Turret Collection

Halifax Bomber Halifax Bomber
Halifax 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

HMS Lion hit, Battle of Jutland, WW1
Scene 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, WW1
Stern view of HMS Repulse showing a Sopwith Pup biplane on the aft turret during the First World War. Date: 1916-1918

Sleeping Beauty by Arthur Rackham
Princess 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

Royal Air Force Martin 187 Baltimore B Mk. III - head-on view
Royal 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

Sopwith Pup taking off from HMS Repulse, WW1
A Sopwith Pup biplane taking off from the B turret of HMS Repulse during the First World War. Date: October 1918

Victoria Cross - Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson
Victoria 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 silhouettes
World War One recruitment poster with silhouettes -- Remember! England Expects -- the Need is Great Today.... the Navy requires you for its glorious service. Join today

Dower House Tower
The Tower of the old Dower House, a ruined lodge in Fawsley Park, Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 17th century

The Battle of Pacocha; Action between HMS Shah and Ameth
Engraving showing the battle between HMS Shah and Amethyst and the Peruvian Ironclad turret ship Huascar on the 29th May 1877

Monitor / Merrimac / Card
The 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

Michigan Avenue, Roseland, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, Roseland, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: circa 1906

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 / Ackerman
Millbank 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 Aldershot
A group of small machines with a pill-box turret, working over rough ground at Aldershot

Mosque at Woking / 1889
The 1st purpose-built mosque in Britain at the Oriental Institute, Maybury, Woking

LCC-MFB Fulham fire station, SW London
Fulham fire station, which remains operational over 100 years after it was first opened (1895). Located at 685 Fulham Road SW6

Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars of The RNAS - Middle East
Rolls-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)

Vickers Wellington GR Mk. XIV MP714
Royal 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)

WW2 - The Motor Launches of E-Boat Alley. (2/2) Date: 1942

Challenger 1 tank
A Challenger 1 tank derivative with modified turret and equipment, at the British Army Equipment Exhibition, held at Aldershot from 23-27 June 1980. Date: 1980

Tower by the Beach, Appley, Ryde, Isle of Wight, Hampshire
Around 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

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 Training
A 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, Belgium
Castle 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 tank
A 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 Well
The 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 tyres
Vickers Wellington B.III BK461, at Honiley with Dunlop for trials of its Compacta wheel covers. Seen with the smallest diameter wheels fitted

HIMS Petr Veliki
Imperial 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 steamer
A 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, WW1
On 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

GPO / British Telecom Tower under construction
Londons GPO/British Telecom Tower under construction, juxtaposed against a Victorian building. Date: circa 1963

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 deck
HMS Suffolk, British Monmouth class cruiser, turret guns on quarter deck. Date: circa 1903

Ostraciontes cowfish species
Ostraciontes: Longhorn cowfish, Lactoria cornuta, scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis, striped cowfish, Aracana aurita, and humpback turret fish, Tetrosomus gibbosus

Soldiers and artillery gunners in a castle
Soldiers, 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, USA
The City and County Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Union Station, Portland, Maine, USA. Date: circa 1915

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