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Triumphant return of the Deutschland to Bremen, 1916Vintage Photographs - The War at Sea
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

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.

Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources.  Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.

The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.

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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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