Battleships Collection (page 2)

Hampton Roads, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, USA
US battleship fleet at Hampton Roads, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1915

The Royal Navy fleet off Greenock from the golf course. From left to right: Royal Sovereign, Rodney, Courageous, and Nelson

Coastal Reconnaissance seaplane, Battleship Nelson
Coastal Reconnaissance seaplane and the stern of the Battleship Nelson, January 1949. 1949

Is the futre war-ship to be aeroplane or balloon?
Arists prediction from 1907 of what a future war might look like, in this case aerial battle-ships - not, as it turns out

Four Contingent Battleships Ordered 1909
Building a Dreadnought, at Barrow-in-Furness. Digging out the upper half of a Dreadnought turbine cover. Thedressing shop in the large iron foundry of the works of Vickers, Sons and Maxim

German battleship SMS Kaiserin, launched 1911. Date: early 1910s

HMS Campbell, destroyer and flotilla leader, Turku, Finland
HMS Campbell, D60 destroyer and flotilla leader, at the Aura River dockside, Turku, Finland. Date: 1932

HMS Queen, London or Queen class pre-dreadnought battleship. Date: circa 1910

HMS Illustrious, Majestic class pre-dreadnought battleship. Date: circa 1908

Heinkel HD. 55
Heinkel HD.55 prototype catapult launched scout for Soviet battleships. Forty aircraft were acquired by the AV-MF (Aviatsiya voyenno-morskogo flota)

United States Navy - Atlantic Fleet in harbour, including the Illinois-class battleships USS Alabama and USS Illinois, distinctive for having side-by side funnels

WW1 - Aerial View of the Dardanelles Battlefields, Turkey
WW1 - Aerial View of the Dardanelles Battlefield theatre, Turkey on 18th March 1915. 1915

Mauritius - Port Louis - HM Battleships and Signal Mountain. Date: circa 1909

United States Navy Wright XF3W-1 A7223. Built as a landplane for racing and engine development testing, the XF3W-1 was later fitted with a pair of floats and also a single float with stabilisers

Copenhagen, Denmark - View of the Naval Dockyard - note the early submarine coming up for air. Date: 1931

Japanese Fleet bombards Vladivostok - 5 March 1904
Russo-Japanese War - the Japanese Naval Fleet bombards Vladivostok - 5 March 1904 Date: 1904

Battleships undertake target practise. Date: circa 1910s

Australia - Australian Fleet in Farm Cove, Sydney Harbour. Date: circa 1910

The King and his fleet, Spithead, July 1914 -- some 400 ships assembled in the Solent. Date: 1914

HMS Vanguard, Royal Tour to South Africa
HMS Vanguard on the Royal Tour to South Africa. Inset is a photo of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Date: 1947

Ships in Chatham Dockyard, Kent. They are the Monitor HMS Marshal Soult, the D34 Destroyer HMS Velox, and two V Class destroyers. Date: circa 1930

Ships of the British Royal Navy, WW2
" The vast, inventive, adaptive, and in the end, all-controlling power of the Royal Navy" - the Prime Ministers tribute in his recent broadcast

Two Battleships Comparison by G. H. Davis
A comparison of the American Iowa battleship, and the British H.M.S. Vanguard. The ships are each given dimensions and a deck view, which details the ship guns and command centers

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

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 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

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

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

Warships of the six nations in the Mediterranean, WW1
The naval situation in the Mediterranean: the warships of the six nations (Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy and Austria). Shown looking eastwards from Gibraltar towards the Adriatic. Date: 1914

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

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

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

Bombardment of Istanbul from Russian warships in Bosphorus
WW1 - Bombardment of Istanbul from Russian Naval Dreadnought Battleships in the Bosphorus Date: circa 1915

Aftermath of World War One! 1919
Heroes of the Dardanelles and around Gallipoli, theses battleships resigned to their fate, holiday-making multitudes at seaside resorts are feasting their curious eyes on the ships that watched for

Jubilee Naval Review - battery of searchlights of the fleet
Jubilee Naval Review - Spithead - battery of searchlights of the fleet - Silver Jubilee of King George V in 1935. Date: circa 1908

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

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