Dreadnoughts Collection

Royal Navy warships in Malta - early 1900s

Three famous Dockyards in Europe
Three dockyards in Europe, Germany, France and Austria building Dreadnoughts. The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The dockyards would allow the boats to

Diagram showing German air-dreadnought, zeppelin compared to a section of buildings in Piccadilly London. Date: 1915

The British fleet at Spithead
The British Fleet was concentrated at Spithead a fortnight before the outbreak of World War I. Twenty-two miles of warships ranging from Dreadnoughts to Destroyers passed in procession before King

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

Shop window with model of German blockade, WWI
A shop window of Messrs Bassett-Lowke, a model-makers in High Holborn showing a diorama of the results from Germanys blockade policy

Tatler cover, launch of HMS Neptune, new super Dreadnought
Front cover of the Tatler, 6th October 1909 showing the launch of the worlds largest warship, HMS Neptune, the first of the super Dreadnoughts at Portsmouth by the Duchess of Argyle

Building of the battleship Dreadnought
Construction of one of the Eight Dreadnoughts (battleships) being constructed in the early 20th century by the British, at Portsmouth dockyard. 1909

Illustrated War News front cover, naval, 12 August 1914
Front cover of the first issue of the Illustrated War News, produced within a week of the outbreak of the First World War and dedicated to covering all aspects of the conflict

WW1 The Ladys World cover - dreadnought cushion cover
Front cover of a First World War period The Ladys World Fancy Work Book featuring a topical design for a dreadnought cushion cover. Date: c.1915

British oil carrier fuelling a super dreadnought & submarine
Illustration showing a new kind of fleet auxiliary vessel, the oil-carrier, supplying oil fuel to the fleet, in this case a super-dreadnought and two submarines

China - Shanghai - British Warships on the Yangtze River
China - Shanghai - Date: 1927

State of German dreadnoughts in 1911
A drawing in The Sphere, showing the exact status of the fleet of dreadnought battleships belonging to Germany in 1911. The picture shows 8 in commission, 1 on trials, 3 completed and 4 on slips

Construction of a Dreadnought, 1909
Construction of one of the Eight dreadnoughts (battleships) being constructed in the early 20th century by the British. The first picture shows a 12 inch gun

British Dreadnoughts

Growth of the Worlds Dreadnoughts
The Dreadnought Fever visualised in The Sphere by diagrammatic illustrator, G. H. Davis showing the huge growth in the building of dreadnoughts (all-big-gun battleships)

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