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Taking it green. A photograph taken on board H.M.S. Warspite, which has been described as the most modern battle ship in the world, at speed in the English channel. Great waves break over her bows as she drives through.

'Amerikanischer Linienschiff 'West-Virginia' im Feuer. Besatzung 1407 Mann. Wasserverdräng 33100 t. Bestückung 8x 40,6cm, 12x 12,7cm Kanonen und 8x 12,7cm Flak.'

French battleship Richelieu in New York. With the skyline of New York City looming in the background, the 35,000-ton battleship Richelieu, pride of the French Navy, passes the Brooklyn Bridge as tugboats maneuver her toward a U.S. Navy Yard, where she was refitted before resuming the fight against the Axis in European waters.

First pictures of Mediterranean manoeuvres mighty naval display off Alexandria. British tars at work on a 4-inch anti-aircraft gun aboard H.M.S. Revenge as the ship lay off Alexandria. In the background is H.M.S. Barham.

Admiral Scheerafter Allied bombing at Kiel. The 10,000-ton Admiral Scheera pocket battleship is shown capsized after allied air raid on Kiel. The Eight U.S. Air Force and the Britain RAF made 20 bombing attacks on Kiel, dropping nearly 30,000 pounds of explosive and incendiaries from May, 1943, to March 1945. Kiel, the pricipal manufacturing center for German U-boats and the chief port on the Battle, ...

British battleship King George V. King George V, 35.000 tons, 2nd largest battleship to enter Port Phillip Bay, berthed at Station Pier, Port Melbourne on 29th October, 1945. Here are shown twin bofer guns looking toward the bow of the ship. NI 4299

British battleship King George V. King George V, 35.000 tons, 2nd largest battleship to enter Port Phillip Bay, berthed at Station Pier, Port Melbourne on 29th October, 1945. Here are shown multiple Pom-Pom guns on the bridge of the ship. NI 4298

Von der Brücke aus ... erfolgte der Signalverkehr von Bord zu Bord. Die Brücke ist beim Schlachtschiff wie beim Vorpostenboot die Befehlszentrale, das Gehirn des Schiffes.

Nazi rush repairs on the Graf Spee. Nazi sailors aboard the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Speeclearing away the debris caused by the battering which the battleship received from the three British cruisers which engaged her in the South Atlantic. A smashed gun is seen on right and in foreground may be seen shell holes caused by the British guns.

Grosser Erfolg der japanischen Luftstreitkräfte gegen die britische Kriegsmarine. Dem ungeheuren Elan der japanische Angriffe in demaufgezwungenen Kampf sind weitere Erfolge in der Vernichtung der britischen Seestreidkräfte zu verdanken. Japanische Kampfflugzeuge vernichteten auf der Höhe der Malayen-Halbinsel in der Strasse von Malacca die englischen Schlacht schiffe Prince of Wales (35.000 BRT 1940 ...

Germany also used surface raiders against Allied shipping at sea. But the German pocket battleships as commerce raiders ceased to be a prime cause of worry to the Allies, when the battered Graf Spee was scuttled by her own crew off Montevideo in December 1939.