HMS Lion hit, Battle of Jutland, WW1Scene during the Battle of Jutland, in the North Sea near Denmark, during the First World War, showing the British battlecruiser HMS Lion being hit on the Q turret
Boulton Paul Defiant fighter; Second World War, 1940
HMS Repulse with Sopwith Pup, WW1Stern view of HMS Repulse showing a Sopwith Pup biplane on the aft turret during the First World War. Date: 1916-1918
Halifax Bomber Halifax BomberHalifax Bomber - Handley Page Long-range Bomber. One of the most formidable in the World. Four Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines. Four-gun Bolton Paul Rear Turret. Date: circa 1940s
Sleeping Beauty by Arthur RackhamPrincess Briar Rose, aka Sleeping Beauty turns a key in the lock of a door, where she is about to meet the wicked old fairy, whose spindle will prick her finger sending her, and the royal household
Sopwith Pup taking off from HMS Repulse, WW1A Sopwith Pup biplane taking off from the B turret of HMS Repulse during the First World War. Date: October 1918
Michigan Avenue, Roseland, Chicago, Illinois, USAMichigan Avenue and 111th Street, Roseland, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: circa 1906
Victoria Cross - Lieutenant William Leefe RobinsonVictoria Cross posthumously awarded to John Travers Cornwell (1900-1916) - for his gallantry at the Battle of Jutland. Cornwell was a Boy Seaman First Class on H.M.S Chester
WW1 recruitment poster with silhouettesWorld War One recruitment poster with silhouettes -- Remember! England Expects -- the Need is Great Today.... the Navy requires you for its glorious service. Join today
The Battle of Pacocha; Action between HMS Shah and AmethEngraving showing the battle between HMS Shah and Amethyst and the Peruvian Ironclad turret ship Huascar on the 29th May 1877
Monitor / Merrimac / CardThe Battle of Hampton Roads. The Confederates armoured frigate Merrimac destroyed many Federal vessels, but retreated following action with Monitor, a turret ship
Ancient Greek warships, the upper one with a turret. Date: BCE
Royal Air Force Martin 187 Baltimore B Mk. III - head-on viewRoyal Air Force Martin 187 Baltimore B Mk.III. The prominent Boulton-Paul mid-upper turret can be clearly seen - head-on view from the photographers favourite Handley Page Hampden mount - 24th
Gateway of India, Bombay (Mumbai), India. Date: circa 1933
74th Regiment Armory, Buffalo, New York State, USA. circa 1900s
A Sopwith Pup of the RNAS taking-off from the turret platform of HMAS Sydney
Millbank Prison / AckermanMillbank prison was conceived by Jeremy Bentham whose goal was that prisoners would receive just punishment while developing an appreciation of labour. It was completed in 1821
New type of light tank demonstrated at AldershotA group of small machines with a pill-box turret, working over rough ground at Aldershot
Mosque at Woking / 1889The 1st purpose-built mosque in Britain at the Oriental Institute, Maybury, Woking
LCC-MFB Fulham fire station, SW LondonFulham fire station, which remains operational over 100 years after it was first opened (1895). Located at 685 Fulham Road SW6
Rosyth Royal Naval Dockyard - Fife, Scotland - panoramic view showing the Power Station and Industrial Chimney with multiple clock faces
WW2 - R. A. F. Air Gunnery TrainingA photograph which shows some British WW2 Royal Air Force men in air gunnery training, the instructor releases clays for the gunner to pick them off from inside the turret. Date: circa 1940s
Castle of Veves, Wallonia, BelgiumCastle of Veves, built c. 1410, aerial view, at Celles in Wallonia, Namur, Ardennes, Belgium. A castle has occupied this site since the 7th century
KV-1 Shielded heavy tankA Soviet KV-1 Shielded heavy tank, knocked out by German anti-tank fire, with damaged indicated by an invading German soldier
House Dene, Wallace's WellThe top photograph shows a low lyring stream by House Dene, with a fallen in Wallace's Well, the bottom image provides the same view
Vickers Wellington B. III BK461, with Dunlop Compacta tyresVickers Wellington B.III BK461, at Honiley with Dunlop for trials of its Compacta wheel covers. Seen with the smallest diameter wheels fitted
HIMS Petr VelikiImperial Russian Navy - HIMS Petr Veliki, a turret ship, with main armament in two turrets, fore and aft of the central bridge citadel. Date: circa 1890
Spain, province of Leon. Castle of Ponferrada. Illustration by Letre. Engraving by Sierra, 19th century. Cronica General de Espana, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias
Ten thousand ton ore-carrying turret steamerA ten thousand ton ore-carrying turret steamer, in a chapter entitled Some Strange Ships, by G G Jackson. The large number of masts are not for sails or rigging, but there to support the derricks
Turret Ship, elevation, and plan of upper deck
Royal Marines Artillery - A Drill turret used by the RMA for training on the operation of turrets on capital ships. Every aspect was practised with a magazine on the lower levels
On Board a Battleship, by Muirhead Bone, WW1On Board a Battleship: A Gun Turret on HMS Repulse, Firth of Forth, March 1917, by Muirhead Bone, First World War. 1917
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Armored vehicle with gun turret
Vickers Wellington GR Mk. XIV MP714Royal Air Force - Vickers Wellington GR Mk. XIV MP714. Seen fitted with chin-mounted ASV Mk. III radar, retractable Leigh Light in the Ventral turret position and RP-3 (from Rocket Projectile 3 inch)
Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars of The RNAS - Middle EastRolls-Royce Armoured Cars of The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), developed in 1914 and used during the First World War as pictured here (possibly in Egypt)
Tower by the Beach, Appley, Ryde, Isle of Wight, HampshireAround 1875 Sir William Hutt had a folly built just above the beach in the form of a castle tower. The tower is circular, with battlements, a turret and an external stair
GPO / British Telecom Tower under constructionLondons GPO/British Telecom Tower under construction, juxtaposed against a Victorian building. Date: circa 1963
WW2 - The Motor Launches of E-Boat Alley. (2/2) Date: 1942
Out flew the web and floated wide. Illustration by Florence Harrison of Tennysons The Lady of Shallott. Date: c.1920
HMS Bellerophon, British battleship, showing the starboard gun turret. The photographer, Mrs Broom, was the only prominent female photographer with her own premises and a Royal Warrant
HMS Suffolk, British cruiser, turret guns on quarter deckHMS Suffolk, British Monmouth class cruiser, turret guns on quarter deck. Date: circa 1903
Ostraciontes cowfish speciesOstraciontes: Longhorn cowfish, Lactoria cornuta, scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis, striped cowfish, Aracana aurita, and humpback turret fish, Tetrosomus gibbosus
Soldiers and artillery gunners in a castleSoldiers, archers and artillery gunners in a castle siege, 15th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World
City and County Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, USAThe City and County Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Date: circa 1900s
Union Station, Portland, Maine, USA. Date: circa 1915
Adverts, John Marshall & Co, The Eclipse Tool Mfg CoAdverts for John Marshall & Co, Clyde Boiler Works, Motherwell, and The Eclipse Tool Manufacturing Co, Linwood, near Glasgow, Scotland. 1905
ROC Fleet Fighters ROC Fleet FightersROC Fleet Fighters - Fleet Air Arm Aircraft. Blackburn 2-seater. Power-operated Gun Turret. Bristol Perseus Engine 905 H.P. Date: 1940
