Naval Collection (page 8)

Percival P66 Sea Prince C1, WF138, Royal Naval Communications aircraft delivered to the Naval Staff of the Joint Services Mission in Washington DC in July 1951

Naval fleet alongside the Forth railway bridge, photographed from an airship

The great naval duel between the Alabama and the Kearsarge off Cherbourg

Outward Bound. Sailing ship leaving harbour. Date: ca. 1847

View of Golden Horn with Breslau and Hamidie, WW1
View of the Golden Horn at Istanbul, Turkey, with the German light cruiser SMS Breslau and the Turkish light cruiser Hamidieh, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Sir Charles Brisbane
SIR CHARLES BRISBANE English naval commander who had an active and adventurous career in many oceans of the world, surviving shipwrecks and hurricanes. Date: 1769 - 1829

Austrian submarine on the surface, WW1
An Austrian submarine on the surface, with crew members, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Sir Douglas Haig, Vice Admiral Keyes and Sir A Bodkin
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) and Vice Admiral Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes (1872-1945) being received at Dover by Sir Archibald Henry Bodkin (1862-1957)

Training Ship Indefatigable, New Ferry, Cheshire
The Training Ship Indefatigable, moored on the River Mersey, off New Ferry, Cheshire, was established in 1865 to receive the sons and orphans of sailors, and other poor and destitute boys

Training Ship Mars, Woodhaven, Fife, Scotland
The Training Ship Mars, moored off Woodhaven on the River Tay at Fife, Scotland, was founded in 1869 as an Industrial Training establishment

Royal Naval School
The Naval school at New Cross, before its removal to Greenwich

Lord Fisher / Stamp
JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER 1st Baron Fisher, Admiral and Sea Lord of the Royal Navy

Lieutenant (Sir) Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), Antarctic explorer. In the year this photograph was taken he and three companions established a record for reaching the farthest southern point

RMS Carpathia officers
Officers of the RMS Carpathia, with signatures. This was the ship that rescued survivors of the Titanic disaster on 15 April 1912

WW2 Destroyer crew relaxing
Relaxations of the lower deck: sailors playing tombola in a destroyer escorting a convoy. One of the rare periods of leisure for the crew of a destroyer; Royal Navy sailors play the game of tombola

French Warships - Constantinople
French warships at Constantinople at the end of the First World War

Turkish Warship - Sultan Selim I

American Destroyer
A destroyer of the United States Navy at high speed

Nautical Pin-Up / Shorts
Saucy sailor pin-up girl in a naughty nautical outfit of white t-shirt, very short shorts & naval cap

Firing Ship Guns
The crew of a British ship fire shells from a deck gun and are greeted by a vision of Horatio Nelson, the naval hero of years gone by

Combat at Tsushima 1904
NAVAL ENGAGEMENT in the Tushima Strait - the same location as the decisive battle of the following year

Military Education / Japan
Military education in Japanese primary schools A Naval officer presents a model of a warship to students

Naval Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition Poster
Naval Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition at Earls Court Poster

Midshipmens Mess
Midshipmen eat, read and study in their mess on the Royal Navy warship Caesar

Mcclintock / Francis L
SIR FRANCIS LEOPOLD MCCLINTOCK British naval officer and explorer

Battenberg / Louis Alex
PRINCE LOUIS ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG: Austrian noble, naturalised British 1868, naval officer: changed name to Mountbatten 1917, 1st marquis of Milford Haven

Geo. Washington De Long
GEORGE WASHINGTON DE LONG American naval officer and Arctic explorer, his ship Jeannette crushed in ice, died with all companions while on foot towards Sibera

Bremen Launched
In her heyday this fine German liner wins the Atlantic record, but in WW2 she becomes a naval accommodation ship, destroyed by fire in 1941

Nelson Blinded at Calvi
HORATIO, LORD NELSON English naval officer loses the sight of his eye at Calvi

Saturday Night at Sea
Saturday night at sea - the seamen, off duty, listen as one of their number sings a stirring sea-shanty

Seaplane and Naval Ships
A Royal Flying Corps seaplane co-operates with ships of the Royal Navy

Beatty Book Cover
When Beatty kept the seas - Captain Frank H Shaws stirring patriotic adventure yarn is based on real-life naval exploits of the war

Battle of Svolder / Norway
The Battle of Svolder - the Danes defeated the Norwegians

Sir John Lawson
SIR JOHN LAWSON naval commander during the ommonwealth, though no friend to Cromwell with his autograph

Battle of Portland 1653
BATTLE OF PORTLAND (Three-days battle), 1st Anglo-Dutch War. Robert Blake & fleet of the Commonwealth of England attack Dutch under Maarten Tromp who suffered heavy losses

Haig Inspects Sailors
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig inspecting sailors who took part in the raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge

Scapa Flow: German Ships
Surrendered battleships and cruisers of the German fleet at Scapa Flow

Sir George Nares / M Smith
SIR GEORGE STRONG NARES British naval officer and explorer

Naval Battle Restaged
Mock naval battle held in Roman colosseum (in time of Emperor Augustus)

Entrance to the dockyard, Portsmouth
Entrance to the dockyard at Portsmouth, where Lieutenant Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Buster Crabb (1909-1956) disappeared on 19 April 1956

Mike Parker, equerry to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Lieutenant-Commander John Michael Avison Parker, CVO, AM (23 June 1920 29 December 2001), Australian who served as an officer of the Royal Navy (RN), and as Private Secretary to Prince Philip

Sir Francis Drake attacking a Spanish treasure ship (actually a Portuguese carrack, the Sao Filipe, containing gold, spices and silk), off the Azores, 8 June 1587

Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (1854 - 1922). British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works helped shape the Royal Navys reforms of that era

Earl Winfield Spencer, 1st husband of Wallis Simpson
Commander Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. (1888-1950), pioneering U.S. Navy pilot who served as the first commanding officer of Naval Air Station, San Diego

QF 4-inch naval gun Mk XVI on a twin HA / LA mount
QF 4-inch naval gun Mk.XVI on a HA/LA Mk.XIX twin mounting. The Quick-firing Mk.XVI naval gun could be used on single mounts or in dual mounts, such as this HA/LA mount (High Angle / Low Angle)

Menu for Supper on HMS Queen Elizabeth - March 8, 1920
Menu for Supper for officers serving on the HMS Queen Elizabeth - March 8, 1920. HMS Queen Elizabeth was the lead ship of her class of dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early

Russian Imperial Standard, National Flag and Naval Flag
WW1 era - The Russian Flags - The Imperial Standard, National Flag and Naval Flag. Date: circa 1910s

Robert Falcon Scott and his Frys Cocoa and Chocolate supply
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), the English naval commander and explorer. A Captain in the Royal Navy, Scott led a number of expeditions to the Antarctic

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