Amphibious Collection

Normandy Invasion 1944
A depiction by C.E.Turner of a scene during the early morning of 6th June 1944 as British forces make an amphibious landing on one of the Normandy beaches during D-Day

Commandos Crossing the Rhine at Wesel; Second World War, 194
Sketch showing the night crossing of the River Rhine, made by British Royal Marine Commandos of the 21st Army Group, near Wesel in Germany, 23rd March 1945

Rhacophorus, Tree frog
Tree Frog from Sarawak. Drawing of a tree frog by Alfred Russel Wallace - hand coloured. Drawn looking down onto the back of the frog spread out showing webbed feet

Nettuno-Anzio Front, Italy, by G. H. Davis
The battle of the beachhead -- an airmans view of the terrain. A pictorial map of the Nettuno-Anzio Front, showing roads, with the Alban Hills in the background

USS Guam (LPH-9), an Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship

Amphibious Truck
Members of the 462nd Amphibious Truck Company training for D Day in a two and a half ton deck on Carylon Beach in Cornwall in 1944

Folklore / Unicorns
The figure of the CAMPHUR, an amphibious beast found in Ethiopia, a species of unicorn

Bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus (Great bearded seal, Phoca barbata). North Seas. From a specimen in Edinburgh Royal Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Great sea serpent seen off the coast of Greenland in 1734, Scoliophis atlanticus. From a description by Hans Egede. Steel engraving by W.H

Bristol Aeronautical Corporation XLRQ-1 11652, the 2nd prototype amphibious assault transport glider at the Naval Air Material Centre (NAMC) Philadelphia

Saunders-Roe A17 Cutty Sark, G-aVX, in amphibious form

Sikorsky S-62 N880 (msn 62001), prototype of the S-62 amphibious helicopter, shortly before its first flight. Date: 1958

Vietnam War - Patriotic Poster
Vietnam War - Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Do not let them pass'! Amphibious American Frogman bayoneted by a Viet Cong Soldier. Date: 2nd half of the 20th century

WW II amphibious tanks approach Aguni Jima Pacific
World War II vintage photograph - amphibious tanks approach Aguni Jima, war in the Pacific

Amphibious army exercises in East Anglia, 1941
Amphibious army exercises in East Anglia: troops attacking an enemy seaplane with fast motorboats, 1941. Protecting East Anglian waterways from possible enemy landings

Greenland or harp seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus
Greenland or harp seal, male and female, Pagophilus groenlandicus. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamiltons Amphibious Carnivora

Harbour seal, Phoca vitulina (Pennants pied seal, Phoca bicolor). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamiltons Amphibious Carnivora

Ringed seal, Phoca hispida
Ringed seal or netsik, Phoca hispida (Marbled seal, Phoca discolor). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamiltons Amphibious Carnivora

Dugong, Dugong dugon (Dugong of the East Indies, Dugungus indicus). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamiltons Amphibious Carnivora

South American fur seal, Arctocephalus australis (Fur seal, Otaria falklandica). From a specimen in the Royal Edinburgh Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

New Zealand fur seal, Arctocephalus forsteri (Sea bear of the Southern Ocean according to Forster). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Steller sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus (Sea bear of Steller, Otaria ursina). North America. Bull, cow and pup. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

South African fur seal, Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus
South African fur seal or Cape fur seal, Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus (Cape otary, Otaria pusilla). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Common seal, Phoca vitulina
Common seal or harbour seal of the Scottish coast, Phoca vitulina. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamiltons Amphibious Carnivora

South American sea lion, Otaria flavescens (Sea lion of the South Seas, Otaria jubata, according to Forster). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Southern elephant seal, female, Mirounga leonina (Elephant seal, Phoca proboscidea). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamiltons

Southern elephant seal, male, Mirounga leonina (Elephant seal, Phoca proboscidea). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamiltons Amphibious

Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus (Monk seal, Phoca monachus). Critically endangered. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Weddell seal, Leptonychotes weddellii (Sea leopard, Phoca leopardina). South Seas. From a specimen in Edinburgh Royal Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Leopard seal, Hydrurga leptonyx (Small-nailed seal, South Seas, Phoca leptonyx). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamiltons Amphibious

Grey seal, Halichoerus grypus (Halichaerus griseus). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamiltons Amphibious Carnivora

Cockpit of a Sikorsky S-43 Baby Clipper - Sikorsky JRS-1 - Sikorsky OA-8, twin-engined amphibious aircraft. Of the 53 production aircraft

Albatros WRE. 1 16 amphibian monoplane
Albatros WRE.1 16 amphibian monoplane at Bodensee. The third RE.1 monoplane, powered by a 100PS Mercedes D.I, 6-cylinder in-line engine, was fitted with floats to make it amphibious

Rocket Hydroplane
Amphibious Rocket Hydroplane

Once More into the Breach - a Walrus to the rescue
Humorous illustration by E.G Oakley-Beuttler depicting the air-sea rescue by a Shagbat amphibious biplane(known as a Walrus) over the North Sea during World War Two

Bombina bombina, european fire-bellied toad
Watercolour on paper by Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897-1931). Held in the Library and Archives

Amoeba proteus, amoebae
A glass model of amoebae, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

DUKW powered ferry on the Great Chindwin River, Burma - circa 1945. The DUKW (popularly pronounced " duck" ) is a six-wheel-drive amphibious truck that was designed by General Motors

Invasion craft of MONT FLEURY, NORMANDY
Photograph: Invasion craft of MONT FLEURY, NORMANDY, 0900 hours, 7th June, 1944. In the foreground is a DUKW (amphibious 3-ton lorry)

Amphibious tanks moving through a town, June 1944
Colour transparency showing amphibious tanks moving through a town, June 1944. Associated with World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945). Date: 1944

Allied Invasion forces gather
The scene in an English village in May 1944, as the Allied forces gather in preparation for the invasion of the continent

European coastline 1944
A double page spread of The Illustrated London News, published less than a month before the Allied D-Day Normandy landings

Firefighting duck vehicle on manoeuvres
A firefighting duck vehicle on manoeuvres in the Torpoint-Saltash area on 10 April 1946. This amphibious vehicle was loaned by the army. It could travel on land and water, and carried a crew of ten

Seaplanes of 1918
Latest Navy aircrafts. Seaplanes in there present stage of development of 1918 for World War One purposes may be roughly divided into three classes

Allied Armour heading into Holland; Second World War, 1944
Illustration showing Allied units heading up the Eindhoven to Nijmegen road in Holland during September 1944. In the foreground of this image one can see a tank destroyer, a despatch rider

Bicycle Boat
A Bicycle Boat, a new type of boat, which can be used as a comfortable sidecar on land and a paddleboat on water! The pedals of the bicycle work the paddles. Date: early 1930s

Fearless-class amphibious assult ship

Bullfrog. Ranidae amphibian. Engraving from a painting by F.Padr󮠅 ngraving

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