Search Light Collection

First Zeppelin air raid on London, 1915
First Zeppelin air raid on London, during World War I 1915

Mystery Airship 1896
The airship seen over San Francisco differs from those seen at Sacramento and Oakland by having wings or fins and a birdlike tail : it, too, uses a searchlight

WW2 - 90cm A. A. Searchlight
WW2 British Home Front - a 90cm Anti Aircraft Searchlight. Date: circa 1940

Book cover design, Aerial Warfare by RP Hearne, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908, with an introduction by Sir Hirams Maxim. 1908

Titanic - Should liners carry headlights, motor fashion?
A cross-channel steamers searchlight reveals a full-rigged ship passing a little close for comfort, a safety precaution which could, perhaps, have prevented the Titanic disaster. Date: 1912

Father christmas about to go down the chimney
Another result of zeppelin raids! searchlight nuisance 1916

Artillery at Tattoo
The Royal Horse Artillery at the Searchlight Tattoo. Date: 1920s

German battleship sinking at night, WW1
An artists impression of a German battleship sinking at night, with searchlights flashing in all directions, during the First World War. Date: 1916

Poster giving the cost of various weapons and equipment
Wartime poster giving the cost of various weapons and equipment, from aircraft, tanks, ships, guns and shells to barrage balloons and searchlights. 1940s

Portable searchlight on wheeled trolley, WW1
A large portable searchlight on a wheeled trolley used during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

US War Bonds
Fire Away! Buy Extra Bonds. A plea to purchase war bonds, issued by the US Treasury Department War Finance Division. The card is in honour of the USS Dorrado

Echo Mountain, California
Searchlight on Echo Mountain, California, America

a Searchlight Battery
SLC radar equipment on an anti-aircraft searchlight battery on the Home Front in England during World War II in 1945

Old Lambeth Bridge, World War I
Searchlights on Old Lambeth Bridge, London, during World War I

L15 Surrenders
The wrecked air raider, Zeppelin L15 is rescued by the HMS Olivine after brought down on the Thames Estuary on April 1 1916

Royal Naval Air Service at the Lord Mayors Show
A Royal Naval Air Service in the Lord Mayors show parading with searchlight and one of their anti-aircraft guns

Bomber in Searchlight
A German bomber is caught in the beams of three Russian searchlights, making it a fine target for the anti-aicraft guns

Zep over English Coast
Zeppelins over the English coast are spotted by a lone searchlight

Zeppelin Shot Down
The end of the " baby-killer" ; a flaming Zeppelin plunges earthward

Portable Searchlight
A soldier equipped with a portable searchlight can detect an enemy at night - though in this instance, all he has detected is a poacher trapping a rabbit

Searchlight Practice
Warships of the Royal Navy engaged in searchlight practice off the Kent coast at Margate

Ww1 / 1914 / Zeppelin Ship
A German Zeppelin airship is picked out in the night sky by a searchlight from a fort on the French border. A French artillery position opens fire

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