Sailors Collection (page 9)

Royal Navy small arms training probably 1930s

Royal Navy mines on board ship probably 1930s

RMS Titanic passengers Lily and Jack Odell
RMS Titanic - first generation pre-sinking studio photograph of Titanic First Class passengers Lily and her son Jack Odell, who were on board from Southampton to Queenstown only

British Home propaganda
The young girl in a sailor's uniform is wearing a hat with Iron Duke on it. On the reverse is a written message saying that the girl recipient has been to several theatre performances - ZigZag

British naval propaganda
A pretty girl wearing a sailor's uniform and purporting to belong to a ship called the H.M.S. Great Britain stands beside the Union flag. WW1 Date: 1916

Late Victorian 1890s Greetings Card Boy Boys
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Sailors exercising their jaws on a comic French postcard by Poli. Date: circa 1930s

Five sailors on a cutout greetings card
Five sailors with rifles on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

La France Maritime - Merchant Seaman. 19th century

Port of Tripoli (Tarabulus), Lebanon
Port of Tripoli (Tarabulus), city in the north of Lebanon. Date: circa 1910

Group photo, HMS Worcester, swimming team and water polo team. circa 1950s

WW1 - American sailors billeted the Royal Courts of Justice
WW1 - American sailors billeted in the Grand Hall of the Royal Courts of Justice, London. Date: circa 1917

Scrap Book - Naval Cuttings. circa 1940s

Celebrating the crossing of the Equator
Scene on a Royal Navy ship. It is the custom on board ship to indulge in merrymaking when crossing the Equator -- in fancy dress if its your first time. Date: circa 1845

Music cover, Jack Ashore Barn Dance, composed by Alan Macey. circa 1880

Certificate presented by The Overseas Club - Empire Day 1916
WW1 - Home Front - Certificate presented by The Overseas Club (now ROSL, the Royal Over-seas League) on Empire Day 1916 to Gertrude Knight

Prince David, Prince Albert & Princess Mary
Three eldest children of George V and Mary of Teck playing soldiers at Frogmore House (left to right), Prince David, sixteenth birthday titled Prince of Wales

Hull Sailors Orphan Homes - Stratton Hall
The Sailors Orphan Homes, Hull, also known as Newland Homes, established in 1895 by The Port of Hull Society. Children at a meal in Stratton Hall, the Homes assembly hall and dining room

Hull Sailors Orphan Homes - Children at Lodge and Entrance
The Sailors Orphan Homes, Hull, also known as Newland Homes, established in 1895 by The Port of Hull Society. The children, boys in sailor suits

Liverpool General transport Strike 1911
Most of the summer of 1911, dockers, railway workers and sailors, as well as people from other trades went on strike, paralysing Liverpools commerce. Transforming trade unionism and Merseyside

Cartoon, Women also profiteer, WW1
Cartoon, Women also profiteer. Showing how women are also profiting from the war, either by socialising with servicemen or selling them expensive flowers, food and drink. Date: 1916

New rulers of the German Navy
With the war coming to a close, revolution in Germany had begun with a mutiny by their sailors in response to a desperate order from the Imperial Naval Command seeking a last battle against the Royal

Red Cross canteen, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, WW2
Red Cross canteen at Milwaukee Station (part of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railway), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

WW2 Christmas card, praying in church
WW2 Christmas card, a soldier, a sailor and an airman praying in church -- With Gods Help Victory is Assured. Date: circa 1942

WWII knitting, New Woollies for soldiers, sailors & airmen
Front cover of a knitting booklet from the Second World War published by yarn manufacturer Weldon, featuring woollen garments which could made for men in the armed services

HMS Raleigh, British heavy cruiser, crew members
HMS Raleigh, British Hawkins class heavy cruiser -- three crew members on deck at Plymouth. circa 1920s

HMS Hawkins, British heavy cruiser
HMS Hawkins (D86), British heavy cruiser. Seen here at Saigon dockside with the crew lined up on deck. Date: circa 1920

