Submarine Collection (page 6)

German submarine on the surface at night, 1915
A German submarine running on the surface of the sea at night in 1915 during the German blockade of the British Isles in World War One. Date: 1915

Repairing British Naval vessels - The Slip, Gibraltar. Date: circa 1910s

ILN page on submarine hunting sea lions, WW1
A remarkable naval experiment came to light after the war was over, deemed so unlikely that when The Illustrated London News first heard of it, they believed it to be a hoax

WW1 - Istanbul - Golden Horn - A German U-boat welcomed to the city Date: circa 1916

HMS Hazard on River Thames, Tower Bridge
HMS Hazard with submarine C15 and other vessels on the River Thames near Tower Bridge, for a naval review. Date: circa 1909

HMS Hazard and submarine cleaning
HMS Hazard, British Dryad-class torpedo gunboat and the worlds first submarine depot ship. Seen here are crew members cleaning submarines 1 and 4 of the flotilla. Date: circa 1905

Billy the submarine hunting sea lion
A remarkable naval experiment came to light after the war was over, deemed so unlikely that when The Illustrated London News first heard of it, they believed it to be a hoax

Diving apparatus by Siebe at the Great Exhibition
Augustus Siebe (1788 April 15, 1872) exhibited in the machinery department at the Great Exhibition in London a model of his diving apparatus. Date: 1851

Whales mistaken for u-boats during WW1
A page from The Illustrated London News, featuring two whales photographed from the air, showing how they could be mistaken for u-boats, and consequently bombed. WW1

Mice as fume detectors on a submarine, WW1
White mice as fume detectors on board a submarine, WW1. An officer is giving the mice an airing on deck

Submarine forest, nr Birkenhead - large areas of scattered fossilised trees.. Part of Box 12 Boswell collection. Counties of England. Date: circa 1900

Cartoon, In Memory of the Lusitania, WW1
Cartoon, In Memory of the Lusitania. Two sailors fire on a German submarine in retaliation for the lost ship. Date: 1917

Paul Macartney at PR launch of Yellow Submarine
Paul Macartney at the PR launch of Yellow Submarine (the name of both an LP album and an animated film). Date: late 1960s

The Beatles at PR launch of Yellow Submarine
The Beatles at the PR launch of Yellow Submarine (the name of both an LP album and an animated film). Date: late 1960s

Royal Edward torpedoed August 1915
The first British transport ships to be sunk in the First World War, Royal Edward owned by the Canadian Northern Steamship Company

Fantastic Adventures - The Octopus of Space
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1949, featuring the story The Octopus of Space by Alexander Blade. A man watches another man in a wet suite fighting a huge octopus out of the round window of a

Italy. Milan. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Enrico Toti submarine. Used during the Cold War

Ukraine. Balaklava. Entry into the mountains of an ancient u
Ukraine. Balaklava. Entry in to the mountains of an ancient underground nuclear submarine base in the Soviet Union fleet. Crimean Peninsula

Isaac Peral (1852-1895). Spanish engineer, sailor and designer of the Peral Submarine. Partial tests verified the Peral submarine in the dock of Arsenal de la Carraca, 1889. Cadiz. Andalusia. Spain

Second World War. Underwater mine explosion
SECOND WORLD WAR (1939-1945). Underwater mine explosion

Monge Submarine
Monge : until 1914, most French submarines are steam- driven, hence the smoke. She has electric motors for underwater sailing. Date: circa 1905

Oil slick sighted by German Dornier Do 17 light bombers
Luftwaffe German Dornier Do 17 light bomber aircraft spot an oil slick in the British Channel which indicates the presence of a submarine - 1941

Book for Boys
Buckle of Submarine V2, by Rowland Walker, will stir the blood of every true British schoolboy and make him eager to take his place in battle against Britains evil foes Date: circa 1915

Sir Charles Tilston Bright, engineer
SIR CHARLES TILSTON BRIGHT English telegraph engineer, in charge of laying submarine cables Date: 1832 - 1888

Torpedo Nets
To protect warships from enemy torpedoes, torpedo-nets were hung from the sides of the ship : as here, on a French warship at Toulon Date: 1886

Emperor power boat, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA
Glass-bottomed Emperor power boat, used for showing sightseers the Submarine Gardens, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA. circa 1914

Glass-bottomed boat, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA
Glass-bottomed passenger boat, used for showing sightseers the Submarine Gardens, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA. Date: 1922

Cartoon, Six thousand years later, WW1
Cartoon, Six thousand years later, showing a prehistoric caveman seeing an airship in the sky as a development of the club in his hand. Date: 1916

Planes of a British submarine, WW1
The planes of a First World War submarine - horizontal rudders to regulate the angle of ascent and descent. Date: 1914

Submarine D 4 with mounted gun
The British submarine the " D 4" which carried a quick-firing gun mounted forward of the conning tower upon a moving platform placed inside the hull

British submarines in dock, WW1
Part of Britains underwater submarine fleet moored in dock just before the First World War. Date: 1914

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 - HMS E13 British submarine - Aground and attacked
WW1 - HMS E13 was a British E class submarine. Due to a compass failure, it ran aground on the Danish Island of Saltholm in the Oresund

WW1 - Sinking Svionia the merchantman - Baltics Sea, 1915
WW1 - The first German merchant ship victim Svionia, was sunk by the gunfire off Sassnitz in the western Baltic. The men from two smaller boats and a submarine

WW1 - British submarine rescues German sailor
WW1 - A British marine seen saving the life of a German sailor belonging to a war-ship sunk in the North Sea. The marine is hauling the man on board using a life-line which has been flung to him

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

WW1 - A scene of Dover at night as its searchlights discover two German submarines at the entrance of the harbour. The English Batteries opened fire on the water from the eastern forts

Royal Aircraft Factory BE 2c
Royal Aircraft Factory two-seater BE 2c, which made its debut in April 1915, used for reconnaissance, as a bomber and anti-submarine patroller, and for training purposes

Northrop A-17A -Used since February 1936 as a close-support type Some were used on anti-submarine duties around the Panama canal from December 1941 through 1944

Fairey Hamble Baby single-seat floatplane, a development on the Sopwith Baby formula via the addition of wing edge flaps. They were used as anti-submarine patrollers from the summer of 1917

Armstrong Whitworth AW 38 Whitley V -withdrawn from front-line service in late 1942, the Whitley continued to serve as a transport, submarine hunter and paratroop trainer

Airco DH 6 trainer in flight, available from early 1917. Seen here is serial no. B2612. Some DH 6s were later used by the RNAS for anti-submarine coastal patrol work, carrying a bombload

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

Royal Navy on a Submarine, . Date: 1910s

Spanish submarine A1, Narciso Monturiol, named after its inventor. It was launched in 1917. Date: early 20th century

Italian submarine HMS X2, Galileo Galilei, WW2
Italian submarine HMS X2, Galileo Galilei. Seen here in the Gulf of Aden at the time of its capture in June 1940. Date: 1940

Cartoon, There are none so deaf, WW1
Cartoon, There are none so deaf, showing a typical pessimist talking about the war to two women in a restaurant. Surrounding them is a border of barbed wire, keeping out any item of good news

Naval air-scout in a dirigible, First World War
A type of small allied naval dirigible used as an air scout for tracking enemy submarines which can be seen under water in clear, calm weather

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