Target Collection (page 3)

Royal Navy Armstrong Whitworth Meteor TT. 20 WM292
Royal Navy Armstrong Whitworth Meteor TT.20 WM292 841. Target tug of the Fleet Requirement and Directions Unit at RNAS Yeovilton

de Havilland Mosquito NF Mk. XV high-altitude fighter. This is an example of the rare NF Mk. XV with the extended wing-span wings, pressurised cockpit, 70 series Merlin engines, nose AI Mk

A. S. T. High-speed Towed Target
A.S.T. High-speed Towed Target displayed at Farnborough ca 1953, with a de Havilland Sea Venom in the background. Date: 1950s

Naval guns at Schwartzkop, South Africa
Sighting one of the 4.7 naval guns on the Boer position at Schwartzkop, South Africa, during the Second Boer War. Date: 1900

Battleships undertake target practise. Date: circa 1910s

Hawker Hunter T-8C
Royal Navy Hawker Hunter Trainer Parked with Canopy Open Date: 1960s

Westland Whirlwind HARMk10 XR454 of the RAF
Westland Whirlwind HARMk10 XR454 of the Royal Air Force above Rescue & Target Towing Launch 2759

An unarmed English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air ?
An unarmed English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile collides amidship with the target, a Jindivik, following its launch from Woomera, Australia, 5 December 1957. Date: 1957

Lee Enfield Mk I. 303 in bolt action sniper rifle, 1916 (c). Privately converted to a parapet rifle and fitted with a Fulton target grade barrel. Associated with World War One (1914-1918)

Dum-dum bullets used during WW1
Dum-dum bullets used during the First World War. As Dr Haydn Brown explains, the bullet breaks up or mushrooms on entering the human target, and causes maximum damage as a result. Date: October 1914

WWI German U-boat attack on an English Commercial Freighter. Date: 1915

English Electric Canberra B(I)8 modified to carry Ferranti Laser Ranger and Marked Target Seeker. From left: Bill Roberts, flight test observer; Len Houston

WW1 - Zeppelins raiding over Paris, France, 1915
WW1 - An illustration depicting the terror of zeppelins dominating the sky in an air raid at night over Paris, France. Searchlights beam from the city below, marking the zeppelins

Hawker Henley -started life as a light bomber, but relegated to target towing

Culver PQ-14 near B-29 tail -this diminutive lightplane was normally operated as a target drone, but could be piloted

Bristol Beaufighter TT Mk. 10 RD867, Rockcliffe, Canada
Built as a Beaufighter TF.X (Torpedo Fighter version) RD467 was converted to a TT.X, for target towing. Seen here in bad condition at Rockcliffe Airport in Ottawa, Canada

Fleet of warships, Bikini target, by G. H. Davis
The original Bikini Atoll target: the fleet of more than 70 warships at anchor in the lagoon awaiting their fate. The fleet included famous American and ex-enemy warships, most of which

New anti-submarine torpedo by G. H. Davis
An acoustic torpedo which seeks out its prey: the new anti-submarine weapon which alters course and depth in pursuit of its target, diagrammatically explained. Date: 1950

Deck Quoits on board a P. &O. Steamer, 1890
Engraving showing a game of deck quoits on board a P.&O. steamship, at sea, 1890. One of the competitors has just hit the target - a ringer. Date: 1890

The prototype de Havilland Mosquito TT39 PF489
The prototype de Havilland Mosquito TT39, PF489. The TT39 shore-based naval target tug was produced by converting BXVIs

Boys at Bisley, Surrey
A group of boys at Bisley in Surrey, a rifle shooting venue for many years. The boys may be from the Bisley boys school, an orphanage run by The Shaftesbury Homes

Mouse (Bewick)
mus musculus - COMMON MOUSE terror of housemaids, target of mousetrap-makers, prey of cats and farmers wives - but we all have a sneaking fond- ness for this cute creature

