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.
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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 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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