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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 Sir
David Beatty
(NW) |
 South
African field artillery embarking on the 'Armadale Castle'
(NW) |
 The
Lusitania sailing on her fateful voyage
(NW) |
 Wreck
of the Emden
(NW) |
 H.M.S.
Queen Elizabeth
(NW) |
 Interior
of a submarine, showing the pilot's wheel
(NW) |
 German
merchant submarine Deutschland in Chesapeake Bay
(NW) |
 The
King George, Thunderer, Monarch and Conqueror in the Solent
(NW) |
 The
German fleet
(NW) |
 One
of the British transports off Gallipoli
(NW) |
 Turkish
warships in the Golden Horn, incl. the Breslau, left
(NW) |
 British
ship in action in the Dardanelles
(NW) |
 Wreck
of H.M.S. Loma run aground in a southwest gale
(NW) |
 An
Italian battleship in Saloniki harbour
(NW) |
 A
veteran of two wars in Saloniki harbour
(NW) |
 HMS
Drake
(MF) |
 HMS
Majestic
(MF) |
 HMS
Monmouth
(MF) |
 Colourised
photo of HMS Terrible
(MF) |
 Salvaging
German destroyer G102
(MF) |
 German
submarine at Boulogne
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "Danton"
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "Cometerre"
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "Edgar-Quinet"
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "Ernest-Renan"
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "Justice"
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "La Foudre"
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "D'Entrecasteaux"
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "Messidor"
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "Republique"
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "Patrie"
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "Tourville"
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "Vergniaud"
(MF) |
 Marine
Nationale - "Waldeck Rousseau"
(MF) |
 German
battle cruiser "Hindenburg" at Scapa Flow, 21 June 1919
(MF) |
 German
battleship "Bayern" sinking at Scapa Flow, 21 June 1919
(MF) |
 The
German U-35 u-boat at Newport, U.S.A., Saturday 7 October 1916
(MF) |
 King
Edward VII, then the world's biggest battleship
(MF) |
 Sailors
of the Blood Watch
(MF) |
 German
destroyers beached and sinking off Island of Fara, 21 June 1919
(MF) |
 Captain
Charles A. Fryatt
(HW) |
 Admiral
William S. Sims
(HW) |
 Sir
David Beatty
(HW) |
 The
Lusitania
(HW) |
 Naval
dirigible used for submarine scouting by the Royal Navy
(HW) |
 Sailors
rush to the top of a battleship to repel enemy aircraft
(HW) |
 German
merchant submarine "Deutschland"
(HW) |
 Sailors
deploying an anti-aircraft gun aboard a battleship
(HW) |
 Admirals
Beatty and Rodman, King George V and the Prince of Wales
(HW) |
 German
Fleet arriving at Scapa Flow to surrender
(HW) |
 German
ship 'Vaterland' in use as U.S. transport vessel 'Leviathan'
(HW) |
 Hog
Island shipyard in Philadelphia with its 50 shipways
(HW) |
 British
Grand Fleet firing royal salute in pre-war Torbay
(GW) |
 Winston
Churchill
(GW) |
 Sir
David Beatty
(GW) |
 Sir
John Jellicoe
(GW) |
 British
Grand Fleet in 1914, led by Admiral Jellicoe's 'Iron Duke'
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Highflyer
(GW) |
 German
Battleship 'Goeben'
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Iron Duke, Sir John Jellicoe's flagship
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
Birmingham
(GW) |
 The
German High Seas Fleet in the North Sea in 1914
(GW) |
 Sinking
of the German cruiser 'Mainz' off Heligoland, 28 Aug 1914
(GW) |
 German
cruiser 'Mainz'
(GW) |
 German
commerce destroyer 'Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse'
(GW) |
 German
cruiser 'Breslau'
(GW) |
 German
naval Zeppelin hovering over aircraft base at Heligoland
(GW) |
 British
seaplane armed with a machine gun
(GW) |
 German
cruiser 'Emden'
(GW) |
 British
cruiser 'Pegasus', sunk on 20 Sep 1914
(GW) |
 Track
of a submerged submarine (right) passing a Dreadnought
(GW) |
 Submarine
with its periscope above water
(GW) |
 Submarine
E.9 which sank the German Cruiser 'Hela' and Destroyer S126
(GW) |
 German
Cruiser 'Hela', sunk near Heligoland on 13 Sep 1914
(GW) |
 British
Auxiliary-Cruiser 'Carmania'
(GW) |
 British
Cruiser 'Pathfinder', sunk on 5 Sep 1914
(GW) |
 The
foundering of H.M.S. Aboukir, 22 Sep 1914
(GW) |
 Lieutenant-Commander
Max K. Horton, of submarine E.9
(GW) |
 Captain
Karl von Mueller of the German cruiser 'Emden'
(GW) |
 Survivors
of the wrecked German Cruiser 'Magdeburg' in Petrograd
(GW) |
 German
converted liner 'Cap Trafalgar', sunk on 14 Sep 1914
(GW) |
 German
Cruiser 'Yorck', which struck a mine near Wilhelmshaven
(GW) |
 German
Cruiser 'Magdeburg', lost by shipwreck
(GW) |
 Arrival
of British Marines at Ostend
(GW) |
 Australian
Cruiser 'Sydney'
(GW) |
 Sir
Christopher Cradock
(GW) |
 Admiral
von Spee
(GW) |
 Rear-Admiral
Hood
(GW) |
 Captain
Cecil H. Fox of the 'Undaunted'
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
'Good Hope', sunk off Chile on 1 November 1914
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
'Monmouth', sunk on 1 November 1914
(GW) |
 Torpedo
nets to protect a British battleship
(GW) |
 Pacific
Steam Navigation Company's Steamship 'Ortega'
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
'Hermes', sunk by submarine on 31 Oct 1914
(GW) |
 British
Cruiser 'Hawke', sunk by submarine on 15 Oct 1914
(GW) |
 13.5"
guns firing from a British Battle Cruiser in the North Sea
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
'Glasgow'
(GW) |
 H.M.S.
'Badger'
(GW) |
 Remains
of the 'Emden' on the Coco Islands
(GW) |
 British
submarine D.5, sunk by a mine on 3 Nov 1914
(GW) |
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