Vintage photographs of battleships, battlecruisers and cruisers.

To go directly to photos of a specific ship, simply enter her name in the search window (little white space) at the upper left. Ditto for a type of warship, country, year, etc..., e.g. battlecruiser. You can click on an individual photograph to view it alone against a dark background. When you want to go back to the page, just click outside the picture. Please note that I resize, denoise/despeckle/descratch and generally crop the photos to show mostly the ship itself in the space available.

Friday, April 11, 2014

German light cruiser Karlsruhe circa 1930.

One of the photos on the Wikipedia page shows the exact same ship orientation & configuration, along with the same sea waves, but with a markedly different cloud pattern. Obviously the background was altered in one of those (probably the one I used for this blog, though it had a higher resolution), I'm guessing for use as a postcard.