World War II Photograph Search [ boat]

314 items in this album on 16 pages.


Carrier Hornet, probably at a US east coast port, circa late 1941; note ferry boat and 'Eagle Boat' (PE) in background	Submarine Growler being launched at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 22 Nov 1941.	Tug boats towing the submarine Growler to the fitting out piers after being launched at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 22 Nov 1941.	Survivors of Kormoran in lifeboats P2 and P4 of British merchant vessel Centaur in the Indian Ocean southwest of Carnarvon, Australia, 27 Nov 1941

USS Arizona continuing to burn one day after the Japanese attack, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 8 Dec 1941; note JRS-1 flying boat in left foreground	Officers and men of the Gato-class submarine USS Silversides assembled on deck for the boat’s commissioning at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 15 Dec 1941.	Submarine Growler at the fitting out piers at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 30 Dec 1941. Note Growler’s extended mine cutting gear above the suspended wooden planks.	Japanese gunboat Tatara (former USS Wake, surrendered to the Japanese on 8 Dec 1941), Shanghai, China, late 1941; she was the only US warship to be surrendered to Japan in WW2

A US Navy PT Boat underway immediately off Midway Atoll, circa 1942	Finnish Army Colonel Aaro Pajari in a boat, Lake Syväri, Pohjois-Savo, Finland, circa early 1940s	French-built 130 flying boat in German service, circa 1940s	German gunboat crew practice firing with a 8.8cm gun off Yalta, Russia (now Ukraine), circa 1942

MTM explosive motorboat, 1940s	Nearly 30 PBY Catalina flying boats at anchor, 1940s, location unknown	PT boats conducting training operations in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, United States, circa 1941-1945	Oil tanker SS Emidio grounded on Steamboat Rock, Crescent City, California, United States, 1942. Emidio was shelled and torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-17 off Cape Mendocino on 20 Dec 1941 and drifted to this position.

Japanese fishing boat sinking after being attacked by the Doolittle raiders, 18 Apr 1942	Japanese Navy auxiliary picket boat Nitto Maru No. 23 burning, 18 Apr 1942	Broadside view of the Elco 80-foot torpedo boat PT-117 during trials off New York harbor, New York, United States, 1942.	United States Navy Boatswain aboard USS Saratoga pipes a signal over the ship’s speaker system, circa 1942.