RMD1BMGK–Victorian engraving of a sailor from the Royal Navy having a tattoo put on his arm, 1897
RMBMWXH2–Here's to Health!
RMJMGYGR–ROYAL NAVY Sailors embarking at Portsmouth Harbour for service with the Baltic Fleet during the Crimean War
RF2WRWCYX–Sailors (18th century) by W.C. Symons. Royal Navy 1893 old antique print
RMKE2MJ3–Young woman boarding a ship with the help of the captain. Cover of Figaro Illustré, 'Numéro spécial', No. 84, March 1897. She is wearing a typical late 19th century dress with leg of mutton sleeves, with gloves and a hat. The captain, wearing his uniform, has taken off his hat as he helps her onto the ship. Sailors in uniform on boat. Caption reads 'La Marine Militaire'. Illustration by Gustave Bourgain (1856-1919). Navy
RMC41YBP–military, Great Britain, navy, sailors of the watch below on the upper deck of a Royal Navy warship, Aquatinta by T. Sutherland, 1820, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMMHNAX6–Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, London, England, seen here in the mid 19th century when it was a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy. From Old England: A Pictorial Museum, published 1847.
RM2PA4YHK–Davits began to be introduced into Royal Navy warships in the late 18th-century and originally took the form of squared baulks of timber. Davit systems are most often used to lower an emergency lifeboat to the embarkation level to be boarded and also used as man-overboard safety devices to retrieve personnel from the water.
RMCWAWHE–The British navy intercepted slave ships throughout the 19th century. In 1884, the H.M.S. 'Undine' liberated this group of
RMTT5N80–Aldershot, Hampshire CDV (Carte De Visite) of a Victorian British Royal Navy Sailor From H.M.S. Boscawen Which Sank in 1914.
RM2NN93KN–A 19th century sketch of the largest British naval gun in 1837
RF2A6BHWJ–German engraving with the uniforms of the Imperial German Navy seaman and officers in 19th century, from left: sailors, corvette commander with coat, admiral, lieutenant and midshipman
RM2A86WWJ–Russian sailors on the ship. Engraving of the 19th century.
RM2WDNBD0–Her Majesty's Navy in the 18th Century - morning in the Portsmouth roads
RMD85WMD–19th century Naval Officers
RMP67J6M–sailors on the Russian cruiser Rynda; 1893
RME1GMXW–Photograph of sailors of the Russian Navy. Dated 1893
RMJNABY1–AJAXNETPHOTO. - 19TH JULY, 2016. HARTLEPOOL, ENGLAND. - HISTORICAL SHIP MUSEUM - THE RESTORED 19TH CENTURY FRIGATE HMS TRINCOMALEE (EX T.S.FOUDROYANT, EX TRINCOMALEE.). PHOTO:TONY HOLLAND/AJAX REF:DTH161907 32305
RMAEHJ9X–Tripoli, Libya. 19th. Century Protestant Cemetery Graves of U.S. Navy Sailors, 1804.
RM2WT0W61–Vintage illustration Sailors firing a cannon on a US Navy battleship during Spanish–American War , Military History, Victorian, 19th Century.
RMPYF9DJ–On board HMS Seraphis, Pony and Thibet Mastiff, circa 1875
RM2K5H9YP–1891. Royal Navy signalmen on the bridge of the Admiral-class battleship, H.M.S. Camperdown, communicating with another ship by semaphore. At the time, Camperdown was the flagship of the Channel Fleet.
RMAKEYE0–American sailors in Boston impressed into service of the British Navy before the War of 1812. Hand-colored woodcut
RF2K0EEWR–Interior of U.S. Naval recruiting rendezvous, Cherry Street, New York - Sailors enlisting for the Service, May 1861. 19th century American Civil War illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
RMFF7DTX–colonialism, fight between German navy soldiers and natives, Cameroon, 20.12.1884, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2HM8XRB–Greenwich Hospital, London, England, seen here in the 19th century. The hospital was a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy, which operated from 1692 to 1869, it is now known as the Old Royal Naval College. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published c.1890.
