Attempt Collection (page 3)

GERMAN STRAW BOOTS
A German soldier makes himself boots of straw - a hopeful attempt to keep out the cold Date: circa 1943

Tipsy T. 66 Nipper Mk. III G-AVKT
Tipsy Nipper Mk.III G-AVKT (msn 70), prototype of the Mark III, at an air display in the Netherlands, circa 1969, parked next to Le Manchots (the Penguins) aerobatic display team

B. A. T. FK. 25 Basilisk (F2907 or F2908)
B.A.T. FK.25 Basilisk (F2907 or F2908). One of the three Basilisk aircraft built by the British Aerial Transport Company (BAT) and designed by Frederick Koolhoven; the first, F2906

Hubert Latham, Henry Farman and Roger Sommer at Riems
Hubert Latham in his Antoinette IV, with Henry Farman in his Farman III biplane and roger Sommer, also flying a Farmn III at the Grande Semaine d Aviation de la Champagne, held near Reims in France

United States Navy - Destroyer DD-293 - USS Billingsley
United States Navy - Destroyer DD-293 USS Billingsley, assisting Douglas World Cruiser float-plane 23-1231 (msn 147) Boston, which was forced down near the Faroe Islands and damaged beyond repair

Andrees balloon L Aigle in which he and two companions propose to fly to the North Pole : unfortunately they will not make it, and will perish in the attempt Date: July 1897

UPRISING AT FRANKFURT A premature attempt to establish constitutional government in Germany leads to riots at Frankfurt but is quashed by the authorities Date: 3 April 1833

Comic Postcard - Don t get pinched for following the fashions. A Policeman fails to agree with the sartorial bravery of a chap who has decided to launch out in his underwear (long johns)

Weighing Squirmy Baby Date: 1947

Zodiac Constellations

Words About Crinoline
A young man leans forward in an attempt to obtain a kiss from a woman in a an extraordinarily wide crinoline who stands in anticipation beneath the mistletoe. Date: late 1850s

Afghan War - Men of the 10th Hussars drown - Kabul River
Forty-six men of the 10th Hussars are drowned, swept away by the current, as they attempt to ford the Kabul River. Date: 31 March 1879

Protestants persecuted, France 1703
Protestant homes in France, where they might attempt to hold religious congregations, are attacked and burned. Date: 1703

STREET ARABS / EGG IN CAP
Three street boys play a game of Egg in the Cap: An egg is thrown into a cap, the owner of which must attempt to strike one of his fellow players as they flee Date: late 19th century

FIRE IN AMSTERDAM, 17C
Fire-fighters attempt to extinguish a fire in the centre of Amsterdam Date: 17th Century

Defensive Galleons 1550
Spanish galleons attempt to ward off rivals for the New World Date: circa 1550

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

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

Astronaut Virgil ?Gus? Grissom beside his Mercury space?
Astronaut Virgil ?Gus? Grissom beside his Mercury spacecraft, Liberty Bell 7, at Cape Canaveral for a second attempt at his sub-orbital flight following the earlier cancellation due to bad weather

A Westland Whirlwind during a rescue attempt at sea in 1963. Date: 1963

Panama Dredger 2 1889
Dredger - possibly a Renfrew - in the River Chagres, used by the French company in their abortive attempt to construct the Panama Canal. Date: 1889

Supermarine Spitfire I Speed Record Attempt parked

Arado Ar 231 an ambitious attempt to provide U-Boats with a readily stowable set of far over the horizon eyes

The New Mrs Partington. The new Mrs Partington (of the Anti-suffrage Society) Somehow the tide keeps rising! Depicts Mrs Partington in a futile attempt to hold back the huge tide of support for

Nedeljko Cabrinovic, Serbian nationalist
Nedeljko Cabrinovic (1895-1916), Serbian nationalist, a member of the nationalist Young Bosnia movement, who attempted to assassinate Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria

