Sighted Collection

Drake Plays Bowls
Drake, learning that the Spanish Armada has been sighted approaching England, insists on finishing his game of bowls

Daedalus Sea Serpent
Marine creature sighted from HMS Daedalus in the south Atlantic between the Cape and St Helena : the creature passes under the stern of the ship (picture 2 of 3)

Drake Plays Bowls 1588
Sir Francis Drake, learning that the Spanish Armada has been sighted near England, insists on finishing his game of bowls at Plymouth

Ufos / Canary Islands
A UFO sighted at Maspalomas, Canary Islands

A Top Notcher
Cartoon, A Top Notcher. One of the silly mistakes one makes when paying golf when it snows in Scotland. A short sighted golfer mistakes a bobble hat for the ball

Osborne Serpent
Head, shoulders and flippers of the ridged marine creature sighted from the royal yacht Osborne off the coast of Sicily (picture 2 of 2)

Comic postcard, Courting middle aged couple. Date: 20th century

Advert for Kershaw's Binoculars
Advert for Kershaw's Sportsman Binoculars - worn like spectacles. Date: 1939

United States Air Force - Chase YC-122C 49-2879, of the 16th Troop Carrier Squadron at Stewart Air Force Base, TN. 14 November 1954 16th TCS moved to Ardmore AFB, OK. 30 August 1955 to storage

ADEN GULF SERPENT
Marine creature sighted by the City of Baltimore in the Gulf of Aden Date: 28 January 1879

PLUMPER SEA SERPENT
Marine creature sighted from HMS Plumper near Oporto, Portugal, from a sketch by a witness; he said it seemed to have something like a mane Date: 31 December 1848

Ufo over Brussels
Triangle-shaped UFO sighted over the outskirts of Brussels and seen on radar by two F16 jets of the Belgian airforce

Happy Families Playing Cards - Miss Swift the Runners Daughter. circa 1930s

Guiseppe Marc Antonio Baretti
GIUSEPPE MARC ANTONIO BARETTI (1719 - 1789) Prolific Italian writer and dictionary-maker, who spent much time in England, a friend of Dr Johnson and so on : as you see, he was short-sighted

Oil slick sighted by German Dornier Do 17 light bombers
Luftwaffe German Dornier Do 17 light bomber aircraft spot an oil slick in the British Channel which indicates the presence of a submarine - 1941

Dollonds military spectacles advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for military spectacles, with specially constructed frames with large round eyes to give the best possible field of vision. Date: 1918

Suffragette Attacks Soldier, Not Letter Box. A short-sighted suffragette mistakes a soldier in a red uniform for a letter box and splatters ink intended for the mail all over his uniform

Terrors of the Terrier, Territorial Army cartoon, WW1
The Short-Sighted Matron - (to Territorial on guard at a railway station): Now, don t stand there like a stuffed image, porter! Come and label this luggage

Tactics in a torpedo action by G. H. Davis
What happens inside a British submarine when she sights enermy vessels and attacks with torpedoes. 1943

Schoolmaster reacts angrily as his window is smashed by an errant cricket ball. Date: 1898

Souvenir of Scarborough - Elderly Widow - looking through her Lorgnette spectacles to little a-veil... Date: circa 1890s

Pischoff Monoplane
A far-sighted design from a notable pioneer, the pilot - in this case Landron - being seated comfortably beneath the wing Date: circa 1909

Shortsighted young cricketer is bowled out
A shortsighted young cricketer is bowled out -- the bales are flying off the stumps

Short-sighted signage / W H Robinson
A new kind of pub sign for the short sighted which can be winched down from its normally sky high position to a much more comfortable level for those with less than perfect eyesight

My Sweetie went away
Short sighted gentleman (to his wife): " Now Jane, you had better cling to my arm, you can never be certain where these quicksands are located"

Catching a Whale off Deptford Pier, London, 1842
Engraving showing a 15 foot, 2 ton, whale being caught at Deptford Pier, London, in 1842. This whale had been swimming down the River Thames when it was sighted by watermen on the pier

Mermaid of Angola
Sailors sighted this mermaid off the coast of Angola

Far-Sighted Man
THE FAR-SIGHTED MAN prepared for every accident, from flying machines falling on his head to gas leaks and biting dogs, from runaway cars to old-fashioned rain

Ley Line Trackway
LEY LINES : a track sighted on a notch at Llanthony, Wales, which Watkins claims is evidence of an ancient trackway combining natural and man-made features

Cayleys Helicopter
CAYLEYs HELICOPTER-AEROPLANE With two lateral helicopter rotors to provide lift, and two propellers for propulsion, this is an astonishingly far- sighted proposal

The Politician
A short-sighted politician is so caught up in his newspaper he does not realise that his candle has set fire to the brim of his tricorne hat

Sulla Dictator
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, ruthless but far-sighted soldier and statesman, has himself elected dictator in order to carry out reforms

British Banner Serpent
Marine creature sighted from the British Banner; the Master reported that the creature shook the bowsprit with its mouth and seemed about 100 metres long

Sea Serpent Greenland
Spouting sea-creature sighted by Hans Egede off the coast of Greenland

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