Dive Collection (page 4)

Two Royal Navy Divers return to deck. Date: 1903

Blackburn Skua II - Fleet-fighter Dive Bomber. Date: circa 1940s

Male swimmer admiring a lady diver, who appears to have suffered a wardrobe malfunction (in the chest region) on her descent toward the waves

Manx Cats go for a swim. This card bears the Manx text " Kys ta Shiu?", which translates as " How are you?". Date: 1907

Diving boys at Nassau, Bahamas. Diners taking luncheon of the terrace at the Prince George Hotel are treated to the aquatic antics of the islands diving boys who retrieve coins tossed into

Douglas A-24 Dauntless dive bomber about to bomb Wake Island on 6 October 1943. Date: 1943

Junkers Ju87B Stuka in the dive

Lymnocryptes minimus, jack snipe
Plate 80 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

The closed canteen and the open dive. Illustration shows an old woman labeled Prohibition and holding an umbrella labeled Intolerance

The canteen or the dive - in the name of decency and common

Man diving at a seaside resort
A man does an elegant dive from a diving board at an unidentified seaside resort. Date: circa 1930s

Man diving into an outdoor pool at a seaside resort
A man dives from a diving board into an outdoor pool at an unidentified seaside resort. Date: circa 1930s

Diving Dude & Dog
A man and his sheepdog dive into a river together! Date: 1930s

Granpop Tests the Swimming Pool Water by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood depicting his creation Granpop, an orang-utan, testing a teacup of water before his animal friends launch themselves from a makeshift springboard

19th Century Dive Bell
A diving bell in use, collecting materials from the sea-bed : note the lights, powered from the boat anchored overhead. Date: late 19th century

Stukas Bomb Norway
Norway : German Junkers JU-87 Stukas dive-bomb Norwegian railway installations in order to hamper resistance to the German invasion Date: May 1940

Diagram of R101 crash
A diagram showing how the British R101 airship dived twice and crashed on a hillside of Allonne, near Beauvais, France on 5th October 1930 on its maiden voyage

Swimming cartoon
Cartoon of an attractive young woman in a bikini about to dive into a swimming pool while an RAF trainee cadet during World War Two looks on admiringly

Met Police Thames Division
A diver of the Underwater Search Unit of the Metropolitan Police boarding a Thames Division launch after searching in the River Thames, London

Algiers, Algeria, Boy by the harbour
Young boy on the harbour wall at the port of Algiers, Algeria about to take a dive into the water!

Florida travel poster
Travel poster advertising the attractions of Florida including fishing, boating, swimming and attractive residential sites. A man fishes on the bank while two ladies dive from a platform

Home Guard training against bombers
Training for the Home Guard at Osterley Park, in the suburbs of west London. Riflemen being trained to meet dive-bombing attacks by practising rapid fire against a diving model that represents a 50

The Humorist Summer No
A rotund couple dive off their respective boats in perfect symmetry scaring aware fish and quite unaware of the paddling crowds nearer to the beach

Handspring dive - 1906 Olympic Games
Clark of Great Britain performing a handspring dive at the 1906 Olympic Games in Athens. The event was staged as a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the resumption of the Games

On board a passenger ship, Aden, 1891
Engraving of a scene on the deck of a passenger ship anchored off Aden; European passengers are pictured throwing coins into the water for local children to dive for

Divers at Seaside 1932
Two female swimmers, one confident, one hesitant prepare to dive into the sea watched by a group of admiring men

Maltese Boys Dive C1880
Passengers on an India-bound P&O liner are treated to a display of diving (for coins) by Maltese boys

Stale Beer Dive 1891
This underground stale beer dive on Mulberry Steet Bend, New York isn t fancy but it is cheap, and thats what counts for the boozy clientele

Stukas Bomb Malta
German JU-87 Stuka dive- bombers attack the island of Malta, a vital Allied base which the Axis powers were never able to take despite prolonged attacks

Girl Snorkeller
A young woman, in a bikini, prepares to go snorkelling by putting on her rubber flippers. Her goggles & snorkel are worn on her head ready for the first dive

Allied Convoy Attacked
German JU-87 Stukas dive- bomb an Allied convoy

Dive Bombing in Biarritz
Boys piggie back dive bombing at Biarritz, France!

Dover Bombed 1940
Dive-bombing Dover : highly imaginative Italian depiction showing German Stukas attacking the harbour

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