White Ensign Collection

Lowering the Ensign at Sunset, c1890-c1893. Artist: William Christian Symons
Lowering the Ensign at Sunset, c1890-c1893. A print from Her Majestys Navy Including its Deeds and Battles, by Lieut Chas Rathbone Low, Volume III, JS Virtue & Co, London, 1890-1893

Departure of the Baltic Fleet, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Departure of the Baltic Fleet, 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854"

British X-Craft midget submarine, World War II, 1945. Creator: Unknown
British X-Craft midget submarine, World War II, 1945. New Weapons. From " His Majestys Submarines". [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1945]

HMS Rodney, Royal Navy 1st class battleship, c1890-c1893. Artist: William Frederick Mitchell
HMS Rodney, Royal Navy 1st class battleship, c1890-c1893. A battleship of the Admiral class, HMS Rodney entered service in 1888 with the Home Fleet

Motor yacht Mynonie II, 1914. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Motor yacht Mynonie II, 1914

The steam yacht Shemara under way, 1914. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
The steam yacht Shemara under way, 1914. Seen here flying a white ensign. Shemara was built by Ramage & Ferguson at Leith in 1899

Admiralty, Westminster, London, 1917. Artist: William Monk
Admiralty, Westminster, London, 1917. Calendarium Londinense, or the London Almanack for 1918, surmounted by a view of the Admiralty on Whitehall

View from the stern of a British warship, c1940 (1943)
It is upon the Navy, under the good providence of God, that the wealth, safety and strength of the Kingdom do chiefly depend, c1940 (1943)

HMS Nymphe, Royal Navy sloop, c1890-c1893. HMS Nymphe was a screw sloop launched in 1888. She was renamed three times, as HMS Wildfire (1906)

HMS Magicienne, Royal Navy 2nd class cruiser, c1890-c1893. A Marathon class cruiser, HMS Magicienne was built in 1888 and sold in 1905

HMS Mohawk, Royal Navy 3rd class cruiser, c1890-c1893. Launched in 1886, HMS Mohawk was an Archer class torpedo cruiser. She was sold for scrap in 1905

HMS Calliope, Royal Navy 3rd class cruiser, c1890-c1893. A Calypso class cruiser, HMS Calliope entered service in 1887. In 1889 she survived an encounter with a tropical cyclone at Apia, Samoa

HMS Victoria, Royal Navy 1st class battleship, c1890-c1893. Artist: William Frederick Mitchell
HMS Victoria, Royal Navy 1st class battleship, c1890-c1893. Commissioned in 1890, HMS Victoria was the lead ship of her class of two battleships

HMS Hero, Royal Navy 2nd class battleship, c1890-c1893. Artist: William Frederick Mitchell
HMS Hero, Royal Navy 2nd class battleship, c1890-c1893. The second and final battleship of the Conqueror class, HMS Hero entered service in 1888

HMS Colossus, Royal Navy 2nd class battleship, c1890-c1893. Artist: William Frederick Mitchell
HMS Colossus, Royal Navy 2nd class battleship, c1890-c1893. The lead ship of her class, HMS Colossus entered service in 1886

HMS Latona, Royal Navy 2nd class cruiser, c1890-c1893. Artist: William Frederick Mitchell
HMS Latona, Royal Navy 2nd class cruiser, c1890-c1893. An Apollo class cruiser launched in 1890, HMS Latona was converted to a minelayer in 1907. She was sold in 1920

HMS Undaunted, Royal Navy 1st class cruiser, c1890-c1893. Artist: William Frederick Mitchell
HMS Undaunted, Royal Navy 1st class cruiser, c1890-c1893. A cruiser of the Orlando class, HMS Undaunted was launched in 1886. She was sold for scrapping in 1907

HMS Bramble, Royal Navy 1st class gunboat, c1890-c1893. Artist: William Frederick Mitchell
HMS Bramble, Royal Navy 1st class gunboat, c1890-c1893. HMS Bramble was launched in 1886. She was renamed HMS Cockatrice in 1896 and was sold in 1906

HMS Blenheim, Royal Navy 1st class cruiser, 1892. Artist: William Frederick Mitchell
HMS Blenheim, Royal Navy 1st class cruiser, 1892. HMS Blenheim was launched in 1890. She served with the Channel Fleet until 1908 when she was reclassified as a depot ship with the Mediterranean

HMS Speedwell, Royal Navy torpedo gunboat, 1892. Artist: William Frederick Mitchell
HMS Speedwell, Royal Navy torpedo gunboat, 1892. HMS Speedwell was launched in 1889. She was converted to a minesweeper in 1909 and sold in 1920

HMS Thrush, British 1st class gunboat, c1890-c1893. Artist: William Frederick Mitchell
HMS Thrush, British 1st class gunboat, c1890-c1893. Launched in 1889, HMS Thrush saw action in the 40 minute Anglo-Zanzibar War in 1896. She was also on active service during the Boer War

The battleship HMS Resolution, Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1896. Artist: Gregory & Co
The battleship HMS Resolution, Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1896. Just astern is her sister ship Royal Sovereign. The battleships of the Royal Sovereign class were the largest warships in the world when

White Ensign, 1838. From A Display of the Naval Flags of All Nations. Collected from the Best Authorities. [Fisher, Son, & Co. London, 1838]

Eyes of the Fleet, 1937. A reconaissance aircraft flying above a British warship. Cigarette card from The Navy series, produced by Senior Service Cigarettes, 1937

Allied soldiers and sailors in Vladivostok, Russia, September 1918. Several foreign powers sent troops to fight on the White (anti-Bolshevik) side in the Russian Civil War

Explosion on board the British warship HMS Royal Sovereign, 1901. On 9th November 1901, off the Greek coast, one of the 6-inch guns on board the battleship exploded whilst being fired

Regatta at Molesey, 1874. Artist: Alfred Sisley
Regatta at Molesey, 1874. From the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris, France

To the Rescue, war in the Sudan, 1885. British gunboats engaging the enemy on the way up the Nile to relieve General Gordon, besieged by the Mahdi at Khartoum

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