RMG1YGX3–19th Century view of Portsmouth Naval Harbour, Hampshire, England
RMCWBTCF–Portraits of 15 African American soldiers and sailors who were awarded Congressional Medals of Honor in the 19th century. Sgt.
RM2FK4NF0–A sea battle between the Imperial Chinese navy and pirate junks during the 19th century.
RM2NN94BJ–A 19th century sketch of the Naval gun from HMS Benbow, the third of four Iron Duke-class battleships of the Royal Navy, named in honour of Admiral John Benbow.- Ordered in 1911 , laid down at the William Beardmore and Company shipyard in May 1912 - launched November 1913 - completed October 1914,.
RMW7CBFR–Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral of the Royal Navy, 19th century.Artist: William Finden
RMRJE419–Victorian CDV (Carte De Visite) of Sailing Ships in Portsmouth Harbour, Hampshire, England.
RM2PJ7FE9–The Dévastation was launched in 1879 as an Dévastation-class ironclad battleship of the French Navy of central battery (casemate) design. She was used as a school ship for manoeuvres.
RMDPATM5–SAILORS' HORNPIPE
RMP67J87–sailors on the Russian cruiser Rynda; during the Columbian Naval Review; 1893
RMKCKX1D–An engraving of the Hall of Greenwich Hospital, Kent scanned at high resolution from a book printed in 1819. Believed copyright free.
RMJNABWK–AJAXNETPHOTO. - 19TH JULY, 2016. HARTLEPOOL, ENGLAND. - HISTORICAL SHIP MUSEUM - THE RESTORED 19TH CENTURY FRIGATE HMS TRINCOMALEE (EX T.S.FOUDROYANT, EX TRINCOMALEE.). PHOTO:TONY HOLLAND/AJAX REF:DTH161907 32269
RMAEB10X–Tripoli, Libya. 19th. Century Protestant Cemetery, Graves of U.S. Navy Sailors from 1804 in far Left Corner.
RM2X12X8H–Vintage picture of Italian Navy Warships, Battelship Ruggiero De Lauria. Sailors on Torpedo boat, Navy Military History, 19th Century 1890s
RMC6123R–Portraits of 15 African American soldiers and sailors who were awarded Congressional Medals of Honor in the 19th century. Sgt.
RM2M74DTC–“Maxim Gun Practice at Whale Island, Portsmouth”. Circa.1895. Two Royal Navy seamen of HMS Excellent, the Portsmouth gunnery ship, are practising with a Maxim gun, the latest type of machine gun adopted by the Navy. The special feature of the Maxim (so named after its inventor) is its automatic action. The firer presses a button and the gun goes on firing by itself until its ammunition, carried on a belt of from 150 to 200 cartridges, stops. The belts are quickly replaced, and 600 shots a minute, in a continuous stream of bullets, can be fired.
RMDE85A2–'Taking of Azov on 18 May 1696', late 18th or 19th century. Artist: Robert Ker Porter
RM2GC1N8X–Egypt. Disembarkation of British sailors and bluejackets from the 'Invincible' near Fort Mex, after the bombardment. Engraving by Tomás Carlos Capuz. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882.
RMAFNEN0–events, Second Opium War 1856 - 1860, treaties of Tientsin, 26.6.1858 - 29.6.1858, Chinese tents for the reception of the British mission, engraving by Hanhart after Dedwell, 1858, politics, China, Great Britain, colonialism, imperialism, Asia, Royal Navy, sailors, pickets, historic, historical, 19th century, people,
RMT4N5DY–Pensioners leaving the Greenwich hospital. The Greenwich Hospital was a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy, which operated from 1692 to 1869. From The Illustrated London News, published 1865.
RM2PA4TAH–Some of the first recruits for H.M. Naval Reserve Force. The RNR was established with the Naval Reserve Act of 1859 as a reserve force of seamen, extended to include officers in 1862, and men from deep-sea merchant ships who could be called upon.
