Fleet Collection (page 9)

HMS Hermes, Highflyer-class protected cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Hermes, a Highflyer-class protected cruiser, before conversion to an experimental seaplane carrier / tender

British Navy, fleet in Grand Harbour Malta, 1930 s

Royal Navy manouevres, Wehaiwei, Weihai, China, c. 1927
Vintage c.1920s photograph: British Royal Navy fleet manouevres, QWehaiwei, Weihai, China, c.1927

Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, China Station, c. 1927
Vintage c.1920s photograph: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet, GCB DSO was a Royal Navy officer. During the First World War he served as commander of the Harwich Force

Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Francis Seymour
Vintage 19th century photograph: Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Francis Seymour GCB, GCH, PC (17 September 1787 - 20 January 1870) was a Royal Navy officer

Admiral of the Fleet The Honourable Sir Henry Keppel
Vintage 19th century photograph: Admiral of the Fleet The Honourable Sir Henry Keppel GCB, OM (14 June 1809 - 17 January 1904) was a Royal Navy officer

Court Moor Home for Motherless Children, Crookham
The Court Moor (or Courtmoor) Home for Motherless Children, opened in1918 by the Church Army at Crookham, near Fleet, Hampshire. Date: Date unknown

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - England expects
The Caption reads - England Expects presumably evoking the Nelsonian flag signal to his fleet. It was everymans war. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1941

Entrance of the Old Cheshire Cheese, the famous old pub just off Londons Fleet Street. Date: 1884

World War II 1945 VE Day revellers Fleet Street, London
Vintage World War II photograph - 1945 VE Day revellers in Fleet Street, London

View along Fleet Street London, busy horse drawn traffic
View along Fleet Street London, choked with horse drawn traffic. Vintage 19th century photograph

Photograph of Fleet Tavern, Haverstock Hill, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub

Photograph of Falcon PH, Fleet Street, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Left Face on view of the pub

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

Reginald Y Tyrwhitt
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt (1870- 1951) GCB, DSO Date: 1917

St Dunstans Church, Postman, Letter Carrier and Knife-Grinder. Clock with figures striking bells at St Dunstans Church in Fleet Street 42

Guy Fawkes in Effigy, Bartholomews Hospital and Smithfield Market. Children begging with an effigy of Guy Fawkes on 5 November 39, men bringing a patient on a stretcher into St

Hernan Cortez in Mexico
Hernan Cortez landing at Tabasco, Mexico 10, presented with 20 women including Marina by the Mayans 11, and destroying a Mayan temple and idols 12. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

Mrs. Salmons Waxworks Museum, Fleet Street
Mrs. Salmons Waxworks Museum, at the Horn Tavern, 17 Fleet Street. It had 140 wax figures and was run by Mrs. Clark from 1760 until 1812

The Principal Gate of the Priory of St. Bartholomew, Smithfield. Founded as an Augustinian priory in 1123. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society

Containing a memorial to the Pilgrim Fathers, the east end of the new St. Brides Church in Fleet Street. Date: 1957

Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh with the Bishop of London (right) at the rededication service for St. Brides church, Fleet Street, London. Date: 1957

Gravesend Sea School and Olivebank Barge
A view of the Gravesend Sea School. Behind is the Olivebank Barge from Eriksons grain fleet. Date: early 1900s

Preparations for Crimean War, The Baltic Fleet - HMS Miranda
Naval preparations for the Crimean War, The Baltic Fleet under Sir Charles Napier - The steam-sloop HMS Miranda, pictured saluting Kronberg Castle, Helsingor (Elsinore, Elsineur), Denmark. Date: 1854

Royal Navy ships off Spithead, Hampshire. 1860

Zutka of the Hippodrome in Fleet Street
Zutka, the famous man/doll appearing at the London Hippodrome in 1904 flies by accident out of his box opposite Andertons Hotel in Fleet Street on his way to a photographers studio

Sardine fishery at Brittany 1871
Arrival of sardine fleet towards the close of the day, in the bay of Douarnenez, Finistere, France. Date: 1871

Advert, W & J Sangster, Parasols, with various shops in London. 1854

Johnson and Boswell in Bolt Court, London
Dr Samuel Johnson and his friend James Boswell in Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London. 18th century

Revolutionary Wars, Glorious First of June 1794
French Revolutionary Wars, Naval Battle of the Glorious First of June 1794, Admiral Lord Howes victory over the French fleet. 1794

Clandestine wedding or Fleet Marriage, London
Clandestine wedding or Fleet Marriage by St Pauls Church, Covent Garden, London. 18th century

Roebuck Mug House Riot, London
A Roebuck Mug House Riot, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London, between Jacobites and Hanoverians. 1716

What Roman London may have looked like -- on the north bank of the River Thames, surrounded by a wall built by the Romans. Date: 1st century

Scene from the Battle of Trafalgar, Cape Trafalgar, Spain
Scene from the Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805), Cape Trafalgar, Spain, fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies. Date: 1805

Damaged searchlight, HMS Dreadnought, British battleship
Damaged searchlight on HMS Dreadnought, British flagship battleship - the searchlight was shattered by the ships own gunfire during a fleet review

HMS Assistance, British fleet repair ship. Date: circa 1910s

Commodore R Y Tyrwhitt, British naval officer
Commodore Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt (1870-1951), later Admiral of the Fleet, First World War. circa 1913-1914

Vice-Admiral Kato Tomosaburo of Japan (1861-1923), Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese First Fleet, cabinet minister, and later 12th Prime Minister of Japan. Date: circa 1913-1914

Fishing boats in Vaage, Norway. In February and March, 300 boats manned by 20, 000 fishermen assemble here. Illustration from Leopold von Buchs Travels Through Norway and Lapland, 1813

William the Conquerors fleet of battleships, 11th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1847

Scuttling of German Fleet, Scapa Flow, 21 June 1919
The scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, after the First World War. 1919

Sinking of German Fleet, Scapa Flow, 21 June 1919
Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow after the First World War, 21 June 1919. 1919

Managing Director of Welbeck Minicabs accepts new fleet cars
Mr Sidney Goldberg, the Managing Director of Welbeck Minicabs of London, accepts the first of his new fleet of 300 Ford Cortinas. 1963

Temple Bar and Law Courts, Fleet Street, London. Date: circa 1905

Law Courts and Fleet Street, London, on a busy day. Date: circa 1900

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