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.
 H.M.S.
'Bulwark', blown up at Sheerness on 26 Nov 1914
(GW) |
 A
Dreadnought's deck showing the big guns and barbettes
(GW) |
 A
broadside from the French Battleship 'Marseillaise'
(GW) |
 Russian
Cruiser 'Pallada', sunk in the Baltic by a German submarine
(GW) |
 British
submarine B11
(GW) |
 Lieutenant
Norman D. Holbrook, V.C.
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Lion pictured on 24 January 1915
(GW) |
 German
armoured Cruiser 'Blucher'
(GW) |
 German
Battle Cruiser 'Seydlitz'
(GW) |
 White
Flag found next to a German officer after attack on Suez Canal
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Indomitable
(GW) |
 German
Cruiser 'Konigsberg' bottled up in the Rufiji River
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Goliath
(GW) |
 Naval
sea plane descending through engine failure in the North Sea
(GW) |
 British
military posts guarding the banks of the Suez Canal
(GW) |
 Sir
F. C. Doveton Sturdee
(GW) |
 Pontoon
used by Turk forces during the attack on the Suez Canal
(GW) |
 German
Light Cruiser 'Nurnberg', sunk in the Falkland Islands
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Princess Royal
(GW) |
 Guns
of the Battle Cruiser 'New Zealand'
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Inflexible and H.M.S. Invincible in the Falkland Islands
(GW) |
 With
the Naval Brigade: bluejackets effecting a landing
(GW) |
 Line
of transports conveying Canadian forces in the mid-Atlantic
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Tiger
(GW) |
 Sergeant
Charles Mayes, decorated for heroism in the Falkland Islands
(GW) |
 German
Armoured Cruiser 'Scharnhorst', sunk in the Falkland Islands
(GW) |
 German
Light Cruiser 'Leipzig', sunk in the Falkland Islands
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Canopus
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Kent
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
New Zealand washed from end to end in the North Sea
(GW) |
 British
auxiliary cruiser 'Bayano', sunk on 11 March 1915
(GW) |
 German
armed merchant-ship 'Prinz Eitel Friedrich' in Virginia
(GW) |
 The
U29 captained by Captain Weddigen
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Destroyer 'Ariel'
(GW) |
 Photograph
of German submarine U.8 about to founder
(GW) |
 German
Cruiser 'Karlsruhe'
(GW) |
 Newcastle
collier 'Thordis'
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Formidable
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Chatham
(GW) |
 Germany's
submarine fleet, 1910-12 class at Wilhelmshaven
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Fox
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
New Zealand
(GW) |
 British
Naval Brigade hauling a 4.7 gun for siege operations
(GW) |
 Men
of the Royal Naval Flying Corps, led by Commander Samson
(GW) |
 Admiral
of the Fleet Lord Fisher
(GW) |
 Vice-Admiral
Sir Frederick T Hamilton, British Second Sea Lord
(GW) |
 Rear-Admiral
Frederick C. T. Tudor, Third Sea Lord
(GW) |
 Captain
A. Noel Loxley, commander of H.M.S. Formidable
(GW) |
 Prince
Louis of Battenberg
(GW) |
 Lieutenant
von Weddigen
(GW) |
 British
Battleship 'Ocean'
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Irresistible, sunk in the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915
(GW) |
 French
Battleship 'Bouvet'
(GW) |
 British
and French Battle Fleet at the entrance to the Dardanelles
(GW) |
 British
Light Cruiser 'Amethyst'
(GW) |
 The
German submarine and its prey
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Queen Elizabeth
(GW) |
 A
German submarine's quick-firing gun, which can be lowered
(GW) |
 The
American grain ship 'William P. Frye', sunk by the Germans
(GW) |
 Admiral
von Tirpitz
(GW) |
 Lieutenant-Colonel
F. D. Farquhar, D.S.O.
(GW) |
 Vice-Admiral
S. H. Carden
(GW) |
 Admiral
von Pohl
(GW) |
 Rear-Admiral
J. M. de Robeck
(GW) |
 Above-water
armaments of British submarines: a quick-firing gun
(GW) |
 Deck
of a German submarine after the quick-firing gun has lowered
(GW) |
 Divine
Service on the 'Queen Elizabeth' off Gallipoli
(GW) |
 Lieutenant-Commander
E. C. Boyle, V.C.
(GW) |
 Captain
Turner of the 'Lusitania'
(GW) |
 Commander
Edward Unwin, V.C.
(GW) |
 Admiral
Sir Henry B. Jackson, First Sea Lord
(GW) |
 Australian
submarine A.E 2
(GW) |
 Sinking
of H.M.S. 'Majestic' by a German submarine, 27 May 1915
(GW) |
 The
'River Clyde' after the landing at V Beach
(GW) |
 Midshipman
Wilfred St. A. Malleson, V.C.
(GW) |
 Lieutenant-Commander
Eric G. Robinson
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
'Implacable', protecting the X beach landings at Gallipoli
(GW) |
 Troops
leaving H.M.S. 'Nile' for the landing on X Beach at Gallipoli
(GW) |
 Midshipman
George L. Dowry, V.C.
(GW) |
 A
landing force leaving the transports for the Gallipoli shore
(GW) |
 Admiral
Nicholson leaving Naval Observation Station in Gallipoli
(GW) |
 Sir
John Jellicoe
(GW) |
 Lieutenant-Commander
Martin E. Nasmith, V.C.
(GW) |
 The
Allied Fleet in the Dardanelles cheering the submarine E11
(GW) |
 British
Transport 'Royal Edward'
(GW) |
 German
mine-layer 'Albatross', ran ashore on Gothland
(GW) |
 Italian
Cruiser 'Amalfi'
(GW) |
 Italian
Cruiser 'Giuseppe Garibaldi'
(GW) |
 Russian
hospital-ship destroyed by shellfire on the River Vistula
(GW) |
 Admiral
Lord Fisher
(GW) |
 View
of Kut-el-Amara from the River Tigris
(GW) |
 Turkish
Mines removed from the Tigris
(GW) |
 An
Italian Armoured Cruiser in 1915
(GW) |
 Italian
pre-Dreadnought 'Roma'
(GW) |
 German
Cruiser 'Bremen'
(GW) |
 Lieutenant
D'Oyly-Hughes with his raft in the Sea of Marmora
(GW) |
 German
Cruiser 'Undine'
(GW) |
 British
flat-river craft moored at Amara on the Tigris
(GW) |
 Aerial
view of British bridge of boats and flooded bank of the Tigris
(GW) |
 Stores
burning ashore at Suvla Bay following evacuation, 19 Dec 15
(GW) |
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