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A newly constructed Landing Craft being launched into a river in the U...

A newly constructed Landing Craft being launched into a river in the UK, 1942. A Landing Craft being launched into the river.

A newly-completed LCA (assault landing craft) ready for launching, 194...

A newly-completed LCA (assault landing craft) ready for launching, 1942. An LCA built at Messrs Harris Lebus ready for launching.

American Aircraft in Royal Air Force Service 1939-1945- Republic Thund...

American Aircraft in Royal Air Force Service 1939-1945- Republic Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt Mark Is (HD173 A nearest) of No. 135 Squadron RAF, lined up at Chittagong, India, while being overflown by three other... More

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

B.a.t. FL1558, British Navy ship

B.a.t., underway at sea. Could possibly be the 1943 tug HMS Bat.

Battle of the Canal du Nord - 4th Can Div Field Dressing Station

Field Dressing Station, showing prisoners bringing the wounded in. 4th Canadian Division Front. In background artillery going forward. Owing to depth of initial objective, batteries were compelled to move forwa... More

Beaumont-Hamel - General view of the battlefield

General view of the battlefield of Beaumont Hamel showing the blasted land

BL12inchRailwayHowitzerMkI during World War I

Photograph of British 12 inch howitzer Mk. I on railway mounting, Western Front, World War I. See also File:12 inch railway howitzer Dickebusche 1917 IWM Q 709.jpg which appears to be part of the same photo seq... More

Blohm und Voss Bv138 - A black and white photo of a sea plane

A German Blohm & Voss Bv 138 reconnaissance flying-boat, 1937. The Blohm + Voss BV 138 was a World War II German flying boat that functioned as the Luftwaffe's main long-range maritime reconnaissance.

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

Britain's New Admiral (submarines)- Rear-admiral Claud Barry, Dso. 18 ...

Britain's New Admiral (submarines)- Rear-admiral Claud Barry, Dso. 18 January 1943, Northways. Rear Admiral Claude B Barry, DSO, at his desk at headquarters.

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

Captain M Denny, Cb, Cbe, Rn, of HMS Victorious. March 1945. A28079

Captain M Denny, Cb, Cbe, Rn, of HMS Victorious. March 1945.

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 during the Second World War A4545

Convoys during the Second World War Two lieutenants, one a Royal Navy Reserve the other a Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve use coded tags to plot the positions of convoys on a large wall map of the British Isles an... 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

Ffs Gazele FL13435. Warship photograph collection

Ffs Gazelle French Chamois Class Minesweeping Sloop. Public domain photograph related to World War Two, Navy ships, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ffs Renoncule FL5747. Warship photograph collection

Ffs Renoncule Alongside a jetty. Public domain photograph related to World War Two, Navy ships, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

George Albert FL13441 - A black and white photo of a boat in the water

George Albert At anchor. a Great Yarmouth drifter, registration 627 Public domain photograph related to World War Two, Navy ships, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

Growler FL5613. Warship photograph collection

Growler Underway. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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 School For Inter-allied Merchant Seamen. 1 and 2 April 1942, L...

Gunnery School For Inter-allied Merchant Seamen. 1 and 2 April 1942, Liverpool. A West Indian Merchant Seaman firing a Lewis Gun.

Gunnery School For Inter-allied Merchant Seamen. 1 and 2 April 1942, L...

Gunnery School For Inter-allied Merchant Seamen. 1 and 2 April 1942, Liverpool. Two Chinese manning an Oerlikon Gun; Afu Lay Liu (left) and Apu Cot Wong.

Gunnery School For Inter-allied Merchant Seamen. 1 and 2 April 1942, L...

Gunnery School For Inter-allied Merchant Seamen. 1 and 2 April 1942, Liverpool. Chinese seamen learning how to handle an Oerlikon gun.

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

Hawker Typhoon IB and Tempest V from below 1944

A Hawker Tempest Mk.V (JN766 "SA-N", foreground) and a Hawker Typhoon Mk.IB ("SA-R") of No. 486 Squadron RNZAF based at Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire (UK), in flight. The Squadron transitioned from the Typhoon t... More

He 111Z taking off at Regensburg c1943

A German Heinkel He 111Z glider tug (left) taking off from Regensburg-Obertraubing airfield, in 1943. Also visible are three Messerschmitt Me 321 gliders (upper right) and six Messerschmitt Me 323 transports.

HM King George VI and Queen Elizabeth leaving HMS BICESTER at the end ...

HM King George VI and Queen Elizabeth leaving HMS BICESTER at the end of their visit to the naval base at Larne, Northern Ireland, 26 June 1942. HM King George VI and Queen Elizabeth leaving down the gang plank... More

HM Queen Elizabeth inspecting a detachment of Wrens on the quayside at...

HM Queen Elizabeth inspecting a detachment of Wrens on the quayside at Belfast, 1942. HM Queen Elizabeth inspecting a detachment of Wrens on the quay side at Belfast.

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

Hmcs Niagara, Town Class Destroyer, One of the Fifty Destroyers Handed...

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 Arabis FL12965. Warship photograph collection

HMS Arabis Starboard bow view of the Modified Flower Class Corvette HMS ARABIS at low speed on they Clyde. Possibly during her work up trials before her commission and passing to the Royal New Zealand Navy.