Captain Collection (page 5)

Desclieux / Coffee Plant
Captain Gabriel Mathieu Desclieux, a French Navy Officer, uses his water ration to save a single coffee plant which instigated the entire Martinique Coffee Industry

Arthur Whitten Brown
Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, he was the navigator of the first direct transatlantic flight in June 1919 piloted by Captain John Alcock

Titanic / Southampton 1912
A bad omen: as the Titanic leaves Southampton, the steamer New York accidentally breaks its moorings. Captain Smith stops Titanics engines and a collision is avoided

20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
20, 000 LIEUES SOUS LES MERS [20 000 leagues under the sea], A window opened into this unexplored abyss. Date: 1870

A portrait of Captain Lord Chelmsford after his appointment
Lord Chelmsford, the new viceroy of India. He was previously HM representative in Australia; Queensland and New South Wales. Date: 1916

Captain Joe Kittinger

Womens Hockey Team, Captain is future Mrs Ernest Shackleton
An unnamed English School Womens Hockey Team - the Captain is Emily Mary (nee Dorman), Lady Shackleton (1868-1936), Wife of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and daughter of Charles Dorman. Date: circa 1886

Habit of a Young Woman of Otaheite Dancing
Habit of a Young Woman of Otaheite (now Tahiti) Dancing, encountered by Captain James Cook on one of his expeditions. circa 1793

Caricature of Captain Charles Francis Buller, cricketer
Caricature of Captain Charles Francis Buller (1846-1906), cricketer. 1880

John 1st Duke Somerset
John Beaufort (1403 - 1444), captain general in Aquitaine and Normandy, first duke of SOMERSET, created by Henry IV in 1442; he was Henry VIIs grandfather

Collared lory, Phigys solitarius.. Handcolored steel engraving by Joseph Kidd from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Captain Thomas Browns Miscellany of Natural History: Parrots, Edinburgh, 1833

Cricketers Hawke & Taylor
Cricketers Lord Hawke/ Martin Bladen Hawke (Captain) & Tom Launcelot Taylor, . Born 1860 - Willingham Rectory, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire - Played for Yorkshire & England / Born 1878 - Headingley

Supper Men About Town by Hynes
Five well known figures on the London social scene during the 1920s caricatured by Hynes in The Bystander. From top left, Solly Joel, large figure right is Bendor, Duke of Westminster

Captain H H Berners, Irish Guards
Captain Hamilton Hugh Berners, Irish Guards, seen here on horseback at the Officer Training Corps, Mytchett, Surrey. Date: circa 1913

Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, No possible doubt whatever
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, No possible doubt whatever, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916

The Intelligence Department, by Bairnsfather
The Intelligence Department " Is this ere the Warwicks?" " Nao, Indenburgs blinkin Light Infantry" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

Plain of Notre Dame de Lorette from Souchez, WW1
Ablain St. Nazaire - plain of Notre Dame de Lorette from Souchez. By Captain Edward Handley-Read, RBA (1869-1935), Machine Gun Corps

M. C. C. Cricket tour in Australia
Fingleton batting for New South Wales, hit by a rising ball from Voce. Bradman supports him; the Nawab of Pataudi is picking up his bat, while Ames and Jardine are walking across

Wedding of Captain La Touche Congreve V. C
Marriage of Captain (later Major) William La Touche Congreve to Miss Pamela Maude, the daughter of actor Cyril Maude. Major Congreve was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at at Longueval

God Save the King in living letters on HMS Terrible
An impressive living display formed by the crew (dressed in white) of H.M.S. Terrible in honour of the Coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. It was organised by Captain Percy Scott R.N

Captain Holland Lecky 1794-1854 (1838-45). Linnell, John 1792-1882. Date: 1838-45

Captain Bertram Dickson on a Farman biplane

Front cover of the Sphere Scott Memorial Number
Front cover of The Sphere, Memorial Number of the Scott Antarctic Expedition showing a sombre scene of a group of men praying by a cairn topped with a cross in memory of Captain Scott, who died

Sealyham / Brash Beacon
CHAMPION BRASH BEACON Owned by Captain R.S. de Quincey. Date: 1934

