Austro-Hungarian Navy in photographs from the collection of Jaroslav Bily

Hi, everybody.

This might be of interest to you, the book was put together by a friend of mine and her colleague and I have to say that the period photos of warships of "our army" are really nice and I'm not interested in war:-).

Hello Jindra Štefl

Text by publisher

HENTSCHOVÁ, Radka, LEHNER, Jan. Austro-Hungarian Navy in photographs from the collection of Jaroslav Bily. 1st edition. 1: 191 pages. ISBN 978-80-7247-176-8.

This publication presents photographs with the theme of the C. and K. Navy from the collections of the Dr. Bohuslav Horák Museum in Rokycany, a branch of the West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen. It also pays tribute to the author of the collection Jaroslav Bílý, curator and later administrator of the museum, executive of the museum association and chronicler of the town of Rokycany. Under Bílý's leadership, the museum society devoted itself to the photographic documentation of monuments, folk buildings and many other sights of the Rokycany district. The publication contains a chapter devoted to the biography of Jaroslav Bílý and a chapter of memories of his service in the navy. Radka Hentschová discovered the memoirs in the Rokytsk district archives and prepared them for publication.

Jaroslav Bílý developed the museum's collections and enriched them with a set of photographs and postcards from the First World War. A substantial part of them documents the technical sophistication of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, in which he served. Jaroslav Bílý photographed himself, but also expanded and supplemented his photographs with contemporary official photographs, postcards and images by other, unknown authors. The selection published here presents scenes from Jaroslav Bílý's workplace at the Naval Engineering School in Pula, from the port and also from the surroundings of Pula. The images of various vessels are sorted into chapters according to type. The texts accompanying the photographs inform about the origin of the vessels in the context of the development of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, their technical aspects and their careers in war operations.