Fleet Collection (page 7)

HMS Furious
Royal Navy - HMS Furious, Fleet Aircraft Carrier, a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser, in July 1932. Date: 1932

HMS Theseus
Royal Navy - HMS Theseus, a Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carrier, in September 1951. Date: 1951

HMS Ark Royal (91)
Royal Navy - HMS Ark Royal (91), fleet aircraft carrier, seen in November 1938 during sea trials. Ark Royal was commissioned on 16 December 1938 and sunk by U-81 on 14 November 1941. Date: 1938

HMS Courageous
Royal Navy - HMS Courageous (pennant number 50'), in August 1938. HMS Courageous was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War

Caesar disembarked in Britain (54 BC), placing his ships on dry ground within his camp. Engraving. Commentaires de Cesar, avec des notes historiques

Hernan Cortes (1488-1547). Spanish conquistador of the Aztec empire. He decided to sink his ships, which were anchored in the city of Villa Rica de Veracruz

RFA Brambleleaf heraldic shield
Royal Fleet Auxiliary - RFA Brambleleaf heraldic shield. Date: circa 1980

Luncheon menu, Assembly of Fleet at Spithead, Southampton
South Western Hotel, Southampton, luncheon menu from 19 July 1914 for the Spithead Review, signed by Richard and Stanley May, in the May brothers personal archive of shipping items. Date: 1914

WW2 Fleet Air Arm
This illustration portrays the head of a man from the Fleet Air Arm, the background consists of a British aircraft carrier. Date: 1941

Advert, W & J Sanger, Parasols Date: 1848

Kingscott Ltd Advertisement Illustration
An advertisement illustration for Kingscott Ltd, a commercial art company, the image portrays a boy delivering some drawings, accompanied with his complaint! Date: circa 1939

Norfolk Studio Advertisement
A promotional page showing a layout of sample illustrations used for advertising purposes, by the Norfolk Studio Ltd. The images cover a broad aspect of topics, including seasons, warfare, health

Japanese fleet during the Russo-Japanese War
The Japanese fleet during the Russo-Japanese War - River Taedong, North Korea with large sheet of floating ice on the surface

HMS Colossus 15
Royal Navy - HMS Colossus 15, a Colossus-class Light Fleet Carrier. Colossus is seen flying her paying off pennant in July 1946

Aircraft carrier HMS Furious
Royal Navy - Aircraft carrier HMS Furious, at a time when she had a flush deck with no island and an unusual side funnel, which proved unsuitable due to excessive heating. Date: 1925

The King's Navy, by John William Allison - an old sailor shows two children the fleet in the bay. Date: circa 1890

Africa. Congo. The fleet of the international expedition
History of Africa. 19th century. The fleet of the international expedition at Banana Point, near the Dutch factory. Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre

Turkey - Istanbul - Mosque of Sultan Mahmud II
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Mosque of Sultan Mahmud II (The Tophane or Nusretiye Mosque). It was built between 1823 and 1826 by Sultan Mahmud II (1784-1837)

Knighton and Cutts Advertisement
An advertisement for Knighton & Cutts, experts in engraving and specialists in reproduction. The central, circular framed image shows two happily girls

HIMS Askold
Imperial Russian Navy - HIMS Askold, a protected cruiser. This ship was notable for having five funnels and its high turn of speed

British E-class submarine viewed from another Naval vessel. The E class served with the Royal Navy throughout World War I as the backbone of the submarine fleet

White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, main staircase
White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, publicity booklet, main staircase. Date: 1912

White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, dining room
White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, publicity booklet, view inside a dining room. Date: 1912

White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, booklet cover
White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, Largest Steamers in the World, publicity booklet cover design by Sam M Brown, 32 pages approx. 4.75 x 7 inches, bound with red ribbon. Date: 1912

White Star Line - three pocket books
White Star Line - three rare pocket books. (1) 1893 hardbound booklet of tide tables, sailings, passages, etc. published by Ismay, Imrie & Co

RMS Titanic - Home from the Sea, by Rostron
RMS Titanic - book, Home from the Sea, by Sir Arthur H Rostron, first edition, some foxing

Fleet Air Arm plane practising deck landing, WW2
A Fleet Air Arm Plane practising deck landing on a special runway Date: circa 1941

Fleet Air Arm instructional seaplane, WW2
A Fleet Air Arm instructional seaplane coming ashore after a practice flight Date: circa 1941

Fleet Submarine V2 (US Navy). It was the largest submarine for its time. Date: 1925

Cruiser Hawke
The ship, Hawke, after she had collided because of sea change. HMS Hawke, launched in 1891, was the seventh British warship to be named Hawke. She was an Edgar-class protected cruiser

French Herring Fleet
A group of civilians watching in Boulogne watching the French herring fleet go out to sea. Traditional working-class fisherman village folk are seen here

Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, British Pacific Fleet, WW2
Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet during WW2, based in Sydney, Australia Date: 1940s

RMS Queen Mary, painting Cunard colours on funnel
RMS Queen Mary, painting the bright red of the Cunard fleet on the forward funnel Date: 1930s

Turkey - Vice Admiral, Captain, Navy Officer and Sailor
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. From left to right: Vice Admiral, Captain, Navy Officer and Sailor (ca. 1780). Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Monnin

Take of the Fort of Saint Elmo (June 23, 1565)
Palace of the Grand Master, 16th-18th centuries. Residence of the Great Master of the Order of Saint John. Fresco of the Supreme Council Room by Matteo Perez de Aleccio (1547-1628)

Hayreddin Barbarossa (1478-1546). Ottoman admiral
Hayreddin Barbarossa (c. 1478-1546). Ottoman admiral. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019

Battle of Cape Ecnomus, First Punic War
Battle of Cape Ecnomus (Eknomos), a naval battle fought off southern Sicily in 256 BCE between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic during the First Punic War. 1. Carthaginian fleet, 2

Channel British Naval Fleet, with collier alongside Date: 1905

Royal Mail Steamer Chitral
An advertisement illustration for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, showing the luxurious new P. & O. Royal Mail Steamer, ??Chitral

Australian Fleet, Sydney Harbour
Etching showing the arrival of the Australian Fleet, at Sydney Harbour. Date: circa 1917

James Jennings, assistant editor of The Tatler for many years, now retiring. Date: 1940

North American AT-6D Harvard III 1657 (msn 88-15056), of the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton. (Ex Portuguese AF 1657)

Spanish fleet and the ships of the Sea Beggars
Action between the Spanish fleet and the ships of the Sea Beggars or Geuzen (Calvinist Dutch nobles who opposed Spanish rule in the Netherlands), 26 May 1573 Date: 1573

The Bombardment of Odessa, 22 April 1854. The boats of the fleet, going to the French steamer, Vauban, to assist in extinguishing the fire caused by the red hot shot fired from the Russian batteries

The Mediterranean Fleet at Malta, 1882, from painting by G Gianni Date: 1882

Bell UH-1H AE-422
Ejercito Argentino - Bell UH-1H AE-422 (msn 13844, ex 74-22520). This aircraft was captured by British forces in the Falkland Islands in June 1982 and is seen here at the Fleet Air Arm Museum

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub on Fleet Street, London Date: 1899

HMS Escort, E-class destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Escort, an E-class destroyer, built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion

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