Submarines Collection (#7)

British submarine HMS X1. Date: circa 1925

USS Sea Poacher, American submarine, Malta
USS Sea Poacher (SS/AGSS-406), American Balao class submarine, seen here off Valletta, Malta, on 5 November 1957. Date: 1957

USS Tallahassee with submarines, WW1
USS Tallahassee (BM9), formerly USS Florida but renamed in 1908, submarine tender, with four submarines alongside, during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

Sphere cover - German U boat in Thames by Tower Bridge
The German submarine, U-155 (Deutschland) one of four lying in the River Thames flying the White Ensign at the end of the First World War. Date: 1918

HMS Lucia, British submarine depot ship, with four submarines alongside. Date: circa 1920s

How a Submarine Dives & Rests on Sea Floor, WW1
Diagrams showing how a submarine or U-boat dives below the water and rests at the bottom of the sea. Date: 1917

British naval convoy system by G. H. Davis
The method of safeguarding the freedom of the seas: the British naval convoy system at work. Making the high seas safe for Allied

HMS Poseidon submarine escape apparatus
HMS Poseidon and the submarine escape apparatus. Poseidon was sunk on 9th June 1931 after colliding with the Chinese merchant steamer SS Yuta

HMS Poseidon submarine
The launch of the British submarine, HMS Poseidon, a P class sub, launched on 21st June 1929 at the Barrow-in-Furness works of Vickers-Armstrong

Grey propeller with seven blades

Motofides A244 anti submarine torpedo, digital illustration

HMS Stoic
Submarine HMS Stoic, crushed in deep submergence tests, 1949 Date: 1949

Sailors on board the British submarine, H42
HMS H42 was a British H class submarine built by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle Upon Tyne. She was laid down in September 1917 and was commissioned on 1 May 1919

London Life magazine front cover, August 1966
Front cover of London Life magazine, the short-lived magazine which captured swinging sixties London, featuring a model wearing orange shorts

Torpedo Room of a U-boat, pre-Second World War
Photograph showing the crew of a German submarine (U-boat) relaxing in their bunks in the bow torpedo chamber, c.1938. This photograph shows the cramped conditions typically of the submarines that

(Sebastian) Wilhelm (Valentin) Bauer (1822-1875) German inventor and pioneer builder of submarines. Reverse of commemorative medal

German submarine on the surface at night, 1915
A German submarine running on the surface of the sea at night in 1915 during the German blockade of the British Isles in World War One. Date: 1915

HMS Hazard and submarine cleaning
HMS Hazard, British Dryad-class torpedo gunboat and the worlds first submarine depot ship. Seen here are crew members cleaning submarines 1 and 4 of the flotilla. Date: circa 1905

Whales mistaken for u-boats during WW1
A page from The Illustrated London News, featuring two whales photographed from the air, showing how they could be mistaken for u-boats, and consequently bombed. WW1

FRATELLI BANDIERA
The launch of the Fratelli Bandiera U-boat at Trieste, Italy. Date: circa 1915

Monge Submarine
Monge : until 1914, most French submarines are steam- driven, hence the smoke. She has electric motors for underwater sailing. Date: circa 1905

U-BOATS IN HARBOUR 1916 U-Boat in harbour 1916
Three U-boats in harbour awiating for departure at Kiel. Date: 1916

U-Boat - the U-8
The U-8, which may have sunk HMS Pathfinder during the early months of World War One Date: 1914

Xmas Aboard a U-Boat 1915
Celebrating the second Christmas of the war aboard an untersee-boot Date: 25 December 1915

Torpedo Nets
To protect warships from enemy torpedoes, torpedo-nets were hung from the sides of the ship : as here, on a French warship at Toulon Date: 1886

Planes of a British submarine, WW1
The planes of a First World War submarine - horizontal rudders to regulate the angle of ascent and descent. Date: 1914

Submarine D 4 with mounted gun
The British submarine the " D 4" which carried a quick-firing gun mounted forward of the conning tower upon a moving platform placed inside the hull

British submarines in dock, WW1
Part of Britains underwater submarine fleet moored in dock just before the First World War. Date: 1914

WW1 - Sinking Svionia the merchantman - Baltics Sea, 1915
WW1 - The first German merchant ship victim Svionia, was sunk by the gunfire off Sassnitz in the western Baltic. The men from two smaller boats and a submarine

WW1 - British submarine rescues German sailor
WW1 - A British marine seen saving the life of a German sailor belonging to a war-ship sunk in the North Sea. The marine is hauling the man on board using a life-line which has been flung to him

Watanabe E9W1 Model 11 Slim -designed to be stowed aboard the larger Japanese submarines for spotting over the horizon prey 35 built

WW1 - A scene of Dover at night as its searchlights discover two German submarines at the entrance of the harbour. The English Batteries opened fire on the water from the eastern forts

Spanish submarine A1, Narciso Monturiol, named after its inventor. It was launched in 1917. Date: early 20th century

Italian submarine HMS X2, Galileo Galilei, WW2
Italian submarine HMS X2, Galileo Galilei. Seen here in the Gulf of Aden at the time of its capture in June 1940. Date: 1940

Naval air-scout in a dirigible, First World War
A type of small allied naval dirigible used as an air scout for tracking enemy submarines which can be seen under water in clear, calm weather

British submarine HMS L15, seen here off Wei Hai Wei, China, with crew on deck. Date: circa 1921

HMS Titania, British depot ship, with submarines
HMS Titania, British submarine depot ship, with L-class submarines 5, 8, 9, etc, at Wei-Hai-Wei, China, when serving as flagship of the China Submarine Flotilla. Date: 1921

British submarine HMS L4 and others, Hong Kong. Date: circa 1923

HMS Vulcan and C-class submarines, Newport, Fife
HMS Vulcan, a British torpedo boat depot ship converted to a submarine tender, seen here with C-class submarines C21, C26, C27, etc, at Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland. Date: circa 1910

British submarine HMS C8. Date: circa 1910

British submarine HMS L52. Date: circa 1920

British submarine HMS J1, WW1
British submarine HMS J1 (later HMAS J1). Date: circa 1916

British submarine HMS H24, WW1
British submarine HMS H24, in tow. Date: circa 1918

British submarine HMS E9, WW1
British submarine HMS E9. Date: circa 1916

British submarine HMS G5, WW1
British submarine HMS G5. Date: circa 1916

British submarine HMS E7, WW1
British submarine HMS E7. Date: circa 1914

British submarine HMS D8, WW1
British submarine HMS D8. Date: circa 1915

British submarine HMS D6, WW1
British submarine HMS D6. Date: circa 1915

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