Floats Collection (page 3)

Saab SB17BS fitted with floats

Hondarribia, Spain - House in the Marina Neighbourhood with its many occupants! Date: circa 1910s

Fun Seaside Transport - Bubble Boating. This postcard was presented as an award for correct dictation in 1931! Date: late 1920s

Chalon-sur-Soane - Carnival Day
Chalon-sur-Soane, a commune in the Saone-et-Loire department in the region of Burgundy in eastern France. The Gladiators Circus is the theme of the first float, complete with columned theatre

The Floating Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey
The Floating Bridge across the Golden Horn, Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1838

Submarine training at HMS Vernon - Escape Chamber
Submarine training at HMS Vernon, a shore establishment or stone frigate of the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. Waiting on the surface after a successful escape. Date: late 1930s

Festival Day - Rawalpindi - Pakistan Date: circa 1910s

de Havilland Canada DHC2 Beaver Mk1, CF-OMI, fitted with floats

de Havilland Canada DHC2 Beaver, CF-FHF, fitted with floats

Fairey IIIF, J9165, with float struts designed to measure the resistance of the floats

Airspeed AS30 Queen Wasp, K8888, fitted with floats

Short Seaford, NJ201, while fitted with Solent-type floats

Lakes Waterhen on Lake Windermere after conversion to twin floats in 1914. Date: 1914

Junkers A50 training and aerobatic aircraft on floats

Fairchild FC-2W-2 aircraft on ice at Lac du Bonnet Manitoba
Fairchild FC-2W-2 aircraft on ice at Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba, including CF-aN and CF-aO, circa 1929. The introduction of the first Fairchilds (which could be outfitted with wheels)

MBW-MFB fire float and tug at drill on River Thames
These fire floats and tugs were composite craft introduced in about 1877. They were replaced by fireboats from 1900

AFS contingent in Lord Mayors Show
Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) Control Room float in the Lord Mayors Show, City of London

NFS (London Region) River Thames Formation, WW2
The River Headquarters crest of the NFS River Thames Formation, which covered the Greater London area of the Thames, and included some eighteen fireboats and assorted fire floats and other tenders

London Region NFS / AFS fire floats and tenders, WW2
London firefighters and Auxiliary firefighters crewing fire floats and fire tenders, fitted with trailer fire pumps for wartime use, checking equipment and manoeuvring the craft on the River Thames

Boy operating pedal-driven drum raft
A boy operating a pedal-driven drum raft at Longridge Water Activities Centre, watched by a number of spectators. circa 1960s

4th July Parade - Independence Day - Jaffrey, New Hampshire
4th July Parade - Independence Day at Jaffrey, New Hampshire Date: 1907

Cork Floats
Fishermens cork floats. Date: 1960s

Carnival Scene in Havana, Cuba Date: circa 1910s

British sailors laying anti-submarine nets from drifter, WW1
British sailors laying anti-submarine nets from a drifter, lowering the nets and floats over the side, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Nice, France - Battle of Flowers by car
A Bataille de Fleurs (battle of flowers) in Nice, France: the procession involves automobiles, taking over from the traditional horse carts

Bear and his friends on a fishing trip
A bear and his friends go on a fishing trip, but are disappointed to see a No Fishing sign when they reach the water

Street carnival, Haverfordwest, South Wales
Scene at a busy street carnival in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. Decorated, horse-drawn floats make their way up the cobblestone high street, accompanied by crowds of people

Fishing nets hanging on racks at Mudeford, Dorset. There is also a pile of lobster and crab pots stacked in the shade of the building on the right. Pencil study by by Raymond Sheppard

Shooting birds from floating cycle
A sporting gentleman in top hat hunts ducks out in the middle of a lake thanks to his remarkable floating aquatic cycle - useability possibly determinate on the level of swell

The River Thames in London, 1890
Engraving showing a number of scenes along the River Thames from Gravesend to Rotherhithe, London, 1890. The images show (clockwise from top right): The Angel Inn

Granpop Floats a Company
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing Gran pop pushing off three anxious little monkeys on a log down a stream

A dainty cape, 1897
A smart cape made from chiffon decorated with sequins. The chiffon forms into a ruffle which floats gracefully with movement. Similar capes can also be made from velvet trimmed with ecru lace

Ludlows Flying Machine and a United States Warship, 1907
Photograph of the Flying Machine built by Mr. Israel Ludlow at the Aeronautical Building in the Jamestown Exhibition, 1907

Catching Wolf-Fish / 1555
Catching wolf-fish

Seance, New York
Seance at New York with an unnamed medium : though all hold hands, a phantom guitar floats above their heads !

Fishing Floats
Floats, holding up fishing lines

Bottom up after Scuttle
A German battleship floats bottom-up after scuttling at Scapa Flow

Ballerina and Cans
A ballerina holds a Liebig can - another floats in the air beside her - two more jars are at her feet

Ordeal by Ducking
ORDEAL BY DUCKING The suspect is bound and thrown into a river; if he drowns he is innocent, if he floats he is guilty

Car in Festival
The motor car replaces the old floats in the Corso fieri (procession of flowers) at Bordhigera, Italy

D D home out of Window
In the presence of three witnesses, D D Home floats out of one window and floats in again at another, at Ashley House, London

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