2-710-791 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Supremacy of the Seas', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'The supremacy of the British Navy and Merchant Service finds apt illustration in the photograph of a convoy of merchant vessels being escorted into a British port under the protection of the fleet of the Auxiliary Patrol Service, The photograph was taken from the airship patrol, accompanying the fleet. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. VII, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]