Rudder Collection

Clinker fishing boat, Kings Lynn
Clinker-built wooden fishing boat with broken rudder beach near Kings Lynn, Norfolk Date: 1990

Wreck of old wooden fishing boat on banks of the River Dee
The wreck of an old wooden fishing boat at low water on the tidal banks of the River Dee at Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland

Flemish Carrack Date: circa 1450

Memorial to Colonel James E Rudder Cricqueville church
Cricqueville is just behind Pointe du Hoc where Texan Rudder landed with his 2nd Ranger Battalion. The figure in the picture is former mayor, Louis Devin, who raised the Memorial

Japanese sailboat. Illustration by Jean Louis Prevost from Jean Francois Laperouses Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzognos Collection of

Roman bireme and boat
Roman bireme with two decks of oars found on Trajans Column 2, and boat with wolf and swan prow from a medal of Augustus 1

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

Roman trireme and boat
Trireme warship with three decks of oars, battering ram with swords, from the Trajan Column 2, and boat with battering ram from an ancient basrelief 1. Both with eyes on the stern

Roman war bireme and transport boat
Roman war bireme with two decks of oars from Trajans Column 1, and a transport boat for military supplies from the same column 2

Ancient Roman naval decorations
Ancient Roman naval ram or Rostrum with swords and animal heads from a basrelief representing a maritime trophy found in Pantanello, Tivoli 1

Lapp in a sleigh pulled by a reindeer on a frozen river. In the background, a man rides a strange contraption with skis and rudder with wheel

Chinese pleasure junk, Qing Dynasty. Pleasure boat with latticed windows and large cabins, usually rowed or pulled. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Chinese mountebank riding a boat on land, Qing Dynasty
Chinese mountebank riding a boat on land accompanied by a musician playing a recorder, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

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

US 5th Ranger Battalion Omaha Beach Normandy
The two Ranger Battalions - the 2nd and the 5th - were commanded by Texan Lt Colonel James E Rudder. The 2nd were charged with taking Pointe du Hoc and the 5th 5th Pointe de la Percee

First 4 HP Daimler engine for an airship

Poster, Saucy Sally, Theatre Royal, Cardiff, from the Comedy Theatre, London, directed by Lawrence Brough, poster designed by John Hassall. early 20th century

Tipsy B G-AFKP (msn 05), at Cowes (Somerton) on the Isle of Wight, circa 1949. Built in 1938 as a Tipsy B, with a smaller rudder and lower all-up weight

Baumer B III Alsterkind. Two examples were built: D-480 and D-638, but this is probably D-638, which is known to have had the large rectangular rudder. Date: circa 1927

Bargeman, Gloucester docks
A male bargee leans on the wooden tiller of a canal narrow boat berthed in Gloucester Docks Date: 1990

Trench Art model of a submarine, WW1
Trench Art model of a submarine made out of various sized bullets on a wooden base

Italian Sailor Monument (The Big Rudder)
Italian Sailor Monument (The " Big Rudder" ), Brindisi, Italy - built in 1933. Initially dedicated to the sailors who lost their lives fighting for Italy during WW1. Date: circa 1933

Elaborately carved stern of a Burmese Boat / Barge. Date: circa 1908

Ara Pacis or Altar of Health. Roman. 1st century AD. Spain
Ara Pacis or Altar of Health. Roman. 1st century AD. Carrara marble. From Espinardo, Murcia. Archaeological Museum of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

Ship Crushed by Ice
The rudder-post of H.M.S. Terror crushed by the ice in the course of James Rosss 1839- 1843 Antarctic expedition Date: January 1842

Two boys playing in the harbour, St Ives, Cornwall
Two boys playing in the harbour at St Ives, Cornwall, swinging on ropes at the back of a boat. 1970s

Two boys in the harbour, St Ives, Cornwall
Two boys paddling in the harbour, St Ives, Cornwall, near a boat called Josephine. Date: 1970s

Illustration in The Worlds Wonder Ships -- rudder of the Queen Elizabeth Cunard liner. It weighs 140 tons, equal to the tonnage of the Mayflower

Planes of a British submarine, WW1
The planes of a First World War submarine - horizontal rudders to regulate the angle of ascent and descent. Date: 1914

Centrolophus pompilus, or Blackfish
Centrolophus pompilus, also known as Pompiles, Rudder Fish, Black Ruff or Blackfish. Date: 1863

Ships lined up on a beach. Date: circa 1920s

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, work resumed
John Brown & Company in Clydebank in Scotland, begin the major task of constructing Queen Mary Ocean Liner then know as Hull Number 534, which began in December 1930 on the River Clyde

Model of a Royal Aircraft Factory aeroplane - FE2A. The rudder can be controlled by a joystick in the cockpit. Trench Art

Rudimentary balloon with a boat slung underneath
A rudimentary balloon with a boat slung underneath.There are four balloons (two at each end), a sail to propel it vehicle and a rudder to steer it. From: Collegium experimentale, sive, curiosum

Assembling the Whitley night bomber by G. H. Davis
How a Whitley night bomber is assembled in section, speeding up aeroplane production by simplification during the Second World War. Date: 1941

Tenby life boat, 1857
The Tenby life boat proceeding to the rescue of the crew of the Spanish ship Nuevo Torcuvato, 1857. The life boat bears the mark of the National Life Boat Institution. Date: 7th December 1857

British naval seaplane, the Britannia AOVO, WW1
The Britannia AOVO, a British naval seaplane in use near Palestine during the First World War. This model was also used by Germany, having been supplied to both sides before the war broke out. 1917

Propeller and rudder of large ship
The propeller and rudder of mid-sized vessel, with a hardy dock worker demonstrating the scale of the thing. Date: circa 1920s

Bristol Pegasus IX powered RCAF Blackburn B-6 Shark III, 525, with incorrect rudder serial, on the compass-swinging base at Brough in November 1938. Date: 1938

Plan and side views of the improved riding rudder glider model. 1853. From Cayleys original notebook

Sketch of the 1849 boy-carrying machine showing the triplane wing structure, tail-unit, and wheeled car with pilot-operated elevator-cum-rudder, and propulsive flappers. 1853

Bristol Bulldog I prototype with the small rudder at Filton in May 1927. Date: 1927

Sopwith TF2 Salamander production version with horn balanced upper ailerons and enlarged fin and rudder

Hawker P1072 VP401
Hawker P1072, VP401, was the extensively modified P1040 fitted with an Armstrong Siddeley Snarler rocket motor in the tail under the rudder

RUDDER, Louis Henri de (1807-1881). Jean-de-Dieu

Early balloon design, described as an aerostatic globe, with equipment to travel in the air by wind. A) The Vessel. B) Sails that are used according to the wind

Two views of an airship shaped like a long tube with a pointed nose, propellers on the side and a rudder, resembling an 1850 design proposed by Pierre Jullien, a French clock maker from Villejuif

Close-up view of damaged 1903 machine, rudder frame broken in landing, on ground at end of last flight. Date 1903 Dec. 17

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