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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 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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