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.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Imperial Japanese Navy armoured cruiser Asama, Wellington, New Zealand, 1920s.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Asama
Thursday, May 1, 2014

German predreadnought battleships: SMS Hessen taken from SMS Elsass.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Elsass Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Hessen

Courbet-class French battleship Jean Bart, early 1925.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Jean_Bart_(1911)

Italian predreadnought battleship Sicilia.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Sicilia
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Argentine Navy battleship Moreno, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York City, October 1914.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_Moreno
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Battleship HMS Monarch, Newcastle upon Tyne, November 6th 1911.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Monarch_(1911)

Battleship USS Colorado, New York City, circa 1932.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Colorado_(BB-45)
Monday, April 28, 2014

Imperial Russian Navy predreadnought battleship Oryol (Orel), Krondstadt harbour, 1904.

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Oryol was the only modern Russian battleship to survive the Battle of Tsushima. Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battles...

Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamashiro, trial launch of a naval aircraft from B turret, 1921-1922.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamashiro
Sunday, April 27, 2014

German light cruiser SMS Bremen in 1907.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Bremen

French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme, the first armoured cruiser, Brest arsenal drydock, early 1890s.

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The French navy suffered major defeats at the hands of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars and subsequently looked for ways to remedy ...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Italian battleship Andrea Doria in dry dock, Taranto, 1954.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Andrea_Doria_(1913)

Argentine battleship Rivadavia, New York, August 6th 1913.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_Rivadavia

Dido-class light cruiser HMS Argonaut arriving in Malta, 1944.

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She is missing her upper forward (Q) turret that was removed at the Tyne shipyard in January-February 1944 to lessen top weight (see referen...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Birdseye view of the battleship USS Missouri in Norfolk, 1951.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Missouri_(BB-63)
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Ships of the Imperial Russian Navy Far East Fleet (First Pacific Squadron) anchored at Port Arthur before the Russo-Japanese War.

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War details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War

Imperial Japanese Navy armoured cruiser Yakumo.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Yakumo

German heavy cruiser/pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, Spithead, May 1937.

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Also at the Grand Naval Review for the coronation of King George VI. Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Gr...

French battlecruiser/fast battleship Dunkerque, Spithead, May 1937.

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At the Grand Naval Review for the coronation of King George VI. Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Dunkerque
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Italian light cruiser Alberto da Giussano, 1930s.

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A very fast ship with a nominal maximum speed of 37 knots, she reportedly reached 42 knots during testing but was limited to 33 knots under ...
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Battleship HMS Royal Oak departing the Grand Harbour, Valetta, Malta, circa 1937.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Royal_Oak_(08)
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser USS Long Beach.

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Long Beach was the world's first nuclear-powered surface warship. As designed, she was also the first warship destined to have an armame...
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German predreadnought battleship SMS Weissenburg.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Weissenburg
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Full-scale replica of the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Nagato built from the original plans for the 1970 movie Tora! Tora! Tora!

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Reference:  http://www.daveswarbirds.com/tora/Japanese.htm Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Nagato

Imperial Russian Navy armoured cruiser Gromoboi during her 1901 visit to Australia.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Gromoboi
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