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IMAGO International History, Archive, Oil price crisis, Causes, Suez crisis 1956

Mar 31, 2026

The following photos have been selected for you by the IMAGO picture desk on this topic. For more pictures please use the search function.

  • Cranes lift the sunken vessels that blocked the Suez canal during the Suez crisis of 1956. 2nd April 1957 UnitedArchives01006237
  • Preparing to be taken to their temporary quarters are men who travelled to Cyprus in the Carrier Thesus. These men from the Artillery Regiment were being housed in buildings which had been requisitioned special for the great influx of soldiers caused through the crisis over the Suez Canal Nationalisation. 12th August 1956., Zypern UnitedArchives00579911
  • British Troops, Private Kenneth Yoxall, from Crewem and Corporal Peter Absalom (right) from Bridgend, South Wales, examine a captured Russian rocket-launcher used by the Egyptian infantry during the fighting in Port Said. Suez Crisis - 13th November 1956 UnitedArchives00549939
  • British Troops reading newspapers and playing cards on the troopship Empire Fowley at Southampton waiting for the go ahead to sail to the Mediterranean to face the Suez Crisis Suez Crisis - 8th November 1956 UnitedArchives00549938
  • 45 marine commando aerially assault Port Said via British Sycamore and Whirlwind helicopters based on HMS Theseus and Ocean 6th November 1956 Suez crisis, Hubschrauber UnitedArchives00140465
  • Port Said , Egypt : Stretcher bearers hurry with a wounded man to a Royal Navy helicopter at Port Said to take the injured to British ships at sea for treatment . In the foreground are wounded Egyptians who have been brought back by the helicopter after being treated aboard the British ships . 8 November 1956 Mono Negative !AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchives1221604
  • Port Said , Egypt : A dense column of black smoke , hundreds of feet high , hangs in the air over Port Said as building near the waterfront burn . Allied forces in control in Port Said , a cease fire had been called by Sir Anthony Eden . Britain has accepted the principle of AUN Police Force to take over . 7 November 1956 5 November 1956 Mono Negative UnitedArchives1221603
  • 45 marine commando aerially assault Port Said via British Sycamore and Whirlwind helicopters based on HMS Theseus and Ocean 6th November 1956 Suez crisis Mono Digital !AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchives1210861
  • Oct 29, 1956 - Port Said, Egypt - Suez Crisis also called Suez-Sinai War was the Israel-Egypt encounter at the end of October and the beginning of November 1956, which resulted in the rout of a substantial part of the Egyptian army and Israel s seizure of the Sinai Peninsula, brought to a head the tension that had been simmering in Arab-Israeli relations for several years. PICTURED: British soldiers in Port Said. Port Said Egypt - ZUMAk09
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