Suffragette Chess Set
A painted figural chess set, entitled Topical Chessmen (Suffragettes v The Law). It comprises King and Queen, bishops as judges, rooks as burning buildings, prison cells

Duke and Duchess of Yorks five eldest children
Duke and Duchess of York (later King George V and Queen Mary consort of Britian), five eldest children (back left) The Duke of York (future George VI), (1895 1952), Princess Mary

The Sailors Return with Cecil Beaton & Lady Caroline Paget
Scenes from The Sailors Return with Cecil Beaton & Lady Caroline Paget. The film was made by Cecil Beaton at his country home, Ashcombe, with friends and neighbours in the cast. Date: 1935

Sailors hauling a boat onto the deck of a ship, WW1
Sailors hauling a boat onto the deck of a ship, directed by an officer, probably as part of a lifeboat drill, May 1915. Date: 1915

Prince and Princess of Wales with their five children
Prince and Princess of Wales, (futhure King Edward VII of Britain and Queen Alexandra consort), with their children, two oldest boys Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale

Certificate from the Overseas Club - Empire Day 1915
A Certificate from the Overseas Club on Empire Day 1915. Inscribed.This is to Certify that Annie Matthews - 1915 - has helped to send some Comfort and Happiness to the brave Sailors

A Certificate from the Overseas Club in 1916. Inscribed A Signal Wish from the School Children of the Empire who sent Christmas Gifts to Our Brave Soldiers and Sailors

Draught board with ships and aeroplanes - WWI
The Favourite Game of our Soldiers in the Trenches and our Sailors at Sea. Shows a draught board with ships and aeroplanes, Scottish soldiers in a trench playing draughts and an artillery team

Sailors on board the British submarine, H42
HMS H42 was a British H class submarine built by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle Upon Tyne. She was laid down in September 1917 and was commissioned on 1 May 1919

Admiral Makarov at Constantinople
Stepan Osipovich Makarov (1848-1904) Russian admiral in command of the Pacific fleet at beginning of Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

Newbiggin Church
St. Bartholomews Church, on Newbiggin Point, Newbiggin-by- Sea, Northumberland, England. This 14th century building is a well-known landmark to sailors. Date: 14th century

Marooned by Lawson Wood
A rather peeved pirate or buccaneer sits alone on a desert island, apparently abandoned by his shipmates. Date: 1911

Admiral Sir Ernest Gaunt watching boxing match
Admiral Sir Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt (1865-1940), Royal Naval officer, seen here with others watching a 4th Battle Squadron boxing match on board a ship (possibly HMS Benbow). Date: circa 1917

Russo-Japanese War - Battle of Tsushima
Russo-Japanese War - Japanese sailors celebrate the sinking of Russian fleet at the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905. The battle was a devastating loss for the Imperial Russian Navy

Mary Ann Talbot resisting a pressgang
Mary Ann Talbot (1778 - 1808) donned male clothes and enlisted as a sailor during the Napoleonic Wars; she was wounded in 1794 and later captured by the French

Japanese Vice-Admiral Togo and Signal men. Heihachiro, Marquis Togo (1838 - 1934) - Japanese naval commander whose defeat of the Russian fleet at Tsushima (in May 1905 - interestingly)

The Scene on the Deck of HMS Discovery at Portsmouth, 1876
Engraving showing the scene on the deck of HMS Discovery at the end of her Arctic expedition, Portsmouth, 1876. In 1875 the British Admiralty sent Captain George Nares with two ships

Soldiers and Sailors Manning a Capstan, 1873
Engraving showing Royal Navy sailors and soldiers from a Scottish Regiment manning a capstan, whilst a Scotch piper stands on the capstan to give them some music

Ships Cook Certificate
A certificate awarded by the Shipping Federation School of Nautical Cookery to Alan Sanderson

French in Vietnam 1884
FRENCH IN TONKIN French soldiers and sailors under general Negrier take the town of Lamg-Kep : Chinese losses were very heavy, including several mandarins

Bulldog rescued from sinking ship, First World War
When the King Edward is sunk by a mine during the First World War, the crew rescue Norah the bulldog, together with the monkeys and cats they had as pets

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