Oars Collection (page 5)

Lunardis balloon (bearing a lion and unicorn royal crest) and car containing three people. 1785

Sea Scouts in whalers
Sea Scouts in two whalers, unshipping the oars. circa 1960

Sea Scouts and Cub Scouts at a regatta
Sea Scouts, Cub Scouts and their leaders at a regatta, with spectators and tents on the far bank of the river. 20th century

RSS Discovery and Danish Long Boat, London
RSS Discoverys Commissioner Colquhoun (nicknamed Koko) receives an address from the crew of a Danish Long Boat, on August Bank Holiday on the River Thames in London

Second pier at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
View of the second pier at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, built in 1869. An earlier pier built further up the coastline was destroyed by a winter storm in 1881

Sea Scouts on emergency training
Sea Scouts getting under way for emergency training on RSS Discovery. 5 March 1939

Sea Scouts with HMS Victory, Portsmouth harbour
Sea Scouts rowing boats in Portsmouth harbour with HMS Victory in the background. circa 1920s

Sea Scouts with Prince of Wales and Baden Powell
Sea Scouts in a cutter raising their oars, as they row Edward, Prince of Wales, Admiral Hickley and Chief Scout Baden-Powell across the lake at Alexandra Park, North London. 7 October 1922

Sea Scouts rowing whaler, London Docks
Sea Scouts rowing a whaler in the London Docks. circa 1960

Three Sea Scouts in a dinghy off TS Mercury
Three Sea Scouts in a dinghy off their training ship TS Mercury, enjoying the sound of the harmonica. circa 1912

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

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

Mercury Sea Scouts rowing an open cutter. 1912

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

Boatmen of Jaffa in their barque, Israel (then under Ottoman control) - the boatmen used to ferry visitors from larger ships into the port in these craft. Date: circa 1903

Loading pontoon boats with ammunition, Western Front, WW1
British troops loading pontoon boats with ammunition on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

New Zealand war canoe

Flooding in Lyon in 1910
Flooding in Lyon in January 1910 caused a great rise in the water level of the River Rhone. Here a baker and his boys in his traditional bateau boat

River Days - Couple going boating
A young couple spending River Days out boating The gentleman is doing the gentlemanly thing and carrying the picnic hamper, the cushions and the oars! Date: circa 1906

Boys in training, oarsmanship, Shotley Barracks, WW1
Boys in training, receiving their first lesson in oarsmanship at Shotley Barracks during the First World War. They are naval cadets attached to HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training ship. Date: 1914-1918

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

Couple on a Boat
A young couple who have caught a fish appear to be in danger of capsizing as the man attempts to get back on board following some diving! 1960s

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

Two couples on an outing in a boat
Two youngish couples enjoying an outing in a boat. Two of them are standing, and two are sitting. The oarsman, wearing a spotty bowtie, holds the oars in a cross shape in front of him

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

Lifeboats at Padstow, Cornwall
The Padstow Steam Lifeboat Helen Peele (background) at the quayside in Padstow, Cornwall, with the surfboat Edmund Harvey in the foreground

Atlantis Hotel, Barbados
Atlantis Hotel, Bathsheba, east coast of Barbados, West Indies

Henley Regatta Winners from Belgium
The winners of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta, from the Royal Club & Royal Sport Nautique Club of Ghent, Belgium. This is the 8-man crew with cox (seated in cap) and trainer

The launching of the Constantinople Lifeboat
An elder lifeboatman lifts his hammer to strike out the holding peg to launch the Constantinople lifeboat and its team of lifeboatmen down a wooden ramp. The boat is called the Shellu

Fishermen pushing off from the shore. The caption reads: " Good Fortune Guide Thee". A scene from the coast of Scotand on the West coast, close to Fort William

George V and family visiting Ireland
King George V, Queen Mary, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) and Princess Mary landing in Ireland from the Royal Yacht during a royal visit

King and Queen of Sweden in Royal Barge
The King and Queen of Sweden in their Royal barge - Stockholm, Sweden

Turkish gallantry
A Young Turkish man helps his pretty girl into his rowing boat for a jolly row across the Golden Horn, Constantinople

Turkish woman fishing
A Turkish woman in a small rowing boat does a spot of quiet fishing near Constantinople

Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey - Imperial barge
Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey (1844 - 1918) with his sons in an imperial barge returning to the Old Palace, with the more modern barge standing off in distance (see below)

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

Native Rowing barge and Oarsmen - Morocco
A large traditional Moroccan rowing barge off the coast at Safi, Morocco

Ship of Europa
Though driven by oars, this vessel on Europa, one of Jupiters moons, is powered not manually but by the energy taken from the ether which forms the moons atmosphere

Making Oars 1930
Making wooden oars for the Oxford verus Cambridge boat race - shaping the haft

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

Lanteen-rigged Dhows, Luxor, Egypt, 1884
Engraving of a riverside scene at Luxor, Egypt, showing a number of dhows under sails and oars and, in the background, several boats being built on the shore

Ancient Nile Riverboat
A Nile riverboat under sail : she also has oars as well as the huge paddle-like rudder

China / Hu Kew Hyen
HU KEW HYEN or KYEW on the RIVER KYANG. A walled city set up high on a cliff above a busy trading river. Sampan with sails or oars can be seen

Suakin, Sudan / Mallet
A birds eye view of Suakin (Suaquen / Suaqyen) on the Red Sea a place with lots of mosques and palm trees. The local boats are dhow / dow with single sails & oars

C17th Ship - Galeasse
A Seventeenth century ship that offers both sails and oars

Roman Galley
A Roman galley, with a sail and a single bank of oars

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