War Ships Collection

National Savings Group wartime poster
Convoy your country to victory : save and lend through our National Savings Group. World War II poster illustrated by warship flying the Royal Navy ensign

Warship Hms Hood
HMS Hood, completed in 1920, was the worlds largest warship for more than two decades. She was finally sunk by the Bismarck in 1941 at the Battle of Denmark Strait

Britains Sea Power Is Yours
World War Two propaganda poster for the Royal Navy - Britains Sea Power Is Yours - showing destroyers in line ahead

Taranto, Italy - A series of Italian naval vessels pass through the famous Swing Bridge. Date: circa 1910s

Advertisement for Libertys new shops, London
An advertisement for Libertys new shops about to open in Argyll Place, off Regent Street, London. Liberty & Co have had the exterior and interior built in 16th century style

Britains Sea Power Is Yours
World War Two propaganda poster for the Royal Navy - Britains Sea Power Is Yours - illustrated by ships and warships of all kinds, designed to reassure with a shared sense of patriotism

Nelson on Shore
HORATIO, LORD NELSON standing on a rocky shore, while a line of warships sails past behind him

Battle of Cluys / Froissar
At the battle of SLUYS, the English fleet of 200 totally defeats the French fleet of 70, capturing or destroying virtually every vessel

Wartime poster, More Ships -- come on! War Savings are Warships. Encouraging people to save money and help the war effort. Featuring a British bulldog wearing an HMS Victory naval cap. 1940s

Royal Navy losses in both World Wars, 1945
Illustration showing the ships lost by the British Royal Navy during the Second World War (main picture) compared with those lost during the First World War (inset bottom right)

Tsushima (Schon - 5
BATTLE OF TSUSHIMA STRAIT After their overwhelming defeat of the Russian navy, the Japanese tow away the Russian warships they have captured

British Act at Jutland
British warships Royal Oak, Acasta, Benbow, Superb and Canada in action at the Battle of Jutland

Outward Bound. Sailing ship leaving harbour. Date: ca. 1847

French Warships - Constantinople
French warships at Constantinople at the end of the First World War

Trafalgar (Davidson)
warships at close quarters

Battle of Portland 1653
BATTLE OF PORTLAND (Three-days battle), 1st Anglo-Dutch War. Robert Blake & fleet of the Commonwealth of England attack Dutch under Maarten Tromp who suffered heavy losses

15th Century Ships
Warships of the period of Edward IV. The larger vessel carries three cannon amidships, behind closed ports which are lowered when the ship goes into action. Date: 1482

Scout Plane for Warships
An aeroplane acts as a scout for warships Date: 1913

Naval review at Spithead, Hampshire
King George V reviewing the British naval fleet at Spithead, Hampshire. The Fleet Review is a British tradition, in which the reigning monarch reviews the massed Royal Navy

Warship trailing a Fog Buoy, 1912
Photograph of a British warship trailing a fog buoy. When a group of warships travelling line ahead entered fog they would stream fog buoys

ITALY. Pompeii. House of the Vettii. Detail with warships. First Century A.D. Roman art. Early Empire. Painting; Fresco

HMS Minotaur at Gibraltar, c. 1880. c. 1880

William Fox presents Bride 13 The serial supreme in fifteen
William Fox presents bride 13 The serial supreme in fifteen episodes : Episode nine hurled from the clouds. Motion picture poster for Bride 13, episode nine

Our victorious fleets in Cuban waters. Date c1898

U. S. Ship of the Line Ohio, 104 Guns
U.S. Ship of the Line Ohio, 104 Guns. Date: 1847

U. S. Ship North Carolina, 102 Guns
U.S. Ship North Carolina, 102 Guns. Date: 1844

Warships, Algiers, Algeria. Date ca. 1899

Britiannia Bides Her Time
" Britiannia Bides Her Time.", Alick P. F. ritchie, The Bystander front cover, 19th August 1914. In 1914, Britannia really did rule the waves

Getting Under Way and Manning the Yards
The Grand Naval Review at Spithead : getting under way and manning the yards - a mighty warship. Date: 1856

Dreadnought Photo
The battleship which has set the pattern for warships combining heavy gunpower with high speed. Date: 1906

Malta / Valletta
Warships in Valletta harbour during World War One. Date: 1914-1918

Warship peeking over North Sea waves
Warship peeking over the North Sea waves - only the top of the mast is visible - has the rather humourous caption Xmas Greetings from North Sea. Date: circa 1920s

Whitby Yorkshire
A photograph purporting to be from the time of the devastating German naval attacks on the Yorkshire coast on 16th December 1914

Dogali - Italian naval vessels in dock
Dogali, Italy - Italian naval vessels in dock Date: circa 1910s

Bank Holiday mobilisation activity at Sheerness, WW1
Bank Holiday mobilisation activity at Sheerness at the start of the First World War. British civilians watch the warships with interest from the deck of the Princess of Wales, Rochester

Bay at Talcahuano, Chile
Panorama of the Bay at Talcahuano, Chile (in the Biobio Region) with moored naval ships. Date: circa 1910s

British Dreadnoughts

Growth of the Worlds Dreadnoughts
The Dreadnought Fever visualised in The Sphere by diagrammatic illustrator, G. H. Davis showing the huge growth in the building of dreadnoughts (all-big-gun battleships)

Wartime poster, War Savings Are Warships, encouraging people to save more to help the war effort. Showing four warships at sea. 1940s

H. M.s Glorious
Originally commissioned as a light cruiser, HMS GLORIOUS was later converted into an aircraft carrier. Destroyed by SCHARNHORST after she aided in the evacuation of Norway, 1940 Date: 1930s

Russian Ships Incanal
Warships of the Russian Baltic Fleet pass through the Canal on their way to Port Arthur, to take part in the war with Japan : soon, many of these ships will be under water. Date: December 1904

Dutch Warships 1670
A Dutch man-of-war firing her guns. Date: circa 1670

Italians Attack Ships
Italian warships fire on suspicious-looking vessels in the Aegean Date: November 1940

Kiel Canal WWI
View of Kiel Canal, Germany during World War I, it was recently enlarged to be able to accommodate warships

British warships and transports WWI
British warships and transports of Cape Helles during World War I in Gallipoli

Destroyed warship WWII
German stukas destroyed the warships they found in Dunkirk harbour during World War II

Two women in furs
Pencil sketch of two women, both wearing furs, set above two small doodles of navy warships. Drawings by Raymond Sheppard

Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
British (rear) and French (foreground) warships in the harbour at Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

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