Naval review - destroyers attacking a Dreadnought
The £100, 000 hornets that can destroy a £1, 800, 000 giants at sea'. Naval review at Spithead with a Dreadnought battleship attacked by torpedo-boat destroyers firing dummy torpedoes. Interesting demonstration of the escalating naval race in which Britain and Germany became involved prior to the First World War
Picture No
14119440
Media ID
48706815
Size
6879px x 5081px
(13.5MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by Norman Wilkinson, special artist at Spithead in The Illustrated London News, 19 June 1909, p.iii
Date
1909
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