Marine Collection (#13)

Microscopic Marine Life
Various forms of microscopic marine life, described by Sibly as Animalcules Date: 1794

Snares cape pigeon (Daption capense) swimming. Photographed off of the South Island, New Zealand

Humpback whales exhaling in calm waters off the Antarctic Peninsula. When a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) exhales, air is released from the whales blowhole

Ship testing tank, being filled with water from a hose pipe (bottom). This tank was used to test models of ships being developed by engineers

Sunlight underwater. Photographed in the Maldives

Conshelf Two, Red Sea
Conshelf Two. This underwater research station is located at a depth of ten metres in the Red Sea, off Sudan. The project, developed by Jaques Costeau in the 1960s

Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) swimming over a coral reef. This sea turtle is critically under threat of extinction and is a protected species

Rusty parrotfish. Close-up of a rusty parrotfish (Scarus ferrugineus) showing its brightly coloured body and fin. The rusty parrtofish is a reef fish that is found in the Eastern Indian Ocean

Butterflyfish and purple anthias fish
Butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae) and purple anthias fish (Pseudanthias tuka, purple) schooling over corals. Photographed at Bunaken National Marine Park, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Nudibranchs mating
Nudibranchs (Flabellina verrucosa) mating. Nudibranchs are shell-less marine molluscs that live in seas around the world. They have external gills that give the nudibranch its name

Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis), engraving
Great Auk. Engraved plate of a Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis), a bird that became extinct in the mid-19th century. This was the last species of a genus of giant flightless birds

Diatom alga, SEM
Diatom. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a Biddulphia sp. diatom. This is a marine planktonic unicellular alga. It has a mineralised cell wall (frustule) divided into two halves

Canada, British Columbia, Johnstone Straight, Orcas (Orcinus orca)

OCTOPUS / 1885
Tritaxeopus Cornutus

Whaling from Small Boat
Whaling from a small boat

Rendering Whale Oil
Rendering whale oil in Holland

Fishing with Cormorants
Fishing using cormorants in China

Friars Shot Pool Fishing
Scottish salmon fishermen fishing in the Friars Shot Pool of the River Ness. In the background is the town of Inverness with its castle, Inverness-shire, Scotland

Buying Fish from Boats
Buying fish from the boats

A Man Filleting Fish
A man in hat and overcoat fillets fish on a stall

Osborne Serpent
Head, shoulders and flippers of the ridged marine creature sighted from the royal yacht Osborne off the coast of Sicily (picture 2 of 2)

Queen Angelfish (Holocanthus ciliaris). Caribbean. (rr)
Tom Campbell / SplashdownDirect

Giant manta ray, overhead (Manta birostris). Mexico, Revillagigedo Is
Tom Campbell / SplashdownDirect

Three Finback whales. Gulf of Maine, USA (rr)
Gulf of Maine Prod / SplashdownDirect

Brown booby, Sula leucogaster, male and female pecking, St. Peter and St. Pauls rocks, Brazil, Atlantic
Andre Seale / SplashdownDirect

Orange cup coral, Tubastrea faulkneri, open polyps at night, West Escarceo, Puerto Galera, Mindoro, Philippines
Andre Seale / SplashdownDirect

Cod, Saithe and Pollack, mixed shoal of fish in water column, Scotland, UK
Lawson Wood / SplashdownDirect

King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) walking out of the sea. This penguin inhabits large colonies in island groups in the sub-Antarctic. It can reach 95 centimetres in height

Colonel Festing aged 41
Colonel Francis Worgan Festing (1833-1886) of the Royal Marine Artillery, aged 41. He distinguished himself in the heroic rescue of the body of Lieut

Group of striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) swimming, Strait of Gibraltar, Costa de la Luz, Andalucia (Andalusia), Spain, Europe

Southern right whale, Eubalaena australis, Hermanus, South Africa

Sunset over the Tiracol River viewed from Fort Tiiracol, Goa, India

Brighton / Aquarium / 1905
The Aquarium and Kings Cliff, Marine Parade

Mackerel Fishing / 1847
The Brighton Boats fishing for mackerel

Fysshynge Wyth an Angle
A fifteenth century angler makes a catch - illustration in Wynkyn de Wordes Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle

A RIGHT WHALE
A right whale

Eskimo Hunts a Narwhal
An Eskimo fisherman pursuing a narwhal

Seaweed & other Flora
Various seaweed and other submarine flora

Sea Anemones / 1865
A selection of very colourful and decorative sea anemones

Molluscs / Sealife
A variety of sea-based molluscs including types of snail and clam, a large mussel and other soft-bodied sealife

Herring Curing Holland
People curing herrings in Holland

Royal Anglers
The younger children of king George V & Mary, fishing at Balmoral (the one holding the rod is presumably the future George VI)

Transport / Diving / Beebe
Beebes bathysphere moves between shoals of exotic marine life (very dark original)

Whaling / Faroe Islands
The slaughter Whaling in the Faroe Islands

Futuristic underwater exploration, with two men in diving gear observing an array of strange creatures

A view along Woolacombe Beach from Mortehoe, near Barnstaple, Devon, Great Britain; Southwest England, Great Britain, United Kingdom

River Shannon, Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland; Canal Barge

Nocturne in Blue and Silver Signed in monogram with butterfly, lower left, James McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903, American

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