John Francis, would- be assassin of Queen Victoria
While riding along the mall, Queen Victoria was shot at by John Francis, a carpenter from Covent Garden. He was reprimanded and charged with high treason, receiving a life-sentece for his crime

Donald Campbell - Bluebird Proteus CN7 model
The Bluebird-Proteus CN7 was a Land Speed Record-breaking car, driven by Donald Campbell. This model was sold to mark the 1963 attempt at the world land speed record by Campbell at Lake Eyre

Reducing the Gas Bill
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing a Scottish man blowing into his gas supply in an attempt to reduce bills watched by his son in a tartan kilt

Andrew Irvine (1902-1924)
Photographic portrait of Andrew Comyn Irvine, the British climber, pictured in 1924. George Leigh Mallory and Irvine were last seen by N.E

7 Wonders / Diana / Parr
Built by the Greeks, almost entirely from marble, in Ephesus, now part of Turkey. Destroyed by Herostratus in 356 BC in an attempt to immortalise his name

Joseph Francois Foullon
JOSEPH FRANCOIS FOULLON Unpopular statesman who fled after the Bastilles fall, but despite Lafayettes attempt to save him he was hanged from a streetlamp by the Paris mob. Date: 1717 - 1789

Brunel at G. E. Launch
ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL at the attempt to launch the Great Eastern, with Scott Russell and Henry Wakefield on his right, Lord Derby on his left Date: November 1857

French royal family are brought back from Varennes
During the French Revolution, the French royal family are brought back to Paris from Varennes, after their unsuccessful attempt to escape the country. Date: 22 June 1791

SIAI Marchetti SM93 -this Italian attempt at a Ju 87 Stuka replacement used a prone pilot position and was tested by the Luftwaffe

Mercedes Gleitze hauled from water on Gibraltar swim
Mercedes Gleitze, the British long distance open water swimmer, is hauled out of the water into a boat on her attempt to swim the Straits of Gibraltar from Tangier to Gibraltar. Date: 1927

Suffragettes Swimming Hot Air Balloon Muriel Matters
A cartoon illustration by Alfred Chantrey Courbold (1852-1920) of suffragettes swimming towards a flotilla of toy boats. Behind them are large Votes for Women banners whilst pro-suffrage leaflets

Haemanthus incarnatus. Illustration from William Herbert, Amaryllidaceae. Preceded by An attempt to arrange the monocotyledonous orders

Neville Frederick Duke, OBE, DSO, DFC**, AFC, FRAeS, 1922-2007, in the cockpit of Hawker Hunter WB188 after its successful attempt on the World Air Speed Record in September 1953. Date: 1922

Gloster Meteor F4 EE454 Britannia
Gloster Meteor F4, EE454, Britannia, as prepared for its successful attempt on the world speed record, 606mph

Cuba. Spanish colonization (1869-1870). Political

SPAIN. Madrid. Spain (1906). Assassination attempt on king Alfonso XIII in his wedding day. Calle Mayor (Main street) after the bomb thrown by Mateo Morral exploded. Madrid

Scene of whale rescue attempt, River Thames, in which a Northern Bottlenose Whale was lost

Attack on Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck, Prime Minister of Prussia from 18621890 is almost assassinated by Ferdinand Cohen-Blind, a democrat who hoped to prevent a war among the German states

Max Hodel, the German would-be assassin of Kaiser Wilhelm I Date: 1878

Assassination attempt on Kaiser Wilhelm I
Oskar Beckers attempt on Wilhelm I in Baden Baden. 1861

Coronation Copescope
CORONATION OF ELIZABETH II Excited crowds attempt to get a glimpse of their new Queen with the aid of Copes Coronation Copescope. Date: 2 June 1953

YOUNG PLAN / 1929
The Young Plan rises like a phoenix/vulture from the ashes of the Dawes plan (the USs previous attempt to ease Germanys economy). 1929

The Theatre on board HMS Alert, British Arctic Expeditio
Engraving showing the theatre on board HMS Alert during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876. Plays were staged aboard the ship to keep up morale during the cold, dark winter months

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