Sail Collection (page 19)

English Pill Yawl
Pill Yawl, Bristol Channel

Dutch Bezant
DUTCH BEZANT

Bombay Sliding Gunter

Dutch Galliot
GALLIOT used by Dutch fishermen, carrying a full spread of sail

Timoleon Sails to Sicily
As Timoleon, a Corinthian, sets sail for Sicily the skies clear and a bright light guides him all the way. Later he successfully frees Syracuse and Sicily from tyrants

Vasco Da Gama & Spirit
At the Cape of Storms (later Good Hope) Adamastor, the spirit of the Cape, appears to Gamas crew and warns of disasters to all who seek to sail round the Cape to India

Folklore / Adamastor
At the Cape of Storms (later Good Hope) Adamastor, the spirit of the Cape, appears to Gamas crew and warns of disasters to all who seek to sail round the Cape to India

Dispute with China 2
A frontier dispute leads to fighting between China and Russia : Russian peasants flee their village as Russian forces sail down the Amur to the relief of Blagovestchensk

Children / Tub / Paper Boats
Its only a tub, but it will do to sail their paper boats upon Date: circa 1885

Transporting Cut Stone
A stonemason transport dressed stone using an ingenious wheelbarrow with a sail to help him speed the materials along to their destination

French Reinforcements 1
The French government sends hussars to Italy to help the pope defend Rome against Garibaldi : two squadrons of hussars sail in the Gomer to Civita Vecchia

Browning / Poem / Fireside
BY THE FIRESIDE (from Dramatis personae )...with whom began loves voyage full-sail

England / Gravesend
The Thames at Gravesend, with river steamers and other vessels

Alphabet / T for Turkey
Free-ranging turkeys in an English field. (Meleagris gallopavo)

Lady nearly swept overboard in the Bristol Channel
Sailing in the Bristol Channel, a lady is nearly swept overboard but manages to cling to the boom of the yacht and is saved from a watery grave

I ll be out in the morning early, words and music
I ll be out in the morning early, I ll be out on board the ship... And Charley loves a pretty girl As sweet as sugar candy. Date: 1886

King Alfreds galleys in battle with Vikings

Tani San in Washing Tub
O Tani San, hoping to win the love of a priest who has set her this task, tries to sail across Lake Biwa in a wash- tub, but sadly she drowns and her ghost causes storms

Girl in Boat
O to sail far out in a magic boat, beyond the emerald bay, blown by summer wind to float, all through the long, long day

Pizarro Leaves Panama
Pizarro sets sail from Panama to conquer peru

Matthew / Wills Cig Card
John Cabot set sail in the Matthew from Bristol on 2 May 1497, and discovered Newfoundland the following month

Sweden / Stockholm / C 1840
A view of the city with sail and steam ships

Lightship at the Nore
Sail 47 miles down the Thames from London Bridge and you will run onto a sandbank unless you watch out for the Nore lightship which guards the estuary

Set Sail for Europe
All sails set for a United Europe - the flags of the participating nations take the place of sails as the saucy Europa heads into a future of peace and prosperity

Diving for Pearls
Diving for pearls from a simple sail boat

Norfolk Broads / Cig Card
Norfolk Broads

Spanish Sail Ship 1502
A Spanish sailing vessel of Columbuss time, depicted on the cover of Juan Luschners Consolat dela fets maritima

Meyerbeer Africaine Lib6
Act five - Selika, queen of Madagascar, watches her husband Vasco da Gama sail away with Ines, and sits under a manchineel tree, to breathe whose scent is fatal

Meyerbeer Africaine Lib1
Act one - Vasco da Gama before the Grand Council of the king of Portugal tells the story of his explorations and petitions for an expedition to sail round the Cape to the Indies

Andree Leaves Sweden
Andree and his expedition sail from Goteborg, Sweden, in the Virgo to Spitzbergen, whence they will - hopefully - fly to the North Pole in their balloon

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

George V / Jubilee / Yacht
At the helm is the yachts owner, king George V, a keen sailor who in his early days commanded a torpedo boat

Hudson River Sloop
HUDSON RIVER SLOOP

Danish Invasion 877
Danish ships sail up the English Channel and approach the British coast, to the consternation of the natives

Iphigenia at Aulis
She is sacrificed at Aulis, as the only way whereby the Greeks can obtain a favorable wind to enable them to sail to Troy (fortunately she will be rescued by Artemis)

Sailors Furling Sail
Sailors on the yard-arm furling (= folding) sail

Sailors Reefing a Sail
Five sailors in the rigging of a sailing ship, reefing a sail (i.e. taking it in partially or taking it down entirely)

Horses Tow Barge
Two horses draw a barge along a German canal : a sail has been raised to get a little help from the wind

Lightning and Ship 3
A sailing warship, under half sail to keep from being driven by a storm onto the rocky coast, is struck by lightning on both its mainmast and foremast

London Bridge 1833
A view of the old and new London bridges

Dover Harbour 1850
A steam packet (with sail) enters Dover harbour

Twickenham 1750
A curious sailing-boat, with oarsmen as well as a sail, is one of the craft on the Thames at Twickenham, Middlesex

C15 Caravel
A caravel in full sail

Adamastor and Gama
At the Cape of Storms (later Good Hope) Adamastor, the spirit of the Cape, appears to Gamas crew and warns of disasters to all who seek to sail round the Cape to India

Building the Argo
Argus builds the Argo in which Jason and the Argonauts will sail to Colchis to steal the Golden Fleece

Sail & Steam Ships
The Abraham Rydberg in Millwall Docks, London. Built in 1879 in Sweden as a training ship for the Abraham Rydberg Foundation. Here alongside steamship Saltersgate

Children & Toy Boat
Contrary Winds: children, in a farmhouse kitchen, sail a homemade boat in grandmothers washing tub - each child blowing the boat from a different direction

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