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A German tanker ablaze to the water line after an attack by RAF Coastal Command in the English Channel off the French coast during the Second World War. July 1940
Royal navy Fleet Air Arm shatter enemy convoy. 27th November 1944. Taken from one of the attacking Barracudas of HMS Implacable during a fleet air arm strike on a southbound convoy off the coast of
An Admiralty statement on 14th August 1942 stated that supplies and reinforcements had reached the fortress of Malta despite very heavy enemy concentrations designed to prevent their passage
In the early hours of January 20th 1944. Britains Dover Coastal batteries achieved a remarkable feat of marksmanship sinking a German blockade runner as she was hugging the French coast
A German patrol ship in Heligoland fires a bright foutr star cartridge recognition signal as a challenge before opening fire at a Blenheim bomber of RAF Coastal Command which is about to make a dive
Bombers of RAF Coastal Command have forced the Germans to hide their shipping in Norwegian fjords, miles away from the sea and only move them at night or when it is foggy
Looking down on Lodingen Harbour, Norway as (left) a tanker receives a direct hit, four supply ships are set on fire and (in background near shore) an auxiliary vessel is left blazing
Flying through dense cloud, a Norwegian pilot led a strong force of Mosquito fighter planes from RAF Coastal Command over his native mountains to attack a large enemy merchantman in Dalsfjord
Wide sweeps of the North Sea are being made by the RAF in the search for enemy shipping. In this photograph, enemy shipping has been located
The small supply vessel (in foreground) well on fire and being beached; in centre, the troopship running ashore on fire with the armed trawler hiding under her smoke
Hit by a bomber plane of RAF Coastal Command, an enemy vessel off the coast of Norway, struck during operations against enemy shipping off the Norwegian coast. May 1941
Smoke rising from a 10, 000 ton Japanese tanker which was attacked by Liberators of 159 Squadron, Air Command South East Asia RAF, near to the Thai island of Ko Samui
The German blockade runner Alsterufer burning after a Czechoslovak-crewed RAF Liberator from No 311 Squadron attacked her with semi-armour piercing rockets and a 500lb bomb
The German tanker Passat seen here under attack by RAF Whitley bombers of Coastal Command close to the Nazi occupied St Nazaire U-Boat facility. 2nd September 1942
Fleet Air Arm shatter enemy convoy. 27th November 1944. Taken from one of the attacking barracudas of HMS Implacable during a fleet air arm strike on a southbound convoy off the coast of Norway
RAF bombers of Coastal Command flew at mast height to attack a German convoy of six ships off of Heligoland Bight on the 30th July 1941
Royal navy Fleet Air Arm attack shipping off Statlandet. 12th September 1944, On board the escort carrier HMS Trumpeter, when with other naval aircraft operating from HMS Furious her aircraft
Dedication ceremony of the 96th Bomb group memorial chapel at the 12th century St. Andrews Church in Quidenham, Norfolk which took place on 17th November 1944
On 5th July 1948, the Indian Navy acquired its first cruiser when HMS Achilles, heroine of the River Plate Battle of World War Two, was handed over at Chatham to the High Commissioner for India
The biggest Allied convoy to Russia fought through four day attack by enemy torpedo planes of the German Luftwaffe and U-boats of the Kriegsmarine to deliver her cargo at an Arctic port
Fleet Air Arm shatter enemy convoy on 27th November from one of the attacking Barracuda flighter planes of the British RoyalNavy aircraft carrier HMS Implacable during a strike on a southbound enemy
A setting sun dapples the clouds and streaks the waters of the Atlantic Ocean as one more convoy from America nears Britain
Smoke belching from the conning tower of German Uboat U744 after being attacked for over 30 hours with depth charges and forced to the surface by HMS Icarus
Preparations for the Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers (Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany)
Of ten Norwegian ships which attempted to escape to Britain from Gothenburg, Sweden in March, 1941, only one, a new 10, 000 ton tanker the B.P. Newton, arrived safely at a British port
Wrecked merchant vessels in Mersa Matruh harbour after accurate bombing by Allied forces. 29th November 1942
Picture taken on board the British Escort carrier Campania during a recent British convoy to and from Russia when a U-boat was sunk
The decks of HMS Milne are awash as she ploughs through heavy seas in the North Atlantic. Circa December 1943
Firefighters busy on board HMS Formidable after a Japanese suicide plane had crashed on to the flight deck whilst she was operating off the Sakishima Islands in support of the Okinawa landings
Firefighters on board HMS Formidable inspect the wreckage and dampen down the fire after a Japanese suicide plane had crashed on to the flight deck whilst she was operating off the Sakishima Islands
Convoy PQ 18 at sea. An underwater detonation erupts next to HMS Ashanti. The destroyer HMS Eskimo is seen in the foreground. Merchant ships are in the background. 13th September 1942
A British convoy passing through the Straits of Dover seen here being attacked by German dive bomber. 11th July 1940. German air operations over the English Channel marked the first phase of The
HMS Kelly under tow in the North Sea after being torpedoed off the coast of Norway on the 10th May 1940
Operation at sea saves sailors life. November 1944, on board the cruiser HMS Berwick, in northern waters. A destroyer rating believed to be suffering from appendicitis was transferred from his ship
USS Nevada, a USN destroyer, USS Quincy, another USN destroyer, and HMS Glasgow seen from HMS Enterprise. Preparing to bombard the German shore batteries at Cherbourg. 25th June 1944
Five British airmen rescued from a rubber float climbing on board HMS Jackal. The five were rescued after 24 hours afloat. They had come down in the sea after a raid over enemy territory
The fleet in the Mediterranean Circa 1941
HMS Fury (in the foreground) and HMS Ashanti laying a smoke screen after a dummy torpedo run, during fleet exercises off of Scapa Flow. Circa May 1942
HMS Kelvin of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet, lays a smoke screen during destroyer exercises in the North Sea. Circa October 1940
HMAS Nepal approaches the Eastern Fleet flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth as a seaman prepares to fire line, which is held in canister by a second seaman
British convoy to Russia. 4th February to 2 March 1945. On board the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Bellona on a convoy to and from Russia
Two Royal Navy sailors, wrapped up against the bitter cold conditions, stand on the exposed signal bridge of HMS Sheffield on the look out for enemy U-boats in Arctic waters. December 1941
Pictures taken during the gunnery trials of the Royal Navy submarine HMS Sunfish at Portsmouth, England. The guns crew going into action with the gun while the Commanding Officer
His Norfolk with British destroyers of the Royal Navy and Merchant ships in a Russian inlet whilst on northern convoy duty during the Second World War. Circa 1942
British prime Minister Winston Churchill gives the famous V for victory sign on board a British warship during his visit to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow in the Second World war
The Germany Navy battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, which recently escaped the RAF attack in Brest, have been located in their new positions
Heavy aircraft of RAF Bomber Command - Stirlings, Halifax, and Manchester - made a daylight attack upon the Nazi pocket-battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
RAF reconnaissance photo of the German Naval base at Wilhelmshaven. Photograph taken during the night attack of 15th - 16th January 1941
