Battleship Collection (page 5)

HMS Collingwood, battleship, on a Victorian scrap
HMS Collingwood, ironclad battleship, on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Demonstration of Britains sea power, Spithead, July 1914
The finest demonstration of Britains sea power ever seen, Spithead, July 1914. Date: 1914

HMS Royal Sovereign, battleship, Revenge class. 1940s

HMS Bulwark battleship, on 26th November 1914 conducting patrols in the English Channel, while anchored near Sheerness, she was blown up with loss of between 700 and 800 lives. Date: 1915

Manufacture of Naval Artillery - Krupp Works, Essen, Germany
Manufacture of Naval Artillery at the Krupp Works, Essen, Germany. Date: 1906

HMS Royal Oak, WW2
HMS Royal Oak, British Revenge-class battleship completed in 1916, seen here at the beginning of the Second World War -- a commemorative plaque listing the battles fought in by this

Launch of the HIJMS Kongo at Barrow-in-Furness
Launch of the HIJMS (His Imperial Japanese Majestys Ship) Kongo by Madame Koike, first Battleship of the Kongo Class and the last Japanese Capital Battleship built outside of Japan

HMS Marlborough - The Captains Cabin. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

Japanese Battleship - Kashima - launched at Elswick
The Japanese Battleship - Kashima, shown at the Armstrong Whitworth shipyard at Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, just after launch in March, 1905

HMS Ajax
Crew members disembarking from HMS Ajax, a World War I battleship. Image from Mrs Strangs Travel Play Book published c.1920.Date: circa 1915

View of Taganrog port, Sea of Azov, Russia
View of Taganrog port, Sea of Azov, Rostov, Russia, with ships of the Imperial Russian Navy, including the battleship Ioann Zlatoust (centre right, with three funnels)

HMS Glasgow in Great War Deeds, WW1
HMS Glasgow, cruiser of the British Royal Navy, in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, during which the German ship Leipzig was set on fire and sunk

HMS Lion of the Royal Navy in Great War Deeds, WW1
Vice-Admiral Beattys flagship, the battle cruiser HMS Lion of the Royal Navy, towed into port amid cheers after a victory in the North Sea

HMS Gloucester in Great War Deeds, WW1
HMS Gloucester of the British Royal Navy single-handedly fighting two German ships, the Goeben and the Breslau. Reproduction of a painting by Norman Wilkinson in Great War Deeds

New rulers of the German Navy
With the war coming to a close, revolution in Germany had begun with a mutiny by their sailors in response to a desperate order from the Imperial Naval Command seeking a last battle against the Royal

The super-dreadnought Monarch
British super-dreadnought battleship, " Monarch" completed in 1912 and pictured at the beginning of the First World War

Avro Anson flying over HMS Revenge, WW2
Avro Anson 220, British twin engine aeroplane, seen here flying over the battleship HMS Revenge during the Second World War. Date: 1940

Admiral Graf Spee, German battleship (Deutschland-class heavy cruiser). Date: 1930s

HMS Vanguard, British battleship
HMS Vanguard, British St Vincent class dreadnought battleship. Date: circa 1910

Bruno the Bear, HMS Marlborough battleship mascot
Bruno the Bear, mascot of HMS Marlborough, British Iron Duke class battleship. Seen here with a sailor. Date: circa 1914

HMS Eagle, British aircraft carrier, Beirut, Lebanon
HMS Eagle, British aircraft carrier, off Beirut, Lebanon, 18 June 1956. The two smaller ships are the cruiser HMS Birmingham (left) and HMS Surprise (right). Date: 1956

Dutch Monitor HM Krokodil with crew on deck. Date: circa 1900s

French battleship Danton at Coronation Review, Spithead
French battleship Danton at the Coronation Review, Spithead. It was sunk by a German U-boat in March 1917. Date: 1911

Britainnia ready by E. T. Reed
Ready! Decks cleared and mistress of herself. Britainnia stands posed with sword and shield, surveying the British naval fleet at the outbreak of the First World War. Date: 1914

HMS Majestic battle-ship torpedoed and sunk 1915
On 27 May 1915, HMS Majestic battle-ship was torpedoed and sunk, off the Gallipoli Peninsula by a German submarine U-21. Nearly all the officers and men were saved. 27 May 1915

