Masts Collection (page 6)

Whitby, North Yorkshire - The Herring Fleet Unlading. Date: circa 1908

Three runaway schoolboys wash up on a deserted island, each hanging onto a broken mast - a solitary cormorant doesn t know quite what to make of these new arrivals. Date: 1898

Turkish Imperial Steamship - Ertogrul
Turkish Imperial steamship (albeit still with high masts for sails) the Ertogrul (named after the father of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire) riding high in the Bosphorus Date: circa 1930

Italian Naval vessel - Saida. A modified Spaun Class protected cruiser, formerly part of the Austrian fleet - ceded to Italy in 1920

CH transmitter masts

PORTUGAL. Lisbon. A NATO sign is seen through flags masts, on November 18, 2010 in Lisbon on the eve of a NATO Summit of Heads of States and Government held on 19-20 November 2010 in Portugals capital

RSS Discovery moored at Westminster Bridge, London
RSS Discovery (stern view) moored at Westminster Bridge, London. circa 1950

Coronation 1937 - Regent Street decorated
Regent Street in central London decorated with red, white, blue and gold for the Coronation of King George VI in May 1937

RSS Discovery in the Antarctic. Launched in 1901 and designed for Antarctic research, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (4 / 7)
The distinctive two-masted sailing barge (barque) on the still waters of Lake (Lago) Leman in Northern Italy Date: circa 1910s

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (7 / 7)
Lake Garda (Italian - Lago Garda or Benaco) - a two-masted sailing barge on the waters of the lake with the imposing form of the Italian Alps (specifically the peak of Monte Baldo)

Oyster Boats at Billingsgate Market, London, 1877
Engraving showing oyster boats (on right, with masts) and lighters, in the River Thames, outside Billingsgate Fish Market, London, 1877. Date: 26 May 1877

B. B. C. Masts
The B.B.C, (British Broadcasting Corporation) television masts at Daventry, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1960s

Television Masts
Television masts at Charwelton, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1960s

STEAMSHIP FLORA 1862
Dudgeons new double-screw iron steam-ship Flora. Date: 1862

Sailing boat off Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A large sailing boat with its sails furled, off Fishguard Harbour, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

City of Paris ship at Milford Haven Docks, South Wales
View of the City of Paris ship in for repair at Milford Haven Docks, South Wales, with a railway track in the foreground

Car at the docks with masts in the background
A car sits at the docks with a well-dressed woman in the front and a man in a flat cap in the back. In the background is a forest of ships masts and rigging

Music sheet cover for Erin Go Bragh Quadrille
Music sheet cover for the Erin Go Bragh Quadrille by Charles d Albert (1809-1886), with a view of the Custom House Quay in Dublin, Ireland, at sunset

View of the harbour and pier at St Ives, Cornwall
A view of the harbour and Smeatons Pier at St Ives, Cornwall, with a range of boats. Two little girls in large-brimmed hats and smocks are doing some beachcombing

View of boats in St Ives harbour, Cornwall
A view of fishing boats in the harbour at St Ives, Cornwall

Scottish-built fishing boat out at sea
A 45 foot Scottish-built inshore wooden fishing boat, out at sea on a relatively calm day

Fishing boats at St Ives, Cornwall
A large number of fishing boats and fishermen in the harbour at St Ives, Cornwall

Model fishing boat maker, Cornwall
A model fishing boat maker in his workshop, somewhere in Cornwall. He is in the process of constructing a new boat with two masts

Turkish Steamship Ertogrul
Turkish Imperial steamship (albeit still with high masts for sails) the Ertogrul (named after the father of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire) riding high in the Bosphorus

Woman up a mast
A woman beams from the top of the mast of the " Medusa", looking on top of the world

Fishing boats in a harbour, Devon
Fishing boats in an unidentified harbour in Devon. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Clan Mackenzie steamship on the Suez Canal, Egypt
The Clan Mackenzie steamship on the Suez Canal, Egypt. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Natives unloading cargo from boats
Native men unloading cargo from boats, in an unidentified location. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Sailing Dinghy and some Hulks, Britain, c. 1877
Illustration showing three people in a small sailing dinghy crossing the bows of an old hulk, Britain, c.1877. The hulk has had its masts removed and would have been permanently moored

Charing Cross Railway Bridge, March 1860
Engraving of the Charing Cross railway bridge over the Thames, with Westminster in the distance, from the Illustrated London News, 31st March 1860

Stripping Blubber
Stripping whale blubber

Blondins Tightrope
The exact schematics of the tightrope assembled for a performance by the legendary tight-rope walker Charles Blondon (1824-1897) who crossed Niagara Falls in 1859

STEAMSHIP FORTH 1849
The Steamer Forth (which went missing in 1849)

Galleys Attack Town
Armoured galleys lower their masts and attack a town, with protection for the oarsmen from the arrows of the defenders

Brest Naval Yard
The apparatus for raising and replacing the masts of sailing ships, in the French naval harbour of Brest

Blackwall Mast House
The Mast House at Blackwall - where sailing ships would be fitted with their masts

St Elmos Fire / Columbus
Christopher Columbus reports that, during his second voyage, Saint Elmos Fire appeared at the top of his masts, to the alarm of his crew

Teenagers by the boating lake, Devon
Two teenage boys and a teenage girl, all in their evening best, hanging out by the boating lake, Devon, England. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Steamship Leith 1847
The Leith arriving at Granton Pier, Edinburgh, while The Monarch leaves for London

Great Eastern / Lifeboats
Lifeboats on the starboard quarter of the Great Eastern

Warship / 3rd Draught
Third Draught of a First Rate. A profile cross-section of a warship showing the layout of the sails, masts & rigging & including crows nests

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