Gangplank Collection (page 2)

Polish Troops to fight with Britain, 1940, (1940). On 26th June 1940, Polish soldiers arrived in England to fight alongside the army of Free Frenchmen lead by General de Gaulle

A Revised Empire Air Scheme, 1939, (1940). A revised Empire Air Scheme in the late autumn of 1939 moved training of the Australian air contingent from Canada to Australia

Air and Sea Power in Invincible Harmony, 1943-44. Allied submarine personnel taking shells on board, World War II. From The War Illustrated Volume 7 edited by Sir John Hammerton

Unloading a vessel on the Irrawaddy River, Burma, 1908. Artist: Stereo Travel Co
Unloading a vessel on the Irrawaddy River, Burma, 1908. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Passengers embarking on an Irrawaddy steamer, Mada, Rangoon, Burma, 1908. Artist: Stereo Travel Co
Passengers embarking on an Irrawaddy steamer, Mada, Rangoon, Burma, 1908. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Passenger ship bethed at Molde, Norway, 1929

British battleship HMS Malaya in a floating dock, Malta, c1937. HMS Malaya entered service with the Royal Navy in 1916, sustaining heavy damage at the Battle of Jutland later that year

Loading a cotton steamer, USA, c1880. A print from Cassells History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880

The admiral striking his flag, HMS Warspite, 1937. HMS Warspite was a famous battleship that saw action in both World Wars

Bonn and the River Rhine, 20th century. View showing a river steamer

Canal boat, Rotterdam, 1898. Artist: James Batkin
Canal boat, Rotterdam, 1898. A man wheels a barrow onto a boat laden with bricks. Illustration from a book of photographs taken in Holland and Belgium by James Batkin, (1898)

British troops disembarking in France, 7 August 1914. Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914. The first elements of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF)

General John Joseph Black Jack Pershing arriving in Boulogne, June 1917, (1926)
General John Joseph Black Jack Pershing arriving in Boulogne, First World War, June 1917. Pershing (1860-1948) led the American Expeditionary Force in Europe (1914-1918)

Embarkation of convicts for French Guiana, 1904. France began transporting convicts to its colony of French Guiana in 1852

Visitors to Port Doumen, Saigon, Vietnam, 1900

Harbour station, Dieppe, c1900. French postcard

Jason and the Argonauts, 1655. Artist: Michel de Marolles
Jason and the Argonauts, 1655. A plate from Michel de Marolless Tableaux du Temple des Muses, Paris, 1655. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

A Boat on the Nile, Egypt, 19th century. Artist: Emile Prisse D Avennes
A Boat on the Nile, Egypt, 19th century. Private Collection

Senegalese soldiers embarking on the Egyptian coast, World War I, 1915. 475, 000 troops from Frances overseas colonies served in the French army during World War I A print from Le Pays de France

Eamon De Valera declining the opportunity to attend the Ottawa Conference, 1932. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Eamon De Valera declining the opportunity to attend the Ottawa Conference, 1932. Cartoon showing De Valera (1822-1975) American-born Irish statesman

Crusaders embarking for the Holy Land, 15th century. Banners show the Papal arms, those of the Holy Roman Emperor and the kings of England, France and Sicily. From Statutes of Order of Saint Esprit

Spanish prisoners arriving at Key-West, Spanish-American War, 1898. Artist: Henri Meyer
Spanish prisoners arriving at Key-West, Spanish-American War, 1898. The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Spain

Britannia holding back Cholera at British ports, 1892. Artist: John Tenniel
Britannia holding back Cholera at British ports, 1892. In an outbreak of the water-borne disease in 1892 about 260, 000 died in Russia and 7600 in Hamburg. An epidemic was prevented in Britain

Roman relief of a ship, with amphorae being unloaded, overseen by Tally-Clerks by the quayside

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