Searchlights 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

WW1 - Zeppelin over the UK illuminated by searchlights
" Zepp!" WW1 - Zeppelin over the UK illuminated by searchlights Date: circa 1917

Night scene, Battle of Jutland, WW1
Night scene during the Battle of Jutland, First World War, showing the German ship, SMS Thuringen, with its searchlights on a British ship. Date: 31 May 1916

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

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - Towers, Dome of Federal Building
Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - The three fluted towers around the Dome of the Federal Building 1933

WW2 - Pilot's Wife's Tale
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Pilot's Wife's Tale, written by Esther Terry Wright, the wife of an R.A.F. pilot

WW2 - The Long Albert
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, The Long Albert, written by Philip Gibbs. The image shows a burning St. Paul's Cathedral, with searchlights beaming up into the sky

WW2 - Berlin Hotel
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's story book, Berlin Hotel, written by Vicki Baum. The image shows a building under a starry night sky, with searchlights beaming up. Date: 1944

WW2 - We Lived In London
A front cover illustration for a WW2 children's story book, We Lived In London, written by Eileen Marsh. The image shows a London scene including St

The Ack-Ack Song
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for The Ack-Ack Song, the anthem of Britain's anti-aircraft defender, by Jimmy Kennedy. The image shows an A.A

WW2 Christmas Card, The Optimist
A WW2 Christmas greetings card with an illustration titled The Optimist. The image shows a positive looking man inside his shelter as searchlights beam into the sky above ground. Date: circa 1940s

In Memoriam
An etching which acts as a tribute to the lives lost during World War 1, elements include a memorial stone, which reads 1914-1915, 1916-1917 indicating those that have died during this period

Piccadilly Circus
A poster style illustration of Piccadilly Circus, crammed with people, a police officer is directing the crowd, searchlights fill the sky. Date: circa 1917

Among The Searchlights
An oil painting looking down at a central strip of the River Thames in London, under a dark evening sky. Beams from search lights around the city erratically protrude into the air. Date: circa 1918

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

Trafalgar Squre by night, London. Date: circa 1909

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

World War II searchlights illuminate German positions
Vintage World War II photograph - searchlights being used to illuminate German positions

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

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - View from the observation platform of the Skyride, showing the Electrical Building in the foreground. 1933

Chicago, Illinois, USA, Old Water Tower & Palmolive Building Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois, USA -The Old Water Tower and the Palmolive Building, with roof-mounted decorative searchlight beams radiating out across the night sky. Date: circa 1942

Barcelona, Spain - International Exhibition
One of the Fountains by night. Barcelona, Spain - International Exhibition of 1929 - 1930. In a large park on the Montjuic hill

WW2 - RAF Bombing raid over Germany - stylised image of a party of Vickers Wellingtons. Date: circa 1941

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

Ufos / Moreno Ranch
An isolated ranch at Trancas, Tucuman, is the focus of UFO activity, seemingly hostile : other witnesses testified to six discs, illuminating the ground with their searchlights Date: 21 October 1963

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

WW1 - Zeppelins raiding over Paris, France, 1915
WW1 - An illustration depicting the terror of zeppelins dominating the sky in an air raid at night over Paris, France. Searchlights beam from the city below, marking the zeppelins

WW1 - HMS Badger rams U-19 German Navy U-Boat, 1914
WW1 - HMS Badger was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was the eighth Royal Navy ship that served during the First World War

Searchlights looking for Zeppelins over London, WW1
Searchlights throwing up shafts of light over the London skyline in September 1914, on the look out for German Zeppelin aircraft

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

U. S. Lease and Lend Equipment Reaches Midlands
Photograph:U. S. Lease and Lend Equipment Reaches Midlands. American Lease and Lend equipment including sperry projectors artillery, (Anti-Aircraft)

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

WW1 - German Zeppelin picked by Searchlights over Woodford
WW1 - German Zeppelin L.15 picked out by Searchlights over Woodford, North East London on 13th October 1915. The first raid to target the capital. Date: 1915

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

Statue of Liberty, Bedloe;s Island, New York, New York, USA
Statue of Liberty, Bedloes Island, New York, New York, USA - designed by August Bartholdi, it was presented to the USA by France in 1884, symbolising Liberty Enlightening the World. Date: circa 1943

WW1 - Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson, awarded the V. C
WW1 - " Going!, Going!!, Gone!!!" Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson (1895-1918), awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to

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

Trains with searchlights
Meeting of two locomotives equipped trains with electric lanterns. Date: 1903

American Art Deco Playing Card Back - Female bather (2)
High stylised (and stylish) American Art Deco Playing Card Back - Female bather rather seductively taking off (or putting on) her bathing top against a black background. Date: circa late 1920s

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