Photos of World War II Ships | World War II Database

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Japanese heavy cruiser Takao on a trial run off Tateyama, Tokyo Bay, 14 Jul 1939	USS Honolulu in Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii, 14 Jul 1939. The Aloha Tower and an outrigger canoe can be seen at right.	Adm Thomas Hart relieved Harry Yarnell aboard Augusta, off Shanghai, China, 25 Jul 1939	Battleship H under construction at the Blohm und Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, 28 Jul 1939

Admiral Graf Spee in the English Channel, Aug 1939, photo 1 of 2	Admiral Graf Spee in the English Channel, Aug 1939, photo 2 of 2	U-40 at Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 1939	Émile Bertin underway, 9 Aug 1939

Launching of U-54 at Slip III of Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany, 15 August 1939	Polish destroyers Grom and Burza during Operation Peking, viewed from destroyer Błyskawica, circa 29 Aug-1 Sep 1939	Destroyer USS Ward off Mare Island, California, Sep 1939. Two years later, this ship would go on to fire the United States’ first shot of the Pacific War.	German battleship Schleswig-Holstein bombarding Westerplatte, Danzig, 1 Sep 1939. Photo 1 of 2.

Sailors inspected damage on Schleswig-Holstein caused by Polish coastal batteries of Hel Penninsula, Sep 1939	HMS Courageous sinking in the Atlantic Ocean, 17 Sep 1939	HMS Courageous sinking, Atlantic Ocean, 17 Sep 1939; photograph taken by a British Royal Navy sailor aboard an escorting vessel	Launching of Console Generale Liuzzi, Tosi Shipyard at Taranto, Italy, 17 Sep 1939

USS Helena's commissioning ceremony, 18 Sep 1939	Wilhelm Gustloff, as a hospital ship, at Danzig, 23 Sep 1939	Hospital ship Wilhelm Gustloff at Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland), late 1939	Scharnhorst in port with her crew manning the rail, circa late 1939