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One of the first pictures permitted inside one of the large machine shops in the British naval repair base at Singapore. A Chinese machinist works a lathe.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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June 1941
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To prevent the Germans from possibly using the French fleet against England, the big guns of the British fleet were turned against the flower of the French Navy
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1940
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Stoker T. W. Craine of the Royal Navy hoists the first Royal White Ensign to fly over Germany
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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March 1945
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Guns of a light Italian naval vessel fire during a sea battle off Crete
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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June 1941
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Heavy guns of a British warship pour shells into the harbor works, important Axis supply base in the Western Desert, Libya
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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January 1942
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Twin 3-inch anti-aircraft guns mounted on the deck of the British liner Mauretania. The ship slipped into New York Harbor 24 hours ahead of schedule.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage gelatin silver print with airbrushing on paper
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September 1939
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Italian barracks reduced to rubble by the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force at Sidi Barrani in northern Egypt
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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January 1941
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Near enemy-held Catania, a British battleship hurls shells at the Nazis in answer to a call from Army forces attempting to seize the city, Sicily
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with airbrushing on paper
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August 1943
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Wounded Italian prisoner of war helped ashore from a British destroyer at Valletta, Malta after being rescued from sea. Other Italian prisoners fill gangplank.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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February 1943
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Britain's King George VI, center, with Commander-in-Chief Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, during a concert in the flagship’s wardroom, somewhere in England
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment and airbrushing on paper
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May 15, 1944
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Group photo taken prior to the formal dinner aboard the USS Augusta, during the meeting of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill at sea
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Unknown Photographer
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Sound photograph on paper
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August 1941
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Crew of the torpedoed British ship Winkleigh are helped up a rope ladder into the Holland-America liner Statendam, which rescued them in mid-Atlantic
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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September 1939
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British warships on submarine patrol duty are steaming in line during heavy seas that broke over the decks
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph with airbrushing on paper
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October 1939
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A Walrus seaplane comes in for a landing on a British carrier, as a deck officer signals to the pilot to fly higher or lower
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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January 1941
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The winter sun of the arctic breaks through as a British convoy steams cautiously through the ice-crusted waters of the Northern Soviet coast
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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March 1942
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The British submarine Seal was given up today as lost. The Seal was one of Britain’s ex mine laying submarines and normally carried a crew of 55.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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May 1940
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Picture snapped through the windows of the bridge of a British destroyer, showing another destroyer that is also on submarine patrol duty
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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November 1939
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Part of the deck of a Corvette, with depth charges in racks ready for action. These ships are built specially to combat submarines.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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February 1941
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Four high-speed torpedo boats go out on patrol for Britain in quiet seas
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Unknown Photographer
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Wire photograph on paper
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October 1940
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King George VI is introduced to two of the British naval heroes who have been called "human torpedoes"
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1940-1945
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