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• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  The First Sea Lord ,Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, GCB, GCVO (centre) with (right) The Commander in Chief Western Approaches, Admiral Sir Percy Noble, KCB, CVO, and (left) Captain J A McCoy DSO, RN during a visit to Royal Navy warships involved...

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Hampton J A (Lt)

  Chief of Combined Operations: Mountbatten with Combined Chiefs of Staff at the Quebec Conference of 1943. Left to right (at Chateau Frontenac): Lord Louis Mountbatten, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, General Sir Alan Brooke, Air Chief Marshal Sir...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  The First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound on the bridge of SS QUEEN MARY en route to the USA with Winston Churchill on board. This is one of the last pictures taken of Sir Dudley before his death early on 21 October 1943 aged 66. He died...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beadell, S J (Lt)

  The funeral cortege of the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound about to move off from Horse Guards Parade, London, showing left to right: General Sir Alan Brooke, Admiral Stark, Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, Earl of Cork and Orrery, Sir Charles Little, and...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Pelman, L (Lt)

  The funeral of the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound. The wreaths being thrown overboard by Sir Dudley Pound's sons as the navy says farewell at Portsmouth. The service is taking place on board a cruiser, on to the side of which a small platform...

• BRITISH GENERALS 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Oulds D C (Lt)

  Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC (1880-1963): Portrait of General Carton de Wiart, seated, during the Three-Power conference in Cairo.

• TRAINING FLEET AIR ARM PILOTS IN TORPEDO DROPPING AT ROYAL NAVAL AIR STATION CRAIL, SCOTLAND, 1940

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beadell, S J (Lt)

  Fairey Swordfish Mk I Naval torpedo-bombers of the Fleet Air Arm on a training flight from Crail in Scotland.

• GERMAN NAVAL PERSONALITIES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Personalities: Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, Commander in Chief of German Navy during the Second World War. At the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, Raeder was Hipper's Chief of Staff.

• THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Oulds D C (Lt)

  British Personalities: Commander Donald MacIntyre DSO DSC RN who was responsible for sinking two of Germany's foremost U-boat aces, Otto Kretschmer and Joachim Schepkle on 16 March 1941. Photograph taken on the bridge of HMS HESPERUS at Liverpool.

• THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC 1939-1945

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

  British Forces: HMS BROADWAY, a destroyer built in 1918. BROADWAY was one of the fifty American destroyers loaned to Britain in September 1940.

• THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC 1939-1945

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

  British Forces: HMS CLARE, a destroyer built in 1918, loaned to Britain in September 1940 and converted for long range escort work.

• THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945: NAVAL BATTLES

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Davies F A (Lt)

  Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser on the quarterdeck of HMS DUKE OF YORK with the commanding officers of some of the ships which had participated in the Battle of the North Cape (26 December 1943), the last action between capital ships during the Second World...

• THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945: GREAT BRITAIN: PERSONALITIES

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

  Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy Home Fleet May 1943 to June 1944. In 1944 he became Commander in Chief of the British Pacific Fleet. Photograph taken on board HMS DUKE OF YORK at Guam.

• WEST INDIANS IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Hampton J A (Lt)

  Men from British Honduras, who have volunteered for service in British forestry units, pictured after arriving by ship at Greenock, Scotland.

• 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: HMS KELLY a K class destroyer built in 1938 by Hawthorne Leslie. HMS KELLY was sunk by German aircraft off Crete on 23 May 1941.

• 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: HMS GLASGOW a Southampton class cruiser built in 1938 by Scotts. HMS GLASGOW was Mountbatten's flagship as Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet. Photograph taken in June 1953 as the ship was leaving Grand Harbour,...

• MASCOTS IN THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  "Venus" the bulldog mascot of the destroyer HMS VANSITTART.

• EXERCISE STRONG EXPRESS. 14 TO 18 SEPTEMBER 1972, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL. THE LARGE LAND, SEA AND AIR EXERCISE, WHICH INVOLVED 64,000 MEN, 300 SHIPS AND 700 AIRCRAFT AND WAS CONDUCTED JOINTLY BY THREE MAJOR NATO MILITARY COMMANDERS, AND TOOK PLACE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC.

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  A Russian Badger Aircraft overflying the Royal Navy Command Ship HMS ALBION. Picture taken from a Phantom Aircraft of 892 Naval Air Squadron form HMS ARK ROYAL.

