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Vintage silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, titled "Atlantic transfer". Photographer's stamp and editorial markup on verso. Published in the March 21 1942 issue of Picture Post, story titled "A trawler in war-time. Hardy was sent to Fleetwood, Lancashire, along with fellow photographer Bert Lloyd, to take photographs aboard a fishing trawler. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Atlantic transfer

1941

[Carbon copy of log of the R34 (return journey) Long Island, New York to Pulham, Norfolk, 1919 Jul 9-13 / E.M. Maitland. 17 ms. leaves, bound. Personal log kept by Maitland on the return journey of R 34 from New York to Norfolk. Bears pencil note, probably added later, 'Official log of R 34'; misleading as it does not contain all the details of an official log. See Maitland's 'The log of H.M.A. R 34 Journey to America and Back' 1921, shelved at 629.733]

Carbon copy of log of the R34 (return journey) Long Island

1919

Photographic print records of gravity determinations made onboard the Royal Netherlands Navy submarine O 13 whilst it submerged in the Atlantic Ocean, by Prof. Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, August 5th 1932.

Record of gravity determination submerged in the Atlantic

1932

Photographic print records of gravity determinations made onboard the Royal Netherlands Navy submarine O 13 whilst submerged in the Atlantic near the Portuguese Coast, by Prof. Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, August 2nd 1932. These records show the middle pendulum moving more regularly.

Record of gravity determination submerged in the Atlantic

1932

Sample of ‘Globigerina ooze’ in dry condition, collected by HMS Challenger from the South Atlantic Ocean, south west of St Helena, between Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, at a depth of 1990 fathoms, 1872-1876. Collection site was station 338. Globigerina is a genus of planktonic Foraminifera; shells of these tiny animals dominate vast areas of the deep sea floor.

Sample of ‘Globigerina ooze’ collected by HMS Challenger, 1872-1876

1872-1876

Sample of ‘Pteropod ooze’, collected by HMS Challenger from the western Atlantic Ocean, north of Culebra Island, West Indies, at a depth of 390 fathoms, 1872-1876. Collection site was station 24.

Sample of ‘Pteropod ooze' collected by HMS Challenger, 1872-1876

1872-1876

Sample of ‘volcanic sand’, collected by HMS Challenger from the Atlantic Ocean near Tenerife, at a depth of 78 fathoms, 1872-1876.

Sample of ‘volcanic sand' collected by HMS Challenger, 1872-1876

1872-1876

Sample of 'red clay' collected by HMS Challenger from the Atlantic Ocean, between the Canary Islands and West Indies, at a depth of 3150 fathoms, 1872-1876.

Sample of 'red clay' collected by HMS Challenger, 1872-1876

1872-1876

Three records of gravity determinations made in the Atlantic Ocean, by Prof. Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, 1932.

Three records of gravity determinations made in the Atlantic Ocean

1932

Sample of ‘blue mud’ collected by HMS Challenger from the South Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 1900 fathoms, 1872-1876. Collection site was station 323.

Sample of ‘blue mud' collected by HMS Challenger, 1872-1876

1872-1876

Sample of ‘red clay’, collected by HMS Challenger from the South Atlantic Ocean, north of the Sandwich Islands, at a depth of 2950 fathoms, 1872-1876. Collection site was station 256.

Sample of ‘red clay’, collected by HMS Challenger, 1872-1876

1872-1876

Sample of ‘wet globigerina ooze’, collected by HMS Challenger from the South Atlantic Ocean, between Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, at a depth of 1990 fathoms, 1872-1876. Collection site was station 338.

Sample of ‘wet globigerina ooze’ collected by HMS Challenger, 1872-1876

1872-1876