Challenge Gallery
Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items
Choose from 86 pictures in our Challenge collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.
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Start of Major Wood's Unlucky Flight - Receiving a blessing
Major J C P Wood and Captain C C Wyllie met with misfortune during their preliminary flight from Eastchurch to Limerick, whence they intended to cross the Atlantic from west to east. The engine stopped, due to an air-lock in the fuel pipe twelve miles out over the Irish Sea. The turned and descended to Church Bay, Anglesey where the pilots were rescued and the aircraft later salvaged (as shown in this photograph). In the background can be seen the third HMS Windsor (D42), a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I and in World War II. Date: 1919
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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Funeral of Edward VII - Naval Contingent
Funeral of Edward VII - Naval ContingentNaval Contingent - Sailors marching with reversed arms. Part of Box 127 Boswell Collection - Funeral of Edward VII. Between 1815 and 1914, the Navy saw little serious action, owing to the absence of any opponent strong enough to challenge its dominance. During this period, naval warfare underwent a comprehensive transformation, brought about by steam propulsion, metal ship construction, and explosive munitions. Despite having to completely replace its war fleet, the Navy managed to maintain its overwhelming advantage over all potential rivals. Royal_Navy, 1815.E2.80.931914 Date: 1910
© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans
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People in Nevski Prospekt, Petrograd, Russia
Aerial view of crowds of people in Nevski Prospekt, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, anticipating a counter-revolutionary challenge from General Kornilov and his Cossack soldiers, with resistance promised from revolutionary forces. Included are trucks filled with Red Guards. Date: circa 1917
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
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