Coasts Collection

Map of Caribbean
The Caribbean, with the West Indies, and the coasts of the United States and the Spanish possessions which later became Texas and Mexico, and the northern coast of S. America

Politics / Nationalism
Britannia guards our coasts, protecting a typical English family

Yacht at rest with National 12 dinghies in twilight -- one of a great series of studies of sailing off the Devon and Cornwall coasts. The National 12 is a two-person, two-sail racing dinghy. 1952

Hastings and St. Leonards, a view from the east hill. Date: 1895

Dornier Do-17Z-3
A Luftwaffe 7./ Kampfgeschwader 3 Dornier Do-17 (Mod 215) Shot-Down by a RAF Hawker Hurricane and Crash-Landed on the Rocky Beach of Foreness Point, Isle of Thanet at 12.55Pm on 26th August 1940

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Nuestras costas seran defendidas por nuestros bravos marinos (Our coasts will be defended by our brave sailors). Poster by Ballester Marco edited by the CNT

Common seal, Phoca vitulina
Common seal or harbour seal of the Scottish coast, Phoca vitulina. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamiltons Amphibious Carnivora

Map of North Africa 1513 Date: 1513

Map of the Indian Ocean 1700 Date: 1700

NORTHERN NAVIGATION
The Navigation of the Northern Seas showing Spitzbergen and the coasts of Scandinavia and Russia Date: circa 1700

Curtiss Model F Biplane Flying-Boat Parked in the Water ?
Curtiss Model F Biplane Flying-Boat Parked in the Water at a Beach in 1914 Date: 1914

Saunders Roe SRA-1
Prototype Royal Air Force RAF Saunders-Roe Sra-1 Jet-Fighter Flying-Boat Flying over the Coast As Flown by Test-Pilot Captain Eric Melrose Winkle Brown, Cbe, Dsc, Afc, Fraes

On the Cliff by Harold Harvey (1874-1941) one of the Newlyn School of Painters, well known for painting Cornish landscapes and social scenes from the area. Date: 1919

Plage de l Anse Bernard and Cap-Vert in Dakar, Senegal
A path winds up along the Plage de l Anse Bernard (Anse Bernard Beach) towards a lazaret at the coast of the Atlantic Ocean with the Cap-Vert in the background - Dakar

Map of the Atlantic Ocean. 18th century
Map of the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Cape Horn. At A Voyage to the South-sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713 and 1714 by Amedee-Franc

The Theatre on board HMS Alert, British Arctic Expeditio
Engraving showing the theatre on board HMS Alert during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876. Plays were staged aboard the ship to keep up morale during the cold, dark winter months

Map of Smith Sound and Greenland, 1875
Engraving showing a map of Smith Sound and Greenland, as it was known in May 1875. Much of the map is erroneous or missing in detail

The Scene on the Deck of HMS Discovery at Portsmouth, 1876
Engraving showing the scene on the deck of HMS Discovery at the end of her Arctic expedition, Portsmouth, 1876. In 1875 the British Admiralty sent Captain George Nares with two ships

Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez) beach, Madagascar
View over Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez), a city on the northern coast of Madagascar, including the beach. Date: circa 1910

National 12 sailing dinghies on a Devon beach -- one of a great series of studies of sailing off the Devon and Cornwall coasts The National 12 is a two-person, two-sail racing dinghy. 1952

London Bridge Station B
Inside the Brighton and South Coasts ticket office at London Bridge station. Date: 1903

Massacre of Innocents
Then Herod was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under... Date: 1st century

Scarborough, hoildaymakers on the beach, holding their parasols to stay out of the mid day sun, along the promenade is a sign for the south cliff tram and the Scarborough Spa. 1895

Newhaven, nine miles from Brighton descends the hill to the harbour, lying in a deep valley at the junction of the Ouse with the Channel. 1895

Paignton, photograph taken from the pier, of Sands beach, portable bathing lined up ready for the onslaught of travers. 1895

