Midshipman Collection

How to recognise rank in the Royal Navy-a wartime advert for Dunlop fort tyres. Date: 1941

H. M.s Curacoa 1865
Conflicts with the savages of the New Hebrides, South Pacific Ocean. H.M.S Curacoa shelling the native villages on the island of Tanna

Naval Cadets. Admiral Sir Gerald Vaughan Gladstone (1901-1978). Gladstone Joined Royal Naval College, Osborne, May 1915 And Then Went To Dartmouth Naval College In January 1917

Captain Newcome saying goodbye to old crew members
Captain Johnny Newcome saying goodbye to old crew members and veterans at Greenwich Hospital. Midshipmen in uniforms, peg-legged veterans with walking sticks

WW2 Midshipman And Royal Navy Boy
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The images portray boys dressed in Royal Navy uniforms, the left shows a Midshipman standing smartly on deck. Date: circa 1940

Jane Baxter
British actress Jane Baxter (1909-1996) appearing in a nautical production The Midshipman at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Date: 1931

Heroic midshipman carrying ammunition to British fighters
Heroic midshipman carrying ammunition to hard-pressed British fighters Date: 1916

Midshipman Newcome transferred by rowboat to HMS Vanguard
Midshipman Newcome transferred by rowboat to the HMS Vanguard near Gibraltar. Johnny in disgrace sent to another ship. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Charles Williams

Midshipman Newcome bowing as he leaves dinner in the captains cabin, HMS Victory. Captain Spring, Admiral Hearty and other offiicers drink wine after dinner

Midshipman Newcome and Spunyarn drinking Malaga wine
Midshipman Newcome and Masters Mate Spunyarn drinking black strap or Malaga wine at the Navy Tavern, at the summit of Scud Hill, Gibraltar. Widow Cummings brings more wine, a monkey sits on a cannon

Midshipman Newcome meets crew from HMS Victory at Sally Port, Gibraltar. Masters Mate Spunyarn falls in the sea at the dock, a soldier guards the Sally Port

Royal Naval officers riding pigs in saddles through the market in Gibraltar. They knock over market stalls and sellers. Moors, Spanish and Jewish, scattering goods and wares. Market day - Gibraltar

HMS Pinafore, Captain Corcoran marched away
HMS Pinafore. Captain Corcoran is taken away. A couple of marines marched him off under the command of the smallest midshipman in the ship. Date: 1908

Prince Albert onboard HMS Collingwood
Prince Albert, Duke of York, later King George VI (1895-1952), as a midshipman on HMS Collingwood, in the summer of 1914. Prince Albert was the only child of George V, other than Prince Edward

Prince Albert as a midshipman in the Royal Navy
H.R.H. Prince Albert, the second son of King George V, and himself later King George VI (1895-1952), as an officer of the Collingwood of the First Battle Squadron

Music cover, The Royal Middies Polka, composed by Edward Slack, with portraits of Prince Albert Victor and Prince George (Later King George V). circa 1882

Collingwood as a Youth
CUTHBERT (later Lord) COLLINGWOOD - the future admiral as a midshipman, a drawing made to exchange with a similar one of Nelson. Date: 1748 - 1810

The Marriage Market by Gladys Unger
Promotional postcard for The Marriage Market by Gladys Unger from Leanyvasar by Mikda Brody and Ferenc Matos (Budapest, 14th November 1911); music Viktor Jacobi

Prince George as a midshipman
Prince George (later King George V) in naval uniform as a midshipman, on board ship. Date: circa 1879

Royal princes return on H. M.s Bacchante, 1880
Welcome Home! The Princess of Wales(Alexandra of Denmark, later Queen Alexandra, consort to King Edward VII of Britain)(1844 1925)

One Never Knows, Does One? by Harold Earnshaw
A young Naval midshipman waits behind a screen with a bunch of mistletoe in the hope that his young sweetheart might be passing by

Naval Recruiting Officer and Actor - WWI humour
Naval Recruiting Officer: And what experience have you had. Actor (wishing to join): Quite considerable. I was two years a midshipman in HMS Pinafore

Original photograph of the airships SS8 SS11 and SS12
Original photograph of the airships SS8:11:12 proceeding on channel patrol from Capel, near Folkestone, October 1915. The Captains of the airships are as follows : Sub-Lieutenant Ivor Little

France (18th c. ). Royal Navy. Pavilion Guard
France (18th c.). Royal Navy. Pavilion Guard, Midshipman and Surgeon of the Royal Navy. Litography. FRANCE. Paris. Army Museum

Prince of Wales as a midshipman
Prince Edward of Wales (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor as a midshipman during his time at the Royal Naval College at Osborne on the Isle of Wight. Date: c. 1912

Edward Viii / Chatterbox
EDWARD VIII as Prince of Wales as midshipman in 1911 Date: 1894 - 1972

The U. S. Brig-of-War Somers
The U.S. Brig-of-War Somers

Prince Albert onboard HMS Collingwood
Prince Albert, Duke of York, later King George VI (1895-1952), as a midshipman on HMS Collingwood, in the summer of 1914. Prince Albert was the only child of George V, other than Prince Edward

Prince Louis of Battenberg with his sons
Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854-1921), British First Sea Lord in 1914 with his sons, George (right) and Louis (Lord Louis Mountbatten)

The boy Nelson embarking on his first voyage, 1770
Nelson entered the Navy as midshipman on board the Raisonnable of which his uncle Maurice Suckling was Captain. He is seen here embarking on his first voyage in the winter of 1770

Admiral W. W. Percival Johnson (1790-1880)
Engraved portrait of Admiral W.W. Percival Johnson (1790-1880), the English sailor, who served as a midshipman on HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar

The Prince of Wales as a Midshipman on Board the HMS Hindust
Photograph of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, who spent a few months in the navy under the care of Captain Henry Hervey Campbell

Midshipman at Masthead
The Mast-headed Midshipman". A young man looks moodily out over the sea from the top of a ships mast

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