Attempt Collection (page 5)

Bomber v. warship and merchantman by G. H. Davis
Bomber versus warship and merchantman: difficulties confronting any German attempt at aerial blockade during the Second World War. Date: 1940

Cartoon story, An Attempt on Antwerp, WW1
Cartoon story, An Attempt on Antwerp, illustrating an attempt on the part of the journalist " Jingle" and the artist Norman Morrow to obtain passports in order to visit Antwerp at their

Painting the Embassy roof with a Union Flag, Madrid; Spanish
Photograph showing British Embassy staff painting their roof the colours of the Union Jack, in an attempt to signify their neutral presence to Nationalist bombers during the Spanish Civil War

FRANCE HAM
The fortress of Ham, in Picardie, where Napoleon Bonaparte was imprisoned after his unsuccessful attempt to seize the throne. Date: circa 1800

Johnsons Plane Crash
The aeroplane of AMY JOHNSON and husband JAMES MOLLISON, abandoned where it crashed, Bridgeport, U.S.A. during an attempt to fly from Wales to New York. Date: 23 July 1933

Gloster Mars I, G-EAXZ, at Sunningend as prepared for an?
Gloster Mars I, G-EAXZ, at Sunningend as prepared for an attempt on the British speed record in December 1921

That 16-inch sensation - Bairnsfather postcard
" That 16-inch sensation" - Bairnsfather postcard. Bairnsfather was badly wounded by a shell burst in April 1915 and during his weeks of convalescence suffered recurring nightmares

Flying Terms Defined - Flier Education. A jolly cartoon dog demonstrates some flight terminology: Power Diving (attempt to grab a bone thwarted)

Burglar in disguise - not the most convincing transformation
Extract from an interview with a celebrated burglar - " The Old style of Crib Crackers is all done away with now-a-days

WWI - The (German) Fox and the (Allied) Grapes
The Fox and the Grapes - A Hungry Fox, finding that he could not reach some tempting bunches of ripe grapes, declared that they were sour and that he did not want them

The Gondola of Auguste Piccard
The Gondola of Prof. Auguste Piccard and Monsieur Cosyns used for the second ascent into the stratosphere on August 18th, 1932. The maximum height reached was 16, 940 metres (10 1/2 miles)! Date: 1932

Hubert Lathams Antoinette IV - Painting by Andrew McGeachy
The Antoinette IV - an early French monoplane, a high-wing aircraft with a fuselage of extremely narrow triangular cross-section and a triangular tail

Supermarine Swift F4 WK198 on test
Supermarine Swift F4, WK198, on test before the World Airspeed Record attempt

Major Robert Hobart Mayo, the steward appointed to observe the attempt on behalf of the international authority, signs a card which will be photographed on to the film carried in the aircraft

Amy with her husband Jim Mollison
Amy with her husband, Jim Mollison, alongside their de Havilland Dragon, G-ACCV, Seafarer, in June 1933 just before their unsuccessful attempt on the worlds long distance record. Date: 1933

Capt Geoffrey de Havilland and Mrs Louie de Havilland after their successful attempt on the two-seat light aeroplane altitude record. 26 July 1928. Date: 1928

An Atlas D launch vehicle on Pad 14 for the second attempt to place an unmanned Mercury spaceceaft into Earth orbit. August 1961. Date: 1961

Sqn Cdr E H Dunnings Sopwith Pup N6452
Sqn Cdr E.H. Dunnings Sopwith Pup, N6452, going over the side of HMS Furious during his third attempt, 7 August 1917. Sqn Cdr Dunning was drowned. Date: 1917

Sqn Cdr E H Dunnings Sopwith Pup N6453
Sqn Cdr E.H. Dunnings Sopwith Pup, N6453, landing on the forward deck of HMS Furious during a subsequent attempt on 7 August 1917. Date: 1917

The Sopwith Atlantic failed in its attempt to fly Atlantic
The Sopwith Atlantic failed in its attempt to fly the Atlantic in May 1919. Date: 1919

Sqn Ldr Neville Duke taxies out Hawker Hunter 3 WB188
Sqn Ldr Neville Duke taxies out Hawker Hunter 3, WB188. The first Hunter prototype was modified for a successful attempt on the world speed record in 1953. Date: 1953

Hawker Hunter 3 WB188
Hawker Hunter 3, WB188, the first Hunter prototype was modified for a successful attempt on the world speed record in 1953. Date: 1953

