The Atlantic Journal has released a stunning collection of World War I photographs gathered by Adam Taylor. Moving troops and supplies by sea was vital to all armies involved in the war. The battle for control of the seas led to an arms race, new deadly tactics and unprecedented loss of life at sea.
The former German submarine UB 148 at sea
United States Marines and Sailors posing on unidentified ship (likely either the USS Pennsylvania or USS Arizona), in 1918. (National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, USA)
Men on deck of a ship removing ice. Original caption: »On a winters morning returning from France«. (National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, USA)
Sailors aboard the French cruiser Amiral Aube pose for a photograph at an anvil attached to the deck. (Library of Congress)
A cat, the mascot of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, walks along the barrel of a 15-inch gun on deck, in 1915. (Bibliotheque nationale de France)
»Life in the Navy«, Fencing aboard a Japanese battleship, ca 1910-15. (Library of Congress)
