Sail Collection (page 5)

HMS Albert, Royal Navy ship, 131 guns
HMS Albert, Royal Navy ship with 131 guns. 1854

Gosport from the Point, Portsmouth, Hampshire. 1860

Ancient Greek ships - Galleys. Date: BCE

William Heath Robinson, Not Now but Soon, The Wonder Book of the Then and Now, front endpapers. circa 1923

Spanish Armada setting sail for England on 18 May 1588 - about 130 vessels with 24, 000 soldiers and sailors on board. Date: 1588

Poster, Herring Packing. circa 1928

View of the beach and sea, Pesaro, Italy. Date: 1930s

Fishing boats on the water, Pesaro, Italy. Date: 1930s

Harbour with fishing boats, Pesaro, Italy. Date: 1930s

Lighthouse and harbour, Pesaro, Italy
Lighthouse and harbour with sailing boats, Pesaro, Italy. Date: 1930s

A breezy day on the beach, Pesaro, Italy, with rougher waves than usual. Date: 1930s

View of the beach and sea front, Pesaro, Italy. Date: 1930s

Machine at a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
Yarn dressing and beaming machine at the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London. Date: 1842

Rope making at a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
Flat rope making at the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London. Date: 1842

Rope laying at a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
Rope making or laying at the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London. Date: 1842

Rope spinning at a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
Rope spinning at the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London, with a close-up view of the many strands of a rope. Date: 1842

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

Sami people or Lapplanders in a tent made of sail and stakes. Seats made of soft reindeer skins and woollen covers. Illustration from Leopold von Buchs Travels Through Norway and Lapland, 1813

Norman warfare and seacraft: soldiers storming a tower with ladders 253, battle at sea on boats 254, Norman ship with sail, battle galley, ferry with oar and boat 255-258

Costumes of the Dutch, 18th century. Men in wide breeches, women in flattened hairstyles, skating on a frozen river, and riding boats and carriages with sails on the ice

Marquesas Islanders in war pirogues or outrigger canoes
Marquesas Islanders wearing headdresses in war pirogues or outrigger canoes in Resolution Bay or Vaitahu. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Natives of Tahiti on war canoes. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after William Hodges from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy

The port city of Lund, Sweden, early 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1847

Japanese vessels and ships, mercantile and fishing boats, one decorated with flags and banners, one with a pyramid-shaped sail

Chinese itinerant merchant with cart loaded with food products. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples

Native Americans of Guayaquil, Ecuador, on a raft with sail. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples

Various boats including pahie, lifeboat, caracore, etc
Tahitian pahie canoe with outrigger, South American balza sailing raft, English lifeboat rowboat, and Indonesian caracore with sails and outrigger

Shipwright driving wedges into the stern of a ship
Shipwright or ships carpenter standing on a scaffold and driving wedges into the stern of a ship with a wooden trunnel. At his feet, his auger, axe and punch

Yacht, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

Yacht, longboat and gondola
Yacht 1, longboat 2 and Venetian gondola 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Merchant ship. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

Cutter. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

Frigate 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

Galley. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

Ship of the line, with section through interior of the hull. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Chinese flower boat. Date: 1842

Adverts, M C Thomson & Co, Liquid Fuel Engineering Co
Adverts for M C Thomson & Co Ltd, Sailcloth Manufacturers, and The Liquid Fuel Engineering Co, J F Borthwick & Co, Scotland. 1905

Souvenir postcard of the Suez Canal, Egypt. Date: circa 1900s

Great Southern Hotel, Parknasilla, County Kerry, Ireland. Date: circa 1908

The Mill, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex. Date: circa 1908

Albert Edouard jetty, Cannes, South of France, with sailing boats and steamers alongside. Date: circa 1910

Sailing boats on the water. Date: circa early 1920s

Boats in the shallows at Torquay, Devon. circa early 1920s

Cartoon, Pleasures of the Sea Side - Nice Breeze for a Sail, Sir! Date: circa 1840s

Cartiers Departure from St. Malo
Jacques Cartier departs from St. Malo France, to sail for the Iroquoian capital Stadacona, with two Iroquoian captives he had taken during his previous expedition. Date: 1535

Verrazzano at Newport Harbour
Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian explorer, arriving in 1524 at Newport Harbour, Rhode Island. This was part of his first American expedition mapping and exploring the North American coast for Italy

Sebastian Cabot Leaves Labrador
Sebastian Cabot, a Venetian explorer, sets sail from Labrador in Northern Canada. Sailing through sheets of ice, various sailors on board fish over the side of the boat

Cote-Reals Arrival at Labrador
The arrival of Cote-Reals expedition at Labrador, in search of a Northwest passage to Asia. A group of men stand on an outcrop by the shore, watching the incoming ships. Date: 1500

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