Naval Collection

Certificate - Japan-British Exhibition
Japan-British Exhibition 1910. Commemorative Diploma, Shepherds Bush, London. Certificate by and after F C Butcher, 1910. Associated with the Royal Navy. 1910

Design for printed textile with hats and caps
Design for printed textile with a wide selection of hats and caps. Gouache on copy paper. Silver Studio. circa 1935

WW2 Poster -- This Is The Year
This Is The Year! Its Up To Us To Let Em Have It! Colour photolithograph after Clive Upton. 1944

Chromolithograph poster - British Military
Royal Naval and Military Tournament OLYMPIA MAY 18TH TO JUNE 3RD TWICE DAILY AT 2.30 AND 8PM. Chromolithograph poster by Dudley Hardy, published by Dobson Molle and Co, 1910 (c)

British Royal Naval Recruitment Poster, WW1
Remember! England Expects -- The need is great today.... the Navy requires you for its glorious service. Join today. Skilled artificers and artisans, seamen, stokers, marines and boys

Poster - British Military medals
NAVAL, MILITARY AND RAF DECORATIONS AND MEDALS 1793-1973. Poster, revised and edited by Arthur Kipling of the Society for Army Historical Research, 1975 (c)

Sea Battle, World War I by Cyrus Cuneo
The Great Sea Battle. An unspecified but fierce naval battle during the First World War, illustrated by the late Cyrus Cuneo. Date: 1916

Memorial to Russian Navy, Sevastopol, Ukraine
View of the Soviet Memorial to the Russian Navy of World War Two, in Sevastopol, Ukraine, with marines on parade. Sevastopol is where Russias Black Sea Fleet is based. early 21st century

Advertisement for General Motors six new cars -- the Fleets in! With a woman saluting to two men in uniform, and a diagram below to illustrate the use of steel. 1937

Wartime poster, More Ships -- come on! War Savings are Warships. Encouraging people to save money and help the war effort. Featuring a British bulldog wearing an HMS Victory naval cap. 1940s

Silhouette of three people in uniform. On the left, a woman in Women Royal Naval Service uniform (WREN) and in the middle, a lady in ATS uniform. The man on the right is a Royal Navy lieutenant

Naval Depot, Garden Island, Sydney Harbour, Australia. circa 1890s

The Arsenal and warships, Naples, Italy. late 19th century

David Wright woman with pen and note paper
Elegant woman with a pen and note paper -- perhaps writing to the naval officer in the photo on her table -- representing The Girls They Left Behind

Japanese naval vessel, Hong Kong, China. circa 1890

Captured German naval gun, Cambrai Front, WW1
A captured 5.9 German naval gun near Cambrai in France on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

Sir Douglas Haig and Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito, WW1
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and Fleet Admiral Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito of the Japanese imperial family, meeting during World War One. circa 1916

RMS Carpathia officers
Officers of the RMS Carpathia, with signatures. This was the ship that rescued survivors of the Titanic disaster on 15 April 1912. Date: 1912

Naval Steamship - Charles Robinson
One of the Men-O -War that " guard our shores". Date: circa 1905

British battleships
Illustration of unidentified British battleships at sea during World War Two, with guns firing. Date: c.1944

Items belonging to Edmond Stone, Steward on Titanic
Assorted items belonging to Edmond J Stone, Steward on the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship which sank on 15 April 1912 -- two penknives, a pocket watch, two keys with brass tags

Unhabitable by Charles Pears
Painting by maritime artist, Charles Pears of a warship, visible sailing over the horizon under a dramatic sky of billowing clouds. Presumably the ship is named Unhabitable. Date: c.1917

More Work For The Navy - postcard by Lawson Wood

Poster: You can help to build me a ship
Poster: a British sailor says You can help to build me a ship. You can learn quickly and you will be working to win. Ask at any Employment Exchange for advice and full details

Poster advertising luxury cruises, showing a crew member in white uniform watching as tradespeople approach in boats with locally produced items for sale to the passengers. 20th century