RMCWC6XC–Impressment of American seaman by the British Navy. Approximately 50 of the sailors working on US merchant ships were legally
RM2F6X94P–Mutiny of the sailors who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his voyage to discover America in 1492, Spain. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879
RF2HEW2X9–sailors in boat 1881 line illlustration, from Our Blue Jackets, A Narrative of Miss Weston's Life And Work Among Our Sailors, by Sophia G Wints
RMB0K9ED–Demonstration of sailors, 19th century, (1900). Artist: Unknown
RMW438XT–Valletta, Malta CDV (Carte De Visite) of a Victorian British Royal Navy Sailor From H.M.S.Caesar.
RM2WJD39J–Unidentified warships at battle during the 19th century
RM2F61B2N–Crew of Ironclad USS Monitor, 1862
RM2FKBACP–During La Commune, enlistment of sailors for gunboats on the river Seine commandeered by the insurgents. In : Louis Barron, Paris Pittoresque 1800-1900. La Vie - Les Moeurs - Les Plaisirs, Paris, Société Française d'Editions d'Art L.-Henry May, 1899.
RMTWPMG7–“Farewell to Nelson”, Portsmouth, September 14th, 1805. By Andrew Carrick Gow (1848-1920). Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1904, the painting anticipated the first centenary of Nelson’s death. Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, KB (1758-1805). Nelson was most noted for his leadership and strategic skills as well as his unconventional tactics, notably during the Napoleonic Wars.
RMJNABW9–AJAXNETPHOTO. - 19TH JULY, 2016. HARTLEPOOL, ENGLAND. - HISTORICAL SHIP MUSEUM - THE RESTORED 19TH CENTURY FRIGATE HMS TRINCOMALEE (EX T.S.FOUDROYANT, EX TRINCOMALEE.). CATHEAD DETAIL. PHOTO:TONY HOLLAND/AJAX REF:DTH161907 32264
RF2A6J4JG–At the end of 19th century an armored frigate was the most powerful vessel: the cannons became larger, more destructive, more accurate, and could fire at longer range with gyroscopic stability
RM2X13A1K–Vintage picture Sailors manning naval gun, French Navy ironclad battleship Dévastation, Warship, Victorian Military History, 1890s 19th Century.
RMBMWTD8–The Sailors
RM2HD4783–“Pay Day on board HMS Royal Sovereign”. Circa. 1895. The pay chest on the table comprises several rows of drawers divided into compartments to hold separately the money due to each man. The money is placed in the compartments in the Paymaster's office below, and the chest then brought on deck where it is paid out in the presence of an executive officer. The Paymaster is shown paying a bluejacket with the Commander of the ship on his right, while the Master-at-Arms, stands by to check the names of the men.
RF2K1NTX9–A detachment of U. S. sailors from the gunboats Albatross and Gemsbok, burning the contraband vessel York, mouth of Bogue Inlet, near Beaufort, North Carolina. January 1862. 19th century American Civil War illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
RMHN35X9–Playing games in the mess deck of an early 19th century frigate.
RMBHN7W3–geography / travel, Germany, Cameroon, conquest by Germans 1884, attack on Yosstown, 20.12.1884, contemporary wood engraving, 19th century, historic, historical, 1880s, Africa, German dependency, dependencies, 1884-1919, colony, colonies, colonialism, Imperial Era, Imperial Period, German Empire, fight, battle, encounter, encounters, soldiers, sailor, sailors, navy, war, wars, jungle, the barely penetrable jungle, troops, people,
RMFFERY9–A sea battle between pirate junks and the Imperial Chinese navy during the 19th century.
RM2PA4X2Y–Gun practice in 1860 on HMS Brilliant (1814), a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1814 and built at Deptford. She was re-rated to 42 guns in 1830, serving with the Channel Fleet, until 1859 when she was passed to the Royal Naval Reserve, initially in London.
