Ferry Collection (#17)

Cormorant & the Fishes
THE CORMORANT & THE FISHES The cormorant, having told the fish he would ferry them to safety in his beak, eats them at his leisure

France Calais
The ferry terminal in the days when we crossed the Channel in paddle-steamers. Date: 1889

Booze Snooze
Two men in leather jackets, one of them with his hat over his face, take a nap on a cross Channnel ferry, perhaps having had too much booze on their cruise!

Ferry at Kantara, Suez Canal, Egypt, 1875
Engraving of the small rope ferry at Kantara, crossing the Suez Canal with several passengers, two camels and a donkey. The ferry was operated by means of an underwater rope

The Winans Ocean Steamer, 1858
Engraving of the Winans Ocean Steamer cigar ship, launched at Ferry Bay, Baltimore, on 6th October 1858. Intended as an ocean-going vessel, she was 180 feet long and had a displacement of 350 tons

Skiathos Town Ferry Port
Skiathos Town, Skiathos, Greece. A ferry boat prepares to leave the port at night

GOLDEN ARROW BAR
A couple have a drink in the bar of the famous Golden Arrow train which took passengers from London to the Dover to Calais ferry to France

USA / New York / Harbour
A steamer makes its way through the ferry boats, pleasure boats, steamers and sailing vessels which throng the harbour waters

Norwich Pulls Ferry
Pulls Ferry, on the Wensum

Argentina Colorado River
A ferry on the Colorado

Staten Island Ferry USA
The Staten Island passenger ferry, New York

Virgil / Dante / Cross Styx
Every day sees new arrivals on the banks of the Styx, forced onto the ferry which will carry them to unending torment

Nigeria / Niger River
Ferry over the Upper Niger

Jules Ferry, French statesman
Jules Francois Camille Ferry (1832-1893), French republican statesman, Prime Minister, and President of the French Senate

Boarding Folkestoneferry
CHANNEL FERRY Boarding the ferry for Folkestone, at Boulogne

Digger Camp
DIGGER INDIAN encampment at Knights Ferry, Stanislaus County

Bristol / Rownham Ferry
Bristol from Rownham Ferry

Ostend-Dover Steamer
The Ostend - Dover cross channel ferry is watched by North Sea fishermen

Great Eastern Remains
The last, sad remains of the great ship at New Ferry, on the Mersey, Lancashire

Durnstein Castle / Austria
The upper ruins are a medieval castle that held Richard the Lionheart for a time on his return from the Crusades

Ryde, Isle of Wight
The town seen from the sea : in the harbour are sailing vessels and a paddle- steamer - presumably a ferry from the mainland

Australian Ferry Boats
Australian ferry boats carrying holidaymakers to the sea beaches

Ferry at Norwich
Ferry on the Wensum river, at the Watergate, Norwich

Ferry on Syr-Daria
Ferrying travelers and their camels across the Syr-Daria river in Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan

Swedish Postman C1900
The Swedish postman makes use of a steam ferry to get from one part of Stockholm to another

New York / Ferry House 18C
New York: Ferry House on the East River

Jules Ferry Caricature
JULES FERRY French statesman

Passengers on a cross-Channel ferry between England and France

Steamer leaving Folkestone Harbour for Boulogne
The Boulogne steamer leaving Folkestone Harbour

Ferries at Liverpool
Two ferry steamers leave Liverpool quayside to carry passengers across the Mersey

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