• EXERCISE STRONG EXPRESS. 14 TO 18 SEPTEMBER 1972, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL. THE LARGE LAND, SEA AND AIR EXERCISE, WHICH INVOLVED 64,000 MEN, 300 SHIPS AND 700 AIRCRAFT AND WAS CONDUCTED JOINTLY BY THREE MAJOR NATO MILITARY COMMANDERS, AND TOOK PLACE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC.

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  A Royal Navy Phantom is launched from HMS ARK ROYAL during the exercise. In the background is a Russian Kashin class destroyer.

• DISABLED RUSSIAN SUBMARINE IN THE NORTH SEA. MARCH 1972, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH FROM A NIMROD MARITIME RECONNAISSANCE JET OF 201 SQUADRON, RAF KINLOSS, MORAYSHIRE.

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  The disabled Russian H class nuclear submarine with a Russian Tug in attendance.

• HMS JAGUAR AT ETHIOPIAN NAVY DAYS. FEBRUARY 1972, MASSAWA, ETHIOPIA. THE FRIGATE HMS JAGUAR REPRESENTED THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE ANNUAL EVENT, IN WHICH NAVIES FROM ETHIOPIA, BRITAIN, AMERICA, RUSSIA, FRANCE, AND THE SUDAN TOOK PART.

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  As the ships gathered at Massawa this shot taken from HMS JAGUAR shows her White Ensign and the Soviet Red Star of the Kashin Class destroyer STROGGI.

• HMS JAGUAR AT ETHIOPIAN NAVY DAYS. FEBRUARY 1972, MASSAWA, ETHIOPIA. THE FRIGATE HMS JAGUAR REPRESENTED THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE ANNUAL EVENT, IN WHICH NAVIES FROM ETHIOPIA, BRITAIN, AMERICA, RUSSIA, FRANCE, AND THE SUDAN TOOK PART.

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  Multi Navy group on board HMS JAGUAR, from left, French, Ethiopian, Russian, British and American. The Briton is Junior Seaman James Fuller of Maidstone, Kent.

• NUCLEAR SUBMARINE IN ATLANTIC DRAMA. FEBRUARY 1972, NORTHWEST ATLANTIC.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  In a Northwest Atlantic force 8 gale, a Wasp helicopter from the frigate HMS HERMOINE hovers above the nuclear powered fleet submarine HMS COURAGEOUS to take off a sick rating. The patient was transferred to HERMOINE and taken at 26 knots in heavy seas...

• ROYAL MARINE COMMANDO SPECIALISTS IN THE ARCTIC. FEBRUARY 1971, NORTHERN NORWAY. 500 ROYAL MARINES OF 45 COMMANDO AND 145 (MAIWAND) BATTERY OF 29 COMMANDO LIGHT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY, BRITAIN'S SNOW WARFARE SPECIALISTS ASSIGNED TO THE NORTHERN FLANK OF NATO, UNDERGOING TRAINING IN MOUNTAIN AND ARCTIC WARFARE IN NORTHERN NORWAY. WORKING WITH THE COMMANDOS ARE HELICOPTERS OF 846 NAVAL COMMANDO SQUADRON AND HOVERCRAFT OF 200 HOVERCRAFT (TRIALS) UNIT, ROYAL CORPS OF TRANSPORT.

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  A Royal Marine ski patrol moves across a frozen lake.

• ROYAL MARINE COMMANDO SPECIALISTS IN THE ARCTIC. FEBRUARY 1971, NORTHERN NORWAY. 500 ROYAL MARINES OF 45 COMMANDO AND 145 (MAIWAND) BATTERY OF 29 COMMANDO LIGHT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY, BRITAIN'S SNOW WARFARE SPECIALISTS ASSIGNED TO THE NORTHERN FLANK OF NATO, UNDERGOING TRAINING IN MOUNTAIN AND ARCTIC WARFARE IN NORTHERN NORWAY. WORKING WITH THE COMMANDOS ARE HELICOPTERS OF 846 NAVAL COMMANDO SQUADRON AND HOVERCRAFT OF 200 HOVERCRAFT (TRIALS) UNIT, ROYAL CORPS OF TRANSPORT.

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  SRN-6 Hovercraft loaded with Royal Marines raiding craft set off up the Norwegian Coast.

