Oar Collection (page 4)

Balloon ascent of Lunardi, Artillery Ground
Ascent of Lunardis celebrated air balloon from the Artillery Ground, London, watched by spectators. 15 September 1784

Airship, the Eagle, on display in London
Engineering drawing of an airship, on display to the public at the Grounds of the Aeronautical Society, Victoria Road, opposite Kensington Gardens, London. With descriptive text below. 1835

Oil drum raft racing, Longridge Centre

Sea Scouts rowing a whaler along a stretch of water. circa 1960s

Sea Scouts in a whaler near Tower Bridge, London. circa 1960

Scouts in canoes and boats on a stretch of water, with people watching them from behind a fence. 1966

Sea Scout crews in dinghies

Rowing - getting into the boat
A rather interesting early glow-in-the-dark postcard depicting rowers getting into their boat Date: 1920s

American Scouts paddling boats
Groups of scouts sit in large boats on a lake and attempt to paddle without crashing into one another. circa 1960s

Bronze age lake dwellers, Aldin
Swiss lake dwellers of the Bronze age go about their daily lives, living upon the shores of what is today Lake Zurich. Their houses are constructed over the water

St Justinian lifeboat, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
People in the St Justinians lifeboat, near the lifeboat station, on the Pembrokeshire coast, Dyfed, South Wales

Ships crew in rowing boat with oars held vertically
The crew of a ship in a rowing boat with the oars held vertically

Oarsmen and their boats - Eyup
Oarsmen with their boats at Eyup, Constantinople, Turkey. Close to the entrance to the Silver Horn

Harvesting kelp
A boat is piled high with kelp and rowed ashore by two sullen-looking gentlemen

Varnishing Oars, 1930
Mr. A. Bushnell painting the blade of an Oxford oar which will be used in the Oxford vs Cambridge boat race. For over 50 years he was responsible for such finishing touches

Large Burmese Canoes, 1910
Photograph of two Burmese canoes, each with at least twenty rowers, 1910. Each rower balanced on the inside foot, with the outside one slipped through a strap on the oar; thus they used an arm

Admiral McDonalds Folding Boat, 1878
Engraving of Admiral McDonalds Patent Folding Boat, as exhibited at the Crystal Palace, London, November 1878. This lightweight

Venetian man with gondola
A Venetian man on the lookout for some tourists to travel in his gondola

Lord Nelson / Privateer
HORATIO, LORD NELSON English naval officer: boarding an American privateer in a violent gale, while a Lieutenant on the Lowestoft in 1777

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