Armed-Forces & Weapons - Navy

The British Navy Guards the Freedom of Us All

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Venus' the bulldog mascot of the destroyer HMS VANSITTART, 1941.

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Back Them Up!

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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.

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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.

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The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS HERMES underway in the 1980s.

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HMS EAGLE and HMS MALAYA in the Mediterranean during Operation 'Spotter', which delivered 16 RAF Spitfire Mk Vs to Malta on 7th March 1942.

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A Cecil Beaton portrait of a cook in the Women's Royal Naval Service.

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HMS BELFAST at anchor in Sydney harbour, August 1945.

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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.

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Sailors surround the ship's cat "Convoy" asleep in a miniature hammock on board HMS HERMIONE, Gibraltar, 26 November 1941.

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HMS MAURITIUS firing during a night action against enemy ships off the French coast between Brest and Lorient, 23 August 1944.

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The forward 4.7-inch guns of HMS FOXHOUND, off Freetown, Sierra Leone, August 1943.

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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.

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