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The boat lying on the beach in the fore ground, in Hugh Town harbour, is vaguely reminiscent of an ex-ships' lifeboat, and shows the rugged clinker-built construction of this type of craft.

It is regrettable that in our increasingly litigious 21st century, where a stubbed toe or a sprained ankle can cost boat hire firms dear in compensation, simple boating pleasures may be slowly

For those who could not join the Belfast Boat Club, with its tennis court and long tea-room, there was still the canal to be discovered at Stranmillis.

The steam tug in the foreground was very handy to manoeuvre, and is an example of working boats which have done sterling service throughout the world.

Almost certainly a race or regatta is in progress, as the distinctive boats of the Royal Windermere Yacht Club pose gracefully against the wooded shoreline.

Boating is a popular pastime, and the river is used by a variety of pleasure and competitive craft.

Southend The Boating Beach

The dray on the left is delivering to the Pleasure Boat Inn, which is hidden by trees on the left of the picture.

Sails are being raised on the clinker-built boat as she prepares to get under way and enter the Menai Strait.

It was founded in 1885, with the first clubroom at Alfred Burgoine's boathouse here at Hampton Wick, where club members moored their boats.

The building on the left is the Stop House, where boats would stop to pay their tolls as they moved from one canal company canal to another.

In this beautifully composed picture, a cluster of fishing boats are at rest in

The Boat House Inn ferry offered a more sedate way of crossing the Severn than by the nearby Kingsland Bridge.

This is a popular spot on the Yare to start and finish a Broads holiday, or merely to top up with fuel for both body and boat; Note the signs for Lyons cakes and Walls ice cream (left), which in their

At about 2315hrs on 6 February 1917, whilst carrying troops between Southampton and Havre, she rammed a German U-boat.

This view shows Hollingworth on a glorious summer's day, with both the paddle boats and the ice cream vans doing brisk trade.

The entrance to the pier for the Dunoon boats is to the right.

As the sun goes down, the only activity at sea comes from fishing boats and one or two yachtsmen.

A few sailing fishing boats remain in the harbour at this date, while two fishermen display part of their catch on the quay.

The lower dock could accommodate the club's 'fleet' of 24 pleasure boats, but racing boats had to tie up at St John's Wharf.

Note the shelter made from an old boat in the front garden.

Rowing boats are drawn up, and mothers and children are enjoying a paddle in the sea.

Rowing boats are drawn up on the small shingle beach on the west side of Charlestown harbour, with the Polmear Island rock behind.

The boating lake covered 30 acres.