Naval Historical Scenes

Early 20th-century naval imagery featuring sailors aboard ships and historical naval inspections, documenting maritime history.

A Soviet commissar is executed by a White Russian firing squad aboard a boat on lake Onega. Date: 1919

First men to reach the South Pole; from left to right: Sverre Hassel, Oscar Wisting, Roald Amundsen, Olaf Bjaalund and Helmer Hansen. This picture shows the explorers aboard the expedition ship 'Fram' at Hobart, Tasmania, 1912. Date: 1912

Gunners aboard Turkish ship, at posts

Sailors of the cruiser Calabria of the Italian Royal Navy in Valparaiso, 1909, Chile, photo by E Balelli from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVI, No 50, November 12, 1909.

Punching a Passage. A Coast Guard combat cutter smashes out its own channel through ice that threatened to trap it close to shore in the Far North. Cutters in the North Atlantic must be ever on the alert against the treacheries of the weather as well as the menace of enemy attack.

On deck of U.S. Frigate Hartford | Library of Congress

A man Galia, seriously wounded by the explosion of the torpedo is hoisted aboard a patrol ship.

6/14/11; Coal Passers Talking Strike

LST Unloads At Kiska. This image depicts an LST with open bow doors shown in operation during the invasion of Kiska in this photograph.

'Thames Police on the Night Patrol Which Guards The Safety of the River', c1935. Creator: Unknown.

Fleet - Reviews - Maneuver - British Navy. February 11, 1935.

Boxing challenge on the bridge of a British troop ship in France, World War I, photo by Trampus, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 7, February 14, 1915.

Admiral Carlo Alberto Racchia on the torpedo boat 109, photograph by U Conti-Vecchi, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIII, No 12, March 22, 1896.

Skeppsbskeppsgosseskaderns SommareExpedition 1903 .. Skeppsgossarskeppsgosseskaderns SummerExpedition 1903.

Demonstration of Surgeon George Lung's Apron Stretcher. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Maritime Service Training Station. Hoffman Is. Martin Service Tr. Sta.

Italo-turkish War. Kunfida. Gunner Sinking. 1912

The 'Ionic' 2 with New Zealand troops for the front, 1914. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1914, by Major John Rose.

Photo collection First World War. Helgoland. Post an der stützmauer .. 1914-1918}. Germany, Helgoland

Bridges about the Haringvliet to facilitate the Delta Works by soldiers of 462 Pontonniersbataljon.

Gun for firing dynamite projectiles. It was tested at Fort Hamilton, one of the US Army installations in New York. US cruiser equipped with this type of gun. Engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.

On the blockade off San Juan - Under the Cruiser's Guns - Spanish American War, 1898

Alhucemas Landing on 8 September 1925, 'Alhucemas Landing', oil José Moreno Carbonero. 1927 The French troops pushed through from the south while the Spanish fleet and army secured Alhucemas Bay by an amphibious landing, and began attacking from the north. After one year of bitter resistance, Abd el-Krim, the leader of both the tribes, surrendered to French authorities, and in 1926 Spanish Morocco was finally retaken.

American warship Colorado with crew in the harbor of Honolulu

Shells for the Great 14 inch guns, American Navy, circa 1915

Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection

British explorer H.M. Stanley in a fight with African warriors attempting to block his expedition in 1878

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reportage Hollandia. Hollandia. Port. Various praugs. February 1947. Hollandia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, New Guinea

W.J. Reilly

Quartermaster's Wharf, Alexandria, Virginia. No. B754, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Alexandria.

Italian troops boarding ships for Crete, Naples, Italy, drawing by Edoardo Matania, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIV, No 18, May 2, 1897.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Members of the crew of the minesweeping trawler HMT HORNBEAM, former solicitors' clerks, commercial travellers, lorry drivers etc., have formed a dance band 'The Sweepers Swingsters'. When in harbour they play at naval dances, Warship Week functions etc. All the members of the band are amateurs. Here they are seen on board the HORNBEAM at Liverpool. The instruments being held by the men include accordions, a small drum kit, a banjo, a guitar, a flute and a violin.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea: Governor's Platteel inspection tour South Guinea. Inspection tour Governor Dr. P.J. Platteel South Guinea. villages mappi achieved praug. left Gouverneur de Residen South Guinea, A. Boendermaker. 1959. Guinea

Colored light image with motifs A fishermen in storm.

Embarkation for White House Landing, Yorktown, Virginia, USA, May 1862

The cruiser 'Brooklyn' - lying off Grant's Tomb - Dewey celebration, New York , Warships, Victory celebrations

Carrying visitors to the great warships, Naval Rendezvous, Hampton Roads, Virginia, U.S.A. , Events, Naval yards & naval stations, Hampton Roads Naval Base Va.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Men of HMS LOOKOUT watching other invasion ships in convoy bound for southern France in the distance.

332d on Duca d'Aosta

Pierre Loti, pseudonym of Julien Viaud (1850-1923). French novelist and naval officer. Pierre Loti aboard the gunboat Javelot. Engraving by Rico. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1892. Colored.

