Launching Collection (page 2)

Launch of HMS Waterloo at Chatham 1833
Launch of His Majestys ship, HMS Waterloo at Chatham in 1833. HMS Waterloo was a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Date: 10 June 1833

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

Launch of HMS Caledonia 1862
Launch of Her Majestys armour-plated screw-frigate HMS Caledonia at Woolwich Date: 24 October 1862

Secret name revealed, the Queen Mary
Queen Mary and King George V in a glass covered royal box on the lauching platform. Queen Mary over a microphone revealing the name of the long-kepted secret pronouncing the words

Hundred Years War, storming a fort
Siege of a castle, in the Hundred Years War. Date: circa 1380s

Fieseler Fi 103 - (V-1 flying bomb) on its launching ramp
Fieseler Fi 103 - V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 - Vengeance Weapon 1) on its launching ramp at the Imperial War Museum Duxford. Date: circa 1990s

Launch of Her Majestys Ironclad Frigate at Devonport Date: 1863

Launch of The Avenger Steam Frigate at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth
Launch of " The Avenger" Steam Frigate at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth. The ceremony of christening the vessel was performed by Miss Harding, a niece of the gallant Admiral Superintendent

Hot air balloon
Silhouette of a man helping to inflate a hot-air balloon ready for launching. First published The Independent Date: 1987

Christening a Ship before she is launched. Date: circa 1910s

Christening a Ship before she is launched - Our Navy cover
Front cover illustration by Charles John De Lacy (1856-1929) for Our Navy - Christening a Ship before she is launched Date: circa 1910s

Launching Control Officer, 2nd Lt D. H. Turner, of the 3?
Launching Control Officer, 2nd Lt D.H. Turner, of the 32nd Guided Weapons Regiment of the Royal Artillery at Ty Croes, North Wales

Launching a Coracle on the R. Boyne - a view of a man launching a round coracle into the River Boyne. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Louth). Date: circa early 1900s

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

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

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

Lifeboat / Cromer / Norfolk
A lifeboat creates a huge splash as it is launched into the sea at Cromer, Norfolk

Airborne Submarine
Launching a Mini-Submarine from the Air

Replace ships that have been sunk by German u-boats 1917
The first steps of the great programme of shipbuilding which is designed to counter the ruthless submarine warfare of the German attack

Communist China - shipbuilding yard
Communist China - a shipbuilding yard with two ships ready for launching, decorated with red and yellow bunting. This was seen as a new era for China during the Cultural Revolution. circa late 1960s

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

Launching a Canvas Curragh, North West Donegal - a view of a man on the sand of a beach pushing a curragh to the sea. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal). Date: circa early 1900s

Launching a Canvas Curragh, Rossapena, NW Donegall - a man launching a curragh, on the beach. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Donegal: Rosapenna). Date: circa early 1900s

WW2 Launching seaplane from deck catapult of a US Battleship
WW2 - Launching a seaplane from the deck catapult of the USS Colorado (BB-45), , the lead ship of the Colorado-class of battleships. Date: circa 1943

Launching a Curragh, North West Donegal - a view of two men on a beach launching a curragh. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal). Date: circa early 1900s

Paul Macartney at PR launch of Yellow Submarine
Paul Macartney at the PR launch of Yellow Submarine (the name of both an LP album and an animated film). Date: late 1960s

The Beatles at PR launch of Yellow Submarine
The Beatles at the PR launch of Yellow Submarine (the name of both an LP album and an animated film). Date: late 1960s

Cartoon, Launching the New Boat, Youth. A reference to a new play, Youth, co-written by Augustus Harris and Paul John Merrit, first performed at Drury Lane, London, on 6 August 1881. 1881

Launch of HMS Trafalgar at Woolwich, SE London, 21 June 1841. 1841

Shipbuilding in Ww1
The boilers are craned into a steamship : this is done after launching, when the vessel is afloat Date: 1914-1918

Launching Cleopatras needle, 1877
The launch of the " Cleopatra" from the Caesarium Beach at Alexandria, Egypt. Date: 1877

Tatler cover, launch of HMS Neptune, new super Dreadnought
Front cover of the Tatler, 6th October 1909 showing the launch of the worlds largest warship, HMS Neptune, the first of the super Dreadnoughts at Portsmouth by the Duchess of Argyle

WW2 poster, Every Rivet a Bullet -- Speed the Ships. Showing a newly constructed ship on the slipway ready for launching. Date: 1941

The icebreaker before its launching, 17 June 1899
The Russian caption translates as The icebreaker-ferry before its launching, 17 June 1899. Date: 1899

The Baikal on the day before launching
A reproduction of a painting by N. Gritsenko showing the icebreaking ferry Baikal on the day before launching. Date: 1899

Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter taking off from gun platform
Sopwith 1.5 Strutter single-seat bomber of the RNAS, taking off from a warships gun platform. Date: circa 1918

Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter taking off from ship
Sopwith 1.5 Strutter, launching from a makeshift turret-top platform on board a ship. Date: circa 1916-1918

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, final preparations for launch
Final preparations for the launching R.M.S. Queen Mary Ocean Liner then know as Hull Number 534. Hundreds of tons of tallow, soft soap

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, nearly ready for launching
The Queen Mary, then known as Hull Number 534, had been halted between 1931 and 1934 due to the Great Depression of the 1930s

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, 6 months of activity
Six months of ceaseless activity. The Queen Mary, then known as Hull Number 534, had been halted between 1931 and 1934 due to the Great Depression of the 1930s

HMS Douglas, British destroyer, WW1
HMS Douglas (D90), British destroyer, Scott class flotilla leader, seen here at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, prior to launching on 8 June 1918. (1 of 2) Date: 1918

Massey Shaw fireboat launch
Scene at the launch of the Massey Shaw fireboat. Date: 1935

The launch of the LFB Fireboat Massey Shaw at Cowes, officially launched by Mrs Morris, wife of the LFB Chief Major C C B Morris. Date: 1935

British observation balloon being launched, Arras, WW1
A British observation balloon being launched at Arras, France, 5 September 1915, by Louis Dauphin (1885-1926). Date: 1915

Poster design, British and American shipping
Poster design, Britain and America have over two million tons more shipping today than in August 1942

Janet Fookes MP launching yacht, Penzance, Cornwall
Janet Fookes (now Baroness Fookes, b. 1936), Conservative MP, launching a boat at Penzance, Cornwall Date: circa 1970s

Zeppelins aerial torpedo by G. H. Davis
The Zeppelins aerial torpedo: the appearance of the new missile. Top left: the launching cradle, showing firing pistol. Top right: the aerial torpedo with its turbine at rear end

Bomb launching installations in France by G. H. Davis
Homes of the flying bombs: the layout of launching installations in northern France during the Second World War. They are sometimes camouflaged among woods, or disguised as small villages. Date: 1944

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