Category: Boats & Launches

Collection of pics not categorized

THE DAILY ROUTINE OF HMS TYNE, A DESTROYER DEPOT SHIP. FLEET ANCHORAGE, 17 OCTOBER 1942. © IWM (A 12476)

THE FIRST LORD VISITS ALEXANDRIA. 5 SEPTEMBER 1944, ALEXANDRIA. THE VISIT OF MR A V ALEXANDER TO ALEXANDRIA. © IWM (A 25631)

As above:

VICE ADMIRAL AUBOYNEAU VISITS FRENCH AND BRITISH UNITS AT FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE. JUNE 1943, VICE ADMIRAL AUBOYNEAU, FRENCH NAVAL C-IN-C, MADE A 3-DAY VISIT TO FREETOWN DURING HIS TOUR OF FRENCH TERRITORIES IN AFRICA. HE VISITED FRENCH SHIPS OF THE AFRICA STATION AND ALSO TOURED BRITISH NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTS. © IWM (A 18533)

THE VISIT OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING TO ROSYTH. 5 MARCH 1941. © IWM (A 3360)

Series of four:

ADMIRAL’S BARGE VETERANS; THEIR AGES TOTAL 266 YEARS. 19 JANUARY 1943, PORTSMOUTH. © IWM (A 21379)

ADMIRAL’S BARGE VETERANS; THEIR AGES TOTAL 266 YEARS. 19 JANUARY 1943, PORTSMOUTH. © IWM (A 21380)

ADMIRAL’S BARGE VETERANS; THEIR AGES TOTAL 266 YEARS. 19 JANUARY 1943, PORTSMOUTH. © IWM (A 21381)

ADMIRAL’S BARGE VETERANS; THEIR AGES TOTAL 266 YEARS. 19 JANUARY 1943, PORTSMOUTH. © IWM (A 21382)

A 27 ft Whaler aboard HMS Rodney

A 27ft Whaler of HMS Cyclops.

Whalers in a sailing race at Gibraltar, 1938.

Plenty to find, google Montagu Whaler.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montagu_whaler)

https://www.1nelson.ca/uploads/1/4/2/3/14230335/service_whaler_manual.pdf

ON BOARD THE DESTROYER HMS COSSACK DURING TORPEDO AND ANTI-SUBMARINE EXERCISES. 1940. © IWM (A 1589)

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR NEW ZEALAND VISITS THE TRAINING ESTABLISHMENT HMS ST VINCENT. 15 APRIL 1942 © IWM (A 8275)

“Admiralty design in 1938 for destroyer *76 boats built to the original design. Re-designed at admiralty in 1940 and 1120 boats built to re-design. Carried on board destroyers (as seaboats), small cruisers, corvettes, etc.

The boats built during the 1939-45 war showed a marked tendency to sag between chock supports when hanging in davits. The keel structure is being generally stiffened to overcome this defect in boats ordered after 1943.”

Note: type I designation is my own

A scratchy but otherwise fine image of a 35ft Fast Motor Boat of HMS Southampton.

http://www.bmpt.org.uk/other_boats_history/target/index.htm

HIS MAJESTY THE KING VISITS THE FLEET IN NORTHERN WATERS. AUGUST 1941, ON BOARD SHIPS OF THE HOME FLEET. © IWM (A 4716)

COLONEL KNOX’S VISIT, SEPTEMBER 1943, SCAPA FLOW. COLONEL FRANK KNOX, SECRETARY OF THE US NAVY, AND ADMIRAL H R STARK, COMMANDER OF US NAVAL FORCES IN THE EUROPEAN THEATRE, VISITED US SHIPS SERVING WITH THE HOME FLEET. © IWM (A 19429)

ON BOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS VICTORIOUS.
19 TO 25 APRIL 1942. SOME OF THE PERSONALITIES ON BOARD HMS VICTORIOUS. © IWM (A 8404)