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"QUEEN VICTORIA`S NAVY"
a photographic tour of the pride of the Royal Navy from 1867 to 1897
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These images below on hyperlinks have been taken from late 19th century editions of "The Navy and Army Illustrated" especially the issue of 25th June 1897 entitled "The Queen`s Navy." I owe many thanks for the kind support to the local studies and Naval History section of Plymouth Central Library. Enjoy these images and remember that this is when Britannia did truly rule the waves!
The quality varies, the early ones being less good than the later ones, due no doubt to advances in photography. Some of the 1887-1897 ones are truly superb. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy but it has been noted that sometimes an original is captioned wrongly....so it is easy to make a mistake, however, I hope I have not. So off we go.....away the lads.........
1857-1867
HM STEAM FRIGATE LIVERPOOL at Plymouth
HM STEAM FRIGATE DORIS AT Plymouth
HM STEAM FRIGATE VALOROUS
HM LINE OF BATTLE STEAM SHIP REVENGE at Plymouth
HM STEAM CORVETTE CADEMUS
HM SURVEYING VESSEL NASSAU
HM STEAM SLOOP PETEREL
HM GUN VESSEL CYGNET at Plymouth
1867-1877
HMS WARRIOR at Plymouth
HMS ACHILLES at Plymouth
HMS CALEDONIA at Plymouth
HMS LORD WARDEN
HMS PRINCE ALBERT at Plymouth
HMS VALIANT
HMS PALLAS at Plymouth
HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN at Plymouth
1877-1887
HMS DREADNOUGHT
HMS INFLEXIBLE
HMS PENELOPE
HMS ALEXANDRA at Plymouth
HM IRON CORVETTE BACCHANTE
HM STEAM DESPATCH VESSEL MERCURY
HM COMPOSITE CORVETTE OPAL and COMPOSITE SLOOP FANTOME
HM COMPOSITE GUN VESSEL TEAZER
1887-1897.....some High Quality
HMS LINE OF BATTLE SHIP BENBOW
HM LINE OF BATTLE SHIP PRINCE GEORGE
HM FIRST CLASS CRUISER TALBOT
HM FIRST CLASS CRUISER CRESCENT
HM FIRST CLASS CRUISER MARS
HM SECOND CLASS CRUISER LEANDER
HM FIRST CLASS CRUISER BLAKE
HM THIRD CLASS CRUISER PELORUS
HM SECOND CLASS CRUISER BRILLIANT
HM SECOND CLASS CRUISER MINERVA
HM SECOND CLASS CRUISER BONAVENTURE at Plymouth
1887-1897, TYPES OF TORPEDO CRAFT
HM TORPEDO BOAT-DESTROYER HUNTER
HM TORPEDO BOAT-DESTROYER RANGER
HM TORPEDO BOAT-DESTROYER OPOSSUM at Plymouth
HM FIRST CLASS GUN-BOAT SPEEDY at Plymouth
HM TORPEDO BOAT no.95
TORPEDO GUN-BOAT and TORPEDO BOATS
Gallery of high quality photos of late 19th century vessels, mostly 1896-97
HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH
HMS POWERFUL
HMS HAVOCK
HMS CENTURION
HMS REVENGE 14,000 tons, 380ft.long, 75ft. beam, 18inchs armour.......
HMS HOOD
HMS GALATEA
HMS RETRIBUTION
HMS MERSEY
HMS CRESCENT
HMS ORLANDO
HMS AUSTRALIA
HMS ROYAL ARTHUR
HMS NILE
HMS "SANS PAREIL"
HMS EDINBURGH
HMS THUNDERER
HMS ALEXANDRA
HMS BARFLEUR
HMS MELAMPUS
HMS DEVASTION
HMS WARSPITE
HMS INFLEXIBLE
HMS ANSON
HMS EMPRESS OF INDIA in dry dock at Chatham Dockyard
HMS MAGNIFICIENT in dock showing stern walkway
HMS MAJESTIC
HMS BELLONA
HMS LAPWING
HM TORPEDO BOAT no. 75
HMS HERMIONE
HM TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER DARING
HMS HALCYON
HMS CHARYBDIS
HMS THESEUS
HMS BLAKE
HMS TRAFALGAR
HMS BLENHEIM
HMS GIBRALTAR
HMS RESOLUTION
HMS ROYAL OAK
HMS EMPRESS OF INDIA
HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN
HMS St. GEORGE
HMS RAMILLIES
HMS MAJESTIC
HMS GOLIATH
HM GUN-BOAT MELIK
HM GUN-BOAT SULTAN
HM GUN-BOAT HERON
HMS JUPITER
HM TORPEDO GUN-BOAT SPANKER
ROYAL YACHTS
R.Y. VICTORIA AND ALBERT
R.Y. OSBORNE
R.Y. ALBERTA
R.Y. ROYAL GEORGE
ODDS AND ENDS: INTERESTING BITS AND BOBS
ELSWICK 6pr. GUN
ELSWICK 12pr. GUN
ELSWICK 6inch GUN
ELSWICK 4.7inch Q.F. GUN (Quick-Fire)
TORPEDO NETS: these were hung over the side of ships in an attempt to protect them against torpedo attack, from the new and very popular small and fast surface torpedo boats. However a very simple but amazingly risky technique was devised to overcome this protection. This was a specialist vessel known as an "outrigger spar torpedo boat". The idea was very simple, merely approach the enemy ship hiding behind a curtain of anti-torpedo nets, and at the correct instant, when virtually alongside the enemy, ..do an "up and over" of a long pole ..a spar....about 12 yards, 36 feet long....that has a explosive 35lb. gun cotton charge on the end...........that is the spar is over the top of the nets, then slid under the water to about 10 feet to virtually touch the enemy ship`s hull, and then detonate the charge...with you about 25 feet away...the safe distance!!! During all this the crew of the attacking boat will be hiding from incoming enemy fire in a small metal conning tower that protects against some small arms fire, and the big blast of the 35lb. gun cotton charge....UNBELIEVABLE!! Surely these men had nerves of steel.
if you enjoyed any of this, click here to see links to other sites by Steve Johnson
or try these:
HIGH QUALITY PAGES!!!!!...on links
Submarines and early Steam Iron Clads HQ!
Royal Naval warships in camouflage in Plymouth Sound in World War II HQ!
Canadian warships (H.M.C.S.) in Plymouth Sound in World War II FAIR/GOOD QUALITY
Royal Naval Ship`s Badges (crests) HQ!
all these sites contain rare and mostly very high quality...knock your socks off...scans
also: an A to Z of Royal Naval vessels from 1880 to 1950
Military life in Plymouth 1900-1914 and shore establisments
