Battle Ship Collection

Royal Navy Battlecruiser HMS Hood, sunk by the German Battleship Bismarck at the Battle of Denmark Strait on 24th May 1941. Named after the 18th-century Admiral Samuel Hood (1724-1816)

HMS Warspite, British battleship, WW1
HMS Warspite, a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, launched 1913. She served during the First World War, taking part in the Battle of Jutland (1916), and also served throughout the Second World War

Bismarck battleship
Bismarck, German battleship Date: 1941

Britains Sea Power Is Yours
World War Two propaganda poster - Britains Sea Power Is Yours - showing the might of a British King George V Class Battleship cutting a swathe through the ocean

HMS Malaya, British battleship, WW1
HMS Malaya, a Queen Elizabeth class British battleship, launched 1915, served during the First World War including the Battle of Jutland, also served in the Second World War, decommissioned 1944

The Sinking of the Bismarck
The sinking of the German Battleship Bismarck. In response to sinking the HMS Hood, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the order to " Sink the Bismarck"

Warship Hms Hood
HMS Hood, completed in 1920, was the worlds largest warship for more than two decades. She was finally sunk by the Bismarck in 1941 at the Battle of Denmark Strait

HMS Valiant, British battleship, WW1
HMS Valiant, a Queen Elizabeth class British battleship, launched 1914, served during the First World War including the Battle of Jutland, also served in the Second World War, decommissioned 1945

HMS Barham, British battleship, Scapa Flow
HMS Barham, a Queen Elizabeth class battleship, launched 1914, served during the First and Second World Wars, sunk by a German U-boat 1941. Seen here with the Fleet in Scapa Flow, Scotland

HMS Duke of York firing a broadside; Second World War
Photograph showing the Royal Navy battleship HMS Duke of York firing her 14-inch guns, whilst heavy seas break over her bows, sometime during the Second World War

HMS Dreadnought, British battleship, launched 1906, served in the First World War, decommissioned 1919. Date: early 20th century

HMS Jervis Bay attacking the Admiral Scheer, Second Worl
Illustration showing the Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay (centre) steaming towards the German pocket-battleship Admiral Scheer, North Atlantic, November 1940

HMS RODNEY
British battleship whose finest hour will come in May 1941 when her accurate gunfire is the crucial factor in the sinking of the German warship Bismarck Date: 1927 - 1941

HMS Queen Elizabeth, British battleship
HMS Queen Elizabeth, British dreadnought battleship, launched 1913, served during the First and Second World Wars, decommissioned 1948. Date: 20th century

HMS Vengeance, British battleship, WW1
HMS Vengeance, a predreadnought British Canopus-class battleship, launched 1899, served in various locations before and during the First World War, decommissioned 1920

British battleships at sea, including HMS Agincourt, WW1
British battleships at sea during the First World War, including HMS Agincourt, a dreadnought, in the foreground. Date: 1914-1918

HMS Iron Duke, British battleship, launched 1912, served as the flagship of the Grand Fleet during the First World War, used as a base ship at Scapa Flow during the Second World War

HMS Albion, British battleship, WW1
HMS Albion, a predreadnought British Canopus-class battleship, launched 1898, served in various locations before and during the First World War, decommissioned 1919. Date: 1914-1918

British battleships
Illustration of unidentified British battleships at sea during World War Two, with guns firing

German Seaman chatting up a Chinese girl
German Seaman (with his battleship visible in the rear of the shot) chatting up a Chinese girl

HMS Royal Sovereign, British battleship
HMS Royal Sovereign, British Revenge class battleship, launched 1915, served in the First World War and part of the Second World War

SMS Bayern sinking after being scuttled, Scapa Flow, WW1
The German battleship SMS Bayern sinking after being scuttled in Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow, Scotland after the end of the First World War. Date: 21 June 1919

HMS Queen Elizabeth, British battleship
HMS Queen Elizabeth, British dreadnought battleship, launched 1913, served during the First and Second World Wars, decommissioned 1948. Date: early 20th century

HMS Thunderer at Dagenham, Essex
HMS Thunderer (launched 1911) was the third Orion-class battleship built for the Royal Navy and the last vessel to be constructed by Thames Ironworks

