Launch Collection (page 6)

RMS Titanic after launch, Belfast
RMS Titanic - Hurst and Co. real photo postcard of the ship after her launch at Belfast on 31 May 1911. Date: 1911

White Star Line - RMS Olympic launch menu
White Star Line - RMS Olympic extremely rare launch menu dated 20 October 1910. The launch luncheon was held at The Grand Central Hotel, Belfast

White Star Line - RMS Britannic, launch at Belfast - Signal series real photo postcard of Titanic's younger sister Britannic being launched in Belfast on 26 February 1914. Date: 1914

Launch of the HIJMS Kongo at Barrow-in-Furness
Launch of the HIJMS (His Imperial Japanese Majestys Ship) Kongo by Madame Koike, first Battleship of the Kongo Class and the last Japanese Capital Battleship built outside of Japan

Kilid Bahr Fort opposite Canakkale, Turkey Date: 1923

Japanese Battleship - Kashima - launched at Elswick
The Japanese Battleship - Kashima, shown at the Armstrong Whitworth shipyard at Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, just after launch in March, 1905

Brunel at G. E. Launch
ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL at the attempt to launch the Great Eastern, with Scott Russell and Henry Wakefield on his right, Lord Derby on his left Date: November 1857

Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat -ready to launch from the deck of USS Intrepid

Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat trio (forward view) ready to launch from USS Tarawa, 48

Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling surface to air missile about to launch 1430 hrs, 23 Aug 1944

Taking a small steam launch out for a river trip on a very still day. Date: circa 1904

The launch of the battleship, Mikasa"
The launch, at Barrow, of the largest battleship in the world (at the time), : the Japanese man-of-war, " Mikasa". Date: 1900

HMS Poseidon submarine
The launch of the British submarine, HMS Poseidon, a P class sub, launched on 21st June 1929 at the Barrow-in-Furness works of Vickers-Armstrong

Launch of Shamrock III
At Dumbarton, the yacht Shamrock III is launched, supported on pontoons. Owned by Sir Thomas Lipton, the yacht was to be his third challenger for the Americas Cup

BAC Thunderbird ground-to-air missile ready for launch during British Army field exercises in Western Germany. August 1970. Date: 1970

Royal Wedding 1947 - at Clydebank before wedding
Front cover of The Illustrated London News featuring photographs of Princess Elizabeth and her future husband, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown

Met Police Commissioner, Operation Bumblebee
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Condon (now Baron Condon, b 1947), giving a talk about Operation Bumblebee, a campaign for burglary prevention launched in 1993. Date: circa 1993

Sinking of the Daphne on the Clyde

Herceg Novi - Montenegro - Villa Spalatin. Located at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor and at the foot of Mount Orjen. Date: circa 1910s

Villa Eremitaggio (Verbania Pallanza), Italy - built in 1895 by William B. Kaupe, a wealthy American citizen with German origins, as well as a traveller and arts lover

Titanic launched at Belfast; Lord and Lady Pirrie
The launch of RMS Titanic, at Belfast on the joint birthday of its builder and his wife, Lord and Lady Pirrie, whose portraits are inset

Lady Nyassa sections brought to Africa
Visit of H.M.S. Gorgon to the Zambesi River: the Brig, Hetty Ellen discharging sections of Dr. David Livingstones new steamer, the Lady Nyassa into the Pioneer to take up the Zambesi River

Deutschland Pocket Battleship, 1931
Cut-away diagram showing the main features of the German Navys Deutschland pocket battleship, drawn shortly after her launch in 1931

RMS Carisbrook Castle, 1898
Photograph of the Castle Line Mail Steamship Carisbrook Castle, shortly after her launch in 1898. Built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company on the Clyde, she was 500 foot in length

Yarrow and Hedley Torpedo Steam Launch, 1875
Engraving of a torpedo steam launch built by Messrs. Yarrow and Hedley of Poplar, London, for the Argentinian Navy, February 1875

Playing with Model Boats
MODEL BOATS A father and his boys launch their model yachts upon the West Shore Pool at Llandudno, Wales

German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II landing in Malta
German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II landing at Valletta, Malta - November 1898. Date: circa 1898

View of Ravnefjeld, Loenvand, Norway
View of Ravnefjeld (Raven Mountain), Loenvand (Loen Vand, Lake Loen), Norway. With a steam launch, Lodolen, at the jetty. Date: circa 1908

Scenic view of Opstrynvand, Nordfjord, Norway, with a tourist steam launch at the jetty. Date: circa 1908

Launch of the Hannibal steamship, 1854
The launch of the HMSS Hannibal screw steamship on 31st January 1854 at Deptford Dockyard. The ship served in the Crimean War. Date: 1854

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