Convoy Collection (#2)

Junkers Ju 90 -a small number of this type was used as an ocean going convoy spotter for the U-Boat packs

British naval convoy system by G. H. Davis
The method of safeguarding the freedom of the seas: the British naval convoy system at work. Making the high seas safe for Allied

Camelus sp. camel
A camel train walking across the deserts of Arabia

Armoured convoy of food supplies: General strike 1926
General strike in 1926 called for emergency measures, armoured vehicles and troops in a convoy through the streetscarrying much need food. Date: May 1926

A convoy of Boers. Engraving, 19th century. Colored
Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). A convoy of Boers. Engraving, 19th century. Colored

Alexander III (1845-1894). Tsar of Russia
Alexander III (St. Petersburg, 1845-Livadija, 1894). Tsar of Russia (1881-1894), son and successor of Alexander II. Easter Day in St. Petersburg. Tsar Alexander goes to church

Convoy of prisoners on foot
A convoy of prisoners on foot across a snow covered landscape Date: 1913

Wwi / Uhlans Attack Convoy
German Uhlan cavalry attack a Russian baggage-convoy Date: 1915

Brazza in Africa / Convoy
Brazzas explorations in equatorial Africa - organising a convoy Date: 1875 -1878

HMS Resolution in rough seas. Launched in January 1915. From 1916 to 1919, she served in the 1st Battle Squadron (United Kingdom) of the Grand Fleet

NWFP - A camel convoy (train) from Razani to Razmak. Date: circa 1920s

Arado Ar 196A seen here operating from a Mediterranean base proved to be a very effective convoy shadower

Douglas DC-3 N235A Convoy Patrol Santa Barbara 1977
Douglas DC-3 N235A of the Convoy Maritime Patrol and Rescue service at Santa Barbara on 5 October 1977 Date: 1977

WW1 - Wagon Convoy 103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade
World War 1 - Wagon Convoy 103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade, France. Captioned Men of the Irish Brigade in Motor Lorries - Thought to be on their way to The Somme Date: 1916

WW2 Christmas card, Good Voyage, Churchill. The message inside the card reads: The Prime Minister, on his passage home in RMS Prince of Wales after the signing of the Atlantic Charter with President

WW1 - Eastern Front - German Cavalry (Uhlans) attacking a Russian Baggage Convoy at a ford. Date: 1915

WW2 greetings card, Shelling a British Convoy from the French Coast, by Charles Pears, official war picture from the National Gallery. Date: circa 1942

WW2 Christmas card, Royal Navy sea battle
WW2 Christmas card, The Convoy Gets Through, Royal Navy sea battle, design by Frank Mason. Date: 1943

WW2 Christmas card, Convoy, by Frank Mason. Date: 1939

WW2 Poster -- War Supplies For Russia
War Supplies For Russia. Coloured photolithograph after Blake. A convoy of British and American lorries streams along the Persian route to Russia. Date: 1942

Ypres - Artillery convoy on road passing St Martins Church
Ypres - Artillery convoy on road passing St. Martins Church with the Cloth Hall behind them. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

Bethune : the Clock Tower and convoy of lorries.. Walter Percival Starmer, Bws, Exhib. 1905-1960

A heavy artillery convoy. Georges Scott, (1873-1943). Scott Started His Career In The 1890S And Worked As War Correspondent For The News Magazine L Illustration During The Balkan Wars Of 1912-13

Miss Donnett Paynter with ambulance, WW1
Miss Donnett Paynter with her motor ambulance given by her father, Commander Hugh H. Paynter, R.N. for use at the FANY Convoy

Scenes on the Eastern front in silhouette, WW1
Silhouettes by a Russian cavalry officer depicting scenes a Cossack food convoy being attacked by Uhlans (ultimately a fruitless exercise). Date: 1915

British lorries on a road, Western Front, WW1
British lorries on a road near the Somme, Western Front, World War One. Date: circa 1916

Hidden lesson of the Mauretanias record by G. H. Davis
The hidden lesson of the Mauretanias record. Showing the Cunard liner Mauretania in grey war paint, being convoyed across the Atlantic by a battleship cruiser

Escort carrier Archer by G. H. Davis
How the escort carrier Archer made her kill in the gap during the Second World War. The aircraft of the Archer, escorting an Atlantic convoy, sight and sink a German U-boat. Date: 1943

New type of escort vessel by G. H. Davis
A Woolworth Carrier: first details of the new type of escort vessel giving vital air cover to British convoys in mid-Atlantic during the Second World War. Date: 1943

German losses in Gulf of Tunis by G. H. Davis
German convoy of giant transports wiped out: 31 Messerschmitt ME323s shot down in the Gulf of Tunis, Second World War. The large six-engined aircraft were carrying personnel

Mass production of aircraft by G. H. Davis
Potentialities of mass production of flying boats as troop carriers and heavy freighter airplanes during the Second World War

Merchant Ship Fighter Unit by G. H. Davis
The Merchant Ship Fighter Unit (MSFU) at work during the Second World War: a system which was able to defeat the long-range bomber

Malta convoy gets through by G. H. Davis
Mediterranean action between British and Italian ships during the Second World War: the Malta convoy gets through. Date: 22-23 March 1942

Thrilling Mediterranean feat by G. H. Davis
The convoy must go through, ordered the admiral -- and it did. Story of a thrilling Mediterranean feat during the Second World War

Dive-bombing attack on Mediterranean convoy by G. H. Davis
The Stukas return: tactics and technique used in a dive-bombing attack on a Mediterranean convoy during the Second World War

German seaplane attack on British convoy by G. H. Davis
The first German air attack on a British convoy in the North Sea: the raiding seaplanes routed by British fighters. Date: October 1939

Allied Forces activity in German territory, WW1
Two examples of Allied Forces activity in German territory during the early stages of the First World War. Above, debris from a German motor convoy

Convoy of dazzled ships, English Channel, WW1
A convoy of dazzled British ships in the English Channel during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Convoy system of the British Navy, 1939
British warships, with guns ready for action, provide guard for merchant vessels under convoy from this country. This system operated in the North Sea to protect against merchant ships being sunk by

SSZero escorts a convoy in 1918

Motor Ambulance passing through the Khyber Pass, NWFP Date: circa 1920s

British Commissariat Wagons in Belgium - WWI Date: circa 1915

Snapshot of a balloon convoy crossing a road in South Africa, taken by W. Maxwell of the Standard. Boer War

Short Sunderland I L2163 of 210 Squadron
Short Sunderland I, L2163, of 210 Squadron, escorting a troop convoy to the Middle East in 1941. Date: 1941

Chile (1854). Santiago de Chile. Engraving after a drawing by Rugendas. Etching

The General Strike - convoy of meat supplies
An armoured convoy with meat supplies passing Bank en route for Smithfield Market during the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

British Airship
A British airship on convoy duty : from the air it is often possible to see U-boats under the surface. Date: circa 1915

American troops at St Mihiel, France, WW1
First US Army troops with a munitions convoy at St Mihiel, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

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