Category: Boats & Launches

ATTEMPT TO SALVAGE MOTOR CUTTER WHICH HAD BROKEN FREE DURING A GALE. 5 JANUARY 1942, AT SCAPA. © IWM (A 6951)

35 FOOT AIRCRAFT TENDER. 24 AUGUST 1944, PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR, DURING TRIALS OF THE VESSEL. © IWM (A 25324)

35 FOOT AIRCRAFT TENDER. 24 AUGUST 1944, PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR, DURING TRIALS OF THE VESSEL. © IWM (A 25325)

35 FOOT AIRCRAFT TENDER. 24 AUGUST 1944, PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR, DURING TRIALS OF THE VESSEL. © IWM (A 25326)

35 FOOT AIRCRAFT TENDER. 24 AUGUST 1944, PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR, DURING TRIALS OF THE VESSEL. © IWM (A 25327)

35 FOOT AIRCRAFT TENDER. 24 AUGUST 1944, PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR, DURING TRIALS OF THE VESSEL. © IWM (A 25328)

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A 45ft Diesel Picket aboard HMS King George V (Alan C. Green collection)

Three images of HMS Vanguard’s Diesel picket.

Source: https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-16000/80-G-K-16177.html

A ROYAL MARINE BOAT AT THE BOOM (HMS Duke of York). © IWM (A 20533)

45 FOOT DIESEL PICKET BOAT, AT SEA. © IWM (A 7064)

45 FOOT DIESEL PICKET BOAT, AT SEA. © IWM (A 7065)

45 FOOT DIESEL PICKET BOAT, AT SEA. © IWM (A 7066)

ON BOARD HMS KING GEORGE V. 1941, SCENES ON BOARD THE BATTLESHIP. © IWM (A 3438)

CHIEF OF COASTAL COMMAND VISITS THE FLAGSHIP OF THE HOME FLEET. 9 APRIL 1943, SCAPA FLOW, AIR MARSHAL J C SLESSOR COMMANDER IN CHIEF COASTAL COMMAND, VISITED HMS KING GEORGE V, THE FLAGSHIP OF THE HOME FLEET. © IWM (A 15917)

COMBINED BRITISH AND AMERICAN NAVAL FORCE PROTECT NORTHERN CONVOYS. JUNE 1943, ON BOARD HMS DUKE OF YORK. © IWM (A 17574)

THE KING WITH THE HOME FLEET. 16 AUGUST 1943, SCAPA FLOW. THE KING VISITED MEN AND SHIPS OF THE HOME FLEET, HE WENT ABOARD THE FLOTILLA LEADER HMS ONSLOW WHICH TOOK HIM TO THE FLAGSHIP HMS DUKE OF YORK, WHERE HE WAS MET BY ADMIRAL SIR BRUCE FRASER, KBE, CB, C-IN-C HOME FLEET. © IWM (A 18619)

THE KING WITH THE HOME FLEET. 16 AUGUST 1943, SCAPA FLOW. THE KING VISITED MEN AND SHIPS OF THE HOME FLEET, HE WENT ABOARD THE FLOTILLA LEADER HMS ONSLOW WHICH TOOK HIM TO THE FLAGSHIP HMS DUKE OF YORK, WHERE HE WAS MET BY ADMIRAL SIR BRUCE FRASER, KBE, CB, C-IN-C HOME FLEET. © IWM (A 18620)

“The boats are of the hard chine planing form. The purposes for which they were built (as defined in A..F.O 1443/36 is:

1. To all ships carrying aircraft
2. To all flottilla leaders in full commission, and to “E” class and later destroyers
3. in ‘Aberdeen’ class and later patrol sloops and in convoy sloops”

THE DESTROYER DEPOT SHIP HMS TYNE. SEPTEMBER 1941, ON BOARD THE DESTROYER DEPOT SHIP OF THE HOME FLEET HMS TYNE, HEADQUARTERS FOR THE DESTROYER MEN IN THE HOME FLEET. FROM HMS TYNE THE DESTROYER MEN OF THE DESTROYER FLOTILLAS OF THE FLEET ARE FED, CLOTHED, PAID, MEDICALLY ATTENDED, TRAINED AND ENTERTAINED. THE DEPOT SHIP IS ALSO THE FLAG SHIP FOR THE ADMIRAL OF DESTROYERS, REAR ADMIRAL L H K HAMILTON, RAD, DSO. © IWM (A 5499)