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• FROM A.B. TO OFFICER

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

  A.B Jack Boulton was one of thousands promoted from the lower deck to meet the war-time demand of Britain's great and expanding Navy. This image shows Boulton with senior officers in the wardroom of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Members of a Motor Fishing Vessel crew (left to right), Ordinary Seaman J Clifford, of Liverpool, a former peacetime rigger, and Able Seaman J Gration, of Buckie, Moray Firth, a former fisherman, making up the mainsail on board one of the navy's little...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Able Seaman Jack Rupert Boulton, one of thousands promoted from the lower deck to meet the war-time demand of Britain’s expanding navy, helping the cook, during his first months at sea. Here he is peeling potatoes.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Britain's sea soldiers in training. Men of the Maritime Royal Artillery, soldiers who go to sea and serve with naval ratings as gunners on board defensively equipped merchant ships (DEMS), are now being given elementary training in seamanship at HMS...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Ratings attending divine serice at 7.30am in the small ship's Chapel on board HMS ANSON whilst she is at Scapa Flow.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Two sailors smartening up for the Liberty boat and shore leave on board HMS ANSON at Scapa Flow. One man holds a mirror whilst the other checks his hair.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Ratings, loaded with their gear for an attack on enemy positions, on the march to the rendezvous during training at Hvalfjord, Iceland. There is a light covering of snow on the ground. These sailors are undergoing training for demolition work, wherein...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

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

  Ratings, loaded with their gear for an attack on enemy positions, on the march to the rendezvous during training at Hvalfjord, Iceland. They have been shown how to prepare charges and detonators for the destruction of enemy property and defences as would...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Ratings relieved from watch, making their journey forward to their respective messes by means of a life line on board the destroyer HMS FURY, which is off the coast of Iceland. Note the deck awash with sea water.

• ON BOARD THE DESTROYER HMS FURY OFF ICELAND, 1942.

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

  The cruiser HMS TRINIDAD as seen from HMS FURY in the North Atlantic during an Arctic convoy escort patrol. HMS TRINIDAD is dazzle-painted.