Floating Collection (page 3)

HMS Campania, British aircraft carrier, Festival of Britain
HMS Campania, British aircraft carrier, decorated for the Festival of Britain when she served as a floating exhibition hall, touring UK ports with a civilian crew. Date: 1951

The morning lounge at Biarritz
Scene on the beach at Biarritz in 1866, about a decade after the resort on the SW French coast was made fashionable by Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie

Return of Maximilians Body to Europe
Transporting the body of Maximilian from the floating catafalque onto the funeral chariot of the court. Crowds of people watch as Maximilians coffin is moved from the floating catafalque to

Stage effects at Covent Garden for Das Rheingold
Behind the scenes at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden demonstrating how the Rhine maidens are made to swim naturally in Wagners Das Rheingold. Date: 1936

Royal Doulton Potteries, Floating Flower Bowl
Royal Doulton Potteries, Burslem - Floating Flower Bowl with figure of mermaid. 1918

Burning of the Floating Batteries before Gibraltar - Siege of Gibraltar, 1782. 1782

The Dartmouth Ferry, Devon
The Dartmouth Ferry (also known as the DartmouthKingswear Floating Bridge, a vehicular cable ferry), operating between Dartmouth and Kingswear, Devon. Date: circa 1920s

Curtis British Entomology Plate 592
Trichoptera: Phryganea minor = Trichostegia minor (Curtis) [Plant: Eleogiton fluitans (Scirpus fluitans, Floating Club-rush)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 541
Diptera: Porphyrops wilsoni = Raphium melegantulum (Bute Porphyrops) [Plant: Apium inundatum (Hydrocotyle inundata, Floating White-rot)] Date: 1824-39

Thai paratroop trainee practising control of the parachute
Thai paratroop training by the Royal Air Force at RAF Sembawang in Singapore 07:The practice of controlling the chute while floating in the air. -Signature

Swimming Closeup Date: 1938

H M Dockyard, Bermuda - A Floating Dock
H M Dockyard, Hamilton Bermuda - A Floating Dock, containing the HMS Psyche. Date: circa 1908

Baby Scouts -- out at sea
Baby Scouts -- And when he gets a little tired of that, he cruises round the ocean in his hat. Date: 1900

Bamboo and its uses in China 1867
Bamboo grow wild very quickly in China because of it warm climate, often rises to the height of sixty or eighty feet with a hollow stem, or even three to four inches in one day

H. M.s Sultan, largest ironclad afloat 1870
Since the launch of H.M.S Sultan, seven months ago, she was fitted out and is quite ready for sea, carrying twelve heavy guns and her engines were of 1200-horse power. Date: 1870

Floating H. M.s Sultan out of dock 1870
Launch of H.M.S Sultan of Her Majestys ship Sultan, at Chatham Dockyard with crowds watching, most powerful ironclad afloat (at the time). Date: 1870

Dreadnought Hospital ship at Greenwich 1870
In 1870 the patients were transferred ashore to the infirmary. which was renamed the Dreadnought Seamens Hospital. HMS Dreadnought herself remained in use as an isolation hospital until she was

Floating dock, Deptford 1820
Floating dock, Deptford, London. Date: 1820

FLOATING TEA TIME 1932
A pair of Italian bathers take their afternoon tea in the sea by using a floating table. Date: 1932

Fashion - Dog 1865
Blue: demi-train, silk cord at hem, neck & as a device to loop up floating ribbon ends. Grey & purple: button & flat ribbon trim down the front & in points at the hem. Date: 1865

MINEFIELD AT SEA 1939
Sinister floating mines at sea. Date: 1939

SPIRIT PHOTO DEANE
Mrs Mackenzie sits, unaware that the spirit of John Ruskin is floating over her right shoulder Date: 1920s

FOLKLORE / FAIRIES
A knight of the Round Table comes across a number of fairies floating above the surface of a river

Floating swimming pool, Vienna, Austria
View inside a floating swimming pool on the River Danube, near the Reichsbrucke in Vienna, Austria. Date: 1877

Made in England, Kings Theatre, Southsea, a Harry Day production. circa 1910s

Algiers, Algeria - Quarried stone on floating barges in the harbour, awaiting export. Date: circa 1910s

A boatman steers a shikara boat loaded with animal fodder in the Vale of Kashmir, near Srinagar. The Himalayan mountains can be seen in the distance. Date: 1986

Seller paddles his boat into Damnoen Saduak floating market
A seller paddles his boat into the Damnoen Saduak floating market near Bangkok, Thailand. The backlight illuminates his vegetables. Date: circa 1985

Kashmir, Srinagar - boatman paddles boat with animal fodder
Kashmir, Srinagar. A boatman paddles a boat carrying animal fodder though a canal covered with green weed Date: 1986

Kashmir, Srinagar. Boatman asleep in shade on back of boat
Kashmir, Srinagar. A lazy boatman asleep in shade on back of a boat carrying animal fodder Date: 1986

Srinagar, Kashmir - floating houseboats Date: 1986

Chef prepares a Peking Duck - floating restaurant, Hong Kong
A chef, stripped to the waist, prepares a Peking Duck in a floating restaurant kitchen on a sampan boat in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Date: 1982

Kashmir - Srinagar. A man paddles a boat loaded with green fodder along weedy canal. Photographed from above looking down Date: 1989

Sleeping Kashmir boatman
A man asleep in the stern of a punt, or shikara, loaded with cattle fodder. The punt floats though the river weeds and only the mans legs and feet are visible Date: 1986

Child sticks toungue out, Bangkok
A small boy in traditional Thai straw hat pulls his tongue out at the camera at the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Bangkok Date: circa 1985

Floating bread market, Kashmir
Dawn light at the floating bread market on Lake Dal, near Srinagar, Kashmir Date: 1986

Japan-British Exhibition - Garden of the Floating Isle
Garden of the Floating Isle - The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910 took place at White City, London in Great Britain from 14 May 1910 to 29 October 1910. Date: 1910

Two kittens on a raft on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Pipistrellus sturdeei, Sturdees pipistrelle
A rare specimen of a Bonin pipistrelle, a slightly immature female, preserved in spirit and held by the Natural History Museum

Aesthetic Dancers
Two girls performing a graceful outdoor dance. Date: 1930s

Thumbelina drawn by a butterfly down a stream
Thumbelina, standing on a leaf, is drawn downstream by a butterfly. Illustration to a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835

Summer Frock / Doeuillet
Summer tunic dress: V -neck & fold-over collar, a gauged yoke to the gathered over- skirt, scalloped hems, a sash with floating ends & shoes with 3 bars over the instep

Machinery produced by Lawrence Hathaway, Member of IMechE, at his Trinity Pumps Company, Gobowen. The company produced floating pumps which were first used in fire engines and then cars

Karaweik Palace restaurant, Kandawgyi Lake, Yangon, Myanmar
Karaweik Palace floating restaurant, Kandawgyi Lake, Yangon, Myanmar Date: 2016

The Largest Floating Dry Dock in the World - Southampton
The Largest Floating Dry Dock in the World (960 ft. long and 134 ft. wide) at Southampton, Hampshire, England. Built in 1922 by Armstrong, Whitworth, for the Southern Railway. Date: circa 1923

Shipbuilding at Belfast, the 200 Ton Floating Crane - a view of the large crane. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Sphere cover - floating gondola at the Savoy by Matania
A remarkable dinner party given at the Savoy Hotel, London by Mr G. A. Kessler who entertained twenty-four guests in a large white

Boy and girl in a fantasy boat on a Christmas card -- A Christmas Dream. Date: circa 1890s

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