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The Correct Angle at Which the New Wrns Hat Is To Be Worn

Lieutenant Commander R A Lochner, one of the designers of the Mulberry artificial harbour, working at Short Lake House

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The battleship HMS VALIANT underway

Scharnhorst Survivors Land. 2 January 1944, Scapa Flow. Survivors picked up by the Home Fleet from the Scharnhorst

Hawker Sea Hurricanes of the Fleet Air Arm, based at RNAS Yeovilton, flying in formation, 9 December 1941

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The Fiji Class Cruiser HMS JAMAICA at anchor

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The Norfolk class heavy cruiser HMS NORFOLK stationary in port

The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS UNISON, passing HMS TAKU (nearest camera)

HMS STARLING at Greenock, 24 March 1943. HMS STARLING, leader of a group of British sloops which have just added two

The Royal Navy during the Second World War In the distance is the destruction of a merchant ship by air attack

Operation Pedestal, August 1942 13 August: Air Attacks: The DORSET under air attack

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The officer of the watch on board HMT STOKE CITY - a Sub Lieutenant of

Supermarine Seafires aboard HMS ARGUS off Lamlash, Scotland, August 1943. A Supermarine Seafire coming up on the lift

HMS Belfast on Winter Duty in Northern Waters during the Winter 1942-1943 Ice forming on the forecastle and A'

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Survivors of the SCHARNHORST under guard on the catapult deck of HMS DUKE OF

On Board the Destroyer HMS Cossack during Torpedo and Anti-submarine Exercises. 1940

HMS MAURITIUS firing during a night action against enemy ships off the French coast between Brest and Lorient

The Merchant Navy Training Establishment, HMS Gordon, Gravesend, Kent, England, June 1941 These men

India's Newest Ship Commissioned. 22 June 1943, Woolston, Southampton. the Commissioning of the Sloop Hmis Godavari

Women on the Home Front 1939 - 1945 The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS): At Royal Naval Air Station Hatston

On Board the Aircraft Carrier HMS Argus. 1940. The Navigating Officer takes a reading with the sextant

Battle of Matapan. 27 March 1941, Aerial Photograph. Lt (A) Clifford's torpedo being released

The Royal Navy during the Second World War MFV 60 under sail at sea off Devonport

On Board the Destroyer HMS Pathfinder. 25 April 1942. Activities on Board the Destroyer

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Blindfolded SCHARNHORST survivors, in merchant seaman rescue kit

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A gun crew at one of the eight barrelled Vickers two pounder mark VIII '

The forward 4.7-inch guns of HMS FOXHOUND, off Freetown, Sierra Leone, August 1943. The two forward 4

HM Queen Elizabeth on the bridge of the SS QUEEN MARY acknowledging cheers from passing ships during a trip down

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Rear Admiral I G Glennie at his desk on the destroyer depot ship HMS TYNE

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The auxiliary minelayer HMS MENESTHEUS

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A trawler's gun crew manning the 12-pounder 12 hundredweight gun

British airborne troops approaching Taranto in a landing craft, during the invasion of Italy, 14 September 1943

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The pom-pom directors crew closed up on board HMS KING GEORGE V when she

HMS EAGLE and HMS MALAYA in the Mediterranean during Operation Spotter

Men of the Royal Navy's Coast Watch parade at a naval training establishment in Devon, 1940

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A lookout on board a minesweeper

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The escort carrier HMS AUDACITY

The Royal Navy during the Second World War HDML 1245, stationary in coastal waters

The Royal Navy during the Second World War View from the focsle of HMS RENOWN at Plymouth

HMS AJAX in Grand Harbour at Valletetta, MALTA, 31 December 1945

Royal Navy personnel of an ostacle clearance unit blowing up German beach obstacles at La Riviere, Normandy

HMS DIDO firing at night against Italian torpedo boats of Cape Bon, Tunisia, 13 August 1942

The Arctic Convoys The view from the bridge of the Royal Navy cruiser HMS SHEFFIELD as she battles heavy seas while

The Royal Norwegian Navy during the Second World War A broadside view of the Norwegian destroyer KNM STORD underway at

Dakar Operations. September 1940, on Board Ss Westernland, during Voyage. General de Gaulle

The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS ARK ROYAL underway at sea

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Two MVF craft underway, including MFV 60

Marion Richards, a rating of the Women's Royal Naval Service in Plymouth shows a sailor from a moored destroyer how

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