Periscope Collection

Britains Sea Power Is Yours
World War Two propaganda poster for the Royal Navy - Britains Sea Power Is Yours - depicting a British submarine crew at action stations during an attack

German propaganda poster, U Boote Heraus!, WW1
A German propaganda poster, U Boote Heraus! (U Boats Launch!), showing a submarine officer looking through a periscope with a sinking torpedoed enemy ship in the background

The crew of a German submarine - First World War
The hideous crew (!) of a German U-boat Submarine, poking their head out from the viewing platform, with the periscope in front. A very direct Allied propaganda postcard

Periscopes in Trenches
With shells bursting overhead and trench mortar ready, Seaforth Highlanders watch through a periscope for the Germans

Periscope and All by Gerald C. Hudson, WW1
Humorous cartoon depicting the grimness of life in the trenches. THOMAS (encountering a pal on the surface of a flooded crater): Lor! Enry, ow you did make me jump. I thought you was a submarine

Gallipoli trench WWI
Royal Navy Division Sector Lieutenant C.H. Parkes RNVR with Periscope rifle (sniperscope) at Gallipoli during World War I

British L56 Submarine. Launched in 1919 and broken up in 1938

Look-out in 1917
A soldier in a look-out post in a trench using a camouflaged periscope to keep watch on the British Front in France during World War I in 1917

Royal Navy British Submarine periscope

Using the periscope in a British submarine probably 1930s

Dardanelles British Soldiers using periscope in trench, WW1
Dardanelles British Soldiers using a periscope in a trench in WW1

WW1 Dardanelles, using periscope in a trench

Beware of Submarines WW1
Lady swimmer mimicking a submarine with her fake periscope. Date: circa 1916

Ralston and Co Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Ralston & Co. promoting the periscope sketcher, a useful tool for artists to aid them with perspective and proportion. Date: circa 1919

Douglas C-54P 50851 (msn 10428, ex 42-72323). Used for radar tests at NATC Patuxent River, MD. under designation R5D-2-2. Had two pods mounted under each outer wing

Soldier of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion; Spanish Civil War
Soldier from the Philippine Islands serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the International Brigade, during the Spanish Civil War

Two members of the Nationalist army using a rangefinder periscope to observe Republican troop movements; Spanish Civil War. Date: 1936

Submarines
Lady swimmer mimicking a submarine with her fake periscope. Date: circa 1916

Periscope crab and flower crab
Periscope crab, Podophthalmus vigil 1, and flower crab, Portunus pelagicus 2. Podoftalmo spinoso, Lupa pelagica. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario

Hemigrapsus penicillatus and Potamon fluviatile
Varunid crab, Hemigrapsus penicillatus 1 and freshwater crab, Potamon fluviatile 2 Grapso penicillato, Telfusa fluviatile

Heating engineer viewing House of Commons chamber
Engineer in charge of heating and air-conditioning for the House of Commons viewing the chamber through a 65 foot long periscope. Date: 1950

French Commander directing operations from tree top 1917
Birds-eye view of the battle behind the lines, showing two French Commanders with periscope and map, directing operations and sending their strategy back to the front lines. Date: 1917

GERMANS USE PERISCOPE
North Africa : a German soldier uses a periscope to observe the positions of the enemy line Date: July 1942

WW1 - Russian Front - Officer using a trench periscope Date: circa 1916

Winter 1915, flooded British trench by Matania, WW1
A British trench on the Western Front during the winter of 1915 drawn by The Sphere special artist, Fortunino Matania and demonstrating the sort of flooded

The trench periscope, WW1
Photographs demonstrating the efficacy of the hyposcope (the landsmans periscope) using one here constructed by Mr C. Baker - an optician of High Holborn

WW1 - Russian Officer using a Periscope to get a (safer) view of the enemy above the trench Date: circa 1916

Mark XI Trench Brass Periscope with wooden handle, WW1
Pattern 1796, Heavy Cavalry Sword, 1808-1818.Carried by Capt (later Lt Col) William Tyrwhitt Drake, Royal Horse Guards.Blade is straight, flat backed

Off the Coast of Scotland by William Heath Robinson
The German Periscoper: Ach, Himmel! Dot most be der peautiful Ben Nevis of vich ve ave eard so mooch. A German submarine mistakes the prominent nose of a bather for the tip of Ben Nevis while sailing

British soldier in trench with periscope, WW1
A British soldier in a trench, observing the enemy through a periscope on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Commander in German U-boat by G. H. Davis
Secrets of a German U-boat: one of a series of drawings made inside a captured submarine during the Second World War. The commander is seen at his action station

Schnorkel breathing system for U-boat by G. H. Davis
The new lungs of the U-boat: the Schnorkel breathing system. The exhaust and fresh air periscope which enables U-boats to remain under water for long periods during the Second World War. Date: 1944

Soldiers in a trench, firing a machine gun, WW1
Soldiers in a trench during the First World War, firing a machine gun with a periscope attachment. Date: 1914-1918

German U-Boat - UC5
Cross-section through a captured German u-boat submarine - the UC 5. A mine-laying submarine, with six mine-holding chambers in the fore-section of the vessel

Bathing Beauty / Periscope
A bathing beauty thumbs her nose at a periscope: " Goodness, I m not afraid of that - I ve seen too many in my time!"

Through the commanders periscope. Frank Day
Photograph: Through the commanders periscope. Frank Day. Photograph taken through a periscope of a tank, showing a man on some open ground

Dazzle painting, WW1
Photograph showing the experimental theatre on which dazzle designs, to camouflage ships were tested, The officer on the right is observing a model through a periscope

Looking for Trouble, by Bairnsfather
Looking for Trouble The rash habit Private Lovebird has of sharing the same periscope with the opposition across the way is bound to lead to trouble A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The

That Periscope Sensation, by Bairnsfather
That Periscope Sensation " I wonder if oughtn t to tell the captain about that thing sticking up in the sea over there" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in an issue of The Bystander

Graphic cover - periscope on the battlefield, WW1
Front cover of The Graphic featuring a photograph of a British officer posing inside a German armoured observation post captured by the British in Flanders Date: 1917

Advertisement for The Sphere magazine, WW1
Advertisement in The Tatler for its sister paper, The Sphere, which claims to be, the best periscope through which to see the fighting by sea and by land

Periscope fitting - Le Target, Belgium
The periscope fitting for safety in the trenches. Le Target, Belgium. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

St Dunstans periscope made by blind patients
A St. Dunstans periscope made by blind patients of St. Dunstans Hospital. Retaining original paper cover printed St. Dunstans Periscope. Made by a war-blinded man. Firearms & Equipment

Periscopomania by William Heath Robinson
The Special Constable (who has strayed into Highgate Ponds): Good Heavens! Theres a periscope! In fact its his own foot. A humorous comment on the growing fear of German submarines during the First

A trench periscope at Aintree, WW1
Soldiers on leave from the front watch the Grand National at Aintree in a novel manner by using a trench periscope to look over the racecourse crowd. Date: 1915

Oh U! by Heath Robinson
In this Heath Robinson cartoon, a submariner makes an easy mistake. The German Periscoper: " Ach, Himmel! Dot most be der peautiful Ben Nevis of vich ve ave eard so mooch

Advert for John Pound & Co military equipment 1915
An advertisement for the military equipment, ingersoll service watch nickel or gun metal, lifeguard reinforced pocket periscope, campaigning knife, penlite pocket lamp, folding pen knife

Christmas Dinner in the trenches by Charles Crombie
" God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen, may nothing you dismay" - a festive view of a British trench on the Western Front with soldiers, rather implausibly

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