Sailing Collection (#46)

Perast - Montenegro
View of the attractive town of Perast, Montenegro. Venice owned the city between 1420 and 1797. Perast was part of the Venetian Albania

Montenegro - Mogren Beach near Budva

Joinville-de-Port, France - River Marne
Joinville-de-Port, France - Yachting on the River Marne, a tributary of the River Seine in Paris. Paul Cezanne lived in worked in the area for a period of time

The city and Castle of Frederyca in Paraiba, Brazil
Looking across the calm waters to Paraiba in Brazil

Oyster boats off Falmouth, Cornwall
Oyster boats with their colourful sails off Falmouth in Cornwall

Transatlantic race trimoran capsized
A Transatlantic multihull race trimoran capsized 1000 miles west of the Scilly Isles, photographed from RAF Nimrod

Ship sails past lighthouse
A steamer sails past a lighthouse under the light of the moon

French warship at Saigon
La Triomphante - an old French warship moored up at Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. The ship appears to have been converted into a covered waterfornt facility - possibly a restaurant?

Santa Maria replica, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
A replica of Christopher Columbus caravelle, the Santa Maria, sailing off the coast near Funchal, Madeira, with tourists on board

Russian Steam sailing ship in a storm

Cowes - Isle of Wight - Regatta
Cowes Regatta - Isle of Wight - 1911. Two White Wings boats, the Waterwitch and the Meteor racing

Lake Windermere, Cumbria - Sailing
Rounding a buoy during a sailing race on Lake Windermere, Cumbria

King Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886-1941) here as a young man. Impeccably dressed in a wonderful (nautical) outfit of starched collar, reefer jacket and peaked naval hat

HMS Victory - Nelsons Flagship - in drydock at Portsmouth

Split - Croatia - The Harbour

Bernsteins Fish Grotto - San Francisco, USA
Bernsteins Fish Grotto - San Francisco, California, USA. The Ship that never goes to Sea - one of the more extraordinary restaurant frontages one will come across

Rowena Sailing Ship
The Rowena Sailing Ship in Gulfport, Mississippi, America

Suez Canal Scene, Egypt
A fine view of the Suez canal, showing the old and the new; a large transport steamship and a traditional small sailing boat

Harbour of Constantinople
General view of the Harbour of Constantinople, Turkey across the Golden Horn

Denys Geuch with statue of Edward VII
The sculptor Denys Geuch working on a statue of Edward VII, showing the late king in an informal pose, wearing sailing clothes

Pin Mill, nr Ipswich, 1930s
A charmingly nostalgic scene from around 1932 showing Pin Mill near Ipswich in Suffolk, with a vintage car in the foreground, and numerous boats sailing around on the water beyond

Woman asleep on board boat
A woman takes a well earned rest on board a boat after recovering the cabin roof in teak!

Woman washing down boat
A woman wearing shorts smiles for the camera as she rubs down a boat on the Norfolk Broads in the 1930s

Woman up a mast
A woman beams from the top of the mast of the " Medusa", looking on top of the world

Fishing at Geldeston
A woman looking very tribal in a halter neck top, shorts and bare feet unhooks a freshly caught fish on the deck of her boat, while on the Waveney River at Geldeston near Beccles in Norfolk

Sailing across Hickling Broad
View of Hickling Broad in Norfolk with a lady, wearing shorts and beret waving from a sailing or wherry boat

Lady steering boat
A lady wearing shorts, blouse and rather trendy fishnet espadrille sandals, sits cross-legged and steers the rudder of a boat called " Medusa" in 1940s. Possibly the Norfolk Broads

On the deck of the Medusa
A smiling woman polishes a piece of brass fitting on the fore deck of a boat at Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex

The Blue Couple by the Sea
The couple, clad in blue, walk hand in hand by the beach, with windmills and sailing boats in the background

A tropical shoreline
Two seagulls fly over a tropical beach lined with palm trees. Airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith

The Girls He Left Behind Him by Ethel Parkinson
World War One postcard showing a cluster of small girls waving their handkerchiefs and bidding farewell to a war ship sailing off into the distance, obviously carrying a particularly popular sailor

Old Sailor and his Grandchildren
Two circular watercolour paintings by Malcolm Greensmith depicting and old sailor with his grandchildren. In the left-hand picture the old salt points out a fine sailing yacht approaching the harbour

Cowes Week opening day
View from the shore of racing boats on the first day of the Cowes Week sailing regatta, held during the first week of August each year

Scotland - Tiree
Scarinish Harbour - Tiree, Scotland. Cattle on the beach

Chinese Houseboat Junk - Shanghai
Shanghai, China - Junk houseboat with the traditional wide square-shaped sail

Angola - Luanda - traditional boat
Traditional boat carved whole from the trunk of a tree - on the sea off Luanda, Angola, south-west Africa

Italy - view of San Vigilio, on the banks of Lake Garda - a lazy day in summer! The Hotel pictured is still in operation today (called the Hotel Locanda )

Sailing ships at Burgas, Bulgaria
Burgas Harbour, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The bow and the stern of Black Sea ships are raised to counter the under-sea turbulence in the water

Poster for Salzburg, Austria
Poster advertising Salzburg, Austria

With General Buller on the way to the Cape
A scene on board the Donottar Castle, the ship transporting General Sir Redvers Buller to the Cape during the Transvaal (Boer) War

Izmir, Turkey - Quayside dressed with flags
The Quayside at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey dressed with flags for a Festival, including French, Italian, Greek and Turkish flags

Izmir, Turkey - Pasha in his Palace and the Harbour
A Pasha in his Palace before an exotic garden, smoking a pipe and seated below a silk damask curtain with gold bullion fringe

Izmir, Turkey - View of the Barracks
A view looking down over the barracks, Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey with the Jewish Cemetery in the foreground

Izmir, Turkey - Main centre
The view from the waterfront toward the Main Square and centre of the town of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey with the Municipality at rear and mosque on the left

Senegal River
Sailing vessels in the mouth of the Senegal River

Feluccas and Dhows, Egypt
Feluccas and Dhows of the River Nile, Egypt

HARWICH, Essex
Steam and sailing vessels in the channel port of Harwich, Essex

Road, Rail and Sea - Charles Robinson
Cover illustration by Charles Robinson for the Childrens book Rad, Rail and Sea by Clare Jerrold. A (very young-looking!) couple drive an open car below the imposing buly of a railway bridge

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