Original Figurehead from HMS Scylla, a screw steam corvette which was launched at Sheerness Dockyard in 1856 and part of the 1869 Flying Squadron. Comments are closed for this object What's this?

Call it a UFO: an unidentified floating object. Beachcombers were baffled ... while others suggested it could be a figurehead from a ship — like one of those carved mermaids,” she said.

The Prospero took a cargo 2,500 miles up the Amazon to Iquitos, Peru in 1864.This figurehead is the generic ... Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History ...

Figurehead from the SS Terra Nova, the ship that took Captain Scott's ill fated expedition to Antarctica in 1910. On 15th June 1910 a large and excited crowd cheered the 'Terra Nova' as she left ...