The wreck of the Austro-Hungarian submarine SMS U-12, sunk by a mine in the Venetian lagoon on 8 August 1915 (first Austro-Hungarian submarine to be lost in WWI), and later raised by the Italians, 1916
Royal Navy carrier HMS Eagle with other RN ships at the Gulf of Aden during the British withdrawal from Aden, Yemen, Nov 1967. The 2nd carrier in the background may be HMS Albion or HMS Bulwark.
Italian predreadnought battleship Benedetto Brin, followed by the Ammiraglio di Saint Bon, entering Taranto on 9 March 1912, during the Italo-Turkish War
SMS Goeben. Caught in the Med at the outbreak of WWI she managed to completely humiliate the Royal Navy- avoiding a much larger force hunting her. She escaped to Turkey. Renamed Yavuz she remained with Turkey until 1973, when she was scrapped.
USS California (BB-44) fitting out at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. The handwritten note on the photo says she is "being commissioned". Well, if she is then she is a complete mess! There are a bunch of bluejackets on deck though, not just yard workers.
SMS Scharnhorst (shown 1907). Part of the German East Asiatic Squadron at sea when WWI began, under Admiral Maximilian von Spee, she helped destroy a RN squadron at Coronel but was later hunted down and sunk by RN battlecruisers at the Battle of the Malvinas Islands.
Starboard view of the Japanese Hiyō-class aircraft carrier Jun'yō (Peregrine Falcon) at Sasebo, Japan, September 1945. Jun'yō was converted from the fast passenger liner Kashiwara Maru during construction, and was completed in 1942.
Two HA-201 class submarines are visible alongside. These were...