Launching Collection (#3)

The Beatles at PR launch of Yellow Submarine
The Beatles at the PR launch of Yellow Submarine (the name of both an LP album and an animated film). Date: late 1960s

Cartoon, Launching the New Boat, Youth. A reference to a new play, Youth, co-written by Augustus Harris and Paul John Merrit, first performed at Drury Lane, London, on 6 August 1881. 1881

Launch of HMS Trafalgar at Woolwich, SE London, 21 June 1841. 1841

Shipbuilding in Ww1
The boilers are craned into a steamship : this is done after launching, when the vessel is afloat Date: 1914-1918

Launching Cleopatras needle, 1877
The launch of the " Cleopatra" from the Caesarium Beach at Alexandria, Egypt. Date: 1877

Tatler cover, launch of HMS Neptune, new super Dreadnought
Front cover of the Tatler, 6th October 1909 showing the launch of the worlds largest warship, HMS Neptune, the first of the super Dreadnoughts at Portsmouth by the Duchess of Argyle

WW2 poster, Every Rivet a Bullet -- Speed the Ships. Showing a newly constructed ship on the slipway ready for launching. Date: 1941

The icebreaker before its launching, 17 June 1899
The Russian caption translates as The icebreaker-ferry before its launching, 17 June 1899. Date: 1899

The Baikal on the day before launching
A reproduction of a painting by N. Gritsenko showing the icebreaking ferry Baikal on the day before launching. Date: 1899

Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter taking off from gun platform
Sopwith 1.5 Strutter single-seat bomber of the RNAS, taking off from a warships gun platform. Date: circa 1918

Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter taking off from ship
Sopwith 1.5 Strutter, launching from a makeshift turret-top platform on board a ship. Date: circa 1916-1918

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, final preparations for launch
Final preparations for the launching R.M.S. Queen Mary Ocean Liner then know as Hull Number 534. Hundreds of tons of tallow, soft soap

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, nearly ready for launching
The Queen Mary, then known as Hull Number 534, had been halted between 1931 and 1934 due to the Great Depression of the 1930s

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, 6 months of activity
Six months of ceaseless activity. The Queen Mary, then known as Hull Number 534, had been halted between 1931 and 1934 due to the Great Depression of the 1930s

HMS Douglas, British destroyer, WW1
HMS Douglas (D90), British destroyer, Scott class flotilla leader, seen here at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, prior to launching on 8 June 1918. (1 of 2) Date: 1918

Massey Shaw fireboat launch
Scene at the launch of the Massey Shaw fireboat. Date: 1935

The launch of the LFB Fireboat Massey Shaw at Cowes, officially launched by Mrs Morris, wife of the LFB Chief Major C C B Morris. Date: 1935

British observation balloon being launched, Arras, WW1
A British observation balloon being launched at Arras, France, 5 September 1915, by Louis Dauphin (1885-1926). Date: 1915

Poster design, British and American shipping
Poster design, Britain and America have over two million tons more shipping today than in August 1942

Janet Fookes MP launching yacht, Penzance, Cornwall
Janet Fookes (now Baroness Fookes, b. 1936), Conservative MP, launching a boat at Penzance, Cornwall Date: circa 1970s

Zeppelins aerial torpedo by G. H. Davis
The Zeppelins aerial torpedo: the appearance of the new missile. Top left: the launching cradle, showing firing pistol. Top right: the aerial torpedo with its turbine at rear end

Bomb launching installations in France by G. H. Davis
Homes of the flying bombs: the layout of launching installations in northern France during the Second World War. They are sometimes camouflaged among woods, or disguised as small villages. Date: 1944

A popular new sport, the glider, by G. H. Davis
The coming vogue of the glider. A popular German sport -- motorless flight -- about to start in England. Flying for men of moderate means: the motorless aeroplane -- catapult launching

Warship with guided missiles by G. H. Davis
The shape of ships to come: a warship armed with guided missiles and protected against radioactivity. An artists impression of a battleship of the future

The boat question by G. H. Davis
The boat question: a suggested method of launching ships boats (ie lifeboats) with long davits. The longer davit would launch the boat well clear of the ships side

Preparing to launch a lifeboat, 1830s
Preparing to launch a lifeboat into a stormy sea, with the help of a horse and wagon, 1830s. Date: 1830s

Submarine HMS C32 launching torpedo, WW1
A submarine, the British HMS C32, sinks below the surface of the sea to launch a deadly torpedo, which leaves a visible track as it speeds towards its target. Date: 1914

Lighting the fuse of a battery of four crapouillots 1915
French infantry bombardiers about to fire their home-made trench mortars under the watchful eye of the captain of the company. 1915

Princess Alexandra of Denmark launches the HMS Queen
Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925) (wife of King Edward VII) - Queen consory of the United Kingdom and British Dominions - Empress consort of India (1901-1910)

Fairey IIIF used at Gosport for air-launching gunnery targets in 1931

Antoinette V skid launching system

The Short S38, piloted by Commander Charles Rumney Samson, leaves the the launching ramp on HMS Hibernia at Weymouth on 9 May 1912 for the first flight from a ship underway in Great Britain

HMS Hibernia with temporary launching ramp
HMS Hibernia with the temporary launching ramp and the Short S38, as used on 9 May 1912 for the first flight from a ship underway in Great Britain

Either HMS Hibernia or HMS Africa with a temporary launch ra
Either HMS Hibernia or HMS Africa with a temporary launching ramp for a Short S38

Launching Bluebird at Bathurst. Miss Delphine Reynolds and her pilot, W.G. Pudney, took off from Hanworth on 1 March 1931 in Blackburn Bluebird IV, G-ABGF

Lockheed F-94C-1-LO Starfire after launching a salvo of 2 75
Lockheed F-94C-1-LO Starfire after launching a salvo of 2.75 inch rockets. A T-33A, 51-4263, flies alongside

Lockheed P2V-6B Neptune 128415
Lockheed P2V-6B Neptune, 128415, launching a Petrel ASM

Short-Bristow Crusader N226 at Rochester after launching
Short-Bristow Crusader, N226, at Rochester after launching on 18 April 1927. Date: 1927

Martin Viking 4 rocket prior to launching
View through the blockhouse window of the nose of Martin Viking 4 rocket prior to launching from the deck of the USS Norton Sound

?Savannah? nuclear-powered passenger-cargo ship after launching into the Delaware River at Camden. The Engineer. vol.208 (2). 1959. p.203 Date: 1959

Launching Assault Landing Craft

Spain (1890). Launching of the cruise ship Infanta
" Spain (1890). Launching of the cruise ship " Infanta Maric Teresa" in the shipyard " Astilleros del Nervion" in Bilbao with the presence of the Queen Regent

TENRE, Henry Charles (1864-1926). Launching of a Montgolfier in 1809. Illustration from a 19th century manifesto. Engraving

Ufos / Vaeth / USA
This UFO was seen by Vaeth and others while they were launching a Skyhook balloon Date: 24 April 1949

Launching London Fire Brigade fireboat Massey Shaw
The Massey Shaw was built in 1935 on the Isle of Wight. It was fitted out with its powerful Merryweather pumps in Greenwich, SE London

Lower part of a large captive balloon moored to a launching platform showing network of ropes and balloon basket with about 10 occupants. Date between 1880 and 1890

Launching another victory ship United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation. Poster showing a panoramic view of the launch of the ship Lady Janet.. Date 1918

1903 machine on the launching track at Big Kill Devil Hill, prior to the December 14th trial. Four men from the Kill Devil Hills Lifesaving Station helped move it from the shed to the hill

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