A Convoy in the Channel Art.IWMART560
A Convoy in the Channel image: A convoy of dazzle-painted ships at sea, sailing from left to right. All is set against a clear sky, the reddish tones on the horizon suggestive of early evening.
A Corner of a Dockyard Art.IWMART561
A Corner of a Dockyard image: A view across a dockyard, with a stone tower in the centre of the composition and a large redbrick building to the right, which has a series of arches in front of it. In the left f... More
A Dazzled Oiler, With Escort Art.IWMART567
A Dazzled Oiler, With Escort image: A large dazzle-painted oiler at sea being escorted by a smaller vessel, with the white chalk cliffs of the coastline visible in the background.
A Monitor's Turret Art.IWMART564
A Monitor's Turret image: A detailed side-on view of the two-gun turret of a Monitor, with part of the ship's superstructure visible behind the turrent to the left. A portion of the deck is visible, with a sail... More
A Motor-launch on a Dock Wall Art.IWMART778
A Motor-launch on a Dock Wall image: a motor launch vessel sits mounted on a cradle supported by struts on the dockside. The stern is in the right foreground with the bow to the left.
A Sketch in Portsmouth Harbour Art.IWMART566
A Sketch in Portsmouth Harbour image: A view of Portsmouth harbour, with several ships moored or at anchor.
A Torpedoed Tramp Steamer off the Longships, Cornwall, 1918 Art.IWMART...
A Torpedoed Tramp Steamer off the Longships, Cornwall, 1918 image: A tramp-steamer in dazzle camouflage keeled over to port and grounded on a cliff-lined Cornish beach. A heavy sea flecked with foam washes over... More
Australians Bathing on V Beach, Gallipoli Art.IWMART147
Australians Bathing on V Beach, Gallipoli image: a view across V Beach at Helles in Gallipoli, showing a group of Australian soldiers sunbathing and swimming. In the background is a military camp, with a cluste... More
Bow of a Battleship and the Big Crane, Portsmouth Harbour Art.IWMART76...
Bow of a Battleship and the Big Crane, Portsmouth Harbour image: a view of the curved bow of a battleship in Portsmouth harbour, with several sailors standing on the deck of the bow. In the background stands a ... More
Dazzled Tramp in Portsmouth Harbour Art.IWMART793
Dazzled Tramp in Portsmouth Harbour image: a view of the starboard side of a dazzle camouflaged Merchant Navy transport ship, which is moored in Portsmouth harbour.
Dazzled Transport Beside the Big Crane, Portsmouth Art.IWMART790
Dazzled Transport Beside the Big Crane, Portsmouth image: A sketch of the starbord side of a dazzle painted ship moored alongside a dock. The decks are loaded with heavy equipment, and there is a large crane i... More
Dazzled Transport Leaving Portsmouth Harbour, February 1918 Art.IWMART...
Dazzled Transport Leaving Portsmouth Harbour, February 1918 image: a merchant transport ship, painted with a dazzle camouflage scheme, ups anchor to leave Portsmouth harbour. On the right the dockside is visibl... More
Drifters Going Out From Portsmouth To Sweep Art.IWMART774
Drifters Going Out From Portsmouth To Sweep image: seven drift-net fishing boats acting as minesweeping ships sail towards the horizon against the sun breaking through heavy cloud.
Getting in a Sweep Art.IWMART787
Getting in a Sweep image: A scene on deck of a minesweeper. Four figures manning a winch are hauling in the 'sweep', watched by three figures standing towards the stern.
HMS Iron Duke Art.IWMART149 - Drawing. Public domain image.
HMS Iron Duke image: a sketch of Royal Navy battleship HMS Iron Duke. The ship is starboard side on, steaming from left to right with a smaller ship in front of the battleship's bow.
HMS Revenge in Dry Dock at Night, Portsmouth the work was Continued th...
HMS Revenge in Dry Dock at Night, Portsmouth the work was Continued through the Night by the Aid of Huge Flares image: A scene of a dry-dock at night showing the upper decks of HMS Revenge lit from below by fla... More
HMS Revenge in Dry Dock, Night Art.IWMART784
HMS Revenge in Dry Dock, Night image: Looking down into a dry dock showing the bow of HMS Revenge held up by struts and lit from the dock wall by brilliant lights.