RMCWC6XG–Impressment of American seaman by the British Navy. Approximately 50 of the sailors working on US merchant ships were legally
RMHWE7YD–Antique 1883 monochromatic print from a souvenir album, showing the Army & Navy Monument (Boston Common) and the Bunker Hill Monument (Charlestown) in Boston, Massachusetts. Designed by Martin Milmore, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument was erected in memory of Massachusetts soldiers and sailors who died in the American Civil War. The Bunker Hill Monument was erected to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill, which was among the first major battles between British and Patriot forces in the American Revolutionary War, fought there June 17, 1775. Printed with the Glaser/Frey lithographic process,
RMARNXNE–Paying Off a Man O War 1892 engraving of a British battleship on its return to its home port
RM2DC4JPR–HMS Tricomalee a Leda class sailing frigate built in the early 19th century in India for the Royal Navy, preserved at Hartlepool Historic Quay, UK
RM2PJ7FEC–the French ironclad Dévastation (center) in Brest in 1912. A disarmed hulk is moored in front and one of the Leon Gambetta-class cruisers lies astern
RF2DCD0M8–Crew of Ironclad USS Monitor, 1862
RMR20TP7–Photograph of sailors of the Russian Navy. Dated 1893
RMW9HRTK–[ 1890s Japan - British Sailors and Japanese Children ] — Foreign sailors distribute candy to Japanese children in Nara. Published in the British weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic on April 15, 1893 (Meiji 26). Original text: 'Bluejackets on a visit to Dai-butsu, buying the whole stock of a confectioner and distributing it among the children.' 19th century vintage newspaper illustration.
RMJNABWT–AJAXNETPHOTO. - 19TH JULY, 2016. HARTLEPOOL, ENGLAND. - HISTORICAL SHIP MUSEUM - THE RESTORED 19TH CENTURY FRIGATE HMS TRINCOMALEE (EX T.S.FOUDROYANT, EX TRINCOMALEE.). GUNDECK DETAIL. PHOTO:TONY HOLLAND/AJAX REF:DTH161907 32289
RM2BT55Y5–Frontispiece illustration showing 18th and 19th century sailors in front of a decorated ships stern. Woodblock print by J. Beruce after Claude-Nicolas-Eugene Guillaumot from Eugene Paninis Marine, arsenaux, navires, equipages, navigation, atterages, combats, L. Curmer, Paris, 1844.
RM2X139Y9–Vintage picture British Royal Navy sailors exercise with cutlass sword and rifle with bayonet on deck of a battleship, Victorian Military History, 1890s 19th Century
RMDEYK2D–Sailors lashing their hammocks on a British man o'war, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut
RM2HD476Y–“The Diver on Board Ship”. Circa. 1895. The Diver, with his equipment of helmet, dress and air tubes, is an important institution on board the modern man-of-war, where his services often prove of the highest utility and importance. He is available in any emergency, whether it be to clear a fouled screw, or to examine a ship's bottom underwater after stranding or collision, or in shallow waters to recover anything gone astray - from an unshipped iron gangway ladder to a missing torpedo.
RMPXGW5B–NAVY YESTERDAY AND TODAY
RMW034X7–Frontispiece illustration showing 18th and 19th century sailors in front of a decorated ship’s stern. Woodblock print by J. Beruce after Claude-Nicolas-Eugene Guillaumot from Eugene Panini’s Marine, arsenaux, navires, equipages, navigation, atterages, combats, L. Curmer, Paris, 1844.
RMBJW4MM–military, Great Britain, navy, presentation of the Rocket Brigade of the Royal Navy in honour of Prince Kassai of Tigre, Senafe, Ethiopia, 27.5.1858,
RMG331G7–British navy punitive expedition attacking pirates who had killed crew members of the schooner Geraldine which had run aground in the Congo, 1875.
RMF218Y3–A 19th Century view of Greenwich Hospital, London, England founded in 1694 on the south bank of the river Thames on the instructions of Queen Mary II, after seeing wounded sailors returning from the Battle of La Hogue in 1692. It became a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy, from 1692 to 1869. The word 'hospital' was used in its original sense of a place providing hospitality for those in need of it, and did not refer to medical care, although the buildings included an infirmary constructed in the 1760s where pensioners were attended by trained medical staff.
