Boat Collection (page 4)

Captain Collins of Brighton, with his family
Captain Fred Collins of Brighton, who ran three pleasure boats called the Skylark and was a familiar figure on Brighton Beach for sixty years

Seaside boating scene
A couple push out their small motor boat into an estuary at the mouth of a small coastal river. This looks like a southern Norfolk or North Suffolk coastal view as the terns swoop overhead

Boston Quay - 1890
The Doughty Quay Boston, Lincolnshire

Poster for the world motor boat championships 1938
Poster for the world motor boat championships in Geneva from the 6th-8th August 1938

Royal Line poster
Poster produced by the Royal Line shipping company claiming to have the fastest service from Britain to Canada, perfect for emigrants anxious to get there quickly!

Allan Line to Canada poster
Poster advertising the Royal Mail Allan Line passenger service to and from Canada. Passage can be booked through Sercombe and Hayes, emigration and passenger agents based in Dorchester

Allan Line to Canada poster
Poster advertising the weekly express service to and from Canada with the Allan Line Company. The ships also appear to deliver Royal Mail aswell

Save Food Poster / Wwi
Poster depicting a British soldier encouraging those on the home front to save food in response to food shortages due to German U-boat targeting of British merchant ships

U-Boats - Cutaway
The internal accommodation of a U-boat as it prepares to attack a convoy of Allied merchantmen : though labelled U-65, the Germans did not at this time possess 65 U-boats

Children / Paddling 1922
Three children paddling in the sea; one carries a bucket, another inspects a toy boat

The Queen Mary in the 1930s
The Cunard White Star liner at Southampton, England

Oxford V Cambridge 1958
An official souvenir from the Oxford versus Cambridge boat race from Putney to Mortlake on 5th April which was won by Cambridge by 3.5 lengths

Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey, Channel Islands
View of Mont Orgueil Castle (Gorey Castle), Jersey, Channel Islands, with flowers in the foreground. Date: circa 1970s

Grand Canal Looking South-East from the Campo Santa Sophia t
Canaletto (1697-1768). Italian painter. Grand Canal Looking South-East from the Campo Santa Sophia to the Rialto Bridge, c. 1756. Detail. Gemaldegalerie. Berlin. Germany

Turbinia - steam turbine-powered steamship
Turbinia - the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894, Turbinia wasy the fastest ship anywhere in the world at that time

Bayards Cove, Dartmouth, Devon
View of Bayards Cove through a medieval stone doorway of Dartmouth Castle, a fort at Dartmouth, Devon. circa 1980s

Boating at Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan, USA, showing the Skating Pavilion and Canal. Date: circa 1910

Short S30 Empire Flying Boat G-AFCU Cabot
Short S30 Empire Flying Boat, G-AFCU, Cabot

The great international university boat race On the river Thames (England) from Putney to Mortlake 4 miles 2 furlongs August 27th 1869

Coastguards and civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey
Commemorative postcard, Heroes All! Five brave coastguards and two civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, who rescued 20 members of the 2nd Walworth Boy Scouts Troop who got into difficulties

Norfolk Broads - River Thurne
A sign by the windmill points the way to the Lion Hotel on the River Thurne, Norfolk. The sailing boat on the broad certainly seems keen to get home for supper! Date: circa 1930s

Punting at Cambridge
A group of people punting on the River Cam at Cambridge, with Kings College Chapel in the background

Poster for Speedboat Race - Lake Garda
A Poster for an International Speedboat Race, held on Lake Garda, Italy in May 1931

HAYLE, Cornwall
Fishing vessels in the harbour at Hayle, Cornwall

Royal Festival Hall 1951
The newly built Royal Festival Hall at the South Bank in London

Oxford V Cambridge 1949
An official souvenir from the Oxford versus Cambridge boat race from Putney to Mortlake on 26th March which was won by Cambridge by quarter of a length

Wallsend Brochure
Brochure for the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, Northumberland

Yacht at Sea
Sobre las olas - on the waves

Sugarloaf Mountain from Greystones - a view of the mountains in the distance taken from a beach, with a boat and buildings in the foreground

Poster, River Thames at Westminster, London. Date: 1954

Hastings, Sussex - Lightning over the sea from the beach
Hastings, East Sussex - Lightning over the sea from the beach - June 6th, 1904. Date: 1904

Hoveton Broad and the River Bure, Norfolk, England Date: circa 1905

Grand Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden. Founded by Frenchman Jean-Francois Regis Cadier in 1872 and opened on 14th June 1874. The Steam ferry (pictured centre) runs the route from Vaxholm to Stromkajen

Herring Boats landing their catch - Whitby, North Yorkshire
Herring Boats landing their catch at the Port of Whitby, North Yorkshire. Date: circa 1907

Short S23 Empire Flying Boat G-ADHL Canopus
Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, G-ADHL, Canopus

Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale

Poster advertising trips to Sweden
Poster advertising trips by train and ferry to Sweden, showing Stockholm Town Hall across the water. 20th century

Crew of a Scottish purse seiner, Falmouth, Cornwall
The crew of a Scottish purse seiner, at Falmouth, Cornwall. A seine net is usually a long flat net like a fence, with weights on it, which catches the fish by encircling them. Date: circa 1970s

Horse-Drawn Narrow Boat
A horse on the tow path of the Oxford Canal at Napton, Warwickshire, England. It is pulling a narrow pleasure boat full of holidaying students. Date: early 1960s

Mousehole, Cornwall
Fishing boats in the harbour at Mousehole, Cornwall Date: 1929

The Old Man and the Sea
Illustration by Raymond Sheppard to The Old Man and the Sea - a novella by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951. The story focuses on Santiago

Painting of the Olympic
Painting of the White Star Line ship, Olympic, sister vessel to the ill-fated Titanic

A clinker rowing boat
A watercolour sketch of a clinker rowing boat by Raymond Sheppard

Poster advertising Val d Esquieres, South of France
Poster advertising the resort of Val D Esquieres between Sainte Maxime and St Raphael on the Cote d Azur, South of France

Bedroom boat-race practice
An enthusiastic " Blue" leaves nothing to chance and recreates rowing conditions with the help of three tin baths, some wheels and a pair of oars in his bedroom

Miss Lucy Pocock, sculling champion
Miss Lucy Pocock, the winner of the Thamesside Water Womens sculling championship. She came from a family of boat builders and sculling champions

Swans in a punt at Henley
A punt load of swans, and two cygnets, about to be transported higher up the River Thames for their safety, in preparation for the annual Henley Regatta in early July

Sea Girls the Summer Sees by Edmund Blampied
Colour illustration by Edmund Blampied (pseudonym, Blam ) depicting a group of girls relaxing on a sailing boat

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