Torpedo Collection (page 2)

Royal Navy torpedo training

Royal Navy torpedo training probably 1930s

Upper Hangar in Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Indomitable
The Upper Hangar in the Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Indomitable. Date: 1943

HMS Submarine - No. 1 - First Royal Navy Sub
Holland 1 (or HM submarine Torpedo Boat No. 1) - First Royal Navy Sub - commissioned in 1901, lost in 1913 - raised/recovered in 1982

WW2 - Fairey Albacore
A photograph of a British WW2 Fairey Albacore biplane torpedo bomber, used here by the Fleet Air Arm as a spotter and reconnaissance aeroplane. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Bristol Beauforts In Action
An illustration of some British WW2 Bristol Beaufort torpedo bombers attacking a German warship. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Fairey Swordfish
A photograph of a British WW2 Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber biplane on floats. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Fairey Swordfish Sinking A U-Boat
An illustration of a British WW2 Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber biplane sinking a German U-Boat in the North Sea. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Sailor In Pyjamas And Submarine Torpedo
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image shows a Royal Navy sailor having just slept, wearing blue and white striped pyjamas

Murakumo-class torpedo boat destroyer
Imperial Japanese Navy - Murakumo-class torpedo boat destroyer. (One of a class of six, all built by Thorneycroft in England) Date: circa 1900

Daily Mirror - loss of the Lusitania, WW1
The Daily Mirror breaking the news of Lusitania's demise, 8 May 1915, Torpedoed by German Pirate. Date: 1915

Royal Navy typewritten message, WW2
Original Royal Navy typewritten message, dated 23 May 1941 regarding the movements of the German battleship Bismarck and a Cruiser as they left the port of Bergen to take part in the massive naval

The Particular Service Squadron in Ireland
The Particular Service Squadron in Bantry Bay, Ireland. Assembled as part of a fleet for Baltic operations, primarily against their Russian counterparts

Throwing out Torpedo Nets, Bantry Bay
The torpedo fleet of the Particular Service Squadron putting up torpedo nets, usually made from galvanised iron, to protect the ship the Sultan in Bantry Bay, Ireland

The Particular Service Squadron, Night Attack, Bantry Bay
The Particular Service Squadron in Bantry Bay, Ireland. Assembled as part of a fleet for Baltic operations, primarily against their Russian counterparts

The Particular Service Squadron, Bantry Bay
The Particular Service Squadron in Bantry Bay, Ireland. Assembled as part of a fleet for Baltic operations, primarily against their Russian counterparts

Divers and Diving - 1. and 2. Primitive diving suits, 3. Wreck of the Royal George, from a contemporaneous print, 4. Awkward work, torpedo laying, 5. Electric lamp, 6. An unexpected plunge, 7

Russian torpedo launches attacking a Turkish monitor below Matchin, Russo-Turkish War Date: 1877

HMS Seagull, minesweeper
HMS Seagull was a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat, converted to be a minesweeper. She was built at Chatham Dockyard from 1888-1891

HMS Hornet, Acheron-class Destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Hornet, an Acheron-class Destroyer that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet

SPAIN. Malaga. Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The torpedo boat Requete loading torpedos in the Malaga harbour (20th February 1937)

Torpedo boats of the Royal Navy in action during manoeuvres Date: circa 1901

Grumman TBF-1 Avenger 4-T-2
United States Navy - Grumman TBF-1 Avenger 4-T-2 of VT-4 dropping a torpedo. (Note the exhaust plume from the torpedo motor). Date: circa 1942

1932, Hawker Arsmstrong-Siddeley torpedo bomber aircraft

WW II - Submarine at Deshimag Shipyard, Bremen Germany
World War II - Submarine at Deshimag Shipyard in Bremen Germany, yard had recently been bombed by the Allies

