During World War I, Battleships Were Used For Which Purpose?

Earth State of war I in Photos: War at Body of water

The state war in Europe became a destructive automobile, consuming supplies, equipment, and soldiers at massive rates. Resupply ships from the dwelling house front and allies streamed beyond the Atlantic, braving submarine attacks, underwater mines, and aerial bombardment. Battleships clashed with each other from the Indian Ocean to the North Body of water, competing for control of colonial territory and habitation ports. New technologies were invented and refined, such as submarine warfare, inconspicuous hulls, and massive water-borne aircraft carriers. And countless thousands of sailors, soldiers, passengers, and crew members were sent to the bottom of the sea. I've gathered photographs of the Great State of war from dozens of collections, some digitized for the first time, to attempt to tell the story of the conflict, those caught up in it, and how much it affected the world. This entry is part 7 of a 10-part series on World State of war I.

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The former High german submarine UB 148 at sea, after having been surrendered to the Allies. UB-148, a small coastal submarine, was laid downwards during the winter of 1917 and 1918 at Bremen, Germany, just never deputed in the Imperial German language Navy. She was completing preparations for commissioning when the ceasefire of November eleven ended hostilities. On Nov 26, UB-148 was surrendered to the British at Harwich, England. Later, when the United States Navy expressed an interest in acquiring several former U-boats to use in conjunction with a Victory Bail drive, UB-148 was one of the 6 boats allocated for that purpose. #

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Interior view of a British Navy submarine under construction, Clyde and Newcastle. #

Nationaal Archief

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Evacuation of Suvla Bay, Dardanelles, Gallipoli Peninsula, on January 1916. The Gallipoli campaign was role of an Centrolineal effort to capture the Ottoman upper-case letter of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul). Later on viii bloody months on the peninsula, Allied troops withdrew in defeat, under embrace of fire from the sea. #

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In the Dardanelles, the allied armada blows up a disabled ship that interfered with navigation. #

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The British Aircraft Carrier HMS Argus. Converted from an bounding main liner, the Argus could carry fifteen-18 aircraft. Commissioned at the very cease of WWI, the Argus did non see any combat. The ship's hull is painted in Dazzle camouflage. Dazzle camouflage was widely used during the war years, designed to get in difficult for an enemy to guess the range, heading, or speed of a transport, and make it a harder target - peculiarly equally seen from a submarine'due south periscope. #

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United States Marines and Sailors posing on unidentified ship (likely either the USS Pennsylvania or USS Arizona), in 1918. #

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A mine is dragged ashore on Heligoland, in the N Sea, on Oct 29, 1918. #

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A Curtiss Model AB-ii aeroplane catapulted off the deck of the USS North Carolina on July 12, 1916. The first time an shipping was ever launched by catapult from a warship while underway was from the Due north Carolina on Nov v, 1915. #

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The USS Fulton (Equally-i), an American submarine tender painted in Dazzle cover-up, in the Charleston South Carolina Navy Yard on November 1, 1918. #

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Men on deck of a send removing ice. Original explanation: "On a winters morning returning from France". #

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The Rocks of Andromeda, Jaffa, and transports laden with state of war supplies headed out to bounding main in 1918. This image was taken using the Paget process, an early experiment in color photography. #

Frank Hurley / State Library of New South Wales

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Landing a 155 mm gun at Sedd-el Bahr. Warships nearly the Gallipoli Penninsula, Turkey during the Gallipoli Campaign. #

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Sailors aboard the French cruiser Amiral Aube pose for a photograph at an anvil fastened to the deck. #

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The German language battleship SMS Kaiser on parade for Kaiser Wilhelm II at Kiel, Deutschland, circa 1911-fourteen. #

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British submarine HMS A5. The A5 was part of the first British A-form of submarines, used in World War I for harbor defense. The A5, however, suffered an explosion only days later its commissioning in 1905, and did not participate in the war. #

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U.Southward. Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., the Big Gun department of the shops, in 1917. #

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A true cat, the mascot of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, walks forth the barrel of a 15-inch gun on deck, in 1915. #

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The USS Pocahontas, a U.S. Navy transport transport, photographed in Dazzle camouflage, in 1918. The ship was originally a High german passenger liner named the Prinzess Irene. She was docked in New York at the start of the state of war, and seized by the U.S. when it entered the conflict in Apr 1917, and re-christened Pocahontas. #