• ROYAL MARINE COMMANDO SPECIALISTS IN THE ARCTIC. FEBRUARY 1971, NORTHERN NORWAY. 500 ROYAL MARINES OF 45 COMMANDO AND 145 (MAIWAND) BATTERY OF 29 COMMANDO LIGHT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY, BRITAIN'S SNOW WARFARE SPECIALISTS ASSIGNED TO THE NORTHERN FLANK OF NATO, UNDERGOING TRAINING IN MOUNTAIN AND ARCTIC WARFARE IN NORTHERN NORWAY. WORKING WITH THE COMMANDOS ARE HELICOPTERS OF 846 NAVAL COMMANDO SQUADRON AND HOVERCRAFT OF 200 HOVERCRAFT (TRIALS) UNIT, ROYAL CORPS OF TRANSPORT.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Wessex helicopter of 846 Naval Air Commando Squadron flies in a snow track vehicle in support of the Commandos.

• ROYAL MARINE COMMANDO SPECIALISTS IN THE ARCTIC. FEBRUARY 1971, NORTHERN NORWAY. 500 ROYAL MARINES OF 45 COMMANDO AND 145 (MAIWAND) BATTERY OF 29 COMMANDO LIGHT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY, BRITAIN'S SNOW WARFARE SPECIALISTS ASSIGNED TO THE NORTHERN FLANK OF NATO, UNDERGOING TRAINING IN MOUNTAIN AND ARCTIC WARFARE IN NORTHERN NORWAY. WORKING WITH THE COMMANDOS ARE HELICOPTERS OF 846 NAVAL COMMANDO SQUADRON AND HOVERCRAFT OF 200 HOVERCRAFT (TRIALS) UNIT, ROYAL CORPS OF TRANSPORT.

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  RM Commandos at fire positions on skis.

• HMS ARK ROYAL IN COLLISION WITH RUSSIAN KOTLIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER. NOVEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, OFF CRETE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH A SHADOWING KOTLIN DESTROYER. SEVEN RUSSIAN SAILORS WERE THROWN OVERBOARD AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION, FIVE WERE RECOVERED BY ROYAL NAVAL BOATS AND TWO WERE MISSING. ARK ROYAL WAS HOLED ABOVE THE WATER LINE IN THE COLLISION, BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE IN THE JOINT NAVY-RAF SEA EXERCISE 'LIME JUG'.

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  A Russian Kresta class destroyer sends her Hormone helicopter to look at ARK ROYAL.

• HMS ARK ROYAL IN COLLISION WITH RUSSIAN KOTLIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER. NOVEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, OFF CRETE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH A SHADOWING KOTLIN DESTROYER. SEVEN RUSSIAN SAILORS WERE THROWN OVERBOARD AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION, FIVE WERE RECOVERED BY ROYAL NAVAL BOATS AND TWO WERE MISSING. ARK ROYAL WAS HOLED ABOVE THE WATER LINE IN THE COLLISION, BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE IN THE JOINT NAVY-RAF SEA EXERCISE 'LIME JUG'.

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  Star shells from the destroyer during night search for survivors.

• HMS ARK ROYAL IN COLLISION WITH RUSSIAN KOTLIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER. NOVEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, OFF CRETE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH A SHADOWING KOTLIN DESTROYER. SEVEN RUSSIAN SAILORS WERE THROWN OVERBOARD AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION, FIVE WERE RECOVERED BY ROYAL NAVAL BOATS AND TWO WERE MISSING. ARK ROYAL WAS HOLED ABOVE THE WATER LINE IN THE COLLISION, BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE IN THE JOINT NAVY-RAF SEA EXERCISE 'LIME JUG'.

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  Kotlin damage, covered by tarpaulin on superstructure,

• HMS ARK ROYAL IN COLLISION WITH RUSSIAN KOTLIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER. NOVEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, OFF CRETE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH A SHADOWING KOTLIN DESTROYER. SEVEN RUSSIAN SAILORS WERE THROWN OVERBOARD AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION, FIVE WERE RECOVERED BY ROYAL NAVAL BOATS AND TWO WERE MISSING. ARK ROYAL WAS HOLED ABOVE THE WATER LINE IN THE COLLISION, BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE IN THE JOINT NAVY-RAF SEA EXERCISE 'LIME JUG'.

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  A Russian sailor is fitted with a life jacket.

