Sailor Collection (page 21)

Angela Herbert, round the world sailor, Falmouth
Angela Herbert, round the world sailor in a tartan costume, on board the Ramsgate Reveller at Falmouth, Cornwall. Date: 1980s

Christmas Day with the Fleet, sailors enjoy Xmas dinner, WW1
Sailors as guests of Lady Beatty (wife of Admiral Beatty) enjoying a Christmas dinner " somewhere in Scotland." The wives of officers of the Grand Fleet helped to make the dinner a success

Blind soldier at St Dunstan s
A blind ex-serviceman learns how to make bags at St Dunstans, Regents Park, London. The hostel was established to rehabilitate soldiers and sailors blinded during the Great War. Date: 1915

Sailors landed on a beach, WW2
Sailors landed on a beach from a rowing boat, with a large ship in the background. Date: 1940

Crew on board PS Bournemouth Queen
Group photo of crew on board the paddle steamer Bournemouth Queen, Southampton

Family group at a table in the garden, possibly in Austria

Group photo of sailors, possibly in Austria or Germany. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1918

The hauling up of a lifeboat on HMS Serapis, 1875
The hauling up of a lifeboat on board HMS Serapis, during the royal visit of the Prince of Wales(later Edward VII)to India in 1875. Date: 1875

Boy in a sailor suit
Young boy in a sailor suit making a coned paper hat.Date: circa 1904

Sphere cover, WW1 patriotic sailor
Front cover of The Sphere magazine featuring a sailor with a cap reading HMS Dreadnought standing in front of a Union Jack flag. Date: 1917

WW1 badge - knitting garments for the Royal Navy
A badge from the First World War period recognising those who knitted comforts for men of the Royal Navy. Date: c.1915

Jacks Pet. Edwardian humour. The sailor with the housemaid. Date: circa 1905

Plimsoll line stops coffin ships, 1873
Comment in Punch magazine on the lifesaving introduction of the Plimsoll line. Overcrowded coffin ships are portrayed literally in the background as floating coffins with masts and rigging. Date: 1873

Flagging his home town at the Eagle Hut, WW1
An American sailor sticks a flag into a huge map adorning the wall of the Eagle Hut in Aldwych, London, in order so he may meet other American soldiers and sailors from the same area

Prince Albert as sailor
After passing through Osborne and the Naval College in Dartmouth, Prince Albert, second son of King George V and father of Queen Elizabeth II

Advert for Marshall & Snelgrove womens hats 1917
A selection of attractive hats for 1917. 1917

The Missing Mas-Cat by H. M. Bateman
The crew of a Royal Navy battleship search high and low for the ships cat, which is hiding mischievously in the barrel of one of the large guns. Date: 1918

Mug - British soldier and a British sailor - Angel of Peace
Unmarked china mug with a transfer showing a British soldier and a British sailor with heads bowed in front of an Angel of Peace. Flags of the Allies are being waved by groups of young children

Portrait of a French sailor wearing French naval cap with named cap band Le Vengeance. He is smoking a pipe. Julien T Felt (1874-1933)

Prince Edward, Prince Albert & Princess Mary of York
Prince Albert later George VI (on left), Prince Edward, later Edward VIII (in middle) with their sister Princess Mary later Countess Harewood (on right) Date: circa 1902

Boy and girl on the sea shore
Traditional concept of children with buckets & spades in sailor suits and sun hats. Date: circa 1897

Prince George as young boy
Prince George (1865 1836), later George V, pictured in sailor suit, at the age of four years. Date: 1869

Gamages Xmas bazaar advertisement, WW1
An advertisement for the famous Gamages store on Holborn, London, promoting their annual Christmas bazaar. Typically for the period

Big-gun ammunition on board the HMS Lion 1917
A heavy projectile for the Lions main armament of turret guns coming on board: Lowering the shell onto the deck. Date: 1917

Free buffet for soldiers & sailor, Victoria station, WW1
The free buffet for soldiers and sailors at Victoria Station, staffed by volunteers during the First World War to provide free food and drink to soldiers and sailors returning from the Front

Lighter side of Life on an Armed Liner, WW1 by Arthur Watts
Sketches of scenes on board an armed liner during the First World War by the artist Arthur Watts who was in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Training boys for the navy, WW1
A page of photographs showing boys at the Watts Naval Training School at Elmham in Norfolk undergoing instruction in order to prepare them for the Navy

British sailor snoozing on deck, WW1
Jack takes a sun-bath on a huge buoy. A British sailor enjoys a few moments of relaxation in the middle of an inflatable buoy on board his ship during the First World War. Date: 1916

Out of Doors -- label design with two children. Date: 19th century

Out of Doors -- cover design, showing three children with a kite. Date: 19th century

Shangai 1940
A street scene in the International Settlement, Shanghai. The surrounding parts of Shanghai had been occupied by the Japanese in 1937

Lifeboat, 1806
The Northumberland lifeboat, 1806. Date: 1806

Lifeboatmen, c1870
Three lifeboatmen scan the horizon for seafarers in peril. Date: c.1870

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

Lifeboat, 1830s
A lifeboat of the 1830s, encountering a storm. Date: 1830s

Apparatus for saving life in case of shipwreck
Various apparatus for saving life in case of shipwreck. A Dennetts rocket line is shown both in action and arranged for firing, as well as and the landing of a crew using the breeches buoy

Cartoons, Antwerp to London, WW1
Cartoons, Antwerp to London, by a Belgian artist who did it. Showing how a Belgian artist, Ms Norblin, decided to escape wartime Belgium

H. L. Oakley as a child with sister
Harry Lawrence Oakley (1882-1960), silhouette artist, pictured as a child with his sister. Oakley, whose silhouettes were in demand for posters, magazines illustrations and advertising

Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet (18481931) - Scottish self-made man, merchant, and yachtsman. He created the Lipton tea brand

Admiral of the Fleet - Earl Jellicoe
Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (18591935) - British Royal Navy admiral who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in World War I. Date: 1926

Cartoon, The Bottling Season, WW1
Cartoon, The Bottling Season, now is the time to bottle fruit and other things. Showing a smiling British sailor of HMS Alert sitting on a glass jar containing battleships labelled as Preserves

Advertisements for Rowe and D H Evans school outfits. Rowe, in New Bond Street, London, were makers of sailor suits by royal warrant, as well as back to school outfits for boys and girls

British sailors at German naval surrender, 1918
British sailors, the crew of a gun-ship, with gas masks at the ready in case of need wait for the first sight of the surrendering German fleet going to their berths in a British harbour after

Royal Navy sailors playing games on deck. August 1916 Date: 1916

London Peace Procession, 19th July 1919
British naval contingent passing the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, as part of the Peace Day Victory procession or parade. Date: 19th July 1919

Miss Carstairs in her racing boat
Miss Marion Barbara Carstairs, known as Betty, with her racing boat, the Estelle I the only British entry for the motor boat race for the British International Trophy. Date: 1928

The Flotsam & Jetsam of the Sea by Charles Robinson
Beautiful illustration by Charles Robinson showiong a sailor and a lady friend peering over the edge of a ship to see a bevy of beautiful mermaids in the sea below. Date: 1939

Preparing to launch a lifeboat, 1830s
Preparing to launch a lifeboat into a stormy sea, with the help of a horse and wagon, 1830s. Date: 1830s

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