An American Base Under Construction at Lisahally, Near Londonderry, No...
An American Base Under Construction at Lisahally, Near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 28 January 1942 The eastern end of a wharf as seen from the foreshore.
Auxiliary Patrol Service Training School A1932
Auxiliary Patrol Service Training School HMS EUROPA, formerly a pleasure park, is now a training school for men of the Royal Navy's Auxiliary Patrol Service. Here new entries, mostly fishermen who are already e... More
Boiler Cleaners, Men of the Royal Navy Who Do Very Dirty work But Are ...
Boiler Cleaners, Men of the Royal Navy Who Do Very Dirty work But Are Seldom Heard Of. 1940, on Board a Destroyer in Harbour. the Men Carry on With Boiler Cleaning during the Short Period the Destroyer Is in Ha... More
Boom defence vessels - A black and white photo of a boat in the water
BOOM DEFENCE IN THE THAMES ESTUARY. 1940. Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Britain's Great Engineering Feat; Prefabricated Ports (mulberry). 6 To...
Britain's Great Engineering Feat; Prefabricated Ports (mulberry). 6 To 8 June, on Board the Paddle Steamer HMS Aristocrat during the Passage Across the Channel and Arrival at Arromanches Where the Mulberry Adva... More
Britain's Landing Craft Wait For D-day. June 1944. Southampton. A23730
Britain's Landing Craft Wait For D-day. June 1944. Southampton. Landing craft massed along the quayside.
Britain's Mulberry Port at Arromanches A24159
Britain's Mulberry Port at Arromanches Two Prefabricated Ports, each as big as Gibraltar, were manufactured in Britain in sections, towed across the channel, and set down off the coast of Normandy. The use of t... More
British airborne troops approaching Taranto in a landing craft, during...
British airborne troops approaching Taranto in a landing craft, during the invasion of Italy, 14 September 1943. Taranto, 9 September 1943 (Operation Slapstick): View from a landing craft, loaded with soldiers,... More
British and US Ships Combine To Protect Convoy To Russia. 11 To 18 Apr...
British and US Ships Combine To Protect Convoy To Russia. 11 To 18 April 1942, on Board HMS Victorious. at Sea and Harbour Routine. a Fairey Albacore ready for action in the hangar deck of HMS VICTORIOUS. The m... More
British Convoy To Russia. 4 February To 2 March 1945. on Board the Cru...
British Convoy To Russia. 4 February To 2 March 1945. on Board the Cruiser HMS Bellona on a Convoy To and From Russia. on the Convoy a U-boat Was Sunk and Many German Aircraft Were Shot Down. A wardroom lunch s... More
British Evacuees From United States Cross Atlantic in Escort Carrier. ...
British Evacuees From United States Cross Atlantic in Escort Carrier. April 1944, on Board HMS Empress during Her Passage Home To a British Port With a Party of More Than 50 Women and Children Evacuees Returnin... More
British Generals 1939-1945 A20588
British Generals 1939-1945 Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC (1880-1963): Portrait of General Carton de Wiart, seated, during the Three-Power conference in Cairo.
British Generals 1939-1945 A30046
British Generals 1939-1945 General Sir Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron of Wormington (1887 -1965): Ismay talking to Sir John Simon at a farewell dinner for Admiral Stark at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
British Marine Commandos Land on Walcheren at Westkapelle. 1 November ...
British Marine Commandos Land on Walcheren at Westkapelle. 1 November 1944, on Board An Lci (s). the Final Phase of the Battle To Free the Approaches To the Belgian Port of Antwerp Began When Royal Marine Comma... More
British Medical Services in the Second World War A24421
British Medical Services in the Second World War Medicine at Sea: Surgery in progress on board HMS RENOWN. Marine Thomas Quinn, of Glasgow being operated on successfully for appendicitis.
British Medical Services in the Second World War A25095
British Medical Services in the Second World War Medical Transport: One of a series of pictures from Normandy illustrating the work carried out by LST 428, which has been converted into transport for casualties... More
British Submarine Sceptre Comes Home. 3 November 1944, Holy Loch, Gour...
British Submarine Sceptre Comes Home. 3 November 1944, Holy Loch, Gourock, Scotland. Sceptre Back in Harbour After a Successful Action Against a German Convoy Off Norway. The SCEPTRE's crew enjoying a game of c... More
British Underwater Secrets- Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit, Tolwor...
