Battleships Collection (page 4)

HMS Lancaster, British heavy (armed) cruiser, Monmouth class. Date: circa 1904

HMS New Zealand, British battle cruiser, with crew on deck, and a crowd of people on the quayside. Date: circa 1919

USS North Dakota, American battleship
USS North Dakota (BB29), American battleship. Date: 1910

British light cruiser off Venice, Italy
A British Bristol Class light cruiser (possibly HMS Gloucester) off Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1910

HMS Furious, British light cruiser. Date: circa 1904

HMS King Edward VII, British battleship. Date: circa 1908

HMS Dominion, British battleship. Date: circa 1908

HMS Nelson, British battleship -- view on the Forecastle, looking aft. Date: 1938

HMS Emperor of India -- scene on deck, with sailors. Date: circa 1920s

General Denikin and family arriving at Southampton
General Anton Denikin, his wife and young daughter at Southampton, 14 June 1920, about to disembark from the Emperor of India. They were anti-Bolshevist exiles from Russia. Date: 1920

Six Russian destroyers, WW1
Six Russian destroyers, First World War. The nearest one bears the initials GL, the Gavriil. Date: circa 1914-1915

Four French torpedo boats in Cherbourg Harbour, France. Date: 1910s

French destroyer Dehorter, Patras, Greece, WW1
French destroyer Dehorter (Bouclier class), in the port of Patras, Greece, during the First World War (17 September 1917). Date: 1917

Japanese battleship Shikishima, Blackwall, London
Platform and cradle for the launch of the Japanese battleship Shikishima from the Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, SE London. Date: 1898

Illustrated War News front cover, naval, 12 August 1914
Front cover of the first issue of the Illustrated War News, produced within a week of the outbreak of the First World War and dedicated to covering all aspects of the conflict

Romania - National Exhibition of 1906
Romania - National Exhibition in Bucharest, Independence Avenue and the Lake, including a view of a battleship. Date: 1906

WW1 The Ladys World cover - dreadnought cushion cover
Front cover of a First World War period The Ladys World Fancy Work Book featuring a topical design for a dreadnought cushion cover. Date: c.1915

Battleships lying in Portsmouth Harbour. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Cartoon, Matinee de Novembre, WW1
Cartoon, Matinee de Novembre, showing Kaiser Wilhelm shivering in the sea at Calais, with Dover guarded by battleships in the far distance during the First World War

Munitions being loaded onto battleship, WW1
A dockyard scene during the First World War showing munitions being hoisted aboard a battleship. Date: 1915

Zeppelin with German fleet, WW1
An L type zeppelin airship pictured accompanying a squadron of German battleships at sea. Featured in the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News at the time when the Germans had bombarded the East

Comparing aeroplanes and battleships by G. H. Davis
Comparative values of aeroplanes and battleships. One super-dreadnought ship is the equivalent of 3000 aeroplanes in monetary terms. 1912

Our ever-ready battleships by G. H. Davis
Naval notes of the week. Held in leash -- our ever-ready battleships. Date: 1913

Power of the big gun and the turbine by G. H. Davis
The power of the big gun and the turbine. Three annotated illustrations, showing the modern battleship cruisers advantage over an opponent carrying lighter guns of shorter range

Growth of the US Navy by G. H. Davis
The rapid growth of the US Navy during the Second World War: the vast array of warships built since the beginning of 1940. Showing US warships, from submarines to battleships. Date: 1945

Sinking of the Stonegate by G. H. Davis
The Deutschlands first victim: the sinking of the British merchant ship Stonegate in the Atlantic. The crew were first ordered to abandon ship, and were taken on board the Deutschland

German air attack on British squadron by G. H. Davis
A German air attack on a British squadron in the North Sea, 150 miles off the coast of Norway, in the early stages of the Second World War

British and Soviet ships by G. H. Davis
The decline and fall in numbers of ships of the British Navy and the Soviet Fleet, by comparison, and somecosts involved in rebuilding our fleet. Date: 1962

Spithead panorama, ships on north side
Panorama of the Coronation Review: the right-hand section, showing ships on the north side. A Spithead panorama, showing battleships of the Mediterranean fleet headed by the Queen Elizabeth

Loading ships guns in 1805 and 1935 by G. H. Davis
From Nelson to Nelson : feeding a ships guns today and in 1805. Loading methods in a modern battleship and at Trafalgar: contrasts after 130 years of naval gunnery. Date: 1935

British warships by G. H. Davis
All that goes to produce a great British warships battle thunder : cold science behind the big guns. From the captains quietly spoken order to the pulling of the pistol-trigger

Cartoon, The Bottling Season, WW1
Cartoon, The Bottling Season, now is the time to bottle fruit and other things. Showing a smiling British sailor of HMS Alert sitting on a glass jar containing battleships labelled as Preserves

Australian fleet in Mediterranean by G. H. Davis
Bravo Australia! The first colony (of the British Empire) with a fleet of its own -- the fighting force of the Mediterranean. Two panoramic views of the ships of the Australian navy. 1913

Allied ship in action in the Dardanelles, Turkey, WW1
Allied ship in action in the Dardanelles, Turkey, during the First World War. Date: 1915

Allied landing in the Dardanelles, Turkey, WW1
Allied landing in the Dardanelles, Turkey, during the First World War. Date: 1915

Allied ships in action in the Dardanelles, Turkey, WW1
Allied ships in action in the Dardanelles, Turkey, during the First World War. Date: 1915

British ships in action, Dardanelles, Turkey, WW1
Allied ships in action in the Dardanelles, Turkey, during the First World War. Date: 1915

Italy v. Turkey, rival navies compared, by G. H. Davis
Italy versus Turkey, the rival navies compared. Showing the Italian navy (top), whose chief fighting strength was four powerful armoured cruisers, and the Turkish navy (bottom)

British destroyers by G. H. Davis
The destroyer grows up: from TBD (torpedo boat destroyer) to almost light cruiser. The origins of the destroyer: from the 84.5 foot torpedo boat of 1876 to the Navys newest, the 2610-ton decoy

China - Shanghai - British Warships on the Yangtze River
China - Shanghai - Date: 1927

US Sailors and Swedish Coastal Artillerymen - Stockholm
Two US battleships of the 2nd Division of the Atlantic Fleet, of USS Connecticut class. Namely USS Louisiana (BB-19), Kansas (BB-21) and/or the New Hampshire (BB-25)

French postcard praising the English - WWI era - showing King George V, wounded soldiers of the BEF and the fleet of the Royal Navy

View from Admiralty House, Bermuda Date: circa late 1930s

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