Carrier Collection (page 7)

Aircraft carrier by Bernard W. Church

1st Btn Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders boarding HMS Ceylon
Photograph: 1st Btn Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders boarding HMS Ceylon, Hong Kong, August 1950 (at the same time as the 1st Btn Middlesex Regt. boarded the aircraft carrier Unicorn at Hong Kong)

Japanese Zero aircraft on the deck of the Akagi
Japanese Zero aircraft on the deck of the aircraft carrier Akagi (scuttled following the Battle of Midway in June 1942. circa 1942

Maitos, Dardanelles, with HMS Argus and Ark Royal
Maitos, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, with HMS Argus and Ark Royal in the bay. Date: circa 1922

Cries of London - Old Water Carrier
Cries of London - Any New-River water here - Old Water Carrier. 1827

Girl on Kings Road
KINGs ROAD (CHELSEA) A typical 60s girl, looking down at the pavement, with her carrier bag from the " Bazaar" boutique. Date: 1960s

Kaffir with Cleft Stick
An African Kaffir letter carrier, carrying a message in a cleft stick Date: 1846

Supermarine Seafire IIc above carrier

Sopwith T1 Cuckoo single-seat torpedo bomber. It was a carrier-borne machine with wheels in place of floats, first flown in June 1917

Aichi D3A1 Val - carrier -going Japanese equivalent of the infamous Junkers Ju 87 Stuka

HMS Eagle, British aircraft carrier, Beirut, Lebanon
HMS Eagle, British aircraft carrier, off Beirut, Lebanon, 18 June 1956. The two smaller ships are the cruiser HMS Birmingham (left) and HMS Surprise (right). Date: 1956

Water carriers, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Suggested design for warship by G. H. Davis
The capital ship of tomorrow? A suggested design for a combined battleship-cum-aircraft-carrier. It would weigh 45, 000 tons, with the latest primary and secondary armament

Identification of enemy aircraft by G. H. Davis
A guide to the identification of enemy aircraft during the Second World War: German fighters, bombers and troop carriers. Including the Dornier flying pencil and Heinkel III. 1940

Cycle Tyres - Dunlop - Roadster and Carrier Range - Fort, Roadster, Magnum, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Champion, Carrier, Invader, Clipper Carrier, Scout and Cruiser. Date: circa 1935

Short SB6 Seamew XA213 over the deck of an aircraft carrier
Short SB6 Seamew, XA213, over the deck of an aircraft carrier

Fairey Barracuda V on board a carrier

North American AJ-1 Savage carrier-borne strike aircraft with wings folded

HMS Campania, British aircraft carrier, sinking, WW1
HMS Campania, British seaplane tender and aircraft carrier, sinking after hitting other ships (Royal Oak and Glorious) at anchor during a sudden storm in the Firth of Forth, Scotland

The Carriers Christmas Box by Charles Robinson
Illustration to accompany the chapter The Carriers Christmas Box. This scene shows a young girl giving the man at her door his christmas tip. Date: 1906

Korean War - Machine gun carrier with crew and dog
Photograph of machine gun carrier with crew and dog. From album of 126 photographs with newspaper cuttings, 1st Bn Middlesex Regiment, Korea (1950-1953), 1950-1951. Date: 1951

S駯u, Senegal
View of the administration district in S駯 u, a village near the southern border of Senegal (then French West Africa), with a line of people carrying baskets on their head following the road

Moses Fountain in Suez, Egypt
Moses Fountain encircled with palm trees and with a cottage in the background in Suez, north-eastern Egypt. Date: circa 1900

NWFP - A carrier pigeon Trainer
Pakistan - NWFP (North West Frontier Province) - A carrier pigeon Trainer. Date: circa 1920

Cairo, Egypt - Sugar Cane Seller - a woman is handily placed to lean out of her (tiny) window to make a purchase! Date: circa 1905

French Front messenger-pigeon service 1917
Special mobil messenger-pigeon service lofts built on a motor-vehicle chassis were used in the Western Front during World War One

Carrier inspection, Bura Camp, Kenya, WW1
Inspecting African carriers, Bura Camp, Kenya, East Africa, during WW1. 1916

Despatch-riders wearing gas-masks under their steel helmets
Two despatch-riders looking at their map at one of the villages on the British front near Salonika. Wearing gas-masks under their steel helmets to protect them against the fumes from Bulgarian gas

Water carrier, India, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Locals - Samarkand, Uzbekistan Date: 1907

Pigeons for message-carrying WWI
Going going gone! During the First World War, homing pigeons were used extensively to transport messages back to their home coop behind the lines. 1917

Chinese boy carrying his younger sibling on his back. Date: circa 1905

David Livingstone (1813-1873) through a swamp with a porter
David Livingstone (1813-1873). Scottish explorer. Livingstone through a swamp with a porter during his expedition to Africa in 1872. Engraving by Charles Laplante (d.1903)

Egyptian Art. Offering-bearer. c. 2150 B. C. Ny Carlsberg Gly
Egyptian Art. Offering-bearer. c. 2150 B.C. First Intermediate Period. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Temple of Ramses III. Sacred solar boat carried by priests. Relief. New Kingdom. (1550-1069 b.C). Twentieth dynasty. Thebes. Medinet-Habou. Egypt

Sacred solar boat carried by priests. Relief. Ramesseum. Egy
Ramesseum. Relief depicting the sacred solar boat carried by priests. 13th century B.C. Nineteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom. Necropolis of Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Egypt

Cameron, Verney Lovett (1844-1894). British traveler and explorer. Camerons Expedition to Central Africa (July 15, 1875). Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Book of Trades, The Water Carrier. 1841

Pueblo water-carriers from New Mexico, here showing a man carrying two ceramic pots with the help of a strap handle

Pigeon Post
A German soldier with a carrier pigeon, used for delivering messages during warfare. Date: 1930s

Parisian Water Carrier
A L EAU ! A Parisian water vendor carries two pails of water suspended from a shoulder- yoke. Date: circa 1815

Training Carrier Pigeons
A German soldier with a board on his back used to train carrier pigeons to carry vital military information and news. Date: 1930s

FRENCH CARRIER BEARN
The Bearn of the French navy spent World War Two at Martinique to keep her out of German hands : by that time she was too slow for front line work, but did ferrying Date: launched 1920

Aircraft Carrier Langley
The U.S.S. Langley plane carrier of the American navy, carries planes on both its upper and lower decks Date: 1927

France / Paris / Chatelet
Scene at the Grand Chatelet, Paris, at the end of the 18th century, with market stalls, shops with street displays, a water-carrier and a porter Date: 1800

Leaving Home
Going to service a girl takes leave of her mother while her sister puts her things in the carriers wagon, on the way to a job as a servant Date: 1870

South Africa postman
Native South Africa letter carrier, carrying a message in a cleft stick Date: 1868

London water carrier in Hampstead
A London water carrier in Hampstead. He is carrying two wooden buckets hanging from a yoke across his shoulders. Date: 1850

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