Hydravion de reconnaissance catapultable Loire 130 avec l'insigne de l'Escadrille HS 2 embarquée sur le cuirassé Dunkerque
38 notes
·
View notes
Chris Colvin by Baldovino Barani for FACTORY Fanzine
358 notes
·
View notes
Just feeling very Raoulcore today as I wrap up All Vows and start working on my next project.
The picture is Edward Heron-Allen who is 25 years old in these pictures (taken in 1886). In the top picture, the man to the right of the one with the red sash (looking at the paper) is wearing the uniform Raoul would have worn as an Ensign after graduating from the école navale.
French Naval uniforms changed in about 1871 and didn’t change again until about 1910. This is not uncommon. For comparison, most of the U.S. Navy’s officer dress uniforms have not substantively changed in 80 years.
For Raoul’s tour de Monde, he would have been either on a relatively new ironclad (which were about to be obsolete anyway), or a slightly older one from the late 1850s-1860s nearing the end of its life. Which would be more interesting to read about?
16 notes
·
View notes
flickr
F-AZRP / 147 - Morane Saulnier MS-733 Alcyon by Laurent Quérité
Via Flickr:
Cervolix Meeting Aérien Airshow Cocardes Marine Aérodrome d'Issoire Le Broc LFHA Issoire Puy de Dôme France IMG_3930
2 notes
·
View notes
"French Battleship Richelieu arrives in Toulon from Indochina on February 11, 1946 before leaving for Dakar on February 19 to repatriate a thousand Senegalese tirailleurs who returned to their country. - The Richelieu took part in the transport effort to send French soldiers back from France to Africa."
Date: February 11, 1946
source, source, source, source, source
35 notes
·
View notes
Porte-avions français La Fayette (ex-USS Langley, CVL-27) – Toulon – 11 septembre 1951
©U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command – NH 81901
Dans le cadre du Mutual Defense Assistance Act, les Etats-Unis transfèrent le porte-avions à la France le 8 janvier 1951. Il est armé par la Marine Nationale le 2 juin 1951 et est rebaptisé La Fayette (R-97). Il sera restitué aux Etats-Unis le 20 mars 1963.
18 notes
·
View notes
1593x1156 French colonial sloop 'Rigault de Genouilly', in Shanghai, China, in the late 1930s.
16 notes
·
View notes
1599x1016 FRS "Condé" - French Navy (Marine Nationale) "Gloire" class armoured cruiser, ca. 1900 (no further info).
16 notes
·
View notes