• HMS ARK ROYAL IN COLLISION WITH RUSSIAN KOTLIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER. NOVEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, OFF CRETE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH A SHADOWING KOTLIN DESTROYER. SEVEN RUSSIAN SAILORS WERE THROWN OVERBOARD AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION, FIVE WERE RECOVERED BY ROYAL NAVAL BOATS AND TWO WERE MISSING. ARK ROYAL WAS HOLED ABOVE THE WATER LINE IN THE COLLISION, BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE IN THE JOINT NAVY-RAF SEA EXERCISE 'LIME JUG'.

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  A sea-boat from HMS ARK ROYAL under the command of Sub Lieut Brown (right) is lowered from the carrier to return a Russian sailor (centre, back to camera) to the Russian destroyer.

• HMS ARK ROYAL IN COLLISION WITH RUSSIAN KOTLIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER. NOVEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, OFF CRETE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH A SHADOWING KOTLIN DESTROYER. SEVEN RUSSIAN SAILORS WERE THROWN OVERBOARD AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION, FIVE WERE RECOVERED BY ROYAL NAVAL BOATS AND TWO WERE MISSING. ARK ROYAL WAS HOLED ABOVE THE WATER LINE IN THE COLLISION, BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE IN THE JOINT NAVY-RAF SEA EXERCISE 'LIME JUG'.

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  Damage to the Port side of HMS ARK ROYAL.

• HMS ARK ROYAL IN COLLISION WITH RUSSIAN KOTLIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER. NOVEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, OFF CRETE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH A SHADOWING KOTLIN DESTROYER. SEVEN RUSSIAN SAILORS WERE THROWN OVERBOARD AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION, FIVE WERE RECOVERED BY ROYAL NAVAL BOATS AND TWO WERE MISSING. ARK ROYAL WAS HOLED ABOVE THE WATER LINE IN THE COLLISION, BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE IN THE JOINT NAVY-RAF SEA EXERCISE 'LIME JUG'.

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  The Kotlin destroyer approaching HMS ARK ROYAL.

• HMS ARK ROYAL IN COLLISION WITH RUSSIAN KOTLIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER. NOVEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, OFF CRETE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH A SHADOWING KOTLIN DESTROYER. SEVEN RUSSIAN SAILORS WERE THROWN OVERBOARD AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION, FIVE WERE RECOVERED BY ROYAL NAVAL BOATS AND TWO WERE MISSING. ARK ROYAL WAS HOLED ABOVE THE WATER LINE IN THE COLLISION, BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE IN THE JOINT NAVY-RAF SEA EXERCISE 'LIME JUG'.

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  A Russian sailor in ARK ROYAL's sick bay.

• HMS ARK ROYAL IN COLLISION WITH RUSSIAN KOTLIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER. NOVEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, OFF CRETE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH A SHADOWING KOTLIN DESTROYER. SEVEN RUSSIAN SAILORS WERE THROWN OVERBOARD AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION, FIVE WERE RECOVERED BY ROYAL NAVAL BOATS AND TWO WERE MISSING. ARK ROYAL WAS HOLED ABOVE THE WATER LINE IN THE COLLISION, BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE IN THE JOINT NAVY-RAF SEA EXERCISE 'LIME JUG'.

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  The Kotlin destroyer close up to HMS ARK ROYAL.

• NAVY'S AID IN MALAYSIAN FLOODS. JANUARY 1971, PAHANG. ROYAL NAVAL HELICOPTERS OF 847 SQUADRON ENGAGED IN FLOOD RELIEF OPERATIONS AROUND THE WORST HIT AREAS OF PAHANG. ROYAL MARINES IN ASSAULT CRAFT AND GEMINIS WERE USED TO REACH ISOLATED COMMUNITIES ON THE SWOLLEN PAHANG RIVER.

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  British service families on leave, and cut off by floods at Kuantan being evacuated by Navy Wessex helicopters from Pahang to be flown back to Singapore by RAF Hercules aircraft.

• NAVY'S AID IN MALAYSIAN FLOODS. JANUARY 1971, PAHANG. ROYAL NAVAL HELICOPTERS OF 847 SQUADRON ENGAGED IN FLOOD RELIEF OPERATIONS AROUND THE WORST HIT AREAS OF PAHANG. ROYAL MARINES IN ASSAULT CRAFT AND GEMINIS WERE USED TO REACH ISOLATED COMMUNITIES ON THE SWOLLEN PAHANG RIVER.

