Steam Ships Collection (page 2)

White Star to New York
Poster for the White Star Line to New York featuring the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the Britannic and Titanic) in New York harbour with the Woolworth Building in the background

Entrance to the Suez Canal at Port Said
Port Said - Harbour and entrance to the Suez Canal, Egypt

Ships of the P&O, Cunard, Orient, Union and Guion Lines, 188
Engravings of the steamships Lusitania, Khiva, Mexican, Australia, Arizona, Zambesi, Poonah, Nepaul, Ganges, Geelong, Rosetta, Umbria and Etruria (left to right, top to bottom)

Turbinia - the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894, Turbinia wasy the fastest ship anywhere in the world at that time

STEAMSHIPS / MAURETANIA
Cunarder on the Atlantic run, at this time the fastest ocean-going liner of them all, breaking all the Atlantic records

EMPRESS OF FRANCE
Canadian Pacific liner, sailing between Liverpool and Quebec and doing cruises during the winter

NORMANDIE (POOL)
French transatlantic liner - the First Class swimming pool

CITY OF NAGPUR LINER
passenger liner of the Ellerman line, sailing to India via South Africa

Queen Elizabeth in 1940
She anchors beside her elder sister, Queen Mary, in the docks at New York, for safety during World War Two : both will be used for wartime purposes

EMPRESS OF JAPAN SHIP
Passenger ship of the Canadian Pacific line

Steamship Crowd 1899
A crowd clamour to get a good glimpse of St. Elvies a paddle steamer of the Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Co. at Llandudno, North Wales

Dreadnought at Speed
