Embark Collection

Budleigh Salterton
Trippers at this Devon resort embark on a tourist steamer able to come close to the beach thanks to the steeply shelving shoreline. A gulls eye view from the west

Save Food / Wwi Poster
A First World War poster encouraging people to save food, featuring a sailor about to embark for war on a battle ship

Casablanca, Morocco - Maritime Station
Casablanca, Morocco - Embarkation at the Maritime Station Date: circa 1910s

Queen Victoria and family entrain for Scotland
Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the Royal children entrain for Scotland at the temporary station in Maiden Lane before the opening of Kings Cross in 1852

Blackburn Beverley C. 1 W
Royal Air Force - Blackburn Beverley C.1 W, at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, preparing to embark troops for a mission. Date: circa 1960

Troops wading out to embark at Dunkirk, WW2
Men of the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk, northern France, wading out to sea to a rescuing vessel during the evacuation. Date: 1940

Scenes during the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2
Scenes during the evacuation of Dunkirk, in northern France, showing the beach with debris, the embarkation of British troops onto various rescue ships and boats

Troops near Dunkirk during the evacuation, WW2
Troops near Dunkirk, northern France, wading out to sea to a rescuing vessel (a Clyde river steamer) during the evacuation. Date: 1940

Bray, near Dunkirk, during the evacuation, WW2
The British Expeditionary Force lining up on a beach near Bray, to the east of Dunkirk, northern France, during the evacuation, with men making their way into the water ready to embark onto vessels

Scene during the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2
Scene during the evacuation of Dunkirk, on the northern French coast, with German dive-bombers attacking shipping and setting a paddle steamer on fire

Balboa sets out on the Pacific
Vasco nunez de Balboa prepares to embark on the pacific, standing on the beach as row boats are prepared. Date: 1516

The Embarkation of Columbus at Palos 3 August 1492
The embarkation of Columbus at Palos, 3 August 1492. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) kneeling at stern of boat with crew, receiving blessing from monk, with various onlookers and weeping women

ROMANIAN JEWS EMIGRATE
Romanian Jews at the Gare de Lyon, Paris, on their way to Le Havre where they will embark for America where, they feel sure, there will be no discrimination against Jews. Date: 1892

French soldiers of the 48th Regiment of the Line embark aboard the English ship The St Vincent at Calais, destination the Crimea Date: 1854

FRENCH TROOPS FOR ITALY 1849
French troops embark at the outer harbour, Marseille, for the war in Italy. Date: 20 April 1849

Women prisoners transported to Cayenne
At Toulon, young female prisoners embark for Cayenne, having chosen marriage in the colonies rather than a prison sentence. Date: 1866

Noton luggage advertisement
Advertisement for Noton Luggage showing examples from the Luxan Grain range. The cases are accompanying a rather elegant couple onto a cruise ship or passenger liner

Cunard Line to New York
Poster advertising the Cunard Line service to New York and the Continent via Fishguard in Wales, featuring a passenger liner

Arriving at Catania to embark for Italy
Photograph: Arriving at Catania to embark for ItalyShows tanks, trucks and other vehicles lined up for embarkation. From a photograph album containing 246 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert

Your King & Country Need You, 1914.Chromolithograph recruiting poster, after Lawson Wood, 1914, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, as poster No 18.A British Infantryman

Mahdist War - Sudan Campaign - Black troops leaving Massowah - Troops preparing to embark. Part of Box 244 Boswell Collection - Sudan War. Date: 1881 - 1889

Mercenaries embarking from Hesse to America. 1776. Copperplate engraving of the time

WW1 - African-American G. I.s embark for France
WW1 - African-American G.I.s boarding a military transporting vessel for France. The African-Americans served with the American Expeditionary Force on the Western Front. Date: 1918

WW1 - Embarkation of Troops at Southampton Docks
WW1 - Embarkation of Troops At Southampton Docks Date: circa 1915

The Royal visit to India and Pakistan
The royal travellers about to board their Britannia airliner on their way to India and Pakistan. Date: 1961

Illustrated London News front cover of the Prince of Wales
Front cover of The Illustrated London News featuring a camera portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor) by Hugh Cecil

Social / Japan Snow 18C
Two Japanese persons walk through the snow; actually they are about to embark on a boat, but you can t tell that from the picture Date: late 18th century

Disembarking from a ship - Mollendo, Peru. Crew members from arriving ships were lifted from their boat via a crane, the Pacific swell being too great for normal landings! circa 1930s

American soldiers, off to Vera Cruz, Mexico

The Kings Visit to the Antarctic exploring ship Discovery
Sir Clements Markham presenting Captain Scott to King Edward VII on board the Discovery at Cowes on August 5th, 1901, prior to Scott embarking on his polar expedition to the Antarctic with Shackleton

Bizerte, Tunisia - Unloading the ferry of its contents of cyclists, wagons, pedestrians and what appears to be a stagecoach (!) on the left and those awaiting to embark on the right

D-Day - Emabarkation for US assault troops
Embarkation for US assault troops, about to set sail for the invasion of France. D-Day began on June 6th, 1944 at 6:30am and was conducted in two assault phases - the air assault landing of allied

Fashions for The Season
An array of elegant dresses and outdoor outfits suitable for ladies about to embark on the The London Season during the 1890s

British Troops Embark
At Portsmouth, men of the Wiltshire Militia go aboard ship for the Crimea

British Embark 1793
The British Guards embark to fight the French who have invaded Holland

The Civil war in America: the 5th regiment of New York Zouav
The Pictuesque New York zouave regiments dressed in distinctive baggy trousers worn by freedom fighters in Hungary. Here they are shown passing through Broadway on their way to embark for the wars

French Troops for Italy
French troops embark at Marseille for the war in Italy

French Leave Marseille
French reinforcements embark from Marseille for a renewed attack on Garibaldis Republicans at Rome

New landing stage at Liverpool
A new landing stage, being towed to her moorings by seven steamers. The landing stage enabled passengers to embark easily at St. Georges Pier, Liverpool

War with Morocco - 3
Spanish forces pass through the gorges of the Sierra Morena on the way to Cadiz, where they will embark for the war with Morocco

Leaving Malaga
Spanish troops embark at Malaga for the war with Morocco, where they will be victorious under Juan Prim

Elephant Ride
Children embark on an elephant ride at Regents Park zoo, London

Garda Embarkation
Garibaldis men embark on lake Garda, prior to attacking the Austrians in the Italian Tyrol

Garibaldi Leaves Marsala
Garibaldis thousand embark at Quarto, Sicily, to invade the mainland

Austrians on Lake
Austrian troops embark in boats on lake Garda, the easiest route in this mountainous region

Drake Starts his Voyage
Francis Drake prepares to embark on a worldwide voyage in his ship Golden Hind

Italians Emmigrate / Libya
20, 000 Italian peasants land at Tripoli to embark on Il Duces resettlement plan in Libya, North Africa

Leaving for Algeria
A French family prepare to embark for Algeria - at this time, a French colony. Two servants accompany the family, as well as porters carrying their luggage

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