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.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Austro-Hungarian predreadnought battleship SMS Babenberg.

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

French light cruiser Lamotte-Picquet in Taikoo dry dock, Hong Kong, April 2nd-3rd 1939.

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To tighten up her rudder and examine some of her turbines. Afterwards she departed for Vietnam. Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Unfinished Italian battleship Littorio, Genoa, December 1938.

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Ship details:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Littorio

Battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Princess_Royal_(1911)
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Light cruiser USS Duluth, May 17th 1947.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Duluth_(CL-87)
Friday, April 11, 2014

German light cruiser Karlsruhe circa 1930.

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One of the photos on the Wikipedia page shows the exact same ship orientation & configuration, along with the same sea waves, but with a...
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Birdseye view of the Imperial Japanese Navy Mogami class light-heavy cruiser Suzuya.

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This is while she had triple 155 mm (6.1-inch) turrets, up to 1939, and was thus a light cruiser. Later she was re-armed with with twin 203 ...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Imperial Russian Navy predreadnought battleship Georgii Pobedonosets in Sevastopol, 1890.

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She had an unusual arrangement for her main armament, with two forward turrets located on each side of the bridge and a single centrally-loc...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

French central battery and barbette ironclad Le Redoutable in 1889.

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She was the first warship in the world to be built mainly of steel rather than iron. You can see one of her 10.6" breech loaders in the...

Stern view of the battleship HMS Dreadnought in drydock.

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 Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Giuseppe Garibaldi class Italian armoured cruiser Varese.

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Class details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi_class_cruiser
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Armstrong 100-ton gun being lowered on board of the Italian transport ship Europa, United Kingdom, probably 1870s.

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This was a 17.72" muzzle loader as seen on the Duilio & Dandolo Italian predreadnought battleships, the so-called 'monster gun...

The USS Missouri arrives at Long Beach harbour, 1951.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Missouri_(BB-63)
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Friday, March 21, 2014

German battlecruiser Gneisenau.

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

Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Mutsu.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mutsu
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Imperial Russian Navy predreadnought battleship Knyaz Suvorov, 1901-1904.

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

French predreadnought battleship Saint Louis, early 1900s.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Saint_Louis
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Battleship HMS Valiant in floating dock at Invergordon, late 1918 or 1919.

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Quote from http://www.theinvergordonarchive.org/picture/number1462.asp : "The gun tampions have a cockerel emblem confirming that she...

Unidentified US battleship being very wet forward.

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Italian battleships Conte di Cavour and Giulio Cesare, Napoli, 1938.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conte_di_Cavour_class_battleship Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleshi...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Postcard featuring the German predreadnought battleship SMS Deutschland passing the Levensau High Bridge on the Kiel Canal.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Deutschland_(1904)

Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser Ashigara prior to the Spithead Coronation Fleet Review, May 19th 1937.

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Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Ashigara
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Monday, January 27, 2014

French coast defense predreadnought battleship Jemmapes in Toulon.

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Note the turtledeck/whaleback bow and the two single large guns. Ship details:  http://www.cityofart.net/bship/fr_jemmapes.html

Forward main guns on the Russian battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna (Paris Commune) circa 1940.

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

HMS Vanguard in 1946.

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My favourite battleship never fired a shot in anger. Ship details:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vanguard_(23)
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