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WW2 - Flower-Class Corvette in heavy seas - Atlantic ConvoyWW2 - 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 cruiserRoyal 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 AirforceAnglo-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 classRoyal 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 corvetteWW2 - (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 cruiserRoyal 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 battleshipRoyal 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, HertfordshireGroups 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 HailerCaptain 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 winsWW2 - 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 AtlanticWW2 - Corvette on guard during The Battle of the Atlantic. Date: 1941
WW2 - Corvette Screening Merchantmen from Enemy attacksWW2 - A corvette screening a convoy of Merchantmen, bringing them safely home protected from enemy attacks. 1941
WW2 - A corvette in heavy Atlantic Sea weatherWW2 - (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 SeasWW2 - (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, WW1Convoys 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, WW2Arrived 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 StrengthArmoured 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. DavisA 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, 1939British 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, 1939Men 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 docksThe 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