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Terminal minute escape from a vessel torpedoed by a German sub. The vessel has already sunk its bow into the waves, and her stern is slowly lifting out of the water. Men tin be seen sliding down ropes as the last boat is pulling away. Ca. 1917. #

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The Burgess Seaplane, a variant of the Dunne D.8, a tailless swept-fly biplane, in New York, being used past the New York Naval Militia, ca 1918. #

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German submarines in a harbor, the caption, in German, says "Our U-Boats in a harbor". Front row (left to right): U-22, U-twenty (the sub that sank the Lusitania), U-19 and U-21. Dorsum row (left to right): U-14, U-10 and U-12. #

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The USS New Jersey (BB-xvi), a Virginia-class battleship, in camouflage coat, ca 1918. #

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Launching a torpedo, British Royal Navy, 1917. #

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British cargo ship SS Maplewood under attack past German submarine SM U-35 on April seven, 1917, 47 nautical miles/87 km southwest of Sardinia. The U-35 participated in the entire war, condign the nearly successful U-boat in WWI, sinking 224 ships, killing thousands. #

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Crowds on a wharf at Outer Harbour, South Australia, welcoming camouflaged troop ships bringing men home from service overseas, circa 1918. #

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The German cruiser SMS Emden, beached on Cocos Island in 1914. The Emden, a function of the German East Asia Squadron, attacked and sank a Russian cruiser and a French destroyer in Penang, Malaysia, in October of 1914. The Emden then set out to destroy a British radio station on Cocos Island in the Indian Ocean. During that raid, the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney attacked and damaged the Emden, forcing it to run aground. #

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The German battle cruiser Seydlitz burns in the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916. Seydlitz was the flagship of German Vice Admiral von Hipper, who left the ship during the boxing. The battle cruiser reached the port of Wilhelmshaven on own power. #

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A German U-boat stranded on the South Coast of England, afterward give up. #

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Give up of the German language armada at Harwich, on Nov twenty, 1918. #

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German Submarine "U-10" at total speed #

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Purple German Navy's boxing ship SMS Schleswig-Holstein fires a salvo during the Boxing of Jutland on May 31, 1916 in the North Body of water. #

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"Life in the Navy", Fencing aboard a Japanese battleship, ca 1910-15. #

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The "Leviathan", formerly the German passenger liner "Vaterland", leaving Hoboken, New Jersey, for France. The hull of the send is covered in Dazzle camouflage. In the spring and summertime of 1918, Leviathan averaged 27 days for the round trip across the Atlantic, carrying 12,000 soldiers at a time. #

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Portside view of the camouflaged USS K-two (SS-33), a K-form submarine, off Pensacola, Florida on April 12, 1916. #

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The circuitous inner machinery of a U.S. Submarine, amidships, looking aft. #

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The Zeebrugge Raid took identify on Apr 23, 1918. The Regal Navy attempted to block the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge past sinking older ships in the canal entrance, to prevent German language vessels from leaving port. Two ships were successfully sunk in the canal, at the cost of 583 lives. Unfortunately, the ships were sunk in the wrong place, and the canal was re-opened in days. Photograph taken in May of 1918. #

National Archive / Official High german Photograph of WWI

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Allied warships at bounding main, a seaplane flyby, 1915. #

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Russian battleship Tsesarevich, a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Russian Navy, docked, ca. 1915. #

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The British Grand Fleet under admiral John Jellicoe on her way to meet the Imperial German Navy'southward fleet for the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea on May 31, 1916. #

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HMS Audacious crew lath lifeboats to be taken aboard RMS Olympic, Oct, 1914. The Adventurous was a British battleship, sunk past a German naval mine off the northern coast of Donegal, Ireland. #

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Wreck of the SMS Konigsberg, after the Battle of Rufiji Delta. The German language cruiser was scuttled in the Rufiji Delta Tanzania River, navigable for more than 100 km before emptying into the Indian Ocean most 200 km due south of Dar es Salaam. #

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Troop transport Sardinia, in dazzle camouflage, at a wharf during World War I. #

Australian National Maritime Museum / Samuel J. Hood Studio Collection

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The Russian flagship Tsarevitch passing HMS Victory, ca. 1915. #

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German submarine surrendering to the United states Navy. #

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Sinking of the High german Cruiser SMS Bluecher, in the Battle of Dogger Depository financial institution, in the Due north Sea, between German language and British dreadnoughts, on January 24, 1915. The Bluecher sank with the loss of nearly a thousand sailors. This photo was taken from the deck of the British Cruiser Arethusia. #

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