Funnels Collection (page 5)

Brochure for the Cunard White Star Liner RMS Queen Mary
Brochure for the Cunard White Star Luxury Liner RMS Queen Mary. Date: circa mid-1930s

Public landing, Ohio River, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
View of the public landing on the Ohio River at Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. In the foreground is the Telegraph river steamboat. circa 1890

Steamboat Virginia, Ohio River, USA
The steamboat Virginia on the Ohio River, USA, with the Ohio River Bridge on the left. Date: circa 1905

Maritime Station, Genoa, Italy
The new Maritime Station, Genoa, Italy, with ships on the water in the background. Date: circa 1910s

HMS Drake, British armoured cruiser, WW1
HMS Drake, British armoured cruiser, sunk by a German U-boat in October 1917. Date: 1917

HMS Blanche, British light cruiser. Date: circa 1910

HMS Cressy, British heavy (armed) cruiser. Date: circa 1904

HMS Forward, British light cruiser. Date: circa 1906

HMS Birmingham, British light cruiser, seen here at Avonmouth Docks. Date: circa 1914

HMS Lancaster, British heavy (armed) cruiser, Monmouth class. Date: circa 1904

British Monmouth class cruiser, WW1
A British Monmouth class cruiser, possibly HMS Cornwall, seen here with camouflage paint during the First World War. Date: 1917-1918

HMS Dominion, British battleship. Date: circa 1908

Launch of Cunarder, Aquitania, by G. H. Davis
The launch of the year. First drawings of the gigantic Cunarder, the Aquitania, in the process of being built on the Clyde. Above: a cross section

The coming of the motor liner by G. H. Davis
The coming of the motor liner: the first big funnelless passenger boat built in the British Isles. Forging ahead, but with no steam and no funnels. 1912

Poster advertising Blue Star Line summer cruises to Norway, northern capitals and the land of the midnight sun. Depicting a typical couple in Scandinavian costume. Date: circa 1930s

Poster advertising the Blue Star Line, the worlds most delightful cruising liner, showing an aerial view of a cruise liner, the Arandora Star

British naval patrol ship at night, WW1
British naval patrol ship approaching a suspicious neutral at night during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British hospital ship under escort, WW1
British hospital ship under escort of a destroyer and a coastal motor boat during the First World War, Date: 1914-1918

Baku, Azerbaijan - Locomotive Shed - Russian Railways. Date: circa 1910

Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert
The Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert. The third royal yacht of this name, built in 1897 and subsequently used by Edward VII for his royal journeyings. Date: circa 1905

RMS Mauretania - Cunard White Star Line
Passenger liner of the Cunard White Star line, she held the Blue Riband for 21 years; she was withdrawn from service and broken up in 1935. Date: circa 1908

Turkish Imperial Steamship - Ertogrul
Turkish Imperial steamship (albeit still with high masts for sails) the Ertogrul (named after the father of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire) riding high in the Bosphorus Date: circa 1930

Italian Naval vessel - Saida. A modified Spaun Class protected cruiser, formerly part of the Austrian fleet - ceded to Italy in 1920

Russian lantern maker in his shop Date: 1902

HMS Montrose at Canakkale - troops in transit
HMS Montrose at Canakkale (Chanak), Turkey - troops in transit - 30th September 1922. The Chanak Crisis, also called Chanak Affair in September 1922 was the threatened attack by Turkish troops

RMS Queen Mary - compared in size to Trafalgar Square
The RMS Queen Mary as she would appear if placed across Trafalgar Square, London. Cunard White Star line. Date: circa 1910s

Galati, Romania - Boat for Sulina
An oriental excursion boat to Sulina - this appears to be a rather over-capacity River Danube Ferry decked out for the occasion... Date: 1902

HMS Cumberland - a Monmouth-class armoured cruiser of the British Royal Navy. Date: 1917

WW1 - A German four-stack liner
WW1 - One of the German four-stack liners (as the funnels are in groups of two rather than four equally spaced), either the Kronprinzessin Cecile; Kaiser Wilhelm II; Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse or

Ship with four funnels at sea by night, WW1
A ship with four funnels at sea by night, with light reflecting on the water, during the First World War. 1914-1918

Italian armoured cruiser at sea
An Italian armoured cruiser at sea. It is probably of the Pisa class, built in Italy between 1905 and 1910. Date: 20th century

Ship with two funnels at sea, WW1
A ship with two funnels at sea during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

HMS Endymion, Edgar-class cruiser, WW1
HMS Endymion, an Edgar-class cruiser, at sea during the First World War. Launched in 1891, took part in the Boxer Rebellion and the First World War during the Gallipoli campaign. Date: 1914-1918

HMAS Sydney, British light cruiser, WW1
HMAS Sydney, Australian Town-class (Chatham sub-class) light cruiser, launched 1912, served during the First World War, decommissioned 1928. Seen here leaving Rosyth, Scotland. Date: circa 1917

British ship with four funnels, WW1
A British ship with four funnels, possibly HMS Aboukir, sunk at the beginning of the First World War. Date: early 20th century

Unidentified armoured cruiser
An unidentified armoured cruiser around the time of the First World War. Date: early 20th century

HMS Carnarvon, British armoured cruiser
HMS Carnarvon, British Devonshire-class armoured cruiser, launched 1903, served before and during the First World War, briefly used as a training ship, then sold and broken up 1921

HMS Vanoc, British destroyer at sea, WW1
HMS Vanoc, British V-class destroyer, launched 1917, served during the Second World War as a long-range escort ship. Date: 20th century

HMS Kent, British armoured cruiser, WW1
HMS Kent, British Monmouth-class armoured cruiser, launched 1901, served during the First World War, decommissioned 1920. Showing damage to her upper deck, with crew members standing on either side

HMS Bedford, British armoured cruiser
HMS Bedford, British Monmouth-class armoured cruiser, launched 1901, wrecked 1910. Date: early 20th century

Hospital shelters at South Wharf, Rotherhithe, London
View of hospital shelters at South Wharf, Trinity Street, Rotherhithe, south east London, where smallpox patients waited before being transported down the Thames to hospital ships moored at Long

River ambulances Albert Victor, Geneva Cross, Maltese Cross
View of the river ambulances Albert Victor, Geneva Cross and Maltese Cross. They were operated by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to transport smallpox patients from London down the Thames to

City of Paris ship at Milford Haven Docks, South Wales
View of the City of Paris ship in for repair at Milford Haven Docks, South Wales, with a railway track in the foreground

Filling Oil Cans - Hackney Wick
A female employee fills BP Oil Cans at a plant in Hackney Wick, London

RAF bombing German warship
An RAF biplane bombs a german warship off the coast of Africa during World War One. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

Turkish Steamship Ertogrul
Turkish Imperial steamship (albeit still with high masts for sails) the Ertogrul (named after the father of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire) riding high in the Bosphorus

Belgium - Port of Ostende
Port of Ostende, Belgium. The mailship ferry departs the harbour as young boys fish off the pier, while others just lean on the railings watching the ships disappear into the North Sea

Leviathan refueling
The fuel ship British Councillor bunkering (refueling) the large liner Leviathan. The second of a trio of transatlantic liners built by Germanys Hamburg America Line as the SS Vaterland for

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