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  A Royal Marine Corporal operates a rubber dinghy on the swollen Pahang River. A Royal Navy Wasp helicopter is seen in the background at the Community Centre which is used as a flood relief base.

• HMS REVENGE IN US FOR POLARIS FIRING. MAY 1970, PORT CANAVERAL, CAPE KENNEDY, FLORIDA. THE ROYAL NAVY'S FOURTH NUCLEAR POLARIS SUBMARINE HMS REVENGE ON A MONTHS VISIT TO PORT CANAVERAL FOR TEST FIRINGS OF HER WEAPONS AND EXERCISES FOR HER CREW.

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  HMS REVENGE at Port Canaveral.

• HMS REVENGE IN US FOR POLARIS FIRING. 19 MAY 1970, PORT CANAVERAL, CAPE KENNEDY, FLORIDA. THE ROYAL NAVY'S FOURTH NUCLEAR POLARIS SUBMARINE HMS REVENGE ON A MONTHS VISIT TO PORT CANAVERAL FOR TEST FIRINGS OF HER WEAPONS AND EXERCISES FOR HER CREW.

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  Captain R W Garson, Commanding Officer of Special Projects, RN (SPRN), left, with Commander Basil Watson, centre, is interviewed by the Press at Port Canaveral, Cape Kennedy, when they arrived on board HMS REVENGE.

• UNINVITED RUSSIANS AT NORTHERN WEDDING. SEPTEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, DURING THE NATO EXERCISE NORTHERN WEDDING. MARITIME AND AIR FORCES OF BELGIUM, CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, NORWAY, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED STATES AND UNITED KINGDOM TOOK PART. RUSSIAN SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT AT WORK OBSERVING THE NATO EXERCISE NORTHERN WEDDING IN THE NORTH SEA.

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  From the flight deck of HMS ARK ROYAL a Russian Kotlin class surface-to-air guided missile destroyer framed by the tail of a Buccaneer strike aircraft.

• UNINVITED RUSSIANS AT NORTHERN WEDDING. SEPTEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, DURING THE NATO EXERCISE NORTHERN WEDDING. MARITIME AND AIR FORCES OF BELGIUM, CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, NORWAY, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED STATES AND UNITED KINGDOM TOOK PART. RUSSIAN SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT AT WORK OBSERVING THE NATO EXERCISE NORTHERN WEDDING IN THE NORTH SEA.

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  Unique shot of a grinning Russian aviator in the tail plane of a Russian Badger interceptor bomber. The picture was taken from a Royal Navy Phantom fighter from ARK ROYAL which intercepted the Russian intruder 150 miles from the British carrier.

• NAVY PHANTOM INTERCEPTS A RUSSIAN BADGER OVER HMS ARK ROYAL. SEPTEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, DURING THE NATO EXERCISE NORTHERN WEDDING. MARITIME AND AIR FORCES OF BELGIUM, CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, NORWAY, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED STATES AND UNITED KINGDOM TOOK PART.

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  From the flight deck, a Royal Navy Phantom F4K tailing a Russian Badger intruder streaking low over the aircraft carrier ARK ROYAL.

• ROYAL MARINE COMMANDOS IN THE ARCTIC. FEBRUARY 1970, NORWAY. 45 COMMANDO ROYAL MARINES, BRITAIN'S FIRST SPECIALISED MOUNTAIN AND ARCTIC WARFARE UNIT UNDERGOING EXTENSIVE TRAINING. NEW EQUIPMENT BEING TESTED BY THE MARINES INCLUDED THE CANADIAN SNOW TRIC, A FOUR MAN SKISCOOTER AND A TRAK SNOW VEHICLE FROM SWEDEN. 45 COMMANDO'S NAVY DOCTOR SUBJECTED MEDICAL EQUIPMENT TO TESTS IN THE SEVERE CONDITIONS. WESSEX HELICOPTERS OF 845 NAVAL AIR COMMANDO SQUADRON AND ELEMENTS OF 29 COMMANDO LIGHT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY, WORKED WITH 45 COMMANDO.

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  With Ski sticks for a rifle prop Royal Marine Sgt Snowdon takes aim during the Norwegian exercise.