British Underwater Secrets- Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit, Tolworth, Surrey, June 1945. "Lord Nelson", a Himalayan hornless mountain goat, stands in a pressure chamber during an experiment at the Admiralty... More
British wounded being treated, and Italian prisoners waiting to be eva...
British wounded being treated, and Italian prisoners waiting to be evacuated from the beach on the first day of the invasion of Sicily, 10 July 1943. Italian prisoners of war waiting to be taken from Sicily at ... More
Building Landing Craft For the Navy. 1942, at Various Ship Builders. A...
Building Landing Craft For the Navy. 1942, at Various Ship Builders. LCA's in the making at Messrs Harris Lebus, of London.
Captain H Hickling, commanding naval forces at Arromanches, shows a pl...
Captain H Hickling, commanding naval forces at Arromanches, shows a plan of the Mulberry artificial harbour to Winston Churchill, July 1944. Captain H Hickling, DSO, RN, NOIC Arromanches, going over a plan of M... More
Captain J E Broome, Dsc, Rn, Commanding Officer of HMS Begum 23 Februa...
Captain J E Broome, Dsc, Rn, Commanding Officer of HMS Begum 23 February 1944, on Board HMS Begum at Greenock. Captain J E Broome, DSC, RN, on the bridge of HMS BEGUM
Captain J F Burgess, Royal Artillery, briefing a party of FOBs (Forwar...
Captain J F Burgess, Royal Artillery, briefing a party of FOBs (Forward Observation Bombardment) in a Normandy village, June 1944. In a rest billet less than two miles from the front line. Seen through the door... More
Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten and officers on the bridge of the destr...
Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten and officers on the bridge of the destroyer HMS KELVIN, September 1940. Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten and officers on the bridge of HMS KELVIN whilst she is at sea, as seen from ... More
Career of Admiral Robert Lindsay Burnett, HMS Belfast, Scapa Flow, Jun...
Career of Admiral Robert Lindsay Burnett, HMS Belfast, Scapa Flow, June 1943 Rear Admiral Robert Lindsay Burnett, CB, OBE, DSO, in his cabin aboard HMS BELFAST.
Carysfort-1920s. Warship photograph collection
The Royal Navy during the First World War The light cruiser HMS CARYSFORT.
Casualty Drill on Board HMS Adamant. 16 April 1942, in the South Atlan...
Casualty Drill on Board HMS Adamant. 16 April 1942, in the South Atlantic. Medical and Stretcher Parties on Board Practising With An Able Seaman As Casualty. The "casualty", Able Seaman L Colman being strapped ... More
Casualty Drill on Board HMS Adamant. 16 April 1942, in the South Atlan...
Casualty Drill on Board HMS Adamant. 16 April 1942, in the South Atlantic. Medical and Stretcher Parties on Board Practising With An Able Seaman As Casualty. The "casualty" being lowered down a hatch to the sick bay.
Casualty Drill on Board HMS Adamant. 16 April 1942, in the South Atlan...
Casualty Drill on Board HMS Adamant. 16 April 1942, in the South Atlantic. Medical and Stretcher Parties on Board Practising With An Able Seaman As Casualty. The medical officer and his assistants carrying out ... More
Celebrations To Mark Prime Minister Churchill's 69th Birthday A20731
Celebrations To Mark Prime Minister Churchill's 69th Birthday At a drinks reception prior to a dinner party Marshal Joseph Stalin raises his glass for a toast to Mr Churchill. Also present are senior military a... More
Celebrations To Mark Prime Minister Churchill's 69th Birthday A20744
Celebrations To Mark Prime Minister Churchill's 69th Birthday Sergeant Kipral Singh of the 3rd Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment handing a gift to the Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Celebrations To Mark Prime Minister Churchill's 69th Birthday A20747
Celebrations To Mark Prime Minister Churchill's 69th Birthday Mr Winston Churchill is given 'three cheers' by the men and officers of the Persia and Iraq force.
Chemical Warfare in the Twentieth Century A17232
Chemical Warfare in the Twentieth Century The Second World War: Gas exercises at Harwich naval base. Planes are seen spraying gas on to the quay.
Commander R F Jessel, Captain of the destroyer HMS ZEALOUS, 1 March 19...
