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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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Admiral Sir R. E. Wemyss (GW)	The French Army in the Dardanelles: sunset call on board a transport (GW)
Sir David Beatty (GW)	A Portuguese torpedo boat (GW)
Portuguese sailors on the march (GW)	General view of Kut-el-Amara from the River Tigris (GW)
Vice-Admiral Sir Richard H. Peirse, K.C.B. (GW)	One of the forward guns of the German Raider 'Moewe' (GW)
Remains of torpedoed Channel Steamer 'Sussex' beached at Boulogne (GW)	The 'Moewe's' 5.7 gun, concealed and as ready for action (GW)
British marines building entanglements outside Antwerp (FF)	Admiral Sir Henry Jackson (GWS)
Basra, from the Shat-el-Arab, with H.M.S. Espiegle in the foreground (GWS)	Transport ship carrying British-Indian forces to the Persian Gulf (GWS)
British forces on a transport at the mouth of the Shat-el-Arab (GWS)	Wounded soldiers enjoying a trip down the River Thames (GWS)
A torpedo crew at work on an Italian destroyer (GWS)	Italian destroyer discharging a torpedo (GWS)
German gunnery exercise (GWS)	German training ship set up in the middle of a field (GWS)
German seamen in rifle training on land (GWS)	Packing bread into Navy bags at a Berlin depot (GWS)
Rear-Admiral Stuart Nicholson in the trenches near Cape Helles (GWS)	A troopship departing from Victoria, British Columbia, for Europe (GWS)
Keeping watch - a British destroyer talking with mine-sweepers (GWS)	German torpedo towed by a British destroyer (GWS)
German torpedo-boats at practice in the North Sea (GWS)	British destroyer patrolling the North Sea, aided by aircraft (GWS)
Sub-Lieutenant Warneford, V.C. (GWS)	Lieutenant-Commander M. E. Nasmith, V.C. (GWS)
Commander H. P. Ritchie, V.C. (GWS)	Admiral Gregorovich, Russian Minister of Marine (GWS)
Lieutenant Commander N. D. Holbrook, V.C., R.N. (GWS)	Cheering H.M. submarine E.11 on its return from the Dardanelles (GWS)
Shells from Turkish batteries falling near H.M.S. Albion (GWS)	The crew of H.M. submarine E.11 (GWS)
H.M.S. Albion replying to fire from Turkish batteries (GWS)	Wounded soldiers being conveyed to Dardanelles hospital ships (GWS)
British midshipmen on shore leave in the Dardanelles (GWS)	British torpedo-boat destroyer in the Dardanelles (GWS)
The battleship Queen Elizabeth leaving Mudros (GWS)	Guns of H.M.S. Canopus in action in the Dardanelles (GWS)
A French warship in the Dardanelles (GWS)	Turkish shell bursting in the vicinity of a British torpedo-boat (GWS)
Alexandria quay: allied preparations for embarkation (GWS)	British submarine E.15 in Turkish hands (GWS)
German naval officers at mess (GWS)	The big guns of the German warship Scharnhorst (GWS)
Super-Dreadnought H.M.S. Orion (GWS)	H.M.S. Monarch firing its 13.5 inch guns (GWS)
A group of young officers on a British warship (GWS)	H.M. Destroyer Banshee in a rough sea (GWS)
Spring cleaning a British warship (GWS)	Lieutenant D'Oyly-Hughes, D.S.O. (GWS)
Allied troops landing from transports at Lemnos (GWS)	British submarine B.11, with Lieut Holbrook, V.C., on board (GWS)
Lieutenant Holbrook, V.C., on board H.M.S. Adamant (GWS)