Advert, Charabanc Motor Coach Tours, Bath Tramways Motor Co Ltd. 1927

Three children, survivors of the Athenia, September 1939
Three young girls; Margot from London, Theodora from Toronto and Virginia from Detroit, photographed after being rescued from the transatlantic passenger liner, the Athenia

H. M. destroyer rescues passengers of the Athenia, Sept 1939
Sailors on a British destroyer are shown holding onto former passengers of the Athenia in a lifeboat, 1939. The Sphere comments on the swell which made the rescue operation more difficult

Lifeboats watching the Athenia as it sinks, Sept 1939
Illustration of overcrowded lifeboats as they watch the transatlantic ocean liner, the Athenia, sink. The ships are shown lighting flares

Explosion of a hatch on the Athenia, September 1939
Illustration of the explosion as a torpedo from a German submarine hit the port side No. 5 hatch of the Athenia, a British transatlantic passenger liner

Norwegian Destroyer Svenna, Anchor, la Breche
This is at la Breche d Hermanville just off Sword Beach. The ship was sunk by a German torpedo on D-Day and the anchor was retrieved by the French Navy in the summer of 2003

Triple torpedo tubes on a V or W Class destroyer. Date: circa 1920

Common torpedo ray, Raja torpedo. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804

Common torpedo and marbled electric ray
Common torpedo, ocellate torpedo, or eyed electric ray, Torpedo torpedo (Torpedo oculata), and marbled electric ray, Torpedo marmorata

Ray, shark, sturgeon, lamprey, etc
Marine creatures: hagfish, Myxine glutinosa 1, river lamprey eel, Petromyzon fluviatilis 2, torpedo ray, Raja torpedo ocellata 3, great white shark, Squalus carcharias, vulnerable 4, rat fish

Torpedo scad, Megalaspis cordyla (Rottlerian mackrel, Scomber rottleri). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, torpedo scad
Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson, torpedo scad, Megalaspis cordyla, and Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus (endangered). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Plee Sr

Thornback ray, torpedo, and eagle ray
Thornback ray, Raja clavata (Raia rubus), torpedo, Torpedo torpedo, and eagle ray, Myliobatis aquila. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Miss Coignet after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre

Common torpedo, Raja torpedo
Common torpedo or eyed electric ray, Raja torpedo. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C. and J

Electrical equipment, 18th century. Medical machine for electrifying the teeth, thunder house, torpedo, brush, and connecting frame of the Teylerian battery

Electric eel, torpedo, batfish, cowfish and sargassum fish
Electric eel, Electrophorus electricus 1, eyed electric ray, Torpedo torpedo 2, Brazilian batfish, Ogcocephalus vespertilio 3, longhorn cowfish, Lactoria cornuta 4, and sargassum fish

Bottlenose skate and electric rays
Endangered bottlenose skate, Rostroraja alba, dorsal 1, ventral 2, eyed electric ray, Torpedo torpedo 3, and marbled electric ray, Torpedo marmorata 4

Bristol Beaufighter - Two-seat mid-wing Fighter, Fighter-bomber and Torpedo Aircraft. Two 1, 600 H.P. Britsol Hercules Engines. Top speed exceeds 330mph. Range - 1, 500 miles

Firing a torpedo out of a tube
German sailors firing a torpedo out of a tube using compressed air. circa 1898

Convoys in Peril, by Claude Muncaster, WW1
Convoys in Peril, by Claude Muncaster, First World War. Showing a British freighter dead in the water after a torpedo attack, with the crew escaping by lifeboats. 1914-1918

HMS torpedo boat destroyer, Earnest, at full speed off Plymouth. Date: circa 1900

How Germany treats neutral commerce, torpedo WW1
How Germany treats neutral commerce in the First World War. A German torpedo just about to strike a merchantman. 1915

United States Navy - Douglas DT - 1-T-10
United States Navy - Douglas DT 1-T-10 and two more torpedo bomber float-planes of VT-1, during exercises, with a smokescreen rolling in. Date: circa 1925

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