Sailors Collection (page 18)

Heligoland submarine rescue by G. H. Davis
During the naval action off Heligoland in the early part of the First World War, a boats crew is rescued by a British submarine. Date: August 1914

Peace Procession, 19th July 1919
British naval troops marching down Whitehall, London, in the Peace Day Victory parade on 19th July 1919. Flags of the Allied nations fly from the buildings. Date: 19th July 1919

People on ships deck playing a game
People on the deck of a ship, playing a game involving wooden models of racehorses, with a racecourse marked out in white

Two soldiers, two sailors
Two British soldiers and two sailors in an unknown location; the sailors are from a torpedo boat. Date: C.1911

German sailors in China
Two German sailors in China, probably in the German concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). Date: C.1911

Tightening the sails
Sailors at a naval college climb the rigging to tighten the sails on their ship. Date: 1885

Wake-up call
An early morning wake up call at a naval college. A trumpet sounds and two big drums are banged in order to get the recruits out of their sleeping hammocks. Date: 1885

Sailors of the Admiral Graf Spee, WW2
Sailors of the Admiral Graf Spee, looking happy and relaxed. Their ship was sunk in December 1939. Date: circa 1940

Flogging Judas Iscariot
Easter ceremony on board a Portugese ship in the London docks showing the sailors flogging a dummy Judas Iscariot. Date: 1876

Sarah Robinson
SARAH ROBINSON Philanthropist and teetotaller, known as The Soldiers Friend who helped soldiers and sailors at Portsmouth, England. Date: 1834 - 1921

Hello Sailor
A lively girl shows a bit of leg as she dances on a piano while it is being played by a sailor! Date: early 1930s

Sailors Snack
Hungry sailors tuck into a plate of chicken wings served through a porthole! Date: early 1930s

WW2 - Free French Navy Sailors on a march Date: circa 1943

China - Jiujiang - HMS Gnat - March 1920
Jiujiang (formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang) a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province, Peoples Republic of China

Japan - Drill for Japanese Sailors on deck of HIJMS Asama during the Russo-Japanese War (8th February 1904 5th September 1905). The card was sent on 25th June 1904. Date: 1904

WW1 - Balkans - French troops leave the Provence on a tugboat Date: 1915

Portsmouth WW1 War Memorial - To Our Sailors
The Guildhall Square Cenotaph, Portsmouth - World War One Memorial - To Our Sailors - Sailor manning a machine gun. Date: circa 1920

Three runaway schoolboys enlisted by an old salt sea captain
Three runaway schoolboys in nautical disguise enlisted by an old salt sea captain. Date: 1898

Three schoolboys run away from school in nautical disguise
Three errant schoolboys run away from school and disguise themselves as little sailors Date: 1898

Shanghai, China - Bund, Palace Hotel, German Club and Iltis Monument (Memorial to German sailors who went down on on the Cruiser Iltis. Date: circa 1909

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Landing Stage at Chemulpo (now Incheon, Korea) erected in only eight hours to a state whereupon it could be used to unload heavy transport. Date: circa 1905

WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Practising firing at submarines
WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Sailors of the International Expeditionary Force stationed at Thessaloniki practise firing at submarines. Date: circa 1916

How the Royal Navy lands a heavy gun between two boats
How the Royal Navy lands a heavy gun, lashed between two boats. Date: circa 1910

Franco-Turkish War - Evacuation of Sile in June, 1920
Turkey - Black Sea Coast - Evacuation of the French population Sile - 17th June 1920, during the Franco-Turkish War. Known as the Cilicia Campaign

Royal Marines at Deal, Kent - The Commandants Galley Date: circa 1906

US Sailors and Swedish Coastal Artillerymen - Stockholm
Two US battleships of the 2nd Division of the Atlantic Fleet, of USS Connecticut class. Namely USS Louisiana (BB-19), Kansas (BB-21) and/or the New Hampshire (BB-25)

Allies troops landing at Thessaloniki, Greece - WWI
Allies troops landing at Thessaloniki, Greece. In 1915, during World War I, a large Allied expeditionary force landed at Thessaloniki as the base for operations against pro-German Bulgaria

Two Royal Navy Divers return to deck. Date: 1903

Cherbourg, France - Memorial to Colonial Soldiers / Sailors
Cherbourg, France - Grand Memorial to French Soldiers and Sailors who died in the French Colonies. An interesting historical note is that this card was sent only two days after the assassination of

Soldiers and Sailors Monument, New York, USA
Soldiers and Sailors Monument, New York City, New York, USA - 89th Street, Riverside Drive. Date: circa 1910s

British Servicemen at Piccadilly Circus, London - WWII
British Servicemen (Army and Navy) at Piccadilly Circus, London during World War Two Date: circa 1943

Coronation Naval Review at Spithead, 15th June 1953 - Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh on the Royal Yacht Surprise. Date: 1953

HMS Montrose at Canakkale - troops in transit
HMS Montrose at Canakkale (Chanak), Turkey - troops in transit - 30th September 1922. The Chanak Crisis, also called Chanak Affair in September 1922 was the threatened attack by Turkish troops

Fishermen - A Happy Corner
A Happy Old Salt playing the accordion to a young child, whilst a younger sailor sits with a model sailing ship. Another fisherman and his wife and an elderly nanny complete the scene

Sainte-Adresse, France - Le Pain de Sucre
Sainte-Adresse, a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region, France - Le Pain de Sucre (The Sugar-loaf Memorial)

Toulon, France - Rochefortais class Destroyer Rapiere
Toulon, France - Sailors playing cards sat on a small quay. The crew are from the Rochefortais class (or Pertuisane class)

Revolutionaries - Petrograd, Russia 1917
Russian Revolutionaries (Soldiers and Sailors) in Petrograd (St Petersburg) in 1917. Date: 1917

Russian Bear trapped up a pole by the Japanese
Dudley Hardy - Stuck; Humorous postcard relating to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. The sender has added the comment " Good Old Japs" onto the pole. Date: circa 1905

HMS Sirius paying a courtesy visit to Saudi Arabia - killing the sheep presented by King Ibn Saud to the crew at Jeddah. Date: 1946

Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow
The Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow on 21st June 1919 at the end of the First World War. The High Seas Fleet had been interned there under the terms of the Armistice whilst negotiations

ɶ鮥ments de chine: les marins allemands br�
" ɶ 鮥 ments de chine: les marins allemands br� le Tsung- li-Yamen (Events in China: German sailors burn Tsung-li-Yamen)

China. Chinse Justice Court with the presence of British authorities in Canton (now Guangzhou), 8th March 1808. British sailors of the East India Company are accused of homicide. Litography

RAGUENET, Jean Baptiste (1715-1793). The Festival of Sailors in the Seine. 18th c. Detail. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum)

Nautical chart depicting the West Coast of Africa, Brazil, the North Atlantic Ocean and the South Atlantic Ocean, by Jorge Reinel. 1535

Tales from Many Lands: Why the Sea is Salty

The Wonderful Adventures of Baron Munchausen

GUN CREW 1914
The gun crew of HMS Nottingham which will be sunk during the battle of Jutland two years from now. Date: 1914

Sailors in Hammocks
Disposition of the hammocks on the lower deck of a man-of- war - it looks very neat in the drawing, but we doubt if it is quite so orderly in practice... Date: circa 1825

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