Commander R F Jessel, Captain of the destroyer HMS ZEALOUS, 1 March 1945. The Commanding Officer of the destroyer HMS ZEALOUS, Commander R F Jessel, DSO, DSC and bar, sat at a desk enjoying a pipe.
Construction of Mulberry Harbours, Southampton, April 1944 A25792
Construction of Mulberry Harbours, Southampton, April 1944 Concrete caissons (Phoenixes), to be used as breakwaters, under construction in dry dock.
Construction of Mulberry Harbours, Weymouth, April 1944 A25814
Construction of Mulberry Harbours, Weymouth, April 1944 Floating breakwaters (Bombardons) moored in Weymouth Bay during experiments.
Convoy To Russia, With a British Cruiser Escort on Arctic Lifeline. De...
Convoy To Russia, With a British Cruiser Escort on Arctic Lifeline. December 1941, on Board the Cruiser HMS Sheffield. Taking convoys to Arctic Russia in December is a cold job and all personnel obliged to keep... More
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Jw53, 15-27 Feb...
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Jw53, 15-27 February 1943 Merchant ships of convoy JW53 passing through pack ice during the voyage. An escort destroyer can be seen in the background. View... More
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Jw53, 15-27 Feb...
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Jw53, 15-27 February 1943 HMS OPPORTUNE, an escorting destroyer, in dazzle paint, seen during rough seas on a Russian convoy patrol. Image taken from aboar... More
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Jw53, 15-27 Feb...
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Jw53, 15-27 February 1943 Two merchant ships at anchor in Kola Inlet, north Russia. Part of HMS INGLEFIELD, aboard which this photograph was taken, is in t... More
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Jw65, March 194...
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Jw65, March 1945 A motor-boat from HMS TRUMPETER working its way through the ice after the carrier's arrival at Kola Inlet, Russia.
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Ra64, 17 - 28 F...
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Ra64, 17 - 28 February 1945 Homeward bound, a Liberty Ship in convoy RA64 sails through heavy seas in the Arctic Ocean.
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Ra64, 17 - 28 F...
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Ra64, 17 - 28 February 1945 A merchant ship in convoy RA64 sails through heavy seas in the Arctic Ocean.
Cooks at work in the galley of a Royal Navy ship on a Malta convoy, 21...
Cooks at work in the galley of a Royal Navy ship on a Malta convoy, 21 August 1942. The cooks in the galley, carry on with their job, paying no attention to the bombs falling round the ship during a Malta convoy.
Dakar Operations. September 1940, on Board Ss Westernland, during Voya...
Dakar Operations. September 1940, on Board Ss Westernland, during Voyage. General de Gaulle and General Spears on the bridge of SS WESTERNLAND during operations.
Damage to the director of the destroyer HMS SAUMAREZ which received a ...
Damage to the director of the destroyer HMS SAUMAREZ which received a direct hit from an 11-inch shell during the Battle of North Cape, when the German battlecruiser SCHARNHOST was sunk on 10 January 1943. A cl... More
Dental Surgery on board HM Hospital Ship AMARAPOORA at Scapa Flow, 11 ...
Dental Surgery on board HM Hospital Ship AMARAPOORA at Scapa Flow, 11 September 1942. The well equipped Dental Surgery on board HMHS AMARAPOORA at Scapa Flow. A patient is sat in the dentist chair whilst two of... More
Destruction of Confidential and Secret Papers For the Admiralty during...
Destruction of Confidential and Secret Papers For the Admiralty during the Second World War Girls seen sorting confidential and secret papers under the watchful eye of an armed officer whose job ends when he ha... More
Duke of Devonshire, the Under Secretary For India, Visits Members of H...
Duke of Devonshire, the Under Secretary For India, Visits Members of Hm Royal Indian Navy, at a Base. 1941. Ratings of the Royal Indian Navy cheering the Duke when he left.
East Coast Convoy. October 1940, on Board HMS Westminster, An Escort V...
East Coast Convoy. October 1940, on Board HMS Westminster, An Escort Vessel of a Convoy From Sheerness To Rosyth. In the Wardroom after arrival in harbour. The Captain reading a book.
Emergency Medical Aid at Sea. 17 November 1941, on Board the Cruiser H...
