Atlantic Collection (page 10)

Guarding the coast, France, 9th century
Sentinels on the Atlantic coast of France keep watch for the Norsemen, who harass the country before eventually settling in Normandie, named for them. Date: early 9th century

GUION LINE TIMETABLE 1833
Schedule of Atlantic crossings by the Guion Line. Date: 1883

WYOMING WARSHIP
The United States Navy warship in a lock during her passage through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific (or vice versa). Date: circa 1915

ATLANTIC ISLANDS / MADEIRA
Madeira: looking inviting, with palm trees and flowers Date: 1931

STEAMSHIPS / LIBERTE
French liner, formerly the German Europa but substantially refitted for the Atlantic crossing Date: circa 1930

Ship - Gt Eastern (Cable)
The start of laying the telegraph cable across the Atlantic Date: 1865

Short S. 16-1 Scion 1 G-ACUW
Short S.16/1 Scion 1 G-ACUW (msn S.775) at Rochester airport. The third production Scion 1, G-ACUW can be seen with the low set engine nacelles and early style windscreen

Lifeboat Crew and boat - Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA Date: 1908

Port of Las Palmas (Puerto de la Luz), Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Date: circa 1920s

WW2 - Nairana-class Escort Carrier - HMS Nairana. She was built at John Brown & Company shipyards in Clydebank, Scotland. When construction started in 1941 she was intended as a merchant ship

Labrador province, Newfoundland, Canada - St Johns West - showing the dry dock. Date: circa 1910s

Fishing off the Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, NJ, USA
Fishing off the Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1930

Atlantic Breakers, Achill Island, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland

Mulroy Bay from Atlantic Drive, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland

Souvenir Medal to the pioneers of Transatlantic Flight
Souvenir Medal/Medallion to the pioneers of Transatlantic Flight - both those who lost their lives and then (finally) the one (Lindbergh) who succeeded. Date: circa 1927

Villagarcia, Spain - Playa de la Marina (Marina Beach) - North western Spain on the Atlantic coast. Date: circa 1900s

Upturned currach boat on Innishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland
Upturned currach on Innishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland. A currach is a type of Irish boat with a wooden frame, over which animal skins or hides were once stretched, though now canvas is now used

Lands End, Cornwall
An elderly man looks at the notice board in a shelter at Lands End, Cornwall Date: 1989

Start of Major Woods Unlucky Flight - Receiving a blessing
Major J C P Wood and Captain C C Wyllie met with misfortune during their preliminary flight from Eastchurch to Limerick, whence they intended to cross the Atlantic from west to east

The Glendale Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA Date: 1906

Hotel New Windsor - Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s

Bermuda - Aquarium in old British Magazine building. Date: 1910

Jamestown, St Helena - view from the sea
Jamestown, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha - an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean - view from the sea

Sandy Bay, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha - an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. The card reverse informs us that rock formations to the right are known as Lot

Bristol B-170 Freighter
Instone Airline Bristol B-170 Freighter Flypast Date: 1980s

A US Marines helicopter lifts astronaut Virgil ?Gus? Gr?
A US Marines helicopter lifts astronaut Virgil ?Gus? Grissom out of the Atlantic at the end of his sub-orbital flight, which had reached an altitude of 118 miles, 21 July 1961. Date: 1961

Devonshire Dock - Bermuda. Date: circa 1920s

The Atlantic Restaurant - Empire Exhibition, Scotland
The Atlantic Restaurant - Empire Exhibition, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, Scotland, 1938. Date: 1938

The Landing Quay - St. Helena, a volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Date: circa 1930s

Kenwood Hotel, Bermuda. Date: 1910s

Bathing Scene - Atlantic City, USA
A rather magnificent view of the packed beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1902

Bathing Scene and Boardwalk Audience - Atlantic City, USA
Bathing Scene and Boardwalk Audience - Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1908

Elbow Beach Hotel and Bathing Beach, Bermuda Date: 1936

Easter Lily Field in Bloom, Bermuda. Commercial production of bulbs initially started in Bermuda in 1853 and as late as the 1890s, Bermuda controlled 90% of the lily market in the United States

St Georges and Harbour - Bermuda. Date: circa 1910

Interior and Exterior, Phoenix Drug Store, Hamilton, Bermuda
Interior and Exterior of the Phoenix Drug Store, Hamilton, Bermuda. Note the sign in the lower section which proclaims the store as the Headquarters for Souvenir Postcards. Date: circa 1920s

Hamilton Hotel, Bermuda - exterior and interior. Date: circa 1910s

Promo postcard for W. E. Meyer & Co. Coal Agents, Bermuda
Promotional postcard for W. E. Meyer & Co. S.S. & Coal Agents, Bermuda. Date: 1904

Beach in Conakry, Guinea
Beach in Conakry, the capital of Guinea (then French Guinea) on the west coast of Africa to the Atlantic Ocean. Date: circa 1900

Rapier at San Carlos, Falkland Islands, 1982
Colour transparency showing a Rapier at San Carlos, Falkland Islands, 1982. From a collection of 366 slides collected by Lt Col David Dunn, Press Officer with 5th Infantry Brigade

Puerto de Cabras, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. Date: circa 1905

Atlantic College, St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Wales
Schoolboys in motor-powered inflatable dinghies on the sea near Atlantic College (United World College of the Atlantic), St Donats Castle, Llantwit Major, Glamorgan, South Wales. Date: 1969

World Map by Rumold Mercator (1512-1594)
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio. World map, 1587. Detail of America. By Rumold Mercator (1545-1599)

Map of the islands in the Atlantic Ocean -- Azores or Western Isles, Madeira, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Cape Verde. Date: 1851

Map of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Date: circa 1908

Map of Spain and Portugal, with part of southern France and northern Africa. Date: circa 1801

Interior, President Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Interior, The Round-the-World Room, The President Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. With a stage area for a band, tables and chairs, and stools round a well-stocked bar. Date: circa 1935

Map of Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA. Date: 1923

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