Buoys Collection

Bovril Poster Suggestion
A poster sketch suggested for an advertisement for Bovril, it shows a mermaid waving to some distant sailors, perched on a giant floating Bovril jar. Buoys you up. Date: circa 1922

Cooling Buoys Icing the Gulf Stream to Chill the Enemy
British U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic, showing mine-like cooling-buoys armed with icing apparatus for lowing the Gulf Stream temperature and the morable! Date: 1941

German rescue buoy in Channel by G. H. Davis
Rettungsboje -- nicknamed lobster pots by the RAF -- German rescue buoys anchored in the English Channel during the Second World War

Achiltibuie, Wester Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland Date: circa 1960s

Manufacture of War materials at Woolwich Arsenal 1877
Series of illustrations at Woolwich Arsenal, London, Harvey torpedoes being made by her Majestys Government to fabricate the artillery and ammunition for land and sea service. Date: 1877

The Bell Buoy
A bell buoy bobbing in foggy seas lights the way for a sailing ship. 1930

Warship trailing a Fog Buoy, 1912
Photograph of a British warship trailing a fog buoy. When a group of warships travelling line ahead entered fog they would stream fog buoys

Signalisation - signals
Navigational signals, road and train signs. Date: 1930

Fishing accessories. 12th-13th centuries. Museum of History
Middle ages. Latvia. Fishing accessories. 12th-13th centuries. Buoys pine bark incised signs on them, to know the owner of the fishing nets. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga

West India Docks, London. Date: 1815

Ships during winter months by G. H. Davis
Naval notes of the week (lightships and buoys). Above: revictualling a lightship during the winter months. Below: hold tight for your life -- attending to the Mariners Fingerposts in winter

Large Ships Buoy
A large ships buoy, with an anchor chain attached, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Date: 1950s

The Trinity Wharf Buoy Store, Blackwall, 1868
Engraving showing main store of the Corporation of Trinity House at Trinity Wharf, Blackwall, with buoys, markers and name boards

Buoys and Grapnels used in recovering the Atlantic Telegraph
Engraving showing the buoys and grapnels that were used to recover an Atlantic Telegraph Cable, September 1866. The telegraph cable, which was laid in 1865 by the Great Eastern

Trinity Buoy Wharf, Blackwall showing buoys and dock workers

The Buoy Store, Trinity Wharf
The Buoy store at Trinity Wharf, Blackwall showing wooden buoys and signage

Newfoundland Banks / Cod
Cod fishing on the Newfoundland Banks

Life Buoys on Shore
Huge life buoys, used for life saving and moorage at sea

Cleaning Life Buoys
Using a huge crane to lift life buoys out of the River Thames for cleaning

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