HMS Revenge in Dry Dock, Portsmouth, 1918 Art.IWMART765
HMS Revenge in Dry Dock, Portsmouth, 1918 image: a view of the looming bow of the Royal Navy battleship HMS Revenge whilst undergoing maintenance in dry dock at Portsmouth. The huge ship is tethered to the dock... More
Hoisting a Motor Launch Art.IWMART791
Hoisting a Motor Launch image: a motor launch hoisted above a dock by a curved crane seen in the left background. Five figures stand at the stern on the launch, leaning on the boat's railing and looking down a... More
Kirkwall Harbour, Orkney, Headquarters of the Northern Patrol Art.IWMA...
Kirkwall Harbour, Orkney, Headquarters of the Northern Patrol image: a view of the busy harbour at Kirkwall. In the left foreground there are small boats, perhaps tugs or fishing vessels, moored against the har... More
Mined, 1918 Art.IWMART794 during World War I
Mined, 1918 image: a merchant ship run aground and listing to starboard, with a hole with water gushing from it visible on her port side from where the ship has hit a mine. The sky is heavily overcast.
Monitor in Portsmouth Dry Dock Art.IWMART782
Monitor in Portsmouth Dry Dock image: A view from the bottom of a dry dock looking up at the tail end of a Monitor. Five figures are working on the blocks while two large cranes tower above the scene.
Monitors in Dry Dock, Portsmouth Art.IWMART785
Monitors in Dry Dock, Portsmouth image: A rear view of a Monitor in dry dock with the dock wall and a crane in the background.
Motor Launches Art.IWMART1081 during World War I
Motor Launches image: Two motor launches sailing in rough seas. The starboard side of the foremost vessel is partially obscured by waves. The cloudy sky appears heavy and the light suggests evening.
Motor Launches Engaging a Submarine Art.IWMART148
Motor Launches Engaging a Submarine image: a motor launch at full steam, moving from right to left, with her bow lifting out of the water. Two figures on the deck are manning a light gun. Another motor launch ... More
On 25th April 1915 the collier 'River Clyde' was run ashore on V Beach...
On 25th April 1915 the collier 'River Clyde' was run ashore on V Beach, Gallipoli. She had been specially prepared for the rapid disembarkation of troops, large openings having been cut in the sides image: SS R... More
On Board a Trawler off Portsmouth- Hauling up a Mine Art.IWMART783
On Board a Trawler off Portsmouth- Hauling up a Mine image: A scene on deck of a trawler looking forward. Five figures are busy hauling up a mine on the starbord side. Various items of heavy equipment, includin... More
On the Bridge of a Warship Art.IWMART780
On the Bridge of a Warship image: a view of the deck of a small warship, possibly a converted trawler or other light vessel. Two sailors stand in front of a light gun which is covered by a tarpaulin. Another s... More
Ships in No.1 Basin Art.IWMART565
Ships in No.1 Basin image: A view across a dockyard basin with three ships moored at the dockside, two of which are painted in dazzle camouflage. The clouds and bright colours in the sky are reflected on the s... More
Sketch-book Containing Drawings Done at Portsmouth Art.IWMART572
Sketch-book Containing Drawings Done at Portsmouth
Submarines in Dry Dock Art.IWMART777
Submarines in Dry Dock image: a view of two Royal Navy submarines being refitted in a dry dock. The foremost submarine is shown from the bow, whilst the second, to the left, is shown from the stern. Both are su... More
Sweepers Exploding a Mine Art.IWMART772
Sweepers Exploding a Mine image: four minesweepers at sea, with the two foremost vessels sailing from right to left. A plume of water rises in the right middle distance where a mine has been deliberately explod... More
Sweepers, North Sea, 1918 Art.IWMART776
Sweepers, North Sea, 1918 image: a view of the starboard side of a minesweeper, a converted trawler, at sea with two other vessels in faint silhouette on the horizon. The minesweeper is steaming left to right a... More
The Bridge of a Paddle Sweeper, North Sea Art.IWMART775