Emergency Medical Aid at Sea. 17 November 1941, on Board the Cruiser HMS Hermione in the Atlantic. the Transfer of a Patient From the Destroyer HMS Zulu To the Cruiser HMS Hermione by Whaler at Sea. Hoisting th... More
Famous U-boat Hunters on the War Path. 26 January To 25 February 1944,...
Famous U-boat Hunters on the War Path. 26 January To 25 February 1944, on Board the Sloop HMS Starling, on North Atlantic Patrol. With the 2nd Escort Group Commanded by Capt F J Walker, Cb, Dso and 2 Bars, of t... More
First Sea Lord Visits Services Club. 26 April 1944, Union Jack Club, W...
First Sea Lord Visits Services Club. 26 April 1944, Union Jack Club, Waterloo Road, London. the First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Andrew B Cunningham, Gcb, Dso, Paid a Surprise Visit To the Union Jack C... More
Fleet Air Arm Attack a U-boat, during a Convoy To Russia, 3 April 1944...
Fleet Air Arm Attack a U-boat, during a Convoy To Russia, 3 April 1944 A picture taken from an Avenger aircraft from 846 Naval Air Squadron flown off HMS Tracker of an attack on U-Boat 288 during Convoy JW 58.... More
Fleet Air Arm Attacks the German Battleship Tirpitz. 3 April 1944, on ...
Fleet Air Arm Attacks the German Battleship Tirpitz. 3 April 1944, on Board HMS Furious. Some of the Men and Machines Which Took Part in the Fleet Air Arm Attack on the Tirpitz in Alten Fjord, Norway. Sub Lieut... More
Fleet Air Arm pilots and a Gloster Gladiator at HMS SPARROWHAWK, the R...
Fleet Air Arm pilots and a Gloster Gladiator at HMS SPARROWHAWK, the Royal Naval Air Station at Hatston on Orkney, April 1942. With a chart spread on the wing of a Gloster Gladiator, the Commanding Officer of t... More
From a B To Officer. a B Jack Rupert Boulton, One of Thousands Promote...
From a B To Officer. a B Jack Rupert Boulton, One of Thousands Promoted From the Lower Deck To Meet the War-time Demand of Britain's Great and Expanding Navy. Boulton, a Dorsetman, Redheaded and 6 Ft Tall, Was ... More
From A.b. To Officer A16457
From A.b. To Officer A.B Jack Boulton was one of thousands promoted from the lower deck to meet the war-time demand of Britain's great and expanding Navy. This image shows Boulton with senior officers in the wa... More
General Charles de Gaulle on board the FFS ROSELYS at Greenock, Scotla...
General Charles de Gaulle on board the FFS ROSELYS at Greenock, Scotland, during his visit to units of the Free French Navy to present medals, 24 December 1942. General Charles de Gaulle going up to the bridge ... More
General de Gaulle addressing the citizens of Bayeux, 14 June 1944. A24...
General de Gaulle addressing the citizens of Bayeux, 14 June 1944. General de Gaulle addressing the citizens of Bayeux on his arrival.
General Imamura signing the official document of surrender for Japanes...
General Imamura signing the official document of surrender for Japanese forces in New Britain, New Ireland, the Solomons and New Guinea, on the flight deck of HMS GLORY off Rabaul, 12 September 1945. General Im... More
German POWs aboard HMS JERVIS off Tunisia, May 1943. A16824
German POWs aboard HMS JERVIS off Tunisia, May 1943. A flotilla of Germans fleeing from the 1st and 8th Armies, found nearly twenty miles out to sea off Cape Bon, Tunisia, were rounded up by the Royal Navy. Aft... More
German POWs help unload a jeep from a tank landing craft near Ouistreh...
German POWs help unload a jeep from a tank landing craft near Ouistreham, Courseulles, 11 June 1944. German prisoners of war helping to unload a jeep from LCT 2045 on the beach near Ouistreham, Courseulles.
Gracie Fields poses with a group of sailors in Trincomalee Harbour, Ce...
Gracie Fields poses with a group of sailors in Trincomalee Harbour, Ceylon, during a visit to the British East Indies Fleet, 20 October 1945. Wartime Entertainers: Music hall star Gracie Fields and a group of s... More
Gracie Fields With the British East Indies Fleet, Trincomalee, Ceylon,...
