Launch Collection

Princess Flying Boat
19th August 1952: Holidaymakers at Cowe, Isle of Wight, watching the launching of a 140 ton Saunders-Roe Princess flying boat prior to flight trials

Shamrock IV Launching 1914
May 1914: Launching Shamrock IV, Britains challenge for the Americas Cup Yacht Race, at Portsmouth. Shamrock IV was a yacht owned by Sir Thomas Lipton and designed by Charles Ernest Nicholson

Rocket Blastoff

Rocket Launch Pad

SS-N-20 Russian nuclear missile, digital illustration

Brooklands Glider
1st July 1910: A glider aeroplane on its launch mechanism. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Launch Of Ship
October 1910: Tugboats pull the White Star liner Olympic out of the docks following her launch at Belfast. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Olympic
The stern of the Cunard liner Olympic at the Harland and Wolff yard, Belfast, just prior to her launch. Known as Old Reliable, she was the sister ship of the Titanic and Britannic

RMS Olympic
The launch of the 883-foot-long White Star liner Olympic from the Harland and Wolff yard, Belfast. Known as Old Reliable, she was the sister ship of the Titanic and Britannic

BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile, digital illustration

AGM 84D Harpoon missile, digital illustration

Polaris A3 American nuclear missile, digital illustration

Cartoon, flying rocket blowing out flames and smoke from its exhaust

The 1966 USA spacecraft Gemini 8

Rocket blasting into space, low angle view

SS Orsova
The Orient Steam Navigation Company passenger liner SS Orsova, built on the Clyde and launched in 1909. She was torpedoed off Plymouth during World War I, then repaired and returned to service

First Submarine
October 1902: A model of the first ever British submarine, the Holland No. 1 (named after inventor John Philip Holland) on display in Trafalgar Square, London

The bow of the new 830-foot P&O liner Canberra on the day of its launch at Belfast
The massive bows of the new 830-foot P&O liner Canberra on the day of its launch at Belfast. The ceremony will be performed by Dame Pattie Menzies, wife of the Australian prime minister

Launching Lifeboat
10th September 1933: The launch and inauguration of the new motor lifeboat (RNLB Charles Cooper Henderson) at Dungeness. (Photo by A. Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Glider Launch
July 1910: Aeroplane taking off down the gliding launch track at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Wright Machine
1st August 1909: Paul Tissandiers Wright Biplane at the Reims Aviation Week, with tail number 4 and its launching pylon and rails

Kite Flying
1908: Man launching a kite on Wimbledon Common, while a group of children look on. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Kite Special
1908: A Brogdani dihedral kite being held ready for launch while a group of youths look on. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

SS Sheringham
1926: The launching of SS Sheringham at Hull Docks. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Otranto
1925: The Orient liner Otranto in dry dock prior to launch. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mauretania
1907: The liner Mauretania launched in 1907. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Submarine Launch
23rd May 1929: The launch of HMS Perseus, the first P class submarine, from Messrs. Vickers and Armstrongs naval construction works at Barrow-in-Furness. (Photo by Edward G)

Imperator Launch
circa 1913: The launch of the Hamburg America liner Imperator by Kaiser Wilhelm II. The ship was later seized from the Germans and joined the Cunard fleet under the new name of Berengaria

Aquitania Launch
1914: The Cunard liner Aquitania leaving the slips on the day of its launch. Nicknamed the Ship Beautiful, she was the last of Cunards Big Three. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Concrete Ship
May 1919: The launch of a concrete ship, the Cretell and the opening of the first concrete dock at Tilbury. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

HMS Queen Elizabeth Launch 1913
October 1913: Spectators watching the launch of the Queen Elizabeth at Portsmouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

HMS Queen Elizabeth
October 1913: Spectators watching the launch of the Queen Elizabeth at Portsmouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mayfly Launch
12th May 1911: The first naval airship, the Mayfly in her hangar before launch. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Mayfly
23rd May 1911: The launching of the first naval airship, the Mayfly. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Camber Sands Launch
29th March 1910: Alex Ogilvies Wright flying machine perched on a slope ready for the launch at Camber Sands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

USS Arizona
January 1917: The Arizona is launched as America prepares to enter World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Shamrock
May 1914: The launch of the yacht, the Shamrock IV. The HMS Victory can be seen in the background. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

HMS Iron Duke
October 1912: The battleship, HMS Iron Duke, shortly after launching. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

HMS Queen Elizabeth
16th November 1913: The HMS Queen Elizabeth leaves the slips at Portsmouth docks on her launching. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Barrow Launch
27th September 1927: The launch of the TSS Oxford at the Vickers shipyard in Barrow-In Furness. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Queens Bows
27th September 1938: The bows of the liner Queen Elizabeth before its launching ceremony at John Browns shipyard in Clydebank, Glasgow. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lizard Lifeboat
The Lizard lifeboat, The Duke of Cornwall being hauled up its slipway after a trial launch. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Rocket ship
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Rocket ship. (Photo by George Marks/Retrofile/Getty Images)

New Scooter
1955: New lightweight scooter launched in Paris. (Photo by John Sadovy/BIPs/Getty Images)

Lifeboat Launch
circa 1860: Flotsam floats ashore as the crew of a lifeboat struggle to launch their vessel and go to the aid of a stricken ship

Luxury Liner SS Paris launches from port in New York City
The luxury liner SS Paris launches from port in New York City. A crowd stands and watches its departure. The SS Paris was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire

Missile And Cyclone
15th May 1959: A group of children watches as the first American ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) rises into launching position at the Aquarium Compund, Coney Island, Brooklyn

Speedy Royal
29th November 1968: The newly launched liner, Queen Elizabeth II undergoing speed trials off the Isle of Arran before being handed over to the Cunard Line on 19th December

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