Gulf Collection (page 5)

Shatt al-Arab - Basra, Iraq - also known as the Arvand Rud (River) - the waterway leading out into the Persian Gulf. Date: circa 1910s

Naples, Italy - Vesuvius and the Castel dell Ovo
Naples, Italy - Mount Vesuvius and the Castel dell Ovo ( Egg Castle ) - perched on an island in the Gulf of Naples Date: circa 1910s

Ireland / Glengarriff
Glengariff, the lovely land- locked harbour in County Cork, Ireland, where the vegetation luxuriates in the warmth of the Gulf Stream and the growth is almost tropical. Date: 1950s

Shipping on the Shatt al-Arab - Basra, Iraq - the waterway which eventually leads out into the Persian Gulf. Date: circa 1910s

Ottoman Turkish Map of Southern Iraq
Ottoman Turkish Map of the southern province of Iraq and the territory which is now Kuwait, The area depicted focusses on Basra and the Shatt al-Arab region leading out into the Persian Gulf

Panorama of Naples, Italy
Fabulous panorama of the Bay (Gulf) and City of Naples, with the ever-present menacing silhouette of Mount Vesuvius smoking away back left... Date: circa 1910s

German U-boat 49 hitting Giovanni Albanesi, WW1
German U-boat 49 and crew in the foreground, with the Italian sailing ship the Giovanni Albanesi, which she had just set on fire in the Gulf of Naples during the First World War. Date: 19 March 1918

Lady from Salamis, Greece
Lady from Salamis (the largest Greek island in the Saronic Gulf), Greece Date: circa 1905

Avenida del Golfo (Gulf Avenue), Havana, Cuba Date: circa 1910s

Plain of Bejaia viewed from the ramparts
Plain of Bejaia(Bougie), in Kabylia, north eastern Algeria, viewed from the ramparts

Italy - Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily

Kotor - Montenegro
The spectacular setting of Kotor in Montenegro, a coastal town located in a most secluded part of Gulf of Kotor. The town is the administrative centre of the Kotor municipality

Better impressions by sea
Poster encouraging people to travel by sea for Better Impressions. Places visited on the way include the UK, Egypt, Sudan, East and South Africa, the Persian Gulf, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Malaya

Aegina, Greece. Situated in the Argo-Saronic Gulf close to the Port of Pireaus on the mainland. Named after the most beautiful of the 20 daughters of the Greek God Asopes, the river God

HMS Ramillies bombarding Turkish positions
Birds eye view (taken from a seaplane) of the British warship HMS Ramillies bombarding Turkish positions in the Gulf of Ismid in early July 1920

Mexico - Baluarte de Santiago at Veracruz
The city of Veracruz is a major port city and municipality on the Gulf of Mexico in the Mexican state of Veracruz. This view shows the Baluarte de Santiago

Gulf of Naples - Naples, Italy
A lovely view of the Gulf of Naples with a solitary rowing boat heading away from shore

Bombardment of Fort Masnaah, Gulf of Oman, 1874
Bombardment of Fort Masnaah, Gulf of Oman, by two vessels of the Royal Navy, H.M.S. Rifleman and H.M.S. Philomel and the Hugh Rose, a vessel from the Bombay Marine service

Port Madryn, Nuevo Gulf, Patagonia, 1887
Engraving of the coast-line of Port Madryn, with a schooner in the foreground and a steam train in the background, a remote area of South America (now Argentina)

Nearchoss Voyage
Nearchos, one of Alexanders generals, sails from the Indus to the Persian Gulf

RMS Forth, 1849
Engraving of the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Companys paddle-steamer Forth. Built in Leith in 1841, the Forth went missing between Southampton and the West Indies early in 1841

Djerba Island situated in the Gulf of Cabes. Near the Castle of Es Suk, is a tower of skulls and thigh-bones of fourteen thousand Spanish soldiers from 1558

Greece Salamis
The Gulf of Salamis, scene of the battle of 480 BCE when the Persian fleet of Xerxes was defeated by a Greek fleet, though outnumbered three to one

Oliva, Danzig
The Cistercian monastery of Oliva, located on the gulf of Danzig, was founded in 1170 and survived thanks to the protection of the Teutonic Knights

Attack on Schinss
British soldiers from Bombay prepare to attack the pirate stronghold of Schirss, in the Persian Gulf

Gulf of Aqaba, Jordan
The island of Faroun in the Gulf of Aqaba (formerly spelt Akabah)

Italy / Trieste 1840
The harbour of the commercial seaport of Trieste at the head of the Adratic Sea on the Gulf of Trieste

Iran Busheir
Distant view of the port (formerly ka Bushire) on the Persian Gulf

Syrians Go to Hormuz
Aleppo (Syrian) merchants travel to the twice-a-year market at Ormuz (Persian Gulf), the biggest trading place with the Orient

Pearl Fishing / 1870
Fishing for pearls in the Persian Gulf. Native divers hold their breath and drop down to the sea bed on lines

Advert / Gulf Geyser 1900
Richmonds Gulf Stream geyser

Estonia / Tallin / Revel
Tallin (formerly Revel): south entrance to the Gulf of Finland

Ethiopia / Gulf of Zula
Gulf of Zula (Annsley Bay), East Africa, where an English expedition disembarked

Hartmanns Diving Bell
Professor Hartman uses his pressurised diving apparatus in the Gulf of Napoli, Italy

Loading Dog-Sledge
Loading goods onto a dog- sledge at Fort St Michael (formerly Michaelowski) in Norton Gulf, Alaska

Laying Cable to India
The Indo-European telegraph : landing the cable in the mud at Fao, in the Persian Gulf

Italian Lakes C18Th
Volcanic lakes Lucrino and Averno, Gulf of Cuma and part of Baia in the Bay of Naples

Events / Australia
A Dutch crew, in the DEUYPHEN (= Dove) discover the Gulf of Carpentaria, but sail away almost at once

Vasco da Gama meeting Christians at Sao Tome
Vasco da Gama meets Christians at Sao Tome, an island in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa

View from the sea, Hormuz, Iran
A view from the sea of Hormuz, Iran -- an island in the Persian Gulf

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