Changing wheels during the record attempt

Terra Nova Steamship
This Scottish whaler is used by Captain Scott in his ill- fated attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole, 1911. launched 1884

Official programme cover, The London Aerodrome
Official programme cover for the London Aerodrome, Hendon, 7th London Aviation Meeting, 9-13 April 1914 (weather permitting)

Vignettes of ballroom scene, stabbing attempt, and a couple. Date c1899

Assassination attempt on Napoleon Bonaparte
Royalist plotters attempt to assassinate Bonaparte by placing a bomb in a horse and wagon and lighting the fuse just as he draws near. Whilst Bonaparte survived, 52 people died in the blast

Pates assault on Queen Victoria
Robert Pate, a former British army officer, approached the royal carriage and hit Queen Victoria on the head with great force; some reports say this drew blood, others that it resulted in bruising

MacLeans assassination attempt on Queen Victoria
Roderick MacLean aims his pistol at Queen Victoria as she passes through Windsor in her carriage but is arrested and spends the rest of the days in Broadmoor Asylum. Date: 2nd March 1882

Remains of Hawker and Grieves Sopwith
The remains of the Sopwith aeroplane Atlantic (picked up in the Mid Atlantic) from the ill-fated attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean by Harry George Hawker and Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve

The pirate bus by Webster Murray
A group of pirates have taken over a open top public bus, they are about to take over another, but they have come against residents from a lady passenger with an umbrella. Date: 1927

Colonel Caron Arrested
The Belfort conspiracy is an early attempt to overthrow the Bourbon restoration : several are arrested, colonel Caron tries to rescue them but is captured and shot. Date: 1 January 1822

Attack on Barricade
The forces of law and order attempt to force a barricade built by insurgents in rue St Antoine, Paris, but even as they attack, furniture is thrown down onto their heads. Date: July 1830

Abdication Demanded 2
Angered by Louis attempt to quit the country, the people of Paris at a meeting on the Champ de Mars demand that he abdicate. Lafayette quells the riot with a fusillade. Date: 17 July 1791

Cheating with Cards
A man tucks a card up his sleeve in an attempt to cheat. Date: late 1960s

Captured Turkish pontoons, Ismailia, Egypt, WW1
Some of the 25 Turkish pontoons captured at Ismailia, Egypt, during action on the Suez Canel on 3-4 February 1915, when the Turks attempted to cross the canal. The pontoons were destroyed

Karl Eduard Nobiling
Dr. Nobiling, the would-be assassin of Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany. On the 2nd June 1878, Nobiling shot and wounded Kaiser Wilhelm I but failed to kill him. Date: 1878

Assassination attempt on Jacob Br Scavenius Estrup Assassination attempt on Jacob Br�Scavenius Estrup
Assassination attempt on Jacob Br Scavenius Estrup, a Danish politician who was Council President and Finance Minister from 1875-1894

Assassination attempt on Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia
Assassination attempt by Sergeant Maximilian Joseph Sefeloge on Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, in Potsdam, Germany. 1850

Attempt to assassinate King Alfonso XIII of Spain
The aftermath of an assassination attempt on the life of King Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886-1941) (reigned 1886-1931) on his wedding day on 31st May 1906 by anarchist Mateu Morral in Paris

Assassination attempt on Alfonso XII of Spain
Assassination attempt by a pastry chef, Otero, on Alfonso XII of Spain, while the King was honeymooning in Madrid. 1879

Oskar Becker, assailant of Wilhelm I, in Baden Baden Date: 14th July 1861

Roderick Maclean, would-be assassin of Queen Victoria Date: 1882

Assassination attempt on Francesco Crispi
An unsuccessful assassination attempt on the life of the Italian statesman, Francesco Crispi, by the anarchist Lega. 1894

Attempted assasination of Wilhelm I
Wilhelm I and the Archduchess of Baden in their carriage after Max Hodels assassination attempt. Date: 1878

Attempt to assassinate King Louis Philippe
The royal family were in their carriage passing through Fontainebleau after a boar hunt when a man named Lecomte fired two shots from his gun

Guiseppe Fieschi
The Corsican criminal, Guiseppe Fieschi, would-be assassin of King Louis Philippe of France. Date: 1835

Assassination attempt on Jules Ferry
Aubertin attempts to assassinate the French politician, Jules Ferry, (1832-1893) at the Chamber of Deputies, Paris. Ferry was later assassinated by an Alsatian fanatic on 10th December 1892

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