J W Nott-Bower
Captain sir J W NOTT-BOWER Police chief [Note : there were more than one policemen in this family] Date: circa 1911

Birmingham FC football team 1936. Back row: Evans (Assistant Trainer), Grosvenor, Lea, Clack, Fillingham, Hibbs, Booton, Morral, Gibson (Trainer)

His Fatal Beauty, by Bairnsfather
His Fatal Beauty OLD BILL: " My wife married me for love, ye know, Bert" BERT (after prolonged and somewhat pained scrutiny of Bills face): " I had been wonderin what it was, Bill

An ammunition column passing through Ypres, 1917. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

Captain Eric Melrose Winkle Brown CBE
Captain Eric Melrose Winkle Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, FRAeS, RN, born 21 January 1919. RAeS President 1982-1983, left, with Henry Kremer. Date: 1919

Jack Roper, Lusitania survivor
Jack Roper, a surviving crew member of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by German U-Boat torpedo on 7th May 1915

Sir George Strong Nares, 1894
Captian of HMS Challenger from 1872 to 1874 during the Challenger Expedition

Peter Pan and Wendy

Poster, Indias First Aerial Pageant
Poster, Captain C. D. Barnard presents Indias First Aerial Pageant, with passenger flights in the famous monoplane Spider, parachute descents, daring acrobatics by famous pilots

Colonel Adye & Captain Whitmore. Colonel Adye and Captain Whitmore, one man mounted, the other standing by horse, full-length portrait, facing front. Date 1855. Colonel Adye & Captain Whitmore

Captain Halford. Captain Halford, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front. Date 1855

Captain Portal, 4th Light Dragoons equipped for Balaklava. Robert Portal, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, next to horse with two other unidentified men who are looking away from

Royal Horse Artillery Hounds, Shooters Hill, London
Captain Reed-Scot of the Royal Horse Artillery (Woolwich) leading out his draghounds at Shooters Hill, London. The pack consisted of 18 couples of hounds, kept in adjoining kennels to some foxes

Four-gun Bristol fighter plane at Agincourt, France
A four-gun Bristol fighter plane of No. 22 Squadron, RAF, with one Vickers and three Lewis guns, at Agincourt, France, towards the end of the First World War

Lord Hawke signs an autograph
Lord Hawke, captain of the Yorkshire cricket team, signs an autograph for a young admirer during the match between county champions Yorkshire

Cooks Map of Tahiti
Cooks map of Tahiti. Date: 1769

Gallipoli evacuation WWI
Captain Davidson of the HMS Cornwallis (last ship to leave Suvla Bay) meets General Byng on the gangway after the evacuation

The King with the English cricket team
King George V, accompanied by Lord Cromer, President of the M.C.C and Mr. R.E.S Wyatt, the captain, shakes hands with the English cricke players at Lord s. Left to right are:- Mr. C.F Walters, H

Iceberg that sank the Titanic
The iceberg that sank RMS Titanic. This photograph was taken by Captain Wood of the SS Etonian on 12 April -- the Titanic struck the iceberg two days later

Le Cateau 1914
With German forces nearly upon the field artillery at Le Cateau in northern France, Captain Douglas Reynolds leads a heroic rearguard action

The Horrors of Home
A Captain, home on leave during World War I returns to his tranquil countryside village to discover it is now a hub of industry complete with belching chimneys, manufacturing armaments for the war

American Anti-Aircraft Guns near London; Second World War, 1
Illustration showing an American anti-aircraft unit firing at enemy bombers, during a German raid on London in 1944. The gun shown is a 90-mm weapon

W. M. Woodfull struck by a cricket ball, Melbourne Cricket Gr
Photograph of William Maldon Woodfull (1897-1965), the Victoria and Australia cricketer, just after he had been struck by a cricket ball bowled by Harold Larwood in the match between the MCC

The cook and Mr Maynard, survivors of the Titanic disaster
Scene showing the Titanic survivors arriving in Plymouth docks. The cook, Mr. Maynard, was one of the last people to see Captain E. Smith before he died

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