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• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Destroyer Captain: Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten escorts HRH The Duke of Kent on an inspection of HMS KELLY at Devonport.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia: The Japanese surrender in Singapore: Admiral Mountbatten delivering an address on the steps of the Municipal Building at Singapore after the surrender ceremony.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Ships in which Mountbatten served: Detailed view of the midships section of HMS KELLY returning to the Tyne after being severely damaged by a German S-Boat off the Dutch coast.

• PLUTO (PIPE LINE UNDER THE OCEAN)

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  The tug BRITANNIC joining up the 27 mile pipeline from England to France at Boulogne - the seventeenth pipeline between England and the continent.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Mountbatten arrives on board HMS GLASGOW at Malta to assume command of the Mediterranean Fleet.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia: Admiral Mountbatten being met by the Commanding Officer, Captain M M Denny, CB, CBE, RN (back to camera) as he is piped on board the aircraft carrier HMS VICTORIOUS at Trincomalee, Ceylon.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE COASTAL COMMAND, 1939-1945.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  An Avro Anson Mark I of No. 48 Squadron RAF, flying over and signalling to the destroyer HMS WHITEHALL during experimental tests with depth charge throwers.

• THREE ENEMY DESTROYERS SUNK IN 1 1/2 HOURS. 22 NOVEMBER 1944, ON BOARD HMS WHEATLAND, MALTA. THE HUNT CLASS DESTROYERS HMS WHEATLAND AND HMS AVONVALE SANK THREE ENEMY DESTROYERS WITHIN 1 1/2 HOURS ON 1 NOVEMBER 1944, IN THE ADRIATIC NEAR PAG ISLAND.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Roper, F G (Lt)

  Lieutenant T L Syms, RN, of Glasgow, the 1st Lieutenant (right) with Signalman W J Hatherway of Stratford on Avon, and Chief Yeoman R Patheyjohns, of Plymouth.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Fifi, the working elephant at RNAS Puttalam, Ceylon, tows a petrol bowser into position during refueling of Fleet Air Arm aircraft. A Fairey Swordfish, the Navy's oldest operational aircraft in 1944, is on the right. Chance Vought Corsairs, one of the...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  A Grumman Wildcat fighter being winched aboard HMS EMPRESS at Norfolk, Virginia, USA during landing trials.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Sikorsky IV helicopters of the British Naval Air Arm being used for instructional purposes at Floyd Bennett, New York, where Naval pilots are under instruction. One of the helicopters is just a couple of feet off the ground whilst the other looks to be...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Lieutenant B H Dinsmore of Indiana, Pennsylvania, instructing British Fleet Air Arm cadets in a classroom at their Primary Training Station in Bunker Hill, Indiana, America.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Formation photograph of six British Naval Airmen in training over the Maine countryside. They are flying American built Chance-Vought Corsairs, with British markings. These pilots will soon leave Lewiston where they are training and proceed to Norfolk...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  A helicopter attached to the British Naval Air Arm (marked with the letter A), demonstrating how it could be used in a confined space and how it is possible to almost converse with the pilots while the machine hovers overhead, at Floyd Bennett airfield,...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Left to right: Commander J Milner-Barry, RN; Captain H Hickling, CBE, DSC, RN, the High Commissioner of New Zealand, Mr Jordan, and Mr Skinner, of New Zealand Naval Affairs, during Mr Jordan's visit to Plymouth.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Sea forts in the Thames Estuary: A completed pontoon that will form the base of a sea fort to be used in the Thames Estuary. The first pre-assembled reinforcing grids of the twin towers are in place and the pontoon is lying on the mud in No 1 berth....

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Maunsell Sea forts in the Thames Estuary: In the dock basin the twin towers of a sea fort to be used in the Thames Estuary are rapidly rising from the floating pontoon. A pre-assembled spot welded cage is hoisted into position, and the concrete is poured...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Sub Lieutenant K C J Robinson, RNVR, of Crosby, Liverpool, a Commanding Officer in an X-craft at the Hydroplane controls whilst sailing in Rothesay Bay.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Sub Lieutenant K C J Robinson, RNVR, of Crosby, Liverpool, a Commanding Officer in an X-craft at the periscope whilst sailing in Rothesay Bay.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Sea forts in the Thames Estuary: A close up of the fort manned. The crew are at the alert around a 40 mm Bofors gun. These secret forts of the Thames Estuary were an effective defence against attacks by sea and air on the estuary.