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• SCHARNHORST SURVIVORS AT SCAPA FLOW, 2 JANUARY 1944

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

  Blindfolded SCHARNHORST survivors, in merchant seaman rescue kit, walking down a gang-plank on their way to internment.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Ratings from other ships cheering the destroyer HMS HESPERUS as she enters harbour in Liverpool with damaged bows after ramming a German U-boat. HMS HESPERUS, together with HMS VANESSA, were escorting a convoy bound for Britain when the U boat was...

• ROYAL INDIAN NAVY AND EASTERN FLEET HARASS JAPANESE FORCES, BURMA, FEBRUARY - MARCH 1944

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

  A Royal Indian Navy rating, Vincent, of Travencore, sitting on the deck of a ship collects up empty 20 mm cartridge cases and puts them into a hessian bag.

• Hitler's Yacht 'Grille' in Asenfjord, near Trondheim

  (art) Made by: Bone, Stephen 1945

  image: Side view of Hitler's yacht with two tenders alongside, moored in a wooded fjord.

• Grand Harbour, Malta, October 1943

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1943

  image: a view of the harbour with a battleship in the foreground. To the left of the battleship is another large naval vessel, a monitor, which is positioned behind a tug boat.

• ship, Coastal Motor Boat (CMB 4), British

  (vehicles, aircraft and ships) Made by: J Thornycroft, Hampton, Middlesex 1916

  The first twelve 40-foot Coastal Motor Boats (CMBs) were ordered by the Admiralty from J I Thornycroft's in January 1916, and by August were delivered. They were armed with one 18-inch torpedo and Lewis guns, and could make well over 30 knots. CMB 4 was...

• THE SUEZ CRISIS, 1956

  part of "BRITISH POST 1945 OFFICIAL CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Helicopters and landing craft during the assault on Port Said, Egypt, in November 1956.

• THE NEW ZEALAND MERCHANT NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "NEW ZEALAND SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: New Zealand official photographer

  A head and shoulders portrait of the captain of a Fairmile 'submarine chaser' holds up and looks through a small coloured screen. This disc allows him to look into the sky to search for dive bombers without damaging his eyes.

• HMCS QU'APPELLE

  part of "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE FOXHILL COLLECTION OF SHIP PHOTOGRAPHS" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Stationary.

• PRINCE DAVID

  part of "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE FOXHILL COLLECTION OF SHIP PHOTOGRAPHS" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  At anchor.