Cadets from the training school c.1943.

An Admiral and his staff. 

A Lieutenant pictured on his ship in August 1915. 

An officer working on board.

Reverend Paul Bull 

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Two naval personnel during Red Cross Week.

Vice Admiral Sir F.C.D. Sturdee.  

Commander the Hon. A Ramsay

Admiral Lord Fisher.   

Admiral Sir M Culme-Seymour.

George H Richards

Royal Navy marines and families on the Princess at Bermuda c.1912.

Unknown group of women with either HMS Victory or HMS Nelson on their hats.

Some crew in Japan

Royal Navy marines 

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The Naval Brigade at Constantinople 

"1914 Stars".

Flying Squadron, 1869, Devonport.

On left, HMS Pandora, then HMS Bristol.  In the centre, there are two ships facing towards the camera, HMS Scylla and HMS Wasp.  Next is HMS Endymion, with HMS Liverpool to its right.  HMS Liffey is the larger ship on the right, with an unknown ship behind it.

HMS Cyclops (Depot ship) with a K Class submarine amongst part of the combined Atlantic & Mediterranean Fleets, Pollensa Bay, Majorca, 1924.

Allied Flagships, World War One.

British (Mediterranean?) Fleet - Summer Cruise c.1900.

Several Majestic and Royal Sovereign Class Battleships as well as some cruisers - probably HMS Blenheim / Blake.

Channel Fleet firing, Orkney, 1886.

Fleet firing, Orkney, 1886.

HMS Temeraire, HMS Inflexible, HMS Victoria and others at Malta, c.1889.

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1st and 2nd Divisions of the Battle Squadron leaving Pentland Firth, with HMS Royal Sovereign in the foreground.

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The Grand Fleet leaving the Firth of Forth, c.1917.

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1st Battle Squadron at Sea, including HMS Canada and HMS Revenge, 1918.

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Battle Fleet at Sea, c.1916.

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Battlecruiser Squadron at Scapa Flow, 1912, including HMS Indefatigable, HMS Invincible, HMS Inflexible and HMS Indomitable.

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Battlecruisers at Sea, c.1916.

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HMS Revenge and HMS Resolution (as HMS Imperieuse), November 1945.

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HMS Indomitable, HMS Rodney, HMS Orion, Princess Beatrix, Ulster Monarch and Prince Baudoin, Malta 1943.

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China Station Fleet, c.1910.

Including HMS Kent and HMS Minotaur.

The British Fleet, headed by HMS Iron Duke.

Fleet of British Wartime Destroyers

Left to Right.  HMS Resolution, HMS Hogue, HMS Sutlej, HMS Jupiter and HMS Majestic.

The British Fleet, possibly at Gibraltar.

The British Fleet.

British Fleet at unknown location.

British Fleet at an unknown location.

December 1908.  British Cruisers at an unknown location. HMS Minerva in the centre, with an Cressy class cruiser to the right flying the Rear Admiral's flag.  Behind them, possibly HMS Euryalus.

British submarines and a light cruiser at Palma, Mallorca, 1924.  The centre submarine is L71.  On the left is a K Class submarine and the light cruiser in the background is HMS Conquest.  

British Battleships lay at anchor, Unknown area. circ 1910.

The British Fleet at Folkestone 

HMS Caradoc? with the fleet.

British Line.

Looking astern from a ship in line.

A ship in the fleet under attack.

British Dreadnoughts.

The original postcard has the message "This is a snapshot of the Dreadnoughts chasing us during manoeuvres in the North Sea, we managed to get away."  No clue as to which ship the person was on though.

Torpedo Gunboat and other boats of the Royal Navy.

Fleet of 'Torpedo Boat Catchers and Destroyers'

Destroyers on the China Station c.1910.

HMS Virago on the left, with two from HMS Janus, HMS Whiting or HMS Otter.

British Fleet on the China Station, c.1911.

Centre ship is HMS Kent, with HMS Newcastle or HMS Minotaur on the right hand edge.  Between those is HMS Alacrity, and on the far left is what appears to be a Pelorus Class cruiser.

British Fleet, China Station c.1911.

HMS Alacrity and HMS Kent.

British China Fleet c.1911.