The Old English Halbert Exercise, Plate 4, Double Armed Men &c. 1794

WW1 poster, United War Work Campaign
Poster, United We Serve, United War Work Campaign, fundraising by a group of charities: YMCA, YWCA, National Catholic War Council, Jewish Welfare Board, War Camp Community Service

Mechanical Pieces, Plate 186, showing a range of items including a bird tree with clock, a monkey conjuror or magician, a sleeping beauty, a woman at a sewing machine, a bird in a cage

Newspaper Tax Opposed
A meeting for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge, held at St Martins Hall, Long Acre, London : the chief target is the tax on newspapers. Date: 1851

Whaling / New England
A small whaler makes haste towards its target, in choppy seas off New England, U.S.A. Date: 1890

John Gower / Archery / Strut
JOHN GOWER English poet, friend of Chaucer, aiming his arrow at a target Date: 1325 - 1408

Zodiac / Sagittarius / Maxim
illustrated as an archer firing an arrow at a target held by a frog (!) Date: 1887

Jousting tournament, St Erth, Cornwall
Jousting tournament taking place at St Erth, near Hayle, Cornwall. The two jousters have their helmets on, ready to charge. Date: circa 1970s

Cartoon, An easy target, WW1
Cartoon, An easy target. A German sailor tells his Commandant that a merchant ship has stopped near them. The Commandant replies that in that case hes not likely to miss it. Date: 1916

Illustration, scene at an archery event
Illustration, Scene at an archery event of the 1790s, featuring the Bowmen (and Women) of Kent in historical costume, apparently held on Blackheath (which was then in Kent)

Naval rifle range, Weihaiwei island, China
Naval rifle range, Weihaiwei (Weihai) island, China, when it was a British colony. Date: circa 1910

WW1 - Firing a mortar
WW1 - Three soldiers positioned in a dug-out trench, aiming and firing a mortar at its target. Date: circa 1915

Miles Martinet -one of the first ever aircraft specifically designed as a target tug

WW1 - British seaplanes in action, Cuxhaven, Germany, 1915
WW1 - Seven British seaplanes flying towards their first real oversea air raid. The British naval pilots on a mission to bomb various enemy naval works in Cuxhaven, Germany, 1915. Date: 1915

Armstrong Whitworth AW 38 Whitley V -despite its slow and ponderous performance, the Whitley was the first RAF aircraft to bomb a German target

Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, Maxim Maxim
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, Maxim Maxim -- Fire should be withheld till a favourable target presents itself, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916

WW2 Poster -- be discreet
You may be a walking RAF - but don t let everyone know it! Be discreet! Colour lithograph by Sgt Norman Tiger Harrison, Royal Corps of Signals, India

LCC-London Fire Brigade firefighting demonstration in London

German trenches, Le Target, Belgium. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Periscope fitting - Le Target, Belgium
The periscope fitting for safety in the trenches. Le Target, Belgium. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

WW2 poster, the Battle for Fuel
WW2 poster -- You are in the Battle for Fuel -- are you keeping inside your target? Date: circa 1940

Enemy aeroplanes attack British steamer by G. H. Davis
Enemy aeroplanes attacking a British steamer. Bombs and bullets from above -- the Avocet attacked by three German planes during the First World War

Destroyer at target practice by G. H. Davis
Navy notes of the week: a British destroyer at target practice, with marksmen firing torpedoes. 1912

Britains acoustic shell by G. H. Davis
The acoustic shell: Britains ace killer of flying bombs during the Second World War. The British-invented radio proximity shell, which explodes itself when in lethal range of its target. 1945

RAF and Army cooperate against enemy by G. H. Davis
Rocket typhoons versus German tanks: how the RAF and the Army cooperate in smashing enemy armour during the Second World War

Sperry automatic computing gun sight by G. H. Davis
A mechanical brain: the Sperry automatic computing gun sight, in use during the Second World War. An invention which enabled US bombers to target a large number of enemy fighters. Date: 1944

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