Rowing Collection (page 8)

Boat Shed - Astove Island, Cosmoledo Group
Boat Shed - Astove Island, part of the Cosmoledo Group, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1, 000 kilometres (620 miles) from Mahe Island

Gang of Labourers - Astove Island, Cosmoledo Group
Gang of Labourers - Astove Island, part of the Cosmoledo Group, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1

Loading of Mangrove Bark - Menai Island, Cosmoledo Group
Loading of Mangrove Bark - Menai Island, part of the Cosmoledo Group, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1

Bermuda - Fisherman bring the catch ashore (hopefully more than the one specimen being showed off!). Date: circa 1910s

Henley Regatta - River-spectators watch the action
Regatta, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire - River-spectators watch the action from a flotilla of jolly boats. Date: 1904

Nursery plate hand-painted - design by Daisy Makeig-Jones
Wedgewood Etruria, England. Nursery plate hand-painted with design by Daisy Makeig-Jones. Shows flying rowing boat, soldiers and figure lying prone on ground and an animal

Regatta at Kingston-On-Thames, Junior Eights1896
Rowing at the Regatta in Kingston-On-Thames. Date: 1896

Regatta at Kingston-On-Thames, Senior Eights 1896
Men and women enjoying their day on the river at Kingston-On-Thames. Date: 1896

Regatta on the Tiber, Rome 1882
View of a rowing regatta held on the River Tiber in Rome, Italy. Date: 1882

ARTHUR & EXCALIBUR ARTHUR & EXCALIBUR
Not an English myth at all but based on a Welsh story eagerly taken up by the Normans after the conquest as a means of culturally subjugating the English. Dont be fooled!

Forfarshire Shipwreck
When this paddle steamer wrecks on the Farne Islands, off Northumberland, lighthouse keeper Darling and 18-year old daughter Grace row to the wreck and save nine. Date: 7 September 1838

LE ROWING 1922
An elegantly dressed boating party set off for le rowing. Date: 1922

SATIRE ON STEAMBOATS
An early steamship, which like a giant kettle has built up too much pressure and exploded throwing its unwitting passengers overboard. The rowing boat appears safer. Date: circa 1830

MARINES DE LA GARDE
Marins de la Garde (naval guardsmen) Date: circa 1807

Elaines Body - Court
Rowing the body of Elaine to Arthurs court

Harvest of the sea 1867
Trawler vessel out to sea with two fishermen rowing. In 1867 there were between 800 and 900 boats with large nets sweeping the bottom of the sea catching fish for the London market. Date: 1867

Industry: The idle prentice punished
5. The idle prentice turnd away and sent to sea (final destination unknown). Date: 1747

Basalt columns, Tasman Island, Tasmania, Australia
View of Tasman Island, Tasmania, Australia, showing the formations of basalt columns. Date: circa 1860

Launch of The Avenger Steam Frigate at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth
Launch of " The Avenger" Steam Frigate at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth. The ceremony of christening the vessel was performed by Miss Harding, a niece of the gallant Admiral Superintendent

Kucuksu Palace, Sweet Waters of Asia Minor, Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1903

Photograph by Joseph Green, Bridge Street, Caversham, Reading showing a group of jolly chaps having a lot of fun in long rowing boats on the River Thames at Caversham. Date: circa 1895

Jam of punts and rowing Boats - River Cam Regatta, Cambridge. Date: circa 1913

View from the sea of Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland
View from the sea of Queenstown (now Cobh), County Cork, Ireland. Date: circa 1910s

Lake Windermere, looking north, Lake District, Cumbria. Date: circa 1900s

Maidens Tower (Kyz Kulesi), also known as Leanders Tower
Eveing silhouette view of Maidens Tower (Turkish: Kyz Kulesi), also known as Leanders Tower (Tower of Leandros) since the medieval Byzantine period, at Salacak on the Bosphorus - Constantinople

Lobster fisherman leaves boat and climbs bank of River Dee
At low water, a lobster fisherman leaves his boat tender at the end of a days fishing and climbs the steep muddy bank of the River Dee in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Upturned currach boat on Innishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland
Upturned currach on Innishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland. A currach is a type of Irish boat with a wooden frame, over which animal skins or hides were once stretched, though now canvas is now used

Boatman, Ganges, India
An Indian man rows an old wooden boat in the River Ganges along the ghats of Varanasi. Bathers are in the water Date: 1987

Rowing past hire boats, Durham
Rowers race past the traditional wooden hire boats tied up on the banks of the River Wear at Durham. They are about to go under the Elvet Bridge Date: 1990

River Wear rowing, Durham
Children walk across a footbridge over the River Wear at Durham, while a rowing skiff moves below on the water Date: 1990

Irish boatman, Limmerick - 2
Old Irishman wearing dark suit and cloth cap stands in a small rowing boat and paddles with an oar. River Shannon, Limerick. Portrait format Date: 1990

Irish boatman, Limmerick - 1
Old Irishman wearing dark suit and cloth cap stands in a small rowing boat and paddles with an oar. River Shannon, Limerick. First published The Sunday Times. Landscape format Date: 1989

The Cherbourg Fetes, the Bretagne
Queen Victoria meeting the Emperor and Empress of France on board the Bretagne, during the Cherbourg Fetes in 1858. Date: 1858

Crowds watching the Henley Regatta Date: 1901

Bedford, Bedfordshire - The River seen from the Boat Yard
Bedford, Bedfordshire - The River Great Ouse seen from the Boat Yard. Date: 1908

Lulworth Cove, The Cliff - A paddlesteamer moored up
Lulworth Cove, Dorset - The Cliff - A paddlesteamer moored up on the beach. Date: circa 1912

A view of the harbour at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey with boats moored up against the quay Date: 1903

Whitby - Harbour and Town
A fantastic and unusually-composed view of Whitby - Harbour and Town. Date: 1920s

Venice, Italy - Ponte dell Ferrouia sulla Laguna - The Railway bridge over the lagoon. Three tourists appear to have got a little lost on their row out from the city. Date: circ 1920s

Lake Lugano - Paradiso, Switzerland
Lake Lugano - Paradiso is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland - Panoramic view from Hotel du Lac. Date: circa 1910s

Delivering Christmas Holly to a Steamship
A small rowing boat delivering Christmas Holly to a Steamship - Christmas Greetings Postcard. Date: 1906

Back River, Norwich, Norfolk. Date: 1911

Greetings from Jamaica Landing Pier, Kingston
Greetings from Jamaica Landing Pier, Victoria Market and King Street, Kingston Harbour, Jamaica, West Indies, with the Blue Mountains in the distance. Date: circa 1905

Beach Yacht - Hastings, East Sussex. Date: circa 1910s

Surf Boats landing at Safi, Morocco
Surf Boats (large rowing barges) landing at Safi, Morocco Date: 1929

Divine Comedy. Eigth Canto of Hell. Dante and Virgil cross t
Divine Comedy. Epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. Eigth Canto of Hell. Dante and Virgil cross the river Styx in the boat of Phlegyas

Minoan art. Cyclades Islands. Naval expedition. Fresco
Minoan art. Cyclades Islands. Naval expedition. Fresh dated c.1550-1500 B.C. It comes from Akrotiri. Santorini. National Museum of Athens

Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731). Robinson Crusoe rescuing of the b
English literature. 17th century. Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731). English novelist. Robinson Crusoe rescuing of the boat all what could be before of its sinking. Colored engraving

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