Royal Navy Collection (page 4)

The Royal Marines band visit to Liverpool during the second Word War. 19th January 1942

The baby of a Royal Navy officer is christened on a submarine during the Second world War. Here, the " Black Gang" coaling crew of a nearby ship cheer the party. 12th June 1942

Sea Cadets with bayonets fixed, listening to a memorial service for HMS Jervis Bay during the Second World War. 14th May 1944

Cadets on guard duty being inspected by a Senior Officer. 6th August 1942

Sea Cadets from Horley, Surrey training in Shoreham-by-Sea. The visit Shoerham twice a week for practice as there is no sea at Horley

Cadets under instructions by a Senior Officer learning how a bow-line knot is made. 6th August 1942

Naval Cadets undergoing training at a Naval establishment in the heart of England during the Second World War. 31st August 1943

General Instruction consisting of Boatwork. Compass & Helm Knots and Splices, Semaphore and Parts of a Rifle. In the fore ground

At 1500 hours each Saturday The Union Flag is hoist at the mast. Guard Parades and Buglers sound the General Salute conforming with the Ritual in the Royal Navy. 6th August 1942

A captured German submarine during the battle of the Atlantic. Looking down into the conning-tower from escort vessel. April 1941

Activities and personnel at HMS Rajalyia, Royal Navy Station in Puttalam, Ceylon during the Second World War. Picture shows

Some fighters of an Eastern escort carrier make their first kill on board HMS Empress at sea in the Pacific during the Second world War

Some of the activities of the War Department Fleet of craft. They carry stores, ammunition etc. to sea forts, coastal gun sites etc. and also tow targets for coastal gun practice

A view of HMS Howe firing her 14 inch guns near Scapa Flow. The brilliant flash from the guns which precedes the cordite smoke lasts only for a fraction of a second. October 1942

The boys of the 61st (Middlesex) A. A. cadets show off their fitness at a display at
The boys of the 61st (Middlesex) A.A. cadets show off their fitness at a display at the London District School of Physical training at Hendon

Royal Navy patrol frigates of the 1st escort group, HMS Affleck and her sister ships Gore, Gould, and Garlies destroyed two German U-boats of the Kriegsmarine in the Atlantic Ocean at Gibraltar

A group of 10 veteran seaman serving with the training ship HMS Implacable, which, as the French warship Ddugay-Trouin, fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805

On board the HMS Duke of York for the concert tour organised by the Council for Encouragement of Music and Art (CEMA) at a Northern Naval base. The series of concerts had record audiences

Recuperating Royal Navy servicemen, injured during the Second World War, take part in a bandy-chair race accompanied by their nurses at Sports Day held at Maristow Royal Naval Hospital in South

Submariners pictured outside Buckingham Palace as they attend an investiture. Petty Officer Allanson, Chief Engine Room Artificer Hutching, Chief Engine Room Artificer Walker and ST

Ships searchlights illuminate Gibraltar Harbour at night during the Second World War. 31st December 1943

Mechanics working on the British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Argus inside the hangar after it had completed 25 years of continuous service with the Royal Navy. September 1943

The band of an Army Technical School leads the parade of Officers and men of HMS Garth from the railway station to the Town Hall in Wokingham, Berkshire during the Second World War. 26th January 1945

Skua planes of the Fleet Air Arm attack oil tanks and the jetty at Dolvik, near Bergen, Norway. August 1940

Operation Pluto (Pipe Lines Under The Ocean) where pipes were layed under the English Channel by which Allied Armies in Europe were nourished during WWII

British Navys gift to Russia. Picture taken when the British battleship H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, together with four British submarines - Ursula, Unison

While at sea the British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Kenya received an urgent signal from the Australian destroyer " Norman" requesting the transfer of a member of her crew

At this invasion port on the South Coast of England, Royal Navy postmen deliver 6000 letters every day to men and women serving in the ships taking part n the operations across the Channel in

Officers and men of the British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Lookout, adopted by Burnely and District. Photo shows: Men of the lookout, radar staff left to right: Able Seaman E

On 24th March 1945 it was announced that Allied Forces under Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery had crossed the Rhine on a wide front north of the Ruhr River in Germany

One of the oldest destroyers at sea today, the 27-year old British Royal Navy Destroyer HMS Watchman, which has just completed a fine record of 200, 000 miles steamed in this war alone

The pilot of a German Heinkel Bomber plane of the Luftwaffe is brought aboard a British Royal Navy destroyer after his plane was hit by a barrage of fire and plummeted into the sea

A British destroyer out East had hunted this Italian submarine and finally located it. Depth charges were dropped and a few minutes later up out of the water came the Italian vessel

Rear Admiral Sir Philip View, DSO (centre), Captain Wright DSO and Captain Eccles (left) of the Royal Navy, discussing the latest plan of action. Circa January 1944

A bullseye scored by the Royal Navy dreadnought battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth during gunnery practice. This photograph was taken from the ship towing the target which can be seen

Sailors of the Royal Navy gallant H Class Destroyer HMS Hardy, assigned to the Home fleet, return home to England after the ship was capsized in the First Battle of Narvik

Attempts by dozens of enemy planes to harass British Convoys in the English Channel have so far met with little success. Hit and run tactics have been foiled by the speed

The Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Stalker. January 1944

It is now revealed that during the most critical period of the Battle of the Atlantic a number of British merchant ships were equipped with flight decks for the launching

Sweeping the snow covered flight deck of the British escort carrier HMS Fencer during a convoy patrol in Northern waters in the Second World War

The Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Pursuer arrives at a British port during the Second World War. Four of her Gruman Wildcat fighters successfully defended a valuable Atlantic convoy in a night action

In a Combined Operation on the night 27th and 28th February 1942, joint forces of the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force attacked an destroyed an important German radio location post at

The Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bomber, operated by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, in flight during the Second World War. Circa 1944

The Royal navy aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable seen from the air during the Second World War. November 1944

Commander Grant teaches orphans in the training ship Stork, moored on the River Thames, for future roles in the Royal Navy or the Merchant Service

Staff at a South Wales Naval Base during the Second World War, . 3rd April 1941
Staff at a South Wales Naval Base during the Second World War, .3rd April 1941. Front Row left to right: Reverend A.W. Jayne, Lieutenant Commander E. Kirkpatrick-Crockett, Commander M.S

William James Richards of the British Navy warship HMS Gurkha during the Second World War. Circa 1941

Torpedomen of the Royal Navy cruiser Jamaica which assisted in the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst. Right to left: P/O J.O. Mahoney, J. Beck, R. Polkinghorne, and S

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