Convoys Collection

WW2 - Flower-Class Corvette in heavy seas - Atlantic Convoy
WW2 - Weather hazards which the convoy escorts in the Atlantic Ocean have to face in Winter - a Flower-Class Corvette, of 930 tonnes, being thrown high out of the water by a heavy sea. Date: 1943

HMS Leviathan, Drake-class armoured cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Leviathan, a Drake-class armoured cruiser. HMS Leviathan was one of four Drake-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900

Goodyear K-Type -these so called blimps though slow were faster than U-Boats Used to escort Atlantic convoys

Raf Vs Soviet Airforce
Anglo-Soviet soccer match, Murmansk, RAF and Soviet Airforce. The RAF provided air-cover for convoys in their Hawker Hurricanes (background)

HMS Encounter, 2nd class protected cruiser, Challenger class
Royal Navy - HMS Encounter, a 2nd-class protected cruiser of the Challenger class, operated by the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN), as HMAS Encounter

WW2 - Life onboard a corvette escort at sea - the ILN special artist C E Turner accompanied the vessel around various UK ports accompanying a merchant fleet. 1941

WW2 - Firing a depth charge at a u-boat from a corvette
WW2 - (1/3) Corvettes and Convoys - the little ships which are grappling with the u-boat menace. Firing a depth charge at a submerged submarine from a corvette - officers scan the sea for signs of

Beginning of World War Two, where sailors are relaxing in a destroyer escorting a Convoy. Date: 1939

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Ensure the passage of Truck Convoys Date: 1972

HMS Leviathan, Drake-class armoured cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Hornet, an Acheron-class Destroyer that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet

HMS Swiftsure - Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Royal Navy - HMS Swiftsure, the lead ship of the Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleship, moored up. Originally known as Constitucion, ordered by the Chilean Navy

Macedonian Gipsies at Royston, Hertfordshire
Groups of Roma Gypsies came to England from Germany Eastern Europe just prior to the First World War and again after tensions in the 1930s

WW2 - Orders by means of the Ardente Loud Hailer
Captain to Captain - The Commander of a Corvette at Sea giving orders by means of the Ardente " Loud Hailer, " which has a remarkable Acoustic Range 1941

WW2 - Corvette of the Wild Waterbird class which transported the ILN special artist C E Turner around various UK ports accompanying a merchant fleet. 1941

WW2 - Corvette versus Submarine - Corvette wins
WW2 - Corvette versus submarine and the corvette wins: A dramatic incident in The Battle of the Atlantic Date: 1941

WW2 - Corvette on guard - The Battle of the Atlantic
WW2 - Corvette on guard during The Battle of the Atlantic. Date: 1941

WW2 - Corvette Screening Merchantmen from Enemy attacks
WW2 - A corvette screening a convoy of Merchantmen, bringing them safely home protected from enemy attacks. 1941

WW2 - A corvette in heavy Atlantic Sea weather
WW2 - (2/3) Corvettes and Convoys - the little ships which are grappling with the u-boat menace. A corvette in heavy Atlantic Sea weather. 1941

WW2 - Corvette bucking through heavy Atlantic Seas
WW2 - (3/3) Corvettes and Convoys - the little ships which are grappling with the u-boat menace. Corvette bucking through heavy Atlantic Seas 1941

Convoys in Peril, by Claude Muncaster, WW1
Convoys in Peril, by Claude Muncaster, First World War. Showing a British freighter dead in the water after a torpedo attack, with the crew escaping by lifeboats. 1914-1918

WW2 - Nairana-class Escort Carrier - HMS Nairana. She was built at John Brown & Company shipyards in Clydebank, Scotland. When construction started in 1941 she was intended as a merchant ship

Heinkel He 115C -this torpedo bomber was mainly based in Norway from where it attacked Allied Arctic convoys

Arrived Safely - Thanks to British Convoys, WW2
Arrived Safely - Thanks to British Convoys. Wartime flyer from World War Two showing civilian ships escorted safely across the sea by British planes and destroyers. Date: World War Two

Strike / Military Strength
Armoured cars on Londons streets provide protection for food convoys and evoke cheers from the watching crowds Date: 1926

Savoia Marchetti SM79 -Italys finest bomber of the war Fast and well armed it flew against Malta and Allied Mediterranean convoys

Heinkel He 177 -equipped with unreliable engines, the He 177 was never totally trouble free Used aginst Atlantic convoys

Focke Wulf FW 200C -one of the major scourges of Allied convoys over both the Atlantic and Arctic oceans

Blohm u Voss BV138C being hoisted into the water Used for long ranged overwater reconnaissance Became the scourge of Allied Arctic convoys

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

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

Finished shells in a munitions factory, 1939
Men arranging finished shells in a great stack ready for dispatch to the ammunition convoys. These shells are designed for use by the 3.7 inch guns. Date: 1939

The General Strike - food convoys leaving docks
The last food convoy to leave the Royal Albert Docks before the termination of the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

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