Sea-coast north of Viareggio, Italy
NEAR the spot where Shelleys body was cremated, August 18, 1828. " The situation was well calculated for a poets grave

Lighthouse, Genoa, Italy
Very little seems to be known of the history of the " tall, slender, graceful lighthouse which shoots up from its rocky promontory far into the Ligurian sky." Date: 1904

Antibes, France
Showing the fortifications erected by Vauban in 1691, and the coast towards Nice. " Antibes, where the rock is low, surrounded herself with elaborate walls long before Vaubans fort was made

Scene of Roman Naval victory, 242B. C. Italy
Coast near Trapani and Island of Aigousa, scene of Roman Naval victory, 242 B.C. Date: 1918

Orange Grove, Italian riviera, Italy
The Italian Riviera, is the narrow coastal strip which lies between the Ligurian Sea and the mountain range formed by the Maritime Alps and the Apennines. Date: 1918

BRY, Theodor de (1528-1598). Arrival of the English in Virginia in 1607. Detail of map in Admiranta Narratio. 1590- 1634. Engraving. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris

Ferrer Calatayud, Pedro
FERRER CALATAYUD, Pedro (1870-1944). Rescuing a shipwrecked. 1895. Realism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Valencia. San Pio V Fine Arts Museum

Allied landings in southern France by G. H. Davis
The scene of successful Allied landings in southern France during the Second World War: a pictorial map from coasts to mountains. Date: 1944

Allied occupation of French North Africa by G. H. Davis
The Allied Anglo-American occupation of French North Africa during the Second World War. A contour map of the Algerian and Tunisian coasts, with distances from Algiers to important sites

Philip Parker King - 2
PHILIP PARKER KING administrator in Australia, son of Philip Gidley King, explorer and hydrographer who mapped the northern and northwestern coasts. Date: 1793 - 1856

Philip Parker King
PHILIP PARKER KING administrator in Australia, son of Philip Gidley King, explorer and hydrographer who mapped the northern and northwestern coasts. Date: 1793 - 1856

The Bosphorus, Turkey - The Coasts of Asia and Europe Date: 1899

Napoleon gathering the fleet - Invasion of Britain
Decree signed by Napoleon wrote to ordering the meeting of the flotilla at Boulogne - 30th August 1805. From 1803 to 1805 a new army of 200, 000 men

Spain (1833). Carabiniers of coasts and borders. Litography. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

The riviera from Monaco to San Remo, as seen from a flight in an aeroplane

A Young Family waving goodbye to the British Arctic Expediti
Engraving showing a young mother and two children waving farewell to the ships of the British Arctic Expedition, as they depart

A Funeral in the Ice, British Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876
Engraving showing a funeral taking place in the Arctic, during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876. In the summer of 1875 the British Admiralty sent Captain George Nares with two ships

The Crew of HMS Alert Burning Guy Fawkes, November 1875
Engraving showing the crew of HMS Alert burning a Guy Fawkes, during the British Arctic Expedition, 5th November 1875. In the summer of 1875 the British Admiralty sent Captain George Nares with two

HMS Alert towing HMS Discovery through Icebergs, British
Engraving showing HMS Alert towing HMS Discovery through icebergs, with Disco Island in the background, as seen from HMS Valorous (left foreground) during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876

The Crew of the Pandora Recovering Mail from the Cairn on
Engraving showing the crew of the ship Pandora recovering mail, left by the British Arctic Expedition of 1875, from the cairn on top of Carey Island

HMS Alert in the North Atlantic, 1876
Engraving showing HMS Alert, her bow covered in ice, heading home to Great Britian at the end of the 1875-1876 Arctic Expedition

British Sailors meeting Greenland Women, Disco Island, 1875
Engraving showing the scene as the Royal Navy sailors, of the British Arctic Expedition, attempt to charm some of the female inhabitants of Greenland, 1875

Equipment used in the British Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876
Engraving showing a variety of equipment used during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876. Tents, small boats, cooking utensils and various cutting implements can be seen

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