• ROYAL MARINE COMMANDOS IN THE ARCTIC. FEBRUARY 1970, NORWAY. 45 COMMANDO ROYAL MARINES, BRITAIN'S FIRST SPECIALISED MOUNTAIN AND ARCTIC WARFARE UNIT UNDERGOING EXTENSIVE TRAINING. NEW EQUIPMENT BEING TESTED BY THE MARINES INCLUDED THE CANADIAN SNOW TRIC, A FOUR MAN SKISCOOTER AND A TRAK SNOW VEHICLE FROM SWEDEN. 45 COMMANDO'S NAVY DOCTOR SUBJECTED MEDICAL EQUIPMENT TO TESTS IN THE SEVERE CONDITIONS. WESSEX HELICOPTERS OF 845 NAVAL AIR COMMANDO SQUADRON AND ELEMENTS OF 29 COMMANDO LIGHT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY, WORKED WITH 45 COMMANDO.

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  Men of 45 Commando on the Canadian Ski-tric, which provided a successful form of transport in the Arctic conditions.

• ROYAL MARINE COMMANDOS IN THE ARCTIC. FEBRUARY 1970, NORWAY. 45 COMMANDO ROYAL MARINES, BRITAIN'S FIRST SPECIALISED MOUNTAIN AND ARCTIC WARFARE UNIT UNDERGOING EXTENSIVE TRAINING. NEW EQUIPMENT BEING TESTED BY THE MARINES INCLUDED THE CANADIAN SNOW TRIC, A FOUR MAN SKISCOOTER AND A TRAK SNOW VEHICLE FROM SWEDEN. 45 COMMANDO'S NAVY DOCTOR SUBJECTED MEDICAL EQUIPMENT TO TESTS IN THE SEVERE CONDITIONS. WESSEX HELICOPTERS OF 845 NAVAL AIR COMMANDO SQUADRON AND ELEMENTS OF 29 COMMANDO LIGHT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY, WORKED WITH 45 COMMANDO.

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  The Royal Naval Commando doctor Surgeon Lieut Alexander Craig and his medical assistant Chris James test a saline drip in sub-zero temperature.

• ROYAL MARINE COMMANDOS IN THE ARCTIC. FEBRUARY 1970, NORWAY. 45 COMMANDO ROYAL MARINES, BRITAIN'S FIRST SPECIALISED MOUNTAIN AND ARCTIC WARFARE UNIT UNDERGOING EXTENSIVE TRAINING. NEW EQUIPMENT BEING TESTED BY THE MARINES INCLUDED THE CANADIAN SNOW TRIC, A FOUR MAN SKISCOOTER AND A TRAK SNOW VEHICLE FROM SWEDEN. WESSEX HELICOPTERS OF 845 NAVAL AIR COMMANDO SQUADRON AND ELEMENTS OF 29 COMMANDO LIGHT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY, WORKED WITH 45 COMMANDO.

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  A Wessex helicopter of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron flies in to support fighting snowmen of 45 Commando, RM, during the Arctic exercises.

• NAVY'S WATCH ON THE RUSSIANS. FEBRUARY 1970.

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  The Soviet helicopter cruiser MOSKVA with her attendant oiler, in close company with the Royal Navy frigate HMS UNDAUNTED which is keeping close watch on the Russian squadron.

• HAILE SELASSIE IS HOST TO BRITISH, FRENCH, US AND SOVIET SHIPS. JANUARY 1969, AT MASSAWA, DURING ETHIOPIA'S NAVY DAYS. THE BRITISH FRIGATE HMS LEANDER TOOK PART ALONG WITH USS LUCE, RUSSIAN DESTROYER GNEVY, FRENCH FRIGATE COMMANDANT BORY AND THE ETHIOPIAN FLAGSHIP, ETHIOPIA. ON THE SEA DAY ALL SHIPS SAILED IN COMPANY, WITH EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE ON BOARD THE ETHIOPIA. LATER THE EMPEROR DINED ON BOARD HMS LEANDER.

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  Emperor Haile Selassie leaves HMS LEANDER after dining on board.

• SOVIET HELICOPTER CRUISER OPERATING NEAR CHANNEL. JANUARY 1970, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH FROM A ROYAL NAVY HELICOPTER.

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  The Soviet helicopter carrier MOSKVA as seen from the helicopter. Soviet sailors can be seen playing basketball on the deck.