Gracie Fields With the British East Indies Fleet, Trincomalee, Ceylon, 20 October 1945 Gracie Fields, wearing a sailors cap, cracks a joke with the men who have gathered on board HMS VERULAM to see her.
Grumman Hellcats of No.1840 Naval Air Squadron based at RNAS Eglinton ...
Grumman Hellcats of No.1840 Naval Air Squadron based at RNAS Eglinton in Northern Ireland, 23 June 1944. Formation flying by Dutch pilots of 1840 Squadron in Grumman Hellcats based at Royal Naval Air Station Eg... More
Gunnery Trials of HM Submarine Sunfish, Portsmouth, 4 November 1943. A...
Gunnery Trials of Hm Submarine Sunfish, Portsmouth, 4 November 1943. On board HMS SUNFISH a submarine gunner is on the bridge beside his Vickers gun. He is Able Seaman A B Campion of 34 Church Road, Gosport, Po... More
HM Submarine Utmost Returns To Britain. 6 February 1942, HMS Forth, Ho...
Hm Submarine Utmost Returns To Britain. 6 February 1942, HMS Forth, Holy Loch. HMS Utmost's Return From a Year's Service in the Mediterranean during Which Time She Torpedoed and Almost Certainly Sank An Italian... More
Hm the King Paid a Private Visit To the Headquarters of Combined Opera...
Hm the King Paid a Private Visit To the Headquarters of Combined Operations, Where He Was Received by Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. 29 September 1942. The King with Admiral Mountbatten and Naval Officers... More
Hmcs Niagara, Town Class Destroyer, One of the Fifty Destroyers Handed...
Hmcs Niagara, Town Class Destroyer, One of the Fifty Destroyers Handed Over by the United States of America in Exchange For the USE of the Bases. 1941, on Board the Destroyer, She Has An Entirely Canadian Crew,... More
HMS Anthony on An Anti-submarine Patrol, Off Gibraltar, 26 January 194...
HMS Anthony on An Anti-submarine Patrol, Off Gibraltar, 26 January 1944 Anti-submarine control officer (left) with three radio ratings listening through headphones to the ASDIC equipment on the compass platform... More
HMS Belfast during the Second World War A18666
HMS Belfast during the Second World War Visit by HM King George VI, Scapa Flow: Ship's company of HMS BELFAST cheering the Royal Barge as it pulls away from HMS BELFAST after the visit of King George VI.
HMS Belfast during the Second World War A20686
HMS Belfast during the Second World War War Service 1942-1944 Arctic Convoys: Seamen clearing ice from the forecastle of HMS BELFAST, November 1943.
HMS Belfast during the Second World War A20689
HMS Belfast during the Second World War War Service 1942-1944 Arctic Convoys: Able Seaman Thomas B Day standing against the ice encrusted barbette for 'B' turret onboard HMS BELFAST, November 1943.
HMS Belfast during the Second World War A23329
HMS Belfast during the Second World War The visit of HM King George VI, 15 May 1944: HM King George VI on the bridge of HMS BELFAST.
HMS Belfast during the Second World War A23330
HMS Belfast during the Second World War The visit of HM King George VI, 15 May 1944: Ship's company of HMS BELFAST cheering King George VI as he leaves the ship in a drifter.
HMS Belfast during the Second World War A25665
HMS Belfast during the Second World War HMS BELFAST leaving Scapa Flow for the Normandy beaches, June 1944.
HMS Belfast during the Second World War ABS674
HMS Belfast during the Second World War British Pacific Fleet 1945: HMS BELFAST photographed in the South Atlantic from HMS BERWICK.
HMS Belfast during the Second World War- Operation Leader 5-6 October ...
HMS Belfast during the Second World War- Operation Leader 5-6 October 1943 Rear Admiral Burnett and Captain Parham on 'X' gun deck of HMS BELFAST watching the return of the USS RANGER from Operation LEADER, an ... More
HMS Belfast during the Second World War- Operation Tungsten March-apri...
HMS Belfast during the Second World War- Operation Tungsten March-april 1944 A Barracuda dive bomber flies over HMS BELFAST during Operation TUNGSTEN.
HMS BELFAST leaving Iceland on 21 February 1943 to escort convoy JW53 ...
