Vintage Photographs - The War at Sea
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains photos of the war fought at sea.
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The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.
 Great
liner Lusitania, which was sunk on 7 May 1915
(CNP) |
 Painting
of a British destroyer sinking a German cruiser at Jutland, 1916
(CNP) |
 Triumphant
return of the Deutschland to Bremen, 1916
(CNP) |
 Building
the hull of a wooden ship
(CNP) |
 Laying
the kell of a wooden ship at Bath, Me.
(CNP) |
 Loading
a torpedo on an Italian battleship
(CNP) |
 German
submarine U-15
(CNP) |
 Wireless
room in an American collier
(CNP) |
 Interior
of a modern German U-boat
(CNP) |
 Vulkan,
German submarine mother ship
(CNP) |
 Capping
and weighing naval mines at Toulon
(CNP) |
 Interior
of the merchant submarine Deutschland
(CNP) |
 German
war submarine U-53 in Newport Harbor, U.S.
(CNP) |
 Physical
training for the naval recruits at Norfolk, Va.
(CNP) |
 U.S.
sailors at a foreign port
(CNP) |
 Marines
demonstrating the machine-gun carriage
(CNP) |
 British
hydroaeroplane ready to start
(CNP) |
 British
seaplane on the coast of German East Africa
(CNP) |
 Messenger
of destruction at sea
(CNP) |
 Fourteen
inch turret guns on an American Dreadnought
(CNP) |
 Smoke
screen of Destroyer convoys
(CNP) |
 Marines
manning a five-inch gun
(CNP) |
 German
submarine aground at Wissant, Pas-de-Calais, France
(CNP) |
 'Jacob
Jones', U.S.A. torpedo-boat destroyer
(CNP) |
 'Cassin',
U.S.A. torpedo-boat destroyer
(CNP) |
 American
destroyer in a rough sea
(CNP) |
 Men
on the desck of the U.S. destroyer 'Cassin'
(CNP) |
 British
transport torpedoed in the Mediterranean
(CNP) |
 'Tuscania',
torpedoed off the north coast of Ireland, 5 Fe 1918
(CNP) |
 German
naval mine in the Mediterranean
(CNP) |
 American
armoured cruiser in the service to convoy transports
(CNP) |
 Machine
gun on a destroyer
(CNP) |
 Armed
canal boat in the region of the Aisne
(CNP) |
 Torpedo
starting on its deadly voyage
(CNP) |
 Admiral
Alfred von Tirpitz
(CPE) |
 Admiral
von Pliscott
(CPE) |
 Admiral
John Fisher
(CPE) |
 Admiral
Sir John Jellicoe
(CPE) |
 Admiral
Beatty
(CPE) |
 Lieutenant
von Weddigen
(CPE) |
 Admiral
Sir Frederick Sturdee
(CPE) |
 Admiral
Jackson, Jellicoe's predecessor as First Sea Lord
(CPE) |
 Admiral
Sir John de Robeck
(CPE) |
 Rescuing
sailors after the Battle of Falkland Isles, 1914
(CPE) |
 Rear
Admiral von Spee
(CPE) |
 Sinking
of the German cruiser Blucher, 24 January 1915
(CPE) |
 British
hydroplane alighting on the water
(CPE) |
 German
submarine U-14
(CPE) |
 Sketch
of sinking of British ships Hogue, Cressy and Aboukir by U-9
(CPE) |
 Famed
German submarine U-9
(CPE) |
 German
ship Scharnhorst, sunk by British on 8 December 1914
(CPE) |
 Australian
battleship Sydney
(CPE) |
 German
armoured cruiser Gneisenau, sunk on 8 December 1914
(CPE) |
 The
Emden
(CPE) |
 Loading
torpedoes into a French submarine
(CPE) |
 An
Australian submarine
(CPE) |
 A
submarine's operating mechanism
(CPE) |
 Submarine
torpedo tubes
(CPE) |
 Periscope
of submerged submarine
(CPE) |
 Aboard
a French submarine
(CPE) |
 Interior
of a submarine
(CPE) |
 The
Emden aground
(CPE) |
 Wreck
of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
(CPE) |
 Rear-Admiral
Cradock
(CPE) |
 Admiral
Gregorovich
(CPE) |
 Admiral
Corsi
(CPE) |
 Raising
a balloon from an Italian warship
(CPE) |
 Landing
French and English troops at the Dardanelles
(CPE) |
 French
and British fleet near the Dardanelles
(CPE) |
 The
San Giorgio
(CPE) |
 The
Queen Elizabeth at the Dardanelles
(CPE) |
 New
war paint of the British fleet in the Dardanelles
(CPE) |
 The
German far eastern squadron in Kiau-Chau Bay
(CPE) |
 Rescuing
a submarine's victims in the Scilly Islands
(CPE) |
 The
William P. Frye
(CPE) |
 The
French battleship Bouvet
(CPE) |
 American
oil ship, Gulflight
(CPE) |
 The
Falaba's lifeboats, passenger ship sunk on 28 March 1915
(CPE) |
 The
Lusitania leaving her pier at New York
(CPE) |
 Torpedo
net on an Austrian battleship in the Adriatic
(CPE) |
 American
submarines destined for British use
(CPE) |
 A
German naval mine, washed up on the English coast
(CPE) |
 An
Italian searchlight on the Battleship Amalfi in the Adriatic
(CPE) |
 British
troops landing at Salonika
(CPE) |
 Lancashire
landing and harbour at the Dardanelles
(CPE) |
 A
British Monitor off the coast of Belgium
(CPE) |
 12-inch
guns of the British Canopus in action at the Dardanelles
(CPE) |
 Torpedo
striking a British steamer
(CPE) |
 Transporting
British troops at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli
(CPE) |
 Coffins
from the Lusitania hauled through Queenstown
(WW) |
 Italian
liner Ancona leaving New York, sunk on 9 Nov 15 by Austria
(CPE) |
 French
submarines at Mudros
(CPE) |
 Lifting
a wounded French sailor at the Dardanelles
(CPE) |
 A
British marine lookout in the East watching for native boats
(CPE) |
 Submarine
chasers built in New York for Russia
(CPE) |
 A
small Austrian submarine
(CPE) |
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A 'corkscrew' was a metal post for supporting a wire entanglement, with a twisted base enabling it to be screwed into the ground, removing the need for a hammer, the use of which could attract enemy fire.
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