Sinking of the Scharnhorst by G. H. Davis
The sinking of the Scharnhorst: how the British fleet outmanoeuvred Germanys 26, 000-ton battleship. Showing some vital phases of an action in which units of the home fleet, led by HMS Duke of York

Suggested design for warship by G. H. Davis
The capital ship of tomorrow? A suggested design for a combined battleship-cum-aircraft-carrier. It would weigh 45, 000 tons, with the latest primary and secondary armament

Fleet of warships, Bikini target, by G. H. Davis
The original Bikini Atoll target: the fleet of more than 70 warships at anchor in the lagoon awaiting their fate. The fleet included famous American and ex-enemy warships, most of which

Pocket battleship Deutschland by G. H. Davis
A hunted German raider believed to be active in the Atlantic: the pocket battleship Deutschland. A photograph (above), and a cross-section drawing (below). Date: 1939

Decline and fall in Royal Navy ships by G. H. Davis
The decline and fall in numbers of the Royal Navy: those scrapped or sold, and postwar construction for the fleet. Date: 1962

Sea Battle, World War I by Cyrus Cuneo
The Great Sea Battle. An unspecified but fierce naval battle during the First World War, illustrated by the late Cyrus Cuneo. Date: 1916

Catalina spots Bismarck in heavy sea by G. H. Davis
A Catalina flying boat (seaplane) spotting the damaged German battleship Bismarck in a heavy sea: the flying boat under severe attack by enemy fire during the Second World War

The launch of the battleship, Mikasa"
The launch, at Barrow, of the largest battleship in the world (at the time), : the Japanese man-of-war, " Mikasa". Date: 1900

H. M. S. Colossus
HMS Colossus, a British dreadnought launched in 1910 and commissioned in 1911, becoming the flagship of the 1st Battle Squadron at the commencement of World War in 1914

S. M. S. Prinzregent Luitpold
Launched in 1912, the SMS Prinzregent Luitpold was a German Imperial Navy battleship of the Kaiser class. It took part in the Battle of Jutland, 1916

German battleship, Battle of Jutland, WW1
German battleship during the Battle of Jutland, First World War, with guns firing and shell cases scattered on the deck. Date: 1916

Six nations pocket battleships
How the six cheif naval powers have developed their cruisers under treaty limits. Date: 1930

Japanese pre-dreadnought battleship Yashima built in the UK
Yashima - a Fuji-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the 1890s. Designed and built in the United Kingdom

Three latest naval types at Spithead, July 1914 -- HMS Iron Duke flagship, with airship and seaplane above. Date: 1914

Hospitals for fighting ships 1916
Floating dock on which works is often taken place to repair battleships, a box-like structure with pontoon floors and side-walls

RMS Empress of Japan - Armed Merchant Cruiser
HMS Empress of Japan - Armed Merchant Cruiser, pictured near Hong Kong Harbour. Built circa 1891 for the Canadian Pacific Line as RMS Empress of Japan

Field Marshal Sir John Denton French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852-1925), British Army officer who led the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) from August 1914. Date: circa 1918

German battlecruisers Seydlitz and Moltke, 1915
German battlecruisers Seydlitz (top) and Moltke (bottom), two of those defeated in the North Sea on 24th January 1915 while on a raiding expedition against the British coast. Date: 1915

Mascot of the HMS Queen Elizabeth
A much applauded member of the Navy: the mascot bulldog of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, during the Victory March in London. Date: 1919

Marseilles, France - French Navy armoured ship
Marseilles, France - the French Navys armoured cruiser, Ernest-Renan, at sea. The ship was built at the beginning of the 20th century

WW2 Launching seaplane from deck catapult of a US Battleship
WW2 - Launching a seaplane from the deck catapult of the USS Colorado (BB-45), , the lead ship of the Colorado-class of battleships. Date: circa 1943

The Dreadnought Hoax, report in The Sketch
Page from The Sketch magazine reporting on the Dreadnought hoax. The incident was a joke played by a group led by Horace de Vere Cole, including the writer Virginia Stephen (Woolf)

The Shore of the Bosphorus - view from HMS Marlborough
Coast of the Bosphorus Strait. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

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