Navy Collection (page 94)

Band of female musicians with drums
Band of female musicians in naval uniform, with drums. Date: circa 1930s

Three men on the deck of a ship
Three men linking arms on the deck of a ship. Date: circa 1920s

Ships moored near the coast, with people visible on deck on the right. Date: circa 1920s

WW1 - Comment on Scapa Flow, 21st June 1919
WW1 - An illustration commenting on the Germans making a decision to scuttle the fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands in Scotland

WW1 - U Boat off the English coast
WW1 - A drawing for a German paper showing a German officers examining a chart on their U Boat on English waters. Date: 1915

WW1 - Commodore Bigsworth drops bombs on zeppelin, 1915
WW1 - Air Commodore Arthur Wellesley Bigsworth (1885-1961) was a pioneer aviator who had a distinguished military career in the service of the British armed forces

WW1 - Aviation in the Navy - Churchill checks on air power
WW1 - Winston Churchill and the navy checking on the air power of a monster seaplane on a seashore. Date: 1915

WW1 - The crew of the German U-9 submarine
WW1 - Lieutenant Commander Otto Eduard Weddigen (1882 -1915), photographed with the crew of the German U-9 submarine. It is said that the crew also joined Weddigen as part of the U-29 submarine

Bombardment of Scarborough - German navy gun-crew
The raid on Scarborough took place on 16th December 1914. It was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British seaport town. German gun-crew are pictured in action from their warship

WW1 - Battle of Falkland - Heroic German on S. M. S. Leipzig
WW1 - Battle of Falkland - A heroic German waves a flag on top of the S.M.S. Leizpig as it sinks. SMS Leipzig (" His Majestys Ship Leipzig" )

WW1 - German aircraft views the English Navy - North Sea
WW1 - A German illustration of a battle in the North Sea showing a German aircraft beating-off the English Navy. Three enemy merchant-vessels are being destroyed

Thomas Morse S-5 float equipped version of the S4 Four built for the US Navy

Sopwith 1F Camel entered service in mid 1917 with both the Royal Navy and Army air arms

Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter taking off from gun platform
Sopwith 1.5 Strutter single-seat bomber of the RNAS, taking off from a warships gun platform. Date: circa 1918

Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter taking off from ship
Sopwith 1.5 Strutter, launching from a makeshift turret-top platform on board a ship. Date: circa 1916-1918

Sikorsky H-5 -both the US Army Air Force and US Navy were beginning to employ helicopters on rescue duties by wars end

Short S81 Only one built for the Royan Navy and used to test various gun armaments from early 1914 until October 1915

Sopwith 2F Camel fighter plane on HMS Tiger X turret
Sopwith 2F Camel fighter plane, designed for naval use. The first was completed and flying by March 1917. It had a nose-mounted Vickers gun and an overwing Lewis gun

Sablatnig SF 2 German two-seater advanced trainer seaplane (serial no. 580), photographed at Warnemunde on the German Baltic coast

O Hare, Edward H Butch US Navy fighter pilot as Lt

Mitsubishi B5M1 Navy Type 97 Mabel -proved inferior to the Nakajima B5N Kate, only 125 built

Mitsubishi A6M3 Model 22 Zeke -nearly 11, 000 of the long range, agaile fighters were produced for the Japanese Navy

Liore 70 -only 8 of these built for the French Navy, with all but one destroyed in an air raid during June 1940

Kawanishi E7K1 Model 1 Alf -a few remained in service with the Japanese Navy in the first year of the war

Grumman J4F Widgeon of US Coast Guard that came under US Navy jurisdiction in wartime

Hiro H4H1 Navy Type 91 - a few remained in secondary duties with the Japanese Navy through 1942

Felixstowe F2A -used by the Royal Navy, it owed much to the Curtiss H-16

Edo XOSE-1 -another one-off scout meant to be carried and catapulted from warships that never made it into production

Douglas R4D -the US Navy and Marine version of the ubiquitous C-47

Curtiss H-12 taking off -used by the US Navy

Curtiss AB-3 of the USMC being hoisted aboard USS North Carolina, July 1916 (photo US Navy)

Convair PB4Y-2 -the US Navy version of the B-24 had a single fin in place of B-24s two

Consolidated B-24D Liberator -shown amid Pacific palms Here the Liberators long range was a vital asset, the aircraft being used by both the US Army and Navy, as well as the RAF

Blackburn Skua with arrester wire hook down landing aboard an aircraft carrier

Blackburn Roc-a woeful attempt to mimic all the shortfalls of the Boulton Paul Defiant onto a carrier-going fighter

Avro 503 or Type H sold to German Navy
Avro 503 or Type H, a two-seater floatplane which made its first flight on 28 May 1913. Ironically it was sold to the German Navy, and is seen here undergoing their acceptance trials at Worthing

Arado Ar 231 seen in its stowed form for use on the larger U-Boats

WW1 - French artillery masked during the action
WW1 - A high caliber, artillery of the French Navy is moved and stowed away by a group of soldiers. They weapon is masked away during the action under a purposely-built camouflage tented area

Douglas Dakota N2-90 Royal Australian Navy Schofield 1985
Douglas Dakota N2-90 of the Royal Australian Navy at Schofield, NSW on 9 November 1985 Date: 1985

WW1 - Captured UC5 U-Boat in the River Thames
WW1 - UC-5 was a German Type UC minelayer submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy during World War I. Seen here moored up on the banks of the River Thames following capture

British rescuing men from German destroyer, Heligoland, WW1
British sailors rescuing men of a German destroyer, under fire, at the Battle of Heligoland Bight - a gallant deed officially recognised by Germany

A heroine of the war, Lassie of HMS Formidable, WW1
Lassie, the dog who helped to save the life of a seaman of H.M.S. Formidable by licking his face and warming his body until he moved, and by calling attention to him

Captain Loxley of battleship Formidable & his dog Bruce
Portrait of Captain Loxley, in command of the battleship Formidable which was sunk by a German torpedo in 1915. Also included is a picture of his terrier dog Bruce who reportedly stayed with his

The Prince of Wales by Fortunino Matania
Portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor, 1894-1972), pictured at a docks in naval uniform at the time he was due to depart on his tour of Australia

Silhouettes, personnel involved in the Great War
Silhouettes showing the numbers of soldiers and sailors of Russia, Germany, France, Austria, Britain and Holland involved in the First World War. Date: 1914

World War One Royal Navy Truck / Lorry, Wormwood Scrubs
World War One Royal Navy Truck/Lorry, Wormwood Scrubs, London, near Shepherds Bush, County of London, England. Date: 1910s

Royal Navy C-Class Light Cruiser HMS Ceres, . Showing Galley Crew - Cup Winner of Sailing Race 1920. Date: 1920

World War One Diving from Navy Boat, Britain. Captioned: Life in the Navy. Divers ready to descend. Date: 1917

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