Slipway Collection

Coveracks new lifeboat, 1954
Coveracks new lifeboat, William Taylor of Oldham, being hauled up the slipway on 24th July 1954. It cost 25, 000 to build. Cornwall. Date: 1954

Marine Parade, Whitehead - a view across the sea to the boathouse with boats on the slipway and the promenade and houses behind. There are girls paddling in the foreground

The launch of the Cunard White Star Liner - Queen Mary by HM The Queen at Clydebank, Septmeber 26th, 1934. Now permanently located at Long Beach, California, United States. Date: 1934

Boat launch Robin Hoods Bay
Using an old farm tractor, three fishermen wearing oilskins launch a small lobster boat down the wet cobble slip of Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1990

Slipway, Sandown, Isle of Wight - Painted by artist Frank E Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

RMS Queen Mary, coils of chains piled under hull
RMS Queen Mary, coils of chains piled under the hull to check progress down the slipway Date: 1930s

Dockyard in Hong Kong, c. 1930 s
Dockyard in Hong Kong, c.1930 s

Saunders-Roe A19 Cloud, G-AC??, on the slipway at Cowes in 1935. Date: 1935

Saunders-Roe A21 Windhover on the slipway at Cowes

Saunders-Roe A29 Cloud on the slipway at Cowes

St. Ives, Cornwall - A Salvation Army open air meeting on the slipway, where hundreds would gather to sing favourite hymns and listen to the gospel on a Sunday evening. Date: circa 1940s

Saunders-Roe SR45 Princess G-ALUN during a trial launch
Saunders-Roe SR45 Princess, G-ALUN, during a trial launch on 19 August 1952 from the Columbine Slipway, Cowes, Isle of Wight

The Wharf and Quay Street, St Ives, Cornwall
" One of a great series of studies of St Ives, Cornwall. The Wharf & Quay Street from Seagull Flats, Morning. The Harbour Beach Foresand, cottages & Quay House, St Leonards Chapel

Lynmouth, Devon - Harbour and Port. Date: circa 1940s

Late afternoon on Wharf Road and beach, St Ives, Cornwall
" One of a great series of studies of St Ives, Cornwall. Wharf Road showing the bandstand, Crimson Tours, Harbour Cafe, Copper Kettle, Brig Y Don & Dinas Ia

Boat on slipway with cottages
Boat on a slipway with waterside cottages in the background, viewed through an arch. circa 1905

Greypoint, Bangor, from Seacourt - a view of a bathing place and slipway on the rocks past Pickie Pool. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Bangor). Date: circa early 1900s

Greencastle, Co. Down - a view of the town taken from rocks, in the foreground is a slipway and boats and boys looking over a sea wall, behind this are buildings, one of which is Greencastle Hotel

WW2 poster, Every Rivet a Bullet -- Speed the Ships. Showing a newly constructed ship on the slipway ready for launching. Date: 1941

Latecoere 521 (forward view) on slipway, 9 Feb 35

The main bay of one of the Supermarine erecting shops on?
The main bay of one of the Supermarine erecting shops on the river Itchen prior to the German bombing during WW2. Administrative offices are on the left

Cowes, Isle of Wight - Royal Yacht Squadron Slipway
Cowes, Isle of Wight - off the Royal Yacht Squadron Slipway. Date: circa 1910s

Emerald Coast - Dinard - The slip beyond St. Malo, France Date: circa 1910s

The first partially-completed Saunders-Roe SR45 Princess after roll-out onto the newly reinforced slipway at Cowes. Late 1951. Date: 1951

Phoenix P5 Cork MkI N86 on the slipway at Brough
Phoenix P5 Cork MkI, N86, on the slipway at Brough

Short Sunderland III ML821 being launched from the factory
Short Sunderland III, ML821, being launched from the factory slipway. This aircraft was later converted to a MkV

Patches painted on the bow of the Queen Elizabeth
To record the movements of the hull at all stages of the ships plunge to the waters of the Clyde the white patches painted on the bow of the Queen Elizabeth are photographed by cine-camera when she

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