Gun Crew of the USS Mendota before the American Civil War

View on James River, in front of City Point, Virginia, July 5, 1864 , View on James River from General Grant's headquarters, July 5, 1864. No. 793, Title from item, Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner..by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003, Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A). United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, James River.

Russia. Revolution of 1905. Uprising of the Battleship Potemkin (1905, June-July), in which part of the army mutinied against the Tsarist regime. La Domenica del Corriere.

Series of four light-printed photographs by Johann Baptist Obernetter from 1890 showing the First Officer and sergeant group aboard the S. M. Corvette Stosch during sailing, highlighting the large mast division.

The national pilgrimage of Spanish workers to Rome was a journey from Spain to the Holy See in April 1894 by the publication of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum novarum in 1891. Vatican City, Rome. Italy, Europe. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

06/30/1944. Sanlúcar de Barrameda, general view.

H.M.S. 'Hampshire'. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1914-1916, by Major John Rose.

Photograph of LVT-MK1 After Japanese Mine Was Purposely Set Off to Study Damage - Naval Air Station, Kaneohe, HawaiiPhotographer: K.A. Kracht, PH3.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Bird's Eye view of the British Navy assembled at Spithead, England. Dated 1797

Naval Aviation Officer's School in Baku. Command and observation platform at Kamennaya pier. ca. between 1915 and 1916

U.S. Frigate Constitution, Boston Navy Yard , Sailing ships, Ladders, Cannon balls, Constitution Frigate. Leon Abdalian Collection

Searching for the victims, second explosion of the Cabo Machichaco steamship in the port of Santander, March 21, 1894, Cantabria. Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

Admiral Schley's, flag ship Brooklyn , Warships, Spanish-American War, 1898

War album 95, picture 28122.

The picture shows S/S Drottningholm, who operated as auxiliary cruisers during the war years 1940-1945.

Reproduction of a painting of a ship's crew at work by Léon Couturier, Anonymous, After Léon Couturier, c. 1885 - In or Before 1901 photomechanical print paper crew ~ ship (+ view ~ vehicle, ship, etc.)

Arrival of Colonel Roberts and troops , 08 May 1901, maker unknown.

Photo collection Government information service. Diemen. Pole Engraving from 1703. Undated. Diemen, Noord-Holland

Roll Call - Naval Militia

Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the Greek Army occupied Izmir, but the Greek expedition towards central Anatolia turned into a disaster for both that country and for the local Greeks of Turkey. The Turkish Army retook possession of Izmir on 9 September 1922, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) in the field. Part of the Greek population of the city was forced to seek refuge in the nearby Greek islands together with the departing Greek troops, while the

Salute to the flag, French naval manoeuvres, 1891. Artist: Henri Meyer

World War 1 - The South East end of the Dardanelles peninsula. The old fortifications Seddul-Bahr, a Turkish military base during WW1. 29th October 1914.

Landing site of Japanese and British forces in the bay of Lao-Chan (September 1914)

Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson - the hero of 'Merrimac' , Piers & wharves, Military personnel, Sailors, Spanish-American War, 1898, Hobson, Richmond Pearson, 1870-1937

Lt. Benjamin Foulois and Philip O. Parmalee

Photo collection First World War. Flood of the Maas at Maastricht .. 1914-1918}. Maastricht, the Netherlands

Four photographs of torpedo exercises in Bughy Products by Johann Baptist Obernetter, printed using light printing on the base box in 1890.

***** Officials and spectators wait tensely as the Royal approaches the landing pontoon at Farm Cave. In background is the Gothic anchored in Athol Bight. February 3, 1934.

Cannon, Morro Castle, Havana, Cuba.Artist: Underwood & Underwood

$The German U-Boot U 56 sunk by gunfire from the Russian destroyer Grozovoi in the Barents Sea on 20 October 1916 by Semyonov, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1899-)\ State Central Navy Museum, St. Petersburg\ 1940\ Watercolour on paper\ 65x95\ Russia\ Soviet Art\$

Painting depicting the HMS Olympic return with soldiers by Arthur Lismer (1885-1969) English-Canadian painter and member of the Group of Seven. Dated 1945

Royal Saxon Pioneer Battalion No. 12Royal-Saxon Pioneer Battalion No. 12

'The Squadron in Roadstead, Golfe-Juan', 1930. Creator: Unknown.

Man with Guns at Boston Navy Yard. This item consists of a photograph of a black sailor on the USS Mason at Boston Navy Yard. 1946 - 1946. Northeast Region (Boston, MA). Photographic Print. Department of the Navy. First Naval District. Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Administration. Office of the Historical Officer. ca. 1941-ca. 1946. Administrative History of the First Naval District in World War II

Serie Kriegsschifftypen, Thunderer, England, digital verbesserte Reproduktion eines Liebig Sammelbildes von ca 1900

U. S. Naval Training Station, drill field, U. S. S. Constellation at Wharf, Newport, R.I. , Military facilities, Ships, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. NV Werf de Noord, director J.U. Smit, Alblasserdam. 1915. Alblasserdam, South Holland

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