Oar Collection

Rowing Boat Eight
Oar pattern: a study of a typical rowing eight a rowing boat team of eight men, seen from a bridge above

Miss Lucy Pocock, sculling champion
Miss Lucy Pocock, the winner of the Thamesside Water Womens sculling championship. She came from a family of boat builders and sculling champions

Boy in school uniform rowing a boat. Date: circa 1920s

Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender) is helped to escape by boat from Scotland. 1746

Poster, Lugano, Switzerland. 20th century

Waterman (Petherick)
London characters: Once he offered the best way to cross the Thames but now every new bridge they build means less work for the THAMES WATERMAN. Still, its a nice uniform !

Shoot for (probably) Vanity Fair - Model and Rowers
Shoot for (probably) Vanity Fair - 1950s. Model with a team of rowers. Date: 1950s

Shoot for Carlsberg - mid 1960s (2/2). Date: circa mid-1960s

Shoot for Carlsberg - mid 1960s (1/2). Date: circa mid-1960s

Comic postcard, Plump woman and thin man in a rowing boat Date: 20th century

Making Rowing Oars
Mathematical principles are brought to bear on the construction of new oars for the Oxford University rowing team. Date: circa 1925

14th century galley. Engraving by Serra. Later colouration
14th century galley. Engraving by Serra. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2020

Middle Ages. Ship of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Engraving by Serra. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019

A TRIREME (three banks of oars) The larger oar at the stern is for steering ; note also the lantern, and the hooked prow for ramming an enemy vessel

Comic postcard, Children in a rowing boat on the sea Date: 20th century

Coracles - The River Dee Date: 1889

Comic postcard, Sea sickness in a rowing boat Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple in a rowing boat on the sea Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Conversation in a rowing boat Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Plump woman in a rowing boat Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Sea sickness in a rowing boat Date: 20th century

Fishing canoe and crew, Hawaii
19th century vintage photograph: fishing canoe and crew, Hawaii, image c.1890 s

A Maori canoe, Whanganui River, New Zealand, c. 1890
19th century vintage photograph: a Maori canoe, Whanganui River, New Zealand, c.1890

View of the port of Messina, Italy
Vintage 19th century photograph - panoramic view of the port of Messina, Italy

A Good Sport - A Glamorous Lady heading out for a paddle in a canoe Date: 1921

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - But you said Fall In
The Caption is But you said - Fall In.The lad in the pool is wearing a forage cap, the Officer has a wooden sword and the girls has an oar and a walking stick for rifles

c. 1900 - boating party along the Thames
c.1900 - boating party along the Thames

Victorian scrap, Robinson Crusoe leaves the island with Man Friday

Cartoon, The Coming Struggle (Disraeli versus Gladstone)
Cartoon, The Coming Struggle -- using the Boat Race as an analogy for politics, Disraeli and Gladstone are depicted as rowers in competing boats

Native American village with totem poles, Alaska
Native American Indian village with totem poles in Alaska. 1908

Native American canoe travel, NW Canada
Native American canoe travel in north west Canada. 1908

Ancient Greek ships - Galleys. Date: BCE

Betty Furness, American actress
Betty Furness (1916-1994), American actress. 1938

Norman warfare and seacraft: soldiers storming a tower with ladders 253, battle at sea on boats 254, Norman ship with sail, battle galley, ferry with oar and boat 255-258

Roman bireme with crocodile on the stern
Bireme with crocodile and heads carved on the stern, from a basrelief in the Temple of Fortuna Preneste. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own

Natives of Tahiti on war canoes. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after William Hodges from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy

Inuit (Eskimo) family in sealskin clothes in Greenland
Inuit (Eskimo) family in sealskin clothes, and man with kayak walking to a fishing boat in Greenland. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Ricci from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Natives of the Aleutian Islands, hunter in sealskins with kayak oar and hunting dog, and shamans in sacred robes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Longboat and gondola
Longboat 2 and gondola 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar

Yacht, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

Yacht, longboat and gondola
Yacht 1, longboat 2 and Venetian gondola 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Galley. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

The abandonment of Ariadne on Naxos island by Theseus on a galley. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789

Scrap, Peoples of the World - Norton Sound Alaska Inuit. 19th century

Life on the river, Hong Kong, China. Date: circa 1930s

Wine boat on the River Douro, Porto, northern Portugal
Rebello boat for transporting wine, on the River Douro in Porto, northern Portugal. circa 1908

Disembarkation pier, St Vincent Island, Cape Verde Islands
Disembarkation pier, St Vincent (Sao Vicente) Island, Cape Verde Islands, Atlantic Ocean. Date: circa 1908

Collegiate Rower with Oar from Harvard Date: 1906

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