RMCWB881–Sailors in Russian navy, 1850s
RMKWDM34–Spain’s torpedo boat flotilla en route to Caribbean, May 1898. Spanish squadron, commanded by Admiral Pascual Cervera, entered the port of Santiago de Cuba on May 19 only to be trapped by a US Navy blockade of the port of Santiago de Cuba on May 27, 1898 (BSLOC 2017 10 45)
RMKHC8H2–An engraving of The Admiralty and Horse Guards, Westminster scanned at high resolution from a book printed in 1819. Believed copyright free.
RMW7CBCX–Sir John Franklin, English sea captain and Arctic explorer, 19th century. Artist: Unknown
RM2DC4JPP–HMS Tricomalee a Leda class sailing frigate built in the early 19th century in India for the Royal Navy, preserved at Hartlepool Historic Quay, UK
RM2F7WM67–Engraving of details of the bursting of a 38-ton gun on HMS Thunderer, 1879: 1 HMS Thunderer at Ismid where the explosion took place, 2 section of the gun showing the line of fracture, 3 the gun after the explosion, 4 condition of the turret after the gun had burst.
RMG16BNF–Entitled: 'U.S.S. Raleigh, sailors at the pyramids'. Photographed by the Detroit Publishing Company, circa 1897-1900. USS Raleigh (C-8) was a United States Navy protected cruiser commissioned in 1894 and in periodic service until 1919. In 1897 she reporte
RF2BC25W6–Illustration of sailors rescuing one of their own at sea entitled 'Un homme à la mer' by Felician Myrbach printed in the late 19th century.
RMPCGC9B–DENVER, Col (March 27, 2008) âÄì Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead speaks with local academia, business leaders and government officials and answers questions during the 'Conversation with the Country' in Denver, Col. Roughead discussed the important role of Sailors and Navy civilians in the Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower. U.S. Navy
RMJNABW8–AJAXNETPHOTO. - 19TH JULY, 2016. HARTLEPOOL, ENGLAND. - HISTORICAL SHIP MUSEUM - THE RESTORED 19TH CENTURY FRIGATE HMS TRINCOMALEE (EX T.S.FOUDROYANT, EX TRINCOMALEE.). BOW AND FIGUREHEAD DETAIL. PHOTO:TONY HOLLAND/AJAX REF:DTH161907 32263
RM2T68W3A–The Sedan Chair, the Milkmaid and the Sailors and Ship. Woman riding in an old-fashioned sedan chair 58, Betty the milkmaid with pales of milk on a yoke selling fresh milk door to door 59 and Tom Hazard and other disabled sailors begging with a model ship 60. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Isaac Taylor from City Scenes, or a Peep into London, by Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor, published by Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, London, 1828. English sisters Ann and Jane Taylor were prolific Romantic poets and writers of childrens books in the early 19th century.
RMBR2C9F–Two Royal Navy sailors from the 18th Century. (Symons 99)
RMBFG564–American sailors from the 'Frolic' boarding the British ship 'Wasp,' War of 1812. Hand-colored halftone of an illustration
RM2J7316X–Looking forward on board the pre-dreadnought battleship, H.M.S. Royal Sovereign. Taken at Spithead in November 1894. The photograph was taken from the fore bridge and shows the tow 67-ton guns mounted in the forward barbette.
RMD88F4T–Drunken Sailors in Spain
RM2BYGB7Y–The Sedan Chair, the Milkmaid and the Sailors and Ship. Woman riding in an old-fashioned sedan chair 58, Betty the milkmaid with pales of milk on a yoke selling fresh milk door to door 59 and Tom Hazard and other disabled sailors begging with a model ship 60. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Isaac Taylor from City Scenes, or a Peep into London, by Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor, published by Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, London, 1828. English sisters Ann and Jane Taylor were prolific Romantic poets and writers of children’s books in the early 19th century.
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