Explosion at sea, WW1
American photo of an explosion at sea during World War One circa 1916

Fruit Label -- The Man at the Wheel, depicting a man in naval uniform inside a ships wheel. 20th century

British soldiers with captured German gun, WW1
British soldiers with a captured German 5.9 naval gun on the Cambrai Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

Men in The Naval Volunteer pub
Two men sit at a table by a window with pints of beer in The Naval Volunteer, a pub in Bristol. Date: 1961

Man in naval costume
An unidentified man in ceremonial naval costume, complete with epaulettes and sword

Sailors of the Admiral Graf Spee, WW2
Sailors of the Admiral Graf Spee, looking happy and relaxed. Their ship was sunk in December 1939. circa 1940

Chapel in the Seamens Hospital, Greenwich
Scene in the Chapel of the Seamens Hospital, Greenwich. Six people sit in the first few rows, while Padre MacLaren conducts the service. Date: 1960s

A White Ship
View across a dock toward a smart white navy steamship in port, moored alongside a tall ship. Oil painting by Raymond Sheppard Date: circa late 1940s

RAF bombing German warship
An RAF biplane bombs a german warship off the coast of Africa during World War One. Painting by Raymond Sheppard Date: circa 1916

Warneford attacks Zeppelin at Ghent
On 7 June 1915 at Ghent, Belgium, Reginald Alexander John Warneford, VC (1891 1915), a Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) officer, flying a Morane-Saulnier Type L

The Sinking of the Bismarck
The sinking of the German Battleship Bismarck

Wwi Navy Recruitment
Naval recruitment poster from World War One featuring a number of sailors in a crows nest of a ship. Date: c.1915

Sailor with a telescope
A sailor looks through a telescope, standing high up on the rigging of his ship. circa 20th century

Sailors and Gals
Our photograph girls show that all the nice girls love a sailor - happy days in the U.S. navy! Date: early 1930s

National Savings Group wartime poster
Wartime poster advertising National Savings. Convoy your country to victory. Save and lend through our National Savings Group. Showing ships at sea, with a British Navy flag. Date: 1940s

Save Food / Wwi Poster
A First World War poster encouraging people to save food, featuring a sailor about to embark for war on a battle ship. Date: c.1916

Edward VII and the Prince of Wales
King Edward VII (right) and George, Prince of Wales (later King George V), both in ceremonial naval uniform. circa 1909

George VI and Queen Elizabeth on royal tour
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on a royal tour to Canada and the USA. A beautiful pictorial record. 1939

Russian royal family on the deck of a ship
A group portrait of the Russian royal family on the deck of a ship, some of them in naval style costume

Scene on deck the kings yacht, Britannia, with King George V sitting in front of the wheel. circa 1930s

British ships at Muscat, Oman
Scene with British naval boats at Muscat, capital of Oman. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts Date: circa 1935

Old Salt teaches knot tying to a young boy
An elderly sailor teaches a young lad how to tie some nautical knots. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Are YOU in this? A poster designed by Robert Baden-Powell during the First World War showing British citizens joining in the war effort

Painting of a sailor with his kit, a monkey on his shoulder and a parrot in a cage. His shipmates appear to have just dropped him off onto dry land

WW2 production poster
World War Two poster issued by the British Admiralty, demonstrating full steam ahead on production, presumably of wartime equipment and munitions

Royal Navy recruitment poster. Stokers required, no previous experience necessary, age 18 to 25 years. Apply to the Royal Navy Recruiting Office, Naval Base, Great Yarmouth

Naval Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition Poster

Join the Royal Marines Poster
Join the Royal Marines recruitment poster for the navy

Ileana Hohenzollern
ILEANA HOHENZOLLERN Descendant of Queen Victoria and youngest daughter of the King of Romania who married Archduke Anton of Austria. Seen here in naval uniform. Date: 1909 - 1991

Girl Naval Mascot
Sailors of the American Navy holding up their girl mascot on board the warship Northampton. Date: early 1930s

The Earl of Pembroke Attacked by Spanish Fleet

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