Seamen Collection

British Royal Navy recruitment poster, WW1
A British Royal Navy recruitment poster for seamen, aged 19 to 30, to enlist for the duration of the First World War. No previous experience necessary. Date: circa 1915

The Last Shot by Matania
A group of British seamen gunners straining to fire a final shot at a German ship as their own ship sinks beneath them. The caption notes that this was a common occurrence with light cruisers

H. M.s Curacoa 1865
Conflicts with the savages of the New Hebrides, South Pacific Ocean. Boats of the Curacoa landing sailors and marines. A landing party of 180 seamen and marines, commanded by Captain Dent

WW1 recruitment poster with silhouettes
World War One recruitment poster with silhouettes -- Remember! England Expects -- the Need is Great Today.... the Navy requires you for its glorious service. Join today

Anti-Aircraft Gun on USS Texas, 1916
Photograph showing American seamen climbing up the tower of the new anti-aircraft gun on the US battleship Texas, 1916

Police guarding Liverpool Station during transport strike
Policemen on horseback guarding Liverpool Station during the general transport strike of 1911. The strike began with two of the seamens unions, resulting from a range of grievances

Royal Navy Seamen practice mine laying using weighted barrels. Date: circa 1907

Lascar Seamen at work and at rest, 1906
Series of Photographs showing Lascar seamen at work in the stokehole of a passenger liner (centre image) and at rest in the Home for Asiatic Seamen (bottom images)

Saturday Night at Sea
Saturday night at sea - the seamen, off duty, listen as one of their number sings a stirring sea-shanty

A tea ship, the Loudoun Castle (spelt Louden Castle in the picture), from Hankow, China, commencing unloading ( breaking bulk ). The ship discharged from her vast hold 40, 000 packages of tea

WW2 - Minesweeper Otter Float
A photograph which shows some WW2 merchant seamen deploying an otter float upon a minesweeper. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - Merchant Seamen
A photograph showing a crew of British WW2 merchant seamen, with smoke trails in the background, indicating an enemy raider being shot down. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - Merchant Mine Disposal
A pair of photographs which show British WW2 merchant seamen spotting, and then disposing of an enemy sea mine. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - Minesweeper Apparatus
A photograph depicting some British WW2 merchant seamen lowering some sweeping apparatus from the deck of a minesweeper to sea, by crane. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - The Merchant Service Fights Back
An illustrated front cover for an educational WW2 children's book, The Merchant Service Fights Back, told by Wilson Macarthur

WW2 - Knitting for the Merchant Seamen
WW2 - Home Front - A lovely photograph of 78 year-old Isabella Ottilie Simpkins of Whitstable, Kent - knitting for the Merchant Seamen Date: circa 1941

RMS Titanic - five postcards. From top left: Titanic Memorial and Seamen's Institute, New York; two postcards of the ship; Belfast shipyard; seven verse in memoriam card, Wreck of the Titanic

Employment protest, Liverpool
Employment protest in Liverpool, 17 March 1979. Those taking part include Dunlop workers, Tate & Lyle workers, and members of the National Union of Seamen. Date: 1979

Lock of Fort Augustus, situated at the south-western end of Loch Ness. Date: late 1890s

Old Floating Church for Seamen, London
Sailors Floating Church was moored near Tower Hill in London, the ship was a well attended place of worship, with religious teachings for the seafarers that docked there. Date: 1846

CAPTAIN JAMES LOWRY Sea-captain who had the misfortune to flog one of his seamen to death, whereupon he himself had the misfortune to be hanged. Date: ? - 1752

After dinner at the Sailors'Home, in Wells Street, near the London Docks in the East End
After dinner at the Sailors Home, in Wells Street, near the London Docks in the East End. A sailor dancing the hornpipe accompanied by a harp. Date: 1873

Lascars on British Ships: The Question of their Retention. " Human Salamanders" :The Lascar at Work and Play. Employed on board P&O Australian Line liners - working as Coal Stokers

The Benin expedition- in quest of water: On the morning after the occupation of Benin three hundred water-carriers, with the seamen and marines of the Theseus and two companies of Houssas

Dreadnought Hospital ship at Greenwich 1870
In 1870 the patients were transferred ashore to the infirmary. which was renamed the Dreadnought Seamens Hospital. HMS Dreadnought herself remained in use as an isolation hospital until she was

Vikings to Greenland
Icelandic seamen discover Greenland Date: 986

Souvenir card from Queen Victoria Seamens Rest, Poplar
Souvenir card from the Queen Victoria Seamens Rest, Poplar, London (established 1843). Date: circa 1910

Two friends - A British Navy Sailor and a Pacific Islander. Date: circa 1930s

Delivering Christmas Holly to a Steamship
A small rowing boat delivering Christmas Holly to a Steamship - Christmas Greetings Postcard. Date: 1906

The boy who shouldn t grow up
" The boy who shouldn t grow up". John Bull: " Theres your new navy suit. Now you must promise me you won t grow out of it." Germany: " Well

British Sailors C18
Two seamen of the Royal Navy; note the pigtail, commonly worn by sailors of the period

La France Maritime - Merchant Seaman. 19th century

Copenhagen, Denamrk - Sofartsmonumentet (Maritime Monument)
Sofartsmonumentet (Maritime Monument), Copenhagen, Denmark - monument to the Danish Merchant Navy Seamen who lost their lives at sea during World War One

British Royal Naval Recruitment Poster, WW1
Remember! England Expects -- The need is great today.... the Navy requires you for its glorious service. Join today. Skilled artificers and artisans, seamen, stokers, marines and boys

Sailors on board the British submarine, H42
HMS H42 was a British H class submarine built by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle Upon Tyne. She was laid down in September 1917 and was commissioned on 1 May 1919

Half-Scale Replica of Drakes Golden Hind, 1935
Photograph of an exact half-scale replica of Sir Francis Drakes Golden Hind, which was a feature of Navy Week, Plymouth, August 1935

La France Maritime - Sailor (in working uniform). 19th century

La France Maritime - Ordinary Seaman. 19th century

Royal Seamen and Marines Orphan Home, Portsmouth
A view of the Royal Seamen and Marines Orphan Home, Portsmouth. Date: 1908

Royal Seamen and Marines Home, Portsmouth - Walk Time
Girls lined up for a walk at the Royal Seamen and Marines Home, Portsmouth. Date: 1908

Royal Seamen and Marines Orphan Home, Portsmouth - Kitchen
Royal Seamen and Marines Orphan Home, Portsmouth - girls at work In the Kitchen Date: 1908

A British warship off the Dardanelles
Scene on board the deck of a British warship off the Dardanelles. 1915

Yugoslav Sailor
A member of the Marinarezza guild of seamen of the Adriatic. Date: 1925

John Hamilton (Naval)
JOHN HAMILTON naval commander, known for his courage and humour : instigated reforms in seamens conditions, drowned in shipwreck Date: ? - 1755

Dreadnought
The Seamens Hospital-ship Dreadnought, off Greenwich Date: 1870

Lascars on British ships: the question of their retention, 1906. Human salamanders: the lascar at work and play. The Illustrated London News says that lascars (sailors from south and southeast Asia)

The A. B. who asked for a light! By H. M. Bateman
" Shocking! The A.B. who asked for a light!" Two high-ranking naval officers are aghast when an able seaman asks if he can borrow a light. Date: 1917

WW1 - British submarine rescues German sailor
WW1 - A British marine seen saving the life of a German sailor belonging to a war-ship sunk in the North Sea. The marine is hauling the man on board using a life-line which has been flung to him

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