japanese Kamikaze planes during World War...

USS Bunker Hill Burns

Japan, War, World War II

The S.S. 'Dixie Arrow,' broken in half, burns while sinking into the Atlantic Ocean after being torpedoed by an unseen German submarine during World...

World War II, US Navy, Atlantic Ocean

The giant British transatlantic liner, Queen Mary, is pictured from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter as it arrived in New York Bay bringing more than...

Aerial View of Queen Mary Arriving with Troops

World War II, RMS Queen Mary, Army Soldier

Zeppelin passenger airship passes overhead during a British Naval visit to Kiel Harbour just before the start of the first world war.

World War One, Airship, War

Survivors of the merchant ship 'Laconia', sunk during the Battle of the Atlantic, cling to a lifeboat after several days at sea before being rescued...

Rescuing Survivors

World War II, Battle of the Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean

North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber from the 38th Bombardment Group of the Fifth United States Army Air Force attacks Imperial Japanese...

World War Two Pacific 1943

World War II, Black And White, Ship

An aerial view of the wreckage of German warship, in Negotin, Serbia on September 13, 2024. A German warship, dating back to World War II, has...

World War II-era warship emerges from Serbia's Danube River amid low water levels

Lieutenant General Richard K Sutherland of the United States Army watches as Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese...

Signing The Japanese Instrument Of Surrender, 1945

Japan, Surrendering, 1945

World War II. Pacific front. The American "Bunker Hill" airacraft carrier after the attack of two kamikazes , on May 11, 1945.

World War II. Pacific front.

Tokko Kamikaze, World War II

German battleship Bismarck and german cruiser warship Prinz Eugen during naval battle against english battleships Hood and Prince of Wales may 24,...

German battleship Bismarck and german cruiser warship Prinz Eugen during naval battle against english battleships Hood and Prince of Wales may 24, 1941 on the road to Denmark which ended by the shipwreck of Hood (only 3 survivors over 1428 men) picture ta

Bismarck - North Dakota, Shipwreck, World War II

World War II, 28th November 1939, England, The superstructure of the G-class destroyer HMS Gipsy showing above the water after being blown up off the...

World War II, 28th November 1939, England, The superstructure of the destroyer ,gipsy showing above the water after being blown up off the East coast by a German mine with the loss of 29 officers and men

War and Conflict, World War Two, Sea War, 8th April 1940, The last moments of the British destroyer HMS Glowworm as seen from the German heavy...

War and Conflict. World War Two. Sea War. April 1940. The last moments of the British destroyer "Glowworm" as seen from the German heavy cruiser "Hipper", which is only yards away and moving in which resulted in the "Glowworm" ramming the "Hipper". The sm

The barrells of the main armament of nine 16-inch guns mounted in triple turrets on the Royal Navy Nelson-class battleship HMS Rodney are elevated...

Battle of the Atlantic, World War II, Archival

165th Infantry assault wave attacking Butaritari, Yellow Beach Two, find it slow going in the coral bottom waters. Japanese machine gun fire from the...

Infantry Wade Towards Smoke of Battle

World War II, Sea, Army Soldier

World War One. British navy artillery. Small cannon of a destroyer. 1915. BOY 6954.

World War One. British navy artillery. Small canno

Picture shows the disaster at Gallipoli. The British ship, H.M.S. Cornwallis, returns fire at the Turks. At the right you can see big fires raging on...

H.M.S. Cornwallis Battling at Gallipoli

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