HMS BELFAST leaving Iceland on 21 February 1943 to escort convoy JW53 to Russia. War Service 1942-1944 Arctic Convoys: HMS BELFAST leaving Iceland on 21 February 1943 to escort convoy JW.53 on its voyage to Russia.
HMS Belfast on Winter Duty in Northern Waters during the Winter 1942-1...
HMS Belfast on Winter Duty in Northern Waters during the Winter 1942-1943 Ice forming on the forecastle and 'A' and 'B' turrets of HMS BELFAST, November 1943.
HMS Belfast on Winter Duty in Northern Waters. Winter 1942-1943. Wintr...
HMS Belfast on Winter Duty in Northern Waters. Winter 1942-1943. Wintry Weather Experienced by the Cruiser HMS Belfast during Her Patrols in Northern Waters. Christmas card scene on board the BELFAST. Though th... More
HMS Coriander - The Royal Navy during the Second World War A7589
The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS CORIANDER in coastal waters.
HMS Ganges (1821) figurehead - The Royal Navy during the Second World ...
The Royal Navy during the Second World War New Zealand ratings standing before the figurehead of HMS GANGES and chatting. HMS GANGES was an old four master schooner which was used as a training ship for 40 year... More
HMS Hartland on Fire and Sinking After Following HMS Walney Into Oran ...
HMS Hartland on Fire and Sinking After Following HMS Walney Into Oran Harbour in the Face of a Hot Fire From French Warships and Shore Batteries.
HMS Hartland on Fire and Sinking After Following HMS Walney Into Oran ...
HMS Hartland on Fire and Sinking After Following HMS Walney Into Oran Harbour in the Face of a Hot Fire From French Warships and Shore Batteries.
HMS Hartland on Fire and Sinking After Following HMS Walney Into Oran ...
HMS Hartland on Fire and Sinking After Following HMS Walney Into Oran Harbour in the Face of a Hot Fire From French Warships and Shore Batteries.
HMS Jasmine WWII IWM A5519, British navy ship
The Royal Navy during the Second World War The corvette HMS JASMINE, underway at sea during convoy duty.
HMS Kent Home Again After 2 1-2 Years Abroad. 1941. HMS Kent Back in a...
HMS Kent Home Again After 2 1/2 Years Abroad. 1941. HMS Kent Back in a British Port After Her Long Absence. Part of This Time Was Spent in Chinese Waters and Members of the Crew Brought Home Many Curios. A memb... More
HMS Laforey Ark Royal, World War II photo
The Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1945 Shipping losses: HMS ARK ROYAL sinking after being torpedoed by U 81. HMS LEGION is alongside to take off survivors. HMS LAFOREY is approaching to aid in providing water and... More
HMS Manchester Taken From HMS Ashanti. 3 July 1942. A10219
HMS Manchester Taken From HMS Ashanti. 3 July 1942. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS MONTBRETIA seen from the bow of HMS VERVAIN WWII IWM A10681
The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS MONTBRETIA seen from the bow of HMS VERVAIN.
HMS Naiad 1940 IWM A 447, World War II photo
The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS Naiad, British Dido class cruiser, camouflaged and at anchor in the Firth of Forth. A drifter and a sailing boat are alongside.
HMS Napier during the Second World War IWM photo A13956
The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS NAPIER underway, coastal waters.
HMS NELSON at sea in the Firth of Forth, September 1940. A1181
HMS NELSON at sea in the Firth of Forth, September 1940. HMS NELSON seen from her sister ship HMS RODNEY as they proceeded to sea from the Firth of Forth. A wave is breaking over the bow of NELSON.
HMS PENSTEMON arrives at Algiers after escorting troop convoy WWII IWM...
The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS PENSTEMON arrives at Algiers after helping escort a troop convoy.
HMS Renown at anchor A7322, British Navy ship
The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS RENOWN at anchor in Hvalfjord, Iceland (Photograph taken from the aircraft carrier HMS VICTORIOUS) during the search for the TIRPITZ. The battleship aft of RENOWN ... More
HMS Repulse escorting a troop convoy A6793
The Royal Navy during the Second World War The battlecruiser HMS REPULSE, painted in a dazzle camouflage scheme, while escorting the last troop convoy to reach Singapore. The ship was sunk a few days later wit... More
HMS Repulse leaving harbour A697
The Royal Navy during the Second World War The battlecruiser HMS REPULSE leaving harbour.