Pontoon Collection (page 2)

Hampshire - Cowes, Isle of Wight - The Pontoon. (see: 10909671 for the departure of a very similar vessel for Cowes from Lymington) Date: circa 1910s

Germany - Speyer a Rhine - The Pontoon Bridge
Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - The Pontoon Bridge over the River Rhine, in use from 1863 to 1938. Date: circa 1910s

The Floating Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey
The Floating Bridge across the Golden Horn, Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1838

Scottish troops cross a pontoon bridge in France - WWI
Scottish troops crossing a pontoon bridge in France - WWI Date: circa 1916

Engine maintenance pontoon by the Saunders-Roe SR45 Princess
An engine maintenance pontoon alongside the Saunders-Roe SR45 Princess, G-ALUN, 1954. Date: 1954

Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Boating Club
The Duke of Edinburgh at Dinorwic Wharf, Cheyne Walk, London, opening the Westminster Boating Club Pontoon on 18 July 1985. The London Phoenix displays jets of water in the background

Pontoon and fireboat return

Armed London firemen at Lambeth fireboat pontoon, WW2
Firemen, carrying rifles, disembarking from the Massey Shaw fireboat and marching from the pontoon gangway at Lambeth. Armed firemen crewed the Massey Shaw when she took part in the evacuation of

London Fire Brigade HQ and Lambeth river fire station
The iconic LFB Headquarters building and the original river station on its floating pontoon. The fireboat tender can be seen on the right as it moves up river towards Vauxhall Bridge

Pontoon across Appomattox creek. Date between 1861 and 1865

The pontoon bridge at Cincinnati. Print shows soldiers crossing pontoon bridge over Ohio River, waterfront buildings in background. Date between 1861 and 1865?

Port Royal, Va. Transports being loaded from a pontoon bridge during the evacuation. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grants Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864. Date 1864 May 30

Pontoon bridge from Deutz, Cologne, the Rhine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Pontoon bridge over River Jordan, Palestine, WW1
British troops building a pontoon bridge over the River Jordan at El Ghoranieh (between Jericho and Es Salt), Palestine, during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

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

US Troops crossing Rio Grande into Mexico
Mounted US Troops crossing the Rio Grande River from Texas into Mexico across a pontoon bridge. Date: circa 1915

Winner of Schneider Trophy Race, Baltimore, USA
Lieutenant James A Doolittle standing on the pontoon of his Curtiss Racer, winner of the Schneider Trophy Cup Race, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Date: 26 October 1925

Captured Turkish pontoons, Ismailia, Egypt, WW1
Some of the 25 Turkish pontoons captured at Ismailia, Egypt, during action on the Suez Canel on 3-4 February 1915, when the Turks attempted to cross the canal. The pontoons were destroyed

Great Eastern Pontoon at Milford Haven, 1857
Launch of the pontoon for the Great Eastern steamship at Neyland, Milford Haven, 1857. Date: 1857

Boat bridge on River Kabul, Nowshera, Pakistan
Boat bridge on River Kabul, Nowshera, North West Frontier Province (Pakistan)

Tenby, Wales
Tenby is a walled seaside town in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales, lying on Carmarthen Bay

Franco-Prussian War / French military train
French military train of boats for pontoon bridges

Egypt - Bridge for Mecca-bound caravan trains
Egypt - Bridge of boat pontoons across the Suez Canal for the caravan trains bound for Mecca

American Troops crossing the Rhine, Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing American troops and vehicles crossing a pontoon bridge built by American engineers on the River Rhine, 1945. This bridge was built in a record time of six and a half hours

American Trucks crossing a Bailey Bridge, Second World War
Photograph showing American trucks crossing a British-built Bailey pontoon bridge over the River Rhine into Germany, 1945

Truck sunk during the Anzio landings; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a three-ton truck sunk alongside a pontoon, during the Allied landings in the Nettuno-Anzio area, 1944

German Pontoon Bridge
German pioneers build a pontoon bridge across a river

Budapest under Attack
The life of Pest the flourishing medieval city was transformed by 150 years of Turkish occupation between 1541 and 1686. Minarets and Mosques are depicted here

Pontoon Bridge
A temporary bridge is built by French engineers, utilising planks laid on boats, enabling troops to cross without getting their feet wet

Soviets over River
Soviet troops cross over river on their way to Berlin by pontoon bridge

Russian Pontoon Bridge
Soviet Sappers build a pontoon bridge whilst under fire on the outskirts of Kyiv (Kiev)

Reishwehr / Sham Weapons
The Reichwehr (the German army) manoeuvres with sham weapons. Germany had been stripped of most of its military power under the Treaty of Versailles. Date: September 1926

Wwi / Italy / Sacile Bridge
An Italian donkey temporarily blocks traffic on a pontoon bridge at Sacile. During their northward advance, all the British troops and transport passed over this bridge

Goodyears Lifeboat
Charles Goodyear of New Haven, Connecticut, best known for his tyres, also displays an india-rubber lifeboat and pontoon at the Crystal Palace

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