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The National Museum of Bermuda, previously the Bermuda Maritime Museum from its opening in 1974 until 2009 (legislatively formalised in 2013), explores the maritime and island history of Bermuda. The maritime museum is located within the grounds of the fortress Keep of the former Royal Naval Dockyard in Sandys Parish on the Ireland Island at ...
Today's bathing suits range from modest to risqué, but that wasn't always the case. As early as 4th century B.C. mosaics can be found of female athletes adorned in outfits that come quite close ...
A Bermuda Fitted Dinghy, being put through its paces in Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda. Hamilton Harbour is a natural harbour in Bermuda which serves as the port for the capital, the City of Hamilton . It is an arm of the Great Sound , and forms a tapering wedge shape of water between Paget Parish and the peninsula which forms Pembroke Parish , and ...
HMD Bermuda (Her/His Majesty's Dockyard, Bermuda) was the principal base of the Royal Navy in the Western Atlantic between American independence and the Cold War.The Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda had occupied a useful position astride the homeward leg taken by many European vessels from the New World since before its settlement by England in 1609.
Even then, many protested against them and wanted to remain in the nude. Rev. Francis Kilvert, an English clergyman and nude swimmer, described men's bathing suits coming into use in the 1870s as "a pair of very short red and white striped drawers". Excerpts from Kilvert's diary show the transition in the England of the 1870s from an acceptance ...
The bay was part of the Royal Navy base in Bermuda, which was at St. George's from 1795 through the American War of 1812, pending construction of the Royal Naval Dockyard. It was subsequently part of St. George's Garrison until the 1950s, with HMCS Somers Isles, a Royal Canadian Navy training base, established there during the Second World War.
Animals are only allowed to be brought to Bermuda if they have proof of health and a permit from the Bermuda Department of Environmental Protection. St. George's Harbour, ca. 1864. Confederate blockade runners are visible. The shore of St. George's Harbour was the site of the first settlements in Bermuda, which occurred in the early 17th century.
Image extracted from page 218 of Bermuda, a colony, a fortress, and a prison; or, Eighteen months in the Somers' Islands …, by WHITTINGHAM, Ferdinand. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.