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Triumphant return of the Deutschland to Bremen, 1916 Vintage 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.

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Submarine chasers built in New York for Russia (CPE)	A small Austrian submarine (CPE)
A Curtiss flying boat built by the Italians (CPE)	British vessels on the Tigris (CPE)
Rescuing the crew of a torpedoed merchantman (CPE)	The 'Sussex' beached at Boulogne, torpedoed on 24 Mar 1916 (CPE)
The Queen Mary, British battle cruiser (CPE)	French submarine Diane (CPE)
The Pommern, German battleship (CPE)	The Deutschland's return to Bremerhaven (CPE)
Sketch of Britannic, a hospital ship sunk by mine on 22 Nov 1916 (CPE)	The Marlborough, British battleship (CPE)
German submarine U-53 (CPE)	The Deutschland, submarine merchantman (CPE)
The Hampshire, British cruiser (CPE)	British victors in a fight on Lake Tanganyika, Africa (CPE)
British soldiers on the Nile; Herts Yeomanry on the bank (CPE)	French marines with German trophies of war (SR)
British sketch of action during the Battle of Jutland, 1916 (SR)	Sir David Beatty (WW)
German Navy Zeppelin (WW)	British naval pilot releasing a carrier pigeon (WW)
S.S. Imo collided with vessel Mont Blanc, causing the Halifax Disaster (WW)	Admiral Tirpitz (WW)
German raider 'Seeadler' wrecked in the sands near Tahiti, 1917 (WW)	Camouflaged German U-boat (WW)
The Emden (WW)	German submarine minelayer, the U-C 5, captured by the British (WW)
The Lusitania leaving New York (WW)	Captain of the Lusitania, William Turner (WW)
Bodies recovered from the Lusitania being removed from S.S. New York (WW)	Last-minute escape from a torpedoed vessel (WW)
British hospital ship "Gloucester Castle" torpedoed in Bristol Channel (WW)	Torpedoed Allied ship sinking while a rescue boat approaches (WW)
Survivors from torpedoed ship disembark from destroyer (WW)	Clearly visible wake of a torpedo fired by a German submarine (WW)
Photo of swamped boat from Cunard liner "Ivernia", sunk 1 Jan 1917 (WW)	Schooner in flames following strike by German torpedo (WW)
Torpedoed British transport run upon rocks in Eastern Mediterranean (WW)	Torpedoed French transport "Medic" sinking in the Mediterranean (WW)
Torpedoed P&O liner "Arabia" sinking in the Mediterranean (WW)	British troopship "Tyndareus" sinking after striking a mine (WW)
French submarine chaser equipped with 75 gun (WW)	Wrecked giant German u-boat (WW)
U.S. torpedo in process of assembly (WW)	Last-minute escape from a torpedoed vessel (WW)
British cruiser "Vindictive", wrecked at Zeebrugge, 1918 (WW)	Deck of German destroyer V-69, damaged by British in the North Sea (WW)
German destroyer V-69, damaged by British in the North Sea (WW)	British destroyers creating protective smokescreens at sea (WW)
Allied merchant ships protected by smokescreens (WW)	Smokescreen generated by U.S.S. Arkansas (WW)
German floating mine in the Eastern Mediterranean (WW)	A mine sweeper which struck a mine (WW)
British drift fleet in the North Sea (WW)	Putting finishing touches on French submarine mines in Toulon (WW)
Loading torpedoes on British submarines (WW)	British B-9 submarines beached for repairs (WW)
The 'Deutschland' at Baltimore, Md. (WW)	British B-2 submarine (WW)
S.S. Rochambeau sailing with gun mounted on her deck, 1917 (WW)	American steamship "Mongolia", which sank a German submarine (WW)
Crew on a sinking submarine: many were rescued by U.S. "Fanning" (WW)	U.S steamship "Rockingham", which was sank in the Irish Sea (WW)
Battleship gun turrets being manufactured at Bethlehem Works (WW)	The 'Faith' concrete ship, built in San Francisco (WW)
The 'Faith' concrete ship being built in San Francisco (WW)	Laying the keel for a new ship at an American shipyard (WW)
Launching of the 'Coyote' wooden dreadnought (WW)	U.S.S. New York (WW)
Camp May naval reserves receiving their first boat drill (WW)	Signalling from the bridge of the U.S.S. Pennsylvania (WW)
Gun crew of auxiliary supply ship 'Celtic' (WW)	Making ready the 14-inch guns on the U.S.S. Pennsylvania (WW)
14-inch guns of the U.S.S. Texas in action (WW)	U.S. destroyer rocking in rough seas (WW)
Stern of a U.S. destroyer (WW)	Broadside from U.S.S. New Hampshire (WW)
Fire on the U.S.S. Wyoming at sea (soon extinguished) (WW)	U.S.S. Texas leaving New York to join the Atlantic Fleet (WW)
U.S. transports conveying troops in foreign waters (WW)	Convoy manoeuvring after a submarine has been discovered (WW)
A U.S. Marine transport (WW)	S.S. Rochester arriving at Bordeaux to cheering crowds (WW)
U.S. transport 'Neptune' ferrying first U.S. soldiers to Europe (WW)	Admiral Sims (WW)
Admiral W. S. Benson (WW)	U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels (WW)
American oil ship, Gulflight (WW)	Depth bombs on the 'Harvard', a converted U.S. yacht (WW)
Results of the British attack at Zeebrugge (WW)	Scots Guards leaving Southampton for the Western Front (NW)
German battleship squadron with its guardian Zeppelin (NW)	1,000 ton British destroyer in a heavy sea (NW)
Destruction of the cruiser 'Mainz' off Heligoland (NW)	French battleship 'Justice' leading the French fleet (NW)
H.M.S. Lion racing into action (NW)	Sir John Jellicoe's flagship, 'Iron Duke' (NW)
The end of the 'Blucher' (NW)	Saloniki harbour (NW)