The British Navy Guards the Freedom of Us All
Venus' the bulldog mascot of the destroyer HMS VANSITTART, 1941.
Sailors surround the ship's cat "Convoy" asleep in a miniature hammock on board HMS HERMIONE, Gibraltar, 26 November 1941.
A Royal Navy officer using a sextant aboard a destroyer on convoy protection duties, 1942.
Back Them Up!
HMS CONQUEROR, the Churchill class nuclear-powered fleet submarine, underway in the early 1970s. In 1982, the submarine sank the Argentine cruiser ARA BELGRANO during the Falklands War.
Winston Churchill on board the battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES during his journey to America to meet President Roosevelt, August 1941.
HMS MAURITIUS firing during a night action against enemy ships off the French coast between Brest and Lorient, 23 August 1944.
The crew of HM Submarine UTMOST displaying their "Jolly Roger" at Holy Loch in Scotland after a successful year's service in the Mediterranean, 6 February 1942.
The battleship HMS DUKE OF YORK in heavy seas on a convoy escort operation to Russia, March 1942.
Home Fleet Cruisers in the Firth of Forth
A Dazzled Oiler, With Escort
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.
HMS CONQUEROR at Faslane on 3 July 1982 after her deployment to the South Atlantic during which she sank the Argentine cruiser GENERAL BELGRANO on 2 May 1982.
HMS HERMES returns to Portsmouth from the Falklands, 21 July 1982.
HMS Superb : flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, leading the British Fleet to Constantinople, November, 1918
The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS HERMES underway in the 1980s.
HMS EAGLE and HMS MALAYA in the Mediterranean during Operation 'Spotter', which delivered 16 RAF Spitfire Mk Vs to Malta on 7th March 1942.
A Cecil Beaton portrait of a cook in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
HMS BELFAST at anchor in Sydney harbour, August 1945.
The ship's company of HMS PRINCE OF WALES poses for a photograph with Winston Churchill and his staff at Scapa Flow after the Atlantic Meeting with President Roosevelt, 18 August 1941.
The forward 4.7-inch guns of HMS FOXHOUND, off Freetown, Sierra Leone, August 1943.
HM Submarine TAKU returns home after a year's successful service in the Mediterranean, 3 August 1943.
HMS VICTORIOUS underway at near Scapa Flow, 28 October 1941.
