Armed Forces & Weapons - Ships

The British Navy Guards the Freedom of Us All

Back Them Up!

Troops come ashore on one of the Normandy invasion beaches, past the White Ensign of a naval beach party, 7 June 1944.

Home Fleet Cruisers in the Firth of Forth

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.

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.

A de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk VI of No. 143 Squadron attacking merchant vessels with rocket and cannon fire in Sandefjord, Norway, 2 April 1945.

Feeding 45 Millions - Food Convoy

HMS Superb : flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, leading the British Fleet to Constantinople, November, 1918

Mined, 1918

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

Commandos of 48 (RM) Commando coming ashore from landing craft at St Aubin-sur-Mer on Juno Beach, 6 June 1944.

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

Troops and transport of British 50th Division on the Normandy beaches, 7 June 1944.

Blackburn NA-39 during landing trials on HMS VICTORIOUS, June 1959.

HMS BRAVE BORDERER, a fast patrol boat, during trials in the Solent, January 1960.

The aircraft carrier HMS SLINGER, December 1944.

The Navy Thanks You

Stolz Weht die Flagge [Proudly Waves the Flag]

Children of British Internees at a Children's Party given by the Crew of HMS Belfast at Shanghai, 28th September 1945

Aircraft Carrier

HMS Belfast arriving in the Pool of London

A Dazzled Oiler, With Escort