Warships Collection (page 3)

Six nations pocket battleships
How the six cheif naval powers have developed their cruisers under treaty limits. Date: 1930

Royal Navy personnel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Royal Navy personnel from the warships HMS Hood and HMS Repulse at the CRF (Clube de Regatas do Flamengo) Stadium in the Flamengo district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Aftermath of World War One! 1919
Heroes of the Dardanelles and around Gallipoli, theses battleships resigned to their fate, holiday-making multitudes at seaside resorts are feasting their curious eyes on the ships that watched for

D-Day off Normandy, France, HMS Nelson, WW2
D-Day off Normandy, France, HMS Nelson, June 1944. 1944

D-Day firing off Normandy, France, WW2
D-Day firing off Normandy, France, June 1944. 1944

Japanese warship Yoshino Kan, 1894
First Sino-Japanese War (1st August 1894 17th April 1895). The Japanese warship Yoshino Kan on the cover of the Illustrated London News, 4th August 1894

The Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Naval Manoeuvers
The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 - Japanese Naval Battle Manoeuvers Date: circa 1905

Turiamo Bay, Venezuela, Central America
Turiamo Bay, naval base, Venezuela, Central America. The gunboat with twin funnels is the Mariscal Sucre. Date: circa 1930

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

Torpedo boats of the French navy. Date: 1905

Ships at anchor in the harbour, Hong Kong, China. They include HMS Tamar (white). Date: 1911

French Navy cruisers, Saigon, Cochinchina (Vietnam)
French Navy cruisers near the quay at Saigon, Cochinchina (Vietnam). Date: 1906

John Ericsson (Profile
JOHN ERICSSON Swedish-American inventor whose achievements ranged from telephones to warships. Date: 1803 - 1889

John Ericsson (Adlard)
JOHN ERICSSON Swedish-American inventor whose achievements ranged from telephones to warships. with his autograph, 1865 Date: 1803 - 1889

Battle of Navarino 1827
The Battle of Navarino. Date: 20 October 1827

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

Tatler cover, launch of HMS Neptune, new super Dreadnought
Front cover of the Tatler, 6th October 1909 showing the launch of the worlds largest warship, HMS Neptune, the first of the super Dreadnoughts at Portsmouth by the Duchess of Argyle

Cartoon, Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt, Destruction of Revolutionary Crocodiles; or, The British Hero cleansing the Mouth of the Nile, by James Gillray

A naval shipyard in Scotland, during World War One
Building warships in a large naval yard on a river in Scotland in 1918. Tugs help to transport ship parts where they need to go. Date: 1918

WW1 - Air Patrol, 1917
WW1 - Air patrol with an aerial view of the German destroyers sailing across the ocean near a coastal area. Date: 1917

WW1 - Battle of Falkland - Heroic German on S. M. S. Leipzig
WW1 - Battle of Falkland - A heroic German waves a flag on top of the S.M.S. Leizpig as it sinks. SMS Leipzig (" His Majestys Ship Leipzig" )

Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter taking off from gun platform
Sopwith 1.5 Strutter single-seat bomber of the RNAS, taking off from a warships gun platform. Date: circa 1918

Liore 130 -antiquated as it looked, the type was carried aboard the larger French warships and served well thoughout the war

Edo XOSE-1 -another one-off scout meant to be carried and catapulted from warships that never made it into production

Arado Ar 196A originally designed to be catapulted off warships, this over water patrol type was loved by its crews

WW1 Destruction by German Warships, Zeebrugge
World War 1 Destruction by German Warships, Zeebrugge, Bruges, near Oostende, Belgium. Showing the ruins of the Harbour Wall or Mole Date: 1918

Card commemorating Falkland Islands naval battle, WW1
Card commemorating Falkland Islands naval battle on 8 December 1914, when the British navy sank four German warships (Scharnhorst, Leipzig, Nurnberg and Gneisenau)

Building of the battleship Dreadnought
Construction of one of the Eight Dreadnoughts (battleships) being constructed in the early 20th century by the British, at Portsmouth dockyard. 1909

American warships coaling, Honolulu, Hawaii. Date: circa 1909

War Loan Campaign in Trafalgar Square, warships launched
A novel feature of Londons war loans campaign, centred on Trafalgar Square where, among the war-themed exhibits on display to encourage the public to part with their money

Harry Rawson
Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson (1843 1910), chiefly remembered for overseeing the British Benin Expedition of 1897 that burned and looted the city of the Kingdom of Benin, now in Nigeria

Cartoon, Matinee de Novembre, WW1
Cartoon, Matinee de Novembre, showing Kaiser Wilhelm shivering in the sea at Calais, with Dover guarded by battleships in the far distance during the First World War

Dreadnought Queen Elizabeth in action by G. H. Davis
Our greatest dreadnought in action -- the Queen Elizabeth bombarding the Dardanelles forts during the First World War. Date: 1915

Ship-building record of 1912 by G. H. Davis
The ship-building record of 1912: ships under construction in the UK, and vessels being built overseas. Both categories are from 1909 to 1912

Our ever-ready battleships by G. H. Davis
Naval notes of the week. Held in leash -- our ever-ready battleships. Date: 1913

The Queens Ships by G. H. Davis
The Queens Ships -- the Royal Navy of today displayed in a single panorama, showing all the principal fighting craft which keep the moat of Britain

Growth of the US Navy by G. H. Davis
The rapid growth of the US Navy during the Second World War: the vast array of warships built since the beginning of 1940. Showing US warships, from submarines to battleships. Date: 1945

Battle of the Philippines by G. H. Davis
The crushing rout of the Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Philippines during the Second World War. A map of the operations

Naval support for armies in Normandy by G. H. Davis
The big guns of the Royal Navy supporting the Allied armies in Normandy during the Second World War. How warships, guided by air and ground spotters

Warships in Hong Kong Harbour during the Sino-Japanese War Date: 1937 - 45

Mass production of aircraft by G. H. Davis
Potentialities of mass production of flying boats as troop carriers and heavy freighter airplanes during the Second World War

Japanese warships by G. H. Davis
Japanese warships of the Second World War: peculiarities in design and construction. Date: 1942

Successful Heligoland raid by G. H. Davis
A daring exploit by the RAF: the successful Heligoland raid. The intensive pattern attack by Wellington bombers on Heligoland: aircraft diving down on German warships

British and Soviet ships by G. H. Davis
The decline and fall in numbers of ships of the British Navy and the Soviet Fleet, by comparison, and somecosts involved in rebuilding our fleet. Date: 1962

Spithead panorama, ships on north side
Panorama of the Coronation Review: the right-hand section, showing ships on the north side. A Spithead panorama, showing battleships of the Mediterranean fleet headed by the Queen Elizabeth

Loading ships guns in 1805 and 1935 by G. H. Davis
From Nelson to Nelson : feeding a ships guns today and in 1805. Loading methods in a modern battleship and at Trafalgar: contrasts after 130 years of naval gunnery. Date: 1935

Air attack and defence at sea by G. H. Davis
Methods of air attack and defence at sea explained: showing how the Navy has countered the bomber. The main forms of air attack on warships: height-bombing and dive-bombing

Radar warning and control system by G. H. Davis
A powerful new aid for the navy: the radar warning and control system installed in HMS Victorious. Date: 1958

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