Searchlight Collection

Cartoon, Mermaids and U-Boats, WW1
Cartoon, Mermaids and U-Boats. Two mermaids and two fish are disturbed by a German U-boat which has a face like a shark. Date: 1917

LCC-LFB Dennis dual-purpose pump-escape
The Dennis dual-purpose pump-escape from D66 station Brixton (Gresham Road, SW4), pictured on Lambeth Bridge. The hose-reel tubing

Carl Zeiss Jena Concave Mirror Lens - Searchlights
Carl Zeiss Jena Concave Mirror Lens for large electric headlamps (searchlights) which used these 2m wide parabolic reflectors. Date: 1926

Agnes Weston Royal Sailors Rest Portsmouth title slide

Magnetron Valve - Britain's Great Contribution to Radar. Date: 1946

WW2 - The Amazing Summer
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, The Amazing Summer, the image shows a night time countryside scene, with searchlight beams reaching into the sky. Date: circa 1941

WW2 Searchlight Regiment Christmas Card
A WW2 Christmas greetings card issued by the 44th Searchlight Regiment, R.A. (T.A.). The illustration portrays a military man with a bayonet rifle slung over his shoulder

War Time
A painting which shows some searchlight beams shooting into the evening sky, above the roof tops of some street buildings. Date: circa 1916

Advert for James Buchanan Whisky
An advert for Black & White Scotch whisky from James Buchanan and Co. Date: 1932

RMS Queen Mary, high-powered searchlight Date: 1930s

Auxiliary Territorial Service using search lights at night to spot on coming aircraft. Date: 1943

Comic postcard, air raid in the night, WW2 - Jerrys over! Date: 1940s

Damaged searchlight, HMS Dreadnought, British battleship
Damaged searchlight on HMS Dreadnought, British flagship battleship - the searchlight was shattered by the ships own gunfire during a fleet review

WW1 - Hyde Park Corner - converted to mount searchlights
WW1 - Apsley Gate, Hyde Park Corner - converted to mount searchlights to spt attack by German Zeppelins - 16th September, 1914 Date: circa 1914

Front cover, British Artists at the Front, WW1
Front cover, British Artists at the Front (Country Life), Part Two, Sir John Lavery ARA, First World War. 1916-1917

War Searchlights over Westminster Bridge, WW1
War Searchlights over Westminster Bridge, First World War. Pastel by Robert Randoll. 1917

A Destroyer on a night time encounter, by Harold M Brett, WW
A Destroyer on a night time encounter, painting by Harold M Brett, First World War. circa 1917

Searchlights by the Houses of Parliament, WW1
Searchlights by the Houses of Parliament, First World War. circa 1916

Searchlights in Action, Winter Night, by Marcel Augis, WW1
Searchlights in Action, Winter Night, by Marcel Augis, First World War. 1917

Royal Air Force Fairey Swordfish III (Searchlight), fitted with a searchlight under the starboard wing for night attacks and ASV radar between the undercarriage legs. - 12th November, 1943. Date: 1943

The Silver Jubilee Aldershot Military Tattoo. An annual event dating back to 1894. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo held at the Rushmoor Arena presented displays

Barcelona, Spain at night from Tibidabo Mountain
Barcelona, Spain at night viewed from Tibidabo a mountain overlooking the city. Date: circa 1930s

Exposicion Internacional de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Date: 1929

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, USA. The Scintillator and Tower of Progress Date: 1915

Palmolive Building by Night, Chicago, Illinois, USA Date: 1937

The Empire State Building, New York, USA. Date: 1931

WW2 poster, Gloster Aircraft National Savings Group. Our aim is one fighter per month, for the next three months. Join the group, win certificates, and help win the war. Save now for your future

Comic postcard, Couple flying in a monoplane at night, with searchlights across the sky Date: 20th century

German infra-red equipment by G. H. Davis
Black light: the cats eye effect of the German infra-red telescopes and searchlights in darkness. How to see in the dark -- a German military secret paralleled by Allied inventions

Diagram of electric searchlight 1916
Diagram of electric searchlight for defence for night-time attack from Germans. Date: 1916

British Air Defence Exercises - Searchlight operators
Air Defence Exercises - 90cm Anti-Aircraft Searchlight operators. Date: circa 1940

Jubilee Naval Review - battery of searchlights of the fleet
Jubilee Naval Review - Spithead - battery of searchlights of the fleet - Silver Jubilee of King George V in 1935. Date: circa 1908

WW1 - London in wartime searchlights over the River Thames Date: circa 1917

Cartoon, Women watching searchlights, WW1
Cartoon, Women watching searchlights. Two Parisian ladies watch the searchlights over Montmartre. Date: 1916

Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Night scene in the Terminal Area Date: circa 1934

Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Public Square and Union Terminal Tower
Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Public Square and Union Terminal Tower. Date: circa 1934

Peace night 1919
Trafalgar Square on the Peace night, Nelson Column with its Victory Loan decorations amid searchlights and fireworks, with thousands of people celebrating that the War was over. 28 June1919

War trophies on display in London, 1915
A German mine and a searchlight on display in Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, London in November 1915, part of an exhibition of war trophies - weapons and salvaged objects from the war. Date: 1915

The Wrong Theatre, by Bairnsfather
The Wrong Theatre Whenever that German searchlight is turned on our trench, we have a lot of trouble with Private Harold Montgomery (the ex-famous actor)

Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, Searchlight. Date: circa 1889

?Join the Anti-Aircraft Units of the Territorial Army?, 1938
Join the Anti-Aircraft Units of the Territorial Army and make Britain a stronghold of freedom, 1938. Colour lithograph recruitment poster after Lance Cattermole

Woman Power
An illustration from the Bystander in 1918, showing the power of women as rays of light, apparently from a pair of female eyes shine upon a soldier

German battery under a searchlight, 1914
The searchlight in operation - a German battery thrown into relief by a searchlight of the Allied armies in the Aisne region of France. They make frantic efforts to escape the ghostly beam. Date: 1914

Searchlights in London 1914, by Joseph Pennell
The new lights of London, searchlights playing across the sky from Charing Cross and Lambeth Bridge, by Joseph Pennell. Date: 1914

How a Zeppelin climbs when attacked by G. H. Davis
How a Zeppelin climbs when attacked from below by anti-aircraft guns. Date: 1915

Guarding the mouth of the Humber by G. H. Davis
The war: naval and military happenings of the week. Guarding the mouth of the Humber -- an incoming trawler in the glare of a destroyers searchlight. Date: 1914

Searchlight command by G. H. Davis
Searchlight command: the men who point the way for Britains anti-aircraft guns and night fighters during the Second World War

Mons 1914
Nighttime on the battlefield at Mons on 23 August. German searchlights seek out movement on the British lines, in order to guide their artillerys fire

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