Yachts Collection

Wroxham Bridge, with yachts and other boats

Endeavour II
A drawing of Endeavour II, the British challenger in the 1937 Americas Cup races, which was paid for and helmed by Thomas Sopwith, the famous aeroplane pioneer

Juan les Pins travel poster
Poster advertising the fashionable resort of Juan les Pins on the Cote d Azur in the Alpes Maritime region of South East France

Gorey Harbour, and Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: 1960s

Yachting at Cowes
In the foaming wake of a racing cutter Date: 1914

Cross section of the royal yacht Britannia
A diagrammatic drawing of H.M.V Britannia, the royal yacht, first launched in 1953 and decommissioned in 1997. Featured in the Royal Wedding Number of The Illustrated London News in May 1960 as it

Motor yacht Vita owned by Sir Thomas Sopworth, 1930s
Motor yacht Vita owned by Sir Thomas Sopworth (1934). Purchased by Sopwith as Argosy (from Charles Stone) and renamed Vita as mother ship for his racing yacht Endeavour. Date: circa 1934

Boating off Cape Town, South Africa
A superb view of yachting in Table Bay off Cape Town, South Africa, with the imposing outline of Table Mountain, shrouded in mist, in the background

Yacht at Sea
Sobre las olas - on the waves

The Celebrated Yacht America

Holidaymakers watching the Brixham Regatta, 1936
Photograph showing a group of holidaymakers watching the Brixham Regatta, from a vantage point on a West Country cliff, 1936

Yachting at Kensington
Sailing model yachts on the Serpentine in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park

Christmas in Canada: White Wings on Winter Ice - Ice-boating, skating and ski-ing on and by a Canadian Lake. Date: 1930

Yacht at rest with National 12 dinghies in twilight -- one of a great series of studies of sailing off the Devon and Cornwall coasts. The National 12 is a two-person, two-sail racing dinghy. 1952

The Esplanade, Holywood - a large group of people watch rowing boats and yachts in the Lough from the edge of the esplanade. The view is up to the Kinnegar Hotel and there are people on the road

Treasure Island, Nassau, Bahamas, West Indies, with yacht and cove. Date: circa 1930

Yachting at Strangford - a view of yachts on the Lough. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Strangford Lough). Date: circa early 1900s

American Valentines Card - Boy sailing a yacht of love
American Valentines Card - Boy sailing loves yacht with the following words: (Lolli)Pops are my cargo Love is my crew As I go sailing Directly to you Date: circa 1930

Advert, John Cran & Co, Shipbuilders, Leith, Scotland
Advert for John Cran & Co, Shipbuilders and Engineers, Leith, Scotland. 1905

Advert, Ferguson & Co, Sailmakers, Greenock, Scotland
Advert for Ferguson & Co, Sailmakers for Ships, Steamers and Yachts, Roslin Street, Greenock, Scotland. 1905

Bembridge, Isle of Wight - Hampshire - Redwing Class yachts (after the first re-design) Date: circa 1950s

Vancouver, Canada - Yachting in the English Bay
Vancouver, British Columbia, Western Canada - Yachting in the English Bay. Date: circa 1920

Paglesham Regatta- Start of first-class oyster-smacks

Interior of New Royal Yacht - HMY Victoria and Albert 1901
HMY Victoria and Albert was a royal yacht of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. Showing the apartments for Edward VII and Alexandra that was furnished by Messrs Waring

USA Newport Harbour pre-1900

Racing yachts, Sydney Harbour, Australia

Yacht Irex Victorian period

Racing yachts on the River Clyde

Racing yachts on the River Clyde Victorian period

A Boy Watching Yachts
Lino cut of a boy watching a yacht. Artist: Anon. Date: 1930s

Norfolk Broads Yacht Racing early 1900s

Southend Lightship and racing yachts

Yacht Basin, Lowestoft, Suffolk - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Yokohama Boat Club, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

A Yacht Race on Lake Windermere, Lake District
A Yacht Race on Lake Windermere with The Ferry Hotel in the background - Lake District, Cumbria, England. Date: 1907

Yachting in the Norfolk Broads
Public schoolboys yachting in the Norfolk Broads during an Easter break. Date: 1932

Female Sailing Umpire
An umpire overseas proceedings at the Burnham-on-Crouch sailing week. Date: 1931

King George's Cup Yachts
Contenders for the King George's Perpetual Challenge Cup at Brixham regatta, an event open to ketch-rigged trawlers over forty tons. Date: 1931

Regatta at Ryde
A starting gun signals the beginning of a yacht race as part of a regatta at Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Date: 1931

Yacht Race
The Oxford University Yacht Club competing with the Cambridge University Cruising Club at Ryde. They were competing for the H. Yule Oldham Cup, and Cambridge were victorious. Date: 1931

Royal Yacht Alberta returning Prince Henry of Battenberg
The Royal Yacht Alberta bringing back the body of Prince Henry of Battenberg, who had died of malaria while in Africa. Date: 1896

Ocean race between the Henrietta, Fleetwing and Vesta - The Start Date: 1879

Princess Victoria (1868 - 1935), fourth child and second daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Recuperating on board the royal yacht HMY Victoria

Edward VII's yacht, Britannia
The Royal yacht, Britannia taken in 1909 during the reign of Edward VII. Originally commissioned by Edward when he was Prince of Wales from G

Racing Yachts by Charles Howard

A page from The Sphere reporting on yachting at Cowes in 1910. The large bottom photograph shows the opulent interior of the Miranda owned by Lord Leith of Fyvie

Harbour at Hammerfest, Norway
Vintage 19th century photograph: fishing boats in the harbour at Hammerfest, Norway, c.1890. Axel Lindhal studio

Fishing boats in Scarborough harbour
Vintage late 19th century photograph - fishing boats in Scarborough harbour

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