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Torpedo directors were used to calculate the moment of release of the torpedo from the coastal motor boat by sighting on the target and ensuring the boat and therefore torpedo were lined up with the ...

This was one of the larger types developed from the 40ft boat to be built during the First World War. It had 500 b.h.p and was capable of a speed of 33 knots. It was armed with two torpedoes, depth ...

Cream boat, creamware, with scroll end and twisted reeded handle decorated with flowers,
Old label reads; Sauce Boat: one of a pair: deep cream, yellow glaze: slip-cast, shell-shaped with a relief moulded feather edge of seven lobes: reeded, double twist handles and strawberry terminals of the early Leeds type. c.1770-1775. A similar shape was made by Charles and James Whitehead, Hanley, Staffordshire (Pattern Book No. 19), 1798.

Painting, watercolour on paper, sailing boat, St Valery-sur-Somme, France, painted by William Herbert Allen, of Farnham, Surrey, 1880s-1940s
A single sailing boat sails across the bay, its reflection enhanced by the yellow and red sunset.

Painting, watercolour painting on paper, sailing boat at its moorings, Rye, Sussex, painted by William Herbert Allen, of Farnham, Surrey, 1880s-1940s
A sailing boat is moored on the mud flats with the town buildings forming a backdrop against a cloudless sky

Photograph of the Itchen Navigation at Tun Bridge near Winchester Taken about 1875 In this image Victorians enjoy the recreational facilities provided by the Itchen Navigation once its role as a cargo ...