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HMS RESOLUTION, the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine to be equipped with Polaris missiles, seen underway on the surface probably off the Scottish coast c. 1970.
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The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS HERMES underway in the 1980s.
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A fleet of LCAs (assault landing craft) pass a landing ship as King George VI takes the salute on board the headquarters ship HMS BULOLO off Beaulieu, 24 May 1944.
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The Harwich Force at Sea
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'The Pride of the German Fleet'
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HMS HOOD seen between two 16 inch guns (belonging to HMS RODNEY) as she returned from the Mediterranean.
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham, the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, at his desk at the Admiralty in London, October 1944.
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A Royal Navy officer using a sextant aboard a destroyer on convoy protection duties, 1942.
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Cecil Beaton portrait of an Indian naval rating operating a signal lamp on the sloop SUTLEJ at the Royal Indian Naval Station at Calcutta, 1944.
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Winston Churchill wearing leather ear defenders watches gunnery practice on board HMS RENOWN whilst he was returning from Canada, September 1943.
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Winston Churchill on board the battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES during his journey to America to meet President Roosevelt, August 1941.
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A boat load of Royal Engineers leaves HMS CAIRO on board a Motor Fishing Vessel to land at Narvik in Norway, June 1940.