The Bridge of a Paddle Sweeper, North Sea image: the helmsman and another man stand on the bridge of a paddle sweeper ship. Both men are dressed in yellow oilskins, the helmsman standing on an elevated platform... More
The Interior of a Turret, HMS Revenge Art.IWMART766
The Interior of a Turret, HMS Revenge image: a view of the interior of a gun turret on the Royal Navy battleship HMS Revenge. A section of the gun barrel fills most of the composition, with three light bulbs ha... More
The Interior of the Turret, HMS Revenge Art.IWMART767
The Interior of the Turret, HMS Revenge image: the interior of a gun turret onboard HMS Revenge, with the breech of the gun in the immediate foreground. A sailor stands on the catwalk adjusting the mechanism. I... More
The Quarter-deck of a Battleship Art.IWMART562
The Quarter-deck of a Battleship image: A view of the quarter deck of a Royal Navy battleship moored in a harbour. The quarter deck itself is in the immediate foreground, with two naval officers standing on dec... More
The Rudder of the Battleship HMS Revenge Art.IWMART769
The Rudder of the Battleship HMS Revenge image: a view of the rudder of HMS Revenge, seen from underneath the ship in dry dock at Portsmouth. The ship is held upright by struts and blocks, and there are four do... More
The Seaplane Station, Scapa Flow, Orkney Art.IWMART151
The Seaplane Station, Scapa Flow, Orkney image: A view across a seaplane station, with a number of aircraft hangars and military buildings visible in the distance and a few small figures standing on the land i... More
The Stern of HMS Revenge, Portsmouth Dry Dock, 1918 Art.IWMART768
The Stern of HMS Revenge, Portsmouth Dry Dock, 1918 image: a view of the stern of HMS Revenge seen from the bottom of a dry dock at Portsmouth. The rudder and propellors are visible, with the ship's hull suppor... More
The Wake of a 'p' Boat Art.IWMART563
The Wake of a 'p' Boat image: A view from the stern of a patrol boat of the waves and spray created by the boat as it moves across the surface of the water. Another vessel is visible in the patrol boat's wake.
The Wreck of the Hampshire Art.IWMART5252
The Wreck of the Hampshire image: A view out to sea from the coastline. In the centre foreground the naked dead body of a sailor lies on the rocks amongst bits of wreckage, including a life ring marked with the... More
Torpedo Tubes Art.IWMART786. Warship photograph collection
Torpedo Tubes image: two torpedo tubes loaded on a pallet, with a dock worker sitting on the pallet, are hoisted by crane on a dockside. Several figures stand and watch the operation. A two-funnelled warship is... More
Transports Under the Big Crane, Portsmouth Harbour Art.IWMART773
Transports Under the Big Crane, Portsmouth Harbour image: two transport ships, both painted with dazzle camouflage schemes, moored side-by-side underneath the large crane at Portsmouth harbour. A small black tu... More
Trawlers coming out of Dry Dock Art.IWMART779
Trawlers coming out of Dry Dock image: a view of a dock basin with the silhouette of a large warehouse and chimney in the background. Three trawlers move from right to left, the formerly dry dock having been fi... More
Trawlers, Spithead Art.IWMART770
Trawlers, Spithead image: a view of three trawlers steaming ahead in convoy against a cloudy sky.
A painting of a large boat in the water Untitled - a Monitor Art.IWMAR...
Untitled - a Monitor image: A front-on view of a large Monitor at sea, with its two-gun turret facing towards the bow. Parts of the ship's superstructure are painted in a chequered pattern. A number of sailors ... More
A painting of a boat in the ocean Untitled - Seascape With Convoy and ...
Untitled - Seascape With Convoy and Evening Sky Effect image: A view of a convoy at sea, moving from right to left. Most of the convoy is only faintly visible on the horizon to the left. The light suggests it ... More
Winding in Sweep Wire, 1918 Art.IWMART788
Winding in Sweep Wire, 1918 image: two sailors stand on the deck of a minesweeper winding in a thick wire cable on a winch. A third figure looks towards the stern of the ship. A thick pile of rope sits on the ... More