British battleship HMS King Edward VII sinking, WW1
The British battleship HMS King Edward VII with her stern down during the First World War. She struck a mine off Cape Wrath, off the northern Scottish coast

The HMS Collingwood and seaplane
The HMS Collingwood with a seaplane flying overhead. A St Vincent Class Dreadnought Battleship, launched in 1908, commissioned in 1910 and scrapped in 1922

Unhabitable by Charles Pears
Painting by maritime artist, Charles Pears of a warship, visible sailing over the horizon under a dramatic sky of billowing clouds. Presumably the ship is named Unhabitable

Anti-Aircraft Gun on USS Texas, 1916
Photograph showing American seamen climbing up the tower of the new anti-aircraft gun on the US battleship Texas, 1916

Magazine cover, Automobilia and Flight
Magazine cover of the De Havilland Aircraft Company, Automobilia and Flight, Special Aviation Number. Depicting a battle at sea, with battleships, a submarine and aircraft. February 1909

Dreadnought at Speed
The innovative battleship undergoing trials at sea. Her combination of high speed and heavy gunpower will be copied worldwide. Date: circa 1906

HMS Dreadnought
A fine forward view of the HMS Dreadnought - pride of the British fleet

HMS Victorious, 1907
Photograph of the First-class battleship, HMS Victorious, 1907. Built in 1895, Victorious was a 15, 000 ton Majestic Class battleship. She was sold off in 1923

Steamship / Mikasa
The Japanese battleship Mikasa. Date: Circa 1895

Turkish Warship - Sultan Selim I

George V / Postcard Sailor
GEORGE V " Our Sailor King", with a picture of the battleship HMS King George V below

NIOBE WARSHIP
Battleship built in Britain for the Royal Canadian Navy

Russian battleship Slava, WW1
The Russian pre-dreadnought Borodino-class battleship Slava, launched 1903, served in the Baltic Sea during the First World War, sunk October 1917. Seen here flying the Russian Navy Jack flag

Sinking of SMS Szent Istvan, Austrian battleship, WW1
The sinking of SMS Szent Istvan, an Austro-Hungarian Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleship (launched 1914), torpedoed by the Italian navy off the Dalmatian coast during the First World War

Shell-fire hitting a Battleship, Second World War, 1941
Illustration showing how a steeply plunging shell, dropping almost vertically from very long range, might penetrate a gun turret and explode the cordite magazine

HMS Nelson, 1930
Illustration showing a cross section of the battleship HMS Nelson, 1930. Launched in 1925 at the Armstrong yard, Newcastle, HMS Nelson served in World War II and was scrapped in 1949

Lieutenant Emil Jahreis, turbine engineer on the Bismarck battleship and during Exercise Rhine first damage control officer. Known to his friends as Seppel

HMS Redoubtable bombarding off coast of Flanders, WW1
The British battleship HMS Redoubtable (the renamed HMS Revenge) carrying out bombardment duties on German positions off the coast of Flanders during the First World War. Date: 7 September 1915

HMS Monmouth
Built in 1901, the sixth HMS Monmouth of the British Royal Navy was the lead ship of a class of armoured cruisers of 9, 800 tons displacement. She was sunk at the Battle of Coronel in 1914

WW1 - The Allied leaders
French Propaganda postcard from the early years of WW1 - The Allied leaders. King George V, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Albert I of Belgium and French President Raymond Poincare

Italian battleship Benedetto Brin
The Italian battleship Benedetto Brin, a Regina Margherita class ship, designed by the naval administrator and politician of the same name

HMS Dreadnought, British battleship, WW1
HMS Dreadnought, British battleship, launched 1906, served in the First World War, decommissioned 1919. Date: 1914-1918

HMS Audacious, British battleship, WW1
HMS Audacious, British King George V-class battleship, launched 1912. She saw no action during the First World War, as she was sunk by a German mine off the northern coast of Donegal, Ireland

Ships of the British Grand Fleet, Scottish coast, WW1
Ships of the British Grand Fleet (the main fleet of the Royal Navy) at sea off the Scottish coast during the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1918

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