EditorialPhotograph - Coffins on Waggon for Recovered Bodies from Torpedoed Ship 'Persia', early 1916, Photograph depicting wagon bearing coffins for bodies recovered after the torpedoing without warning of the British steamship Persia by a U boat in the Easter...
EditorialCharles Algernon Fryatt (2 December 1872 – 27 July 1916) was a British mariner who was executed by the Germans for attempting to ram a U-boat in 1915. When his ship, the SS Brussels, was captured off the Netherlands in 1916, he was court-martialled a...
EditorialLeaflet depicting a German -U-boat. [A collection of leaflets and magazines initiated by the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office, the Office of War Information, United States and the Psychological Warfare Division of the Supreme Hea...
EditorialCaptain Robert Monteith (in the uniform of the Irish brigade). Monteith was recruited from the U.S. to command the Irish brigade raised by Roger Casement. He had served in the British Army. Monteith had joined the Irish Volunteers and become a drill in...
Editorial'A great naval triumph'. A German U-boat captain looking down at the drowning victims of a ship. Punch or the London charivari. London, 1915. Source: PP.5270, 7 April 1915, page 263.
Editorial'The boat was tilted to a perilous angle'. Picture of a lifeboat containing passengers of the R.M.S. Hesperian, which was torpedoed on the 4th September 1915 off Fastnet by the German submarine U.20, the same U-boat that sank the Lusitania. On 6th Sept...
EditorialLeaflet depicting a German U-boat being destroyed. [A collection of leaflets and magazines initiated by the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office, the Office of War Information, United States and the Psychological Warfare Division of ...
EditorialA Hudson aircraft of the R.A.F Coastal command sighted and attacked a U-boat in the Atlantic. Close-up of the U-boat as she lay helpless in the heavy seas awaiting a boarding party from H.M. ships.