Fleets Collection

The British Fleet - Spithead, 1914
Britains Bulwarks. The great fleet assembled at Spithead, Portsmouth - July 16th - 20th 1914 for King George Vs inspection, three weeks after the declaration of war against Germany

Twas In Trafalgar's Bay
This painting depicts a naval battle between some galleons at Trafalgar Bay, which occurred in 1805, between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies

Lepanto (Monleon)
BATTLE OF LEPANTO The Spanish & Venetian fleets, commanded by Don John of Austria, defeat the Turkish fleet and end Turkish naval supremacy in Mediterranean

H. M. S. Iron Duke
Photograph of Iron Duke, flag-ship of Sir George A. Callaghan, the Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleets. The Dreadnought was specially protected against aerial attack

Collection of ocean liner books
OCEAN LINERS: Good collection of liner books including Union Castle Chronicle, Normandie Her Life and Times, Titanic and The Californian, etc

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

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

Frances Day in The Fleets Lit Up at the London Hippodrome
Frances Day riding a horse as Polly Brown in the musical comedy, The Fleets Lit Up at the London Hippodrome in 1938. The Sketch writes, " she gives her usual delightful, elusive

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

View of the naval battle of Augusta (also known as the Battle of Agosta), Sicily, during the Franco-Dutch War. It was fought between a French fleet and a Dutch-Spanish fleet. Date: 22 April 1676

Battle of Navarino
GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1821-1830) The naval Battle of Navarino (October 20, 1827) in Navarino Bay (now Pylos), in the Peloponnese

Naval Battle 1704
BATTLE OF MALAGA The British & Dutch fleets, commanded by Sir George Rooke, prevent the French and Spanish fleets from joining forces, gaining a strategic victory Date: 24 August 1704

History of Gaul. Naval battle between the fleets of Caesar and the Gala. Miniature.16th century. Chateau de Chantilly. France

Naval Battle Ouessant
BATTLE OF L ILE OUESSANT The French and British fleets fight it out off the Breton coast Date: 27 July 1778

Battle of the Saintes, 1782
Battle of the Saintes (Battle of Dominica) in 1782 in which a British fleet under Admiral Rodney defeated the French forces during the American Revolutionary War. Date: C.1800

The Harbour, Gibraltar, with naval fleets
The Harbour, Gibraltar, with British, American and Russian naval fleets, on 31 January 1909. Date: 1909

Admiral Sir John Jellicoe
Admiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859 - 1935), supreme commander of the British fleets in 1914. Although criticised at the time of the Battle of Jutland for failing to

Fleets of motorcyles at the outbreak of war
At the start of World War I the petrol-driven motor was used for the first time for haulage of big guns, ammunition wagons, food and baggage trains, Red Cross ambulances

Three fleets worth watching by G. H. Davis
Three fleets which are worth watching: the naval forces of Brazil, Argentine and Chile. 1910

Battle of the Philippines by G. H. Davis
The crushing rout of the Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Philippines during the Second World War. A map of the operations

The Fishing Fleets in the North Sea: A Night Scene off the D
A picture by Fortunio Matania depicting the smaller boats delivering their boxes of fish to a carrier. The large carrier is the first to transport the fish from the trawlers

Air Fleet Club - Germany - Zeppelin Ride - quite what the residents of the town being illuminated from above by the searchlights thought of this is not known.... Possiby LZ-2 Date: circa 1906

Seven Years War. Naval battle between the French and the English fleets (20th May 1756). The English squadron taking refuge in Gibraltar. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Our victorious fleets in Cuban waters. Date c1898

A satirical look at Germanys defeat in 1915
" The New Year - By An Optimist" The mood is tongue in cheek, and yet there remains a hint of hopeful optimism in this cartoon by George Studdy

Naval battle, 17th century
Naval battle in Oresund between The Netherlands and Sweden 1658. Contemporary engraving. Date: 1658

Our sailor King, King George V, Royal Navy airmen flying over the British Fleet in Weymouth Bay. The Royal Yacht, Victoria and Albert

Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe
Photograph of Admiral John R. Jellicoe (1859-1935), supreme commander of the British fleets in 1914. Although criticised at the time of the Battle of Jutland for failing to categorically defeat

French Steamers / Haiti
English and French fleets in the harbour of Gonaive, Haiti

Ww1 / 1915 / George / Poincare
King George of England and President Poincare review their fleets - sent to the sea-bed by Germanys U-boats !

Victory at Vigo / 1702
The combined English and Dutch fleets under Sir George Rooke destroy the French and Spanish fleet at Vigo, and capture a number of Spanish treasure galleons

Battle of Scheveningen
BATTLE OF SCHEVENINGEN The French and Dutch fleets in action off the Dutch coast

Trafalgar, Birds Eye
A birds eye view of the opposing fleets

Trafalgar / From Stanfield
The Battle of Trafalgar and the victory of Lord Nelson over the combined French and Spanish fleets

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