HMS Minotaur on the right, HMS Alacrity partially hidden behind the sail, HMS Newcastle, and finally HMS Kent on the far left.

British Fleet, China Station, c.1911.

Nearest ship is HMS Newcastle, then HMS Minotaur and HMS Kent.

British Fleet, Chian Station, c.1911.

HMS Kent, HMS Minotuar and probably HMS Newcastle.

British Fleet, China Station c.1911.

HMS Minotaur visible on the left, with HMS Newcastle (we think) in the background.

British Fleet, China Station.

Includes HMS Alacrity (middle right) and probably HMS Kent (far right).

2nd Cruiser Squadron Leaving Berehaven for Alderney, 12th June 1906.

HMS Drake is the leading ship.   Part of the 1906 Grand Manoeuvres.

Two Royal Navy ships in Scapa Flow.

A Royal Navy Flotilla

(extracted from our Battle of Tsushima article)

As for the Russian reinforcing fleet, which was generally known as the Baltic Fleet, though its official title was the Second Pacific Squadron, the first portion of it left Libau on October 15^th 1904, under Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, who was fifty-seven years of age, and was regarded as one of the best officers in the Russian Navy.  He had with his seven battleships (KNIAZ SUVAROFF, IMPERATOR ALEXANDER III, BORODINO, OREL, OSLIABIA, SISSOI VELIKI, and NAVARIN); two old armoured cruisers (ADMIRAL NAKHIMOFF and DMITRI DONSKOI); four light cruisers (AURORA, SVIETLANA, JEMCHUG, ALMAZ); seven destroyers, and nine auxiliary and store ships.  The Russian Government with the German Hamburg-Amerika Company had concluded a contract, by which that company undertook to coal the Russian ships.  Before he left the Baltic, Rojestvensky showed extraordinary nervousness about the possibility of Japanese torpedo attack, and on passing through the Great Belt he ordered the channel to be swept for mines, though owing to the inexperience of his crews the order could not be properly carries out.

            His ships seem to have made it a practice to fire at any craft, which they saw and which looked at all like a torpedo vessel.  When off the Skaw they shelled Norwegian steamers but without hitting them.  During daylight on October 20^th, the Russian auxiliary steamer KAMCHATKA fired at the Swedish steamer Aldebaran, the French sailing ship GUYANE and the German trawler Sonntag.  In the night of October 21^st-22^nd Rojestvensky’s fleet steamed right into the midst of the British trawler fleet on the Dogger Bank, the presence of which was well known and noted in the Sailing Directions, and about 1 a.m. opened fire, professing that there were Japanese torpedo boats among the trawlers.  The fire was maintained for several minutes.  One trawler, the Crane, was sunk, and five more were hit.  Two British fishermen were killed and 6 were wounded.  What caused the more astonishment and indignation was that, when the Russians were aware they had made a mistake, they gave no aid to the trawlers and did not send in a ship to a British port to report the mistake and apologise for it.  Thus they violated one of the great customs of the sea.  In their confusion the Russian vessels turned their guns on one another, and the AURORA was hit five times and had her chaplain mortally wounded.

            The danger to non-combatants of a fleet, which thus fired recklessly on vessels that it happened to meet when it was thousands of miles from any possible adversary, was most serious.  But the British Government was anxious to avoid a breach with Russia, and in the end, after a promise had been given by the Russian authorities that there would be no more of these attacks on neutral shipping, the matter was referred to an International Commission.  This sat at Paris from December 1904 to February 1905, and issued a “white washing” report exculpating Rojestvensky, but regretting that he had not informed the British Government of his mistake.  The Russian Government paid compensation to the amount of £65,000 to the victims and their relatives.

Trawlers of the Gamecock Fleet, damaged by Russian warships, 22nd October 1904.

HMS Amsterdam, armed boarding steamer.  

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HM Tug Respond, based at Malta.

HMS Sviatogor,  an ice breaker captured from the Bolsheviks. 

RAF Vessel 2564.

RAF Vessel 2747.

HM Tug St Issey at Greece.

HM Tug St Issey, with battle practise target, Limnos, Greece, September 1925.

A Wet Deck and a Flowing Sea

The Liveliness of the North Sea.

All Awash

A Postcard picture of a Destroyer