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• Anglo Dutch

  (art) Made by: Tunnard, John 1942

  image: An abstract image of technological and maritime forms. There is an area of deep red colour on the left of the composition, and a dark hook shape as seen from the side in the centre. Around this there are other small, abstract details.

• OPERATION PEDESTAL, AUGUST 1942

  part of "HEWLETT F S (MR)" (photographs)

  13 August: Air Attacks: The merchant ship WAIMARAMA explodes after being bombed.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  DEMS (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships) ratings manning a six inch gun, the main defensive armament of a merchant ship at Liverpool.

• 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

  In the distance is the destruction of a merchant ship by air attack, as seen from the cruiser MAURITIUS at the height of the fighting during the landings at Salerno. The cruiser played a big part in the operations off the enemy coast during the landings...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  A Twin Hotchkiss gun crew on board the merchant ship SS SCYTHIA at action stations, about to open fire on an enemy aircraft.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Coote, R G G (Lt)

  Quartermaster William Hilton of Portsmouth, at one of the two wheels in the wheelhouse of the Cunard Liner QUEEN MARY as she prepares to make another Atlantic crossing taking wounded American troops back to America wearing her grey white war paint.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Coote, R G G (Lt)

  British and US gunners who man the Cunard Liner SS QUEEN MARY's armament, closing up at the double during an exercise as the ship, in her grey white war paint, prepared to make another Atlantic crossing to take wounded US troops back to America.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Coote, R G G (Lt)

  In the main mess hall on board the SS QUEEN MARY (formerly the First Class dining saloon) where more than 2,000 troops can be fed at one sitting. In peacetime it used to take 800 First Class passengers but now sittings go on from 6 am till 9 pm. The wall...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Practice in progress in the Clyde, off Greenock with the SS GOTHLAND, one of the fleet auxiliary rescue ships which sailed with convoys when the U-Boat war was at its height. "Survivors" scrambling up the nets from their raft. The ship has a boom out...