Navigation Collection

British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd
A poster advertising the British India Steam Navigation Company, better known as B.I. and its shipping agent Gray Dawes & Co. of London

Compass Drill, Training Ship Arethusa, Greenhithe, Kent
A group of boys aboard the Training Ship Arethusa receiving compass instruction. The ship received boys aged 13-16 from a variety of poor backgrounds, including the workhouse

Racing pigeon release
Racing pigeons released from their traps from transport lorries at the start of a race from Worcestershire to Tipton in The Black Country in the English Midlands Date: 1992

Compass Rose
A compass rose

RAF Varsity T Mk. 1 - RAF Gaydon
Royal Air Force Vickers Varsity T Mk.1 WF335 G from 2 Air Navigation School at RAF Gaydon Date: 1967

Pacific Line Poster
Pacific Line, Pacific Steam Line Navigation Company Liverpool, royal mail steamers to brazil and South America, 1904 1904

Bedwas Navigation Colliery, Monmouthshire, South Wales
View of Lewis Merthyr Pit, Bedwas Navigation Colliery, Monmouthshire, South Wales. The colliery opened in 1913 and closed in the mid-1980s, after the Miners Strike

Spanish map of England, Scotland and Ireland
A Spanish map of England, Scotland and Ireland and the coast of northern France from the time of the Anglo Spanish War. Joan Martines (1556-1591). Date: 1587

JACOBs STAFF
A sailor uses a Jacobs Staff to calculate the angle between a star and the horizon

Map of Lanzarote, Canary Islands, with soundings in fathoms. Date: 1835

Greek trireme. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. Navy Museum

The Tempest, Ariel
Act I, Scene II Ariel guides the ship to safety Date: 1909

Harrisons First Chronometer
This photograph shows Harrisons first chronometer, developed between 1729 and 1735 in response to the British Government offer of a 20

Grand Canal Looking South-East from the Campo Santa Sophia t
Canaletto (1697-1768). Italian painter. Grand Canal Looking South-East from the Campo Santa Sophia to the Rialto Bridge, c. 1756. Detail. Gemaldegalerie. Berlin. Germany

Mail Ship Flags & Others
Flags including those of the States of Australia, New Zealand, Royal Mail & the Orient and Pacific Steam Navigation Companies

Orion Steamship
Passenger liner of the Orient Steam Navigation line

Warships in a Heavy Storm, c. 1695, by Ludolf Bakhuysen (163
Ludolf Bakhuysen (1631-1708). Dutch painter. Warships in a Heavy Storm, c. 1695. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

The Florida. 16th century. Timucua Indian village. Food transportation by canoe. Engraving by Theodore de Bry (1528-1598). Brevis narratio floridae Eorum Quae in.... Frankfurt, 1591

Avro Lancaster I Aries, PD328, of the Empire Air Navigation School, Shawbury, warming up prior to its England to Cape Town record-breaking flight of 32hrs 21min

Gaillard Cut
The S.S. Oroya of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company passes through the Gaillard Cut

Inland navigation of England and Wales by
Map of the inland navigation of England and Wales by the canals and principal rivers, 1809. Copperplate engraving by Mutlow from John Mason Goods Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G

The lighthouse on Little Ross Island flashes at sunset across the entrance to Kirkcudbright Bay in the Solway Firth, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Engraving. Colored
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Explorer and navigator genoese. Columbus taking possession of the island of San Salvador. Engraving by Martin Rico after a painting of Isidro Gil

Dutch men-of-war in a storm off a rocky coast, 1672, by Wille
Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707). Dutch painter. Dutch men-of-war in a storm off a rocky coast, 1672. National Museum of Art. Copenhagen. Denmark

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, whistles used for signalling
Queen Marys three giant whistles two on the fore funnel and one on the midships funnel, were fitted. Each were seven feet in length, and could be heard five miles away, but so low pitched

Illustration, A Song of the English, Lighthouse
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

De Havilland Dragon G-ADDI Air Navigation and Trading Co
De Havilland Dragon G-ADDI of the Air Navigation and Trading Co at Blackpool in 1952, ex Railway Air Services and RAF Date: 1952

The Bentinck steamer
The steamship Bentinck, moored in the Thames, off Blackwall. The ship was owned by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P & O)

The Naze Tower, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The Naze Tower at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. An historic landmark, it was built on the cliffs in 1721 by Trinity House as a navigation mark to guide shipping

SS Orsova, 1909
Photograph of the Orient Steam Navigation Companys Australian Mail Liner SS Orsova at sea, 1909. Built in 1909 by John Brown and Co

Use of the Naval Rangefinder for Merchant Navy Navigation, 1
Illustration showing how a Naval Barrster or rangefinder could be used for Merchant Navigation. In this instance the officer of the merchant ship is finding his distance from the lighthouse in order

Drake, a GSN freighter
Drake, a General Steam Navigation freighter, unloads in the busy Port of London. Image from Mrs Strangs Travel Play Book published c.1920.Date: circa 1915

HENRY the Navigator (1394-1460). Portuguese prince, son of John I. Monument by Tom᳠ Costa (1894). Sculpture on bronze. PORTUGAL. Porto. Infante Dom Enrique Square

Avro 694 Lincoln, probably RE367, Aries III of the Empire Air Navigation School

Description de la Terre Universelle (1667). Map. Engraving

Catalan literature. 14th and 15th Centuries. Book of the Consulate of the Sea. Cover of the edition printed in Barcelona by Ballester and Gilio in 1523

Greek triremes. Engraving. Warship appeared in 6th c. BC: It was used by Phoenicians, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans and Carthaginians

Giffards Dirigible
Henry Giffards steam-powered dirigible - a major step towards the achievement of powered aerial navigation

Billboard advertisement - Surf Washing Powder
Billboard advertisement on Navigation Street, Birmingham, 12th August 1954 - Surf Washing Powder - Boils Spotless. 1954

Boeing B-52H Stratofortress 60-0008
United States Air Force - Boeing B-52H-135-BW Stratofortress 60-0008 (msn 464373)of the 19th Bombardment Wing, with a humorous caption on the nose: - Dear Rocky, not to win is a very Bad Thing

Beechcraft C-45H Expeditor N8640E (msn AF-510, ex 52-10580), of Grimes Manufacturing Company, in use as a flying laboratory for navigation and anti-collision lights

Cape Wrath headland and lighthouse from seaward - Scotland
Cape Wrath headland and lighthouse from seaward. North western tip of Scotland. The picture was taken from the 27ft sailing boat Jalcyon during her 3000 mile cruise around the entire coast of

Aldwarke lock on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation near Rotherham - coal transport by barge from Aldwarke Colliery. Date: circa 1920

Magnetron Valve - Britain's Great Contribution to Radar. Date: 1946

Vickers Valetta T. 3 WG264 - J
Royal Air Force - Vickers Valetta T.3 WG264 / J (msn 512), of 1 Air Navigation School, at Blackbushe on 2 September 1958. Date: 1958

White Star Line, First Class OSNC side plate
White Star Line, First Class Oceanic Steam Navigation Company side plate decorated in cobalt blue and gilt Greek key pattern. 8ins

White Star Line, Copeland Spode dinner plate
White Star Line, Copeland Spode a la carte dinner plate with gilt Oceanic Steam Navigation Company cobalt blue design. 9ins

White Star Line, Copeland Spode OSNC fruit bowl
White Star Line, extremely rare Copeland Spode a la carte fruit bowl with gilt Oceanic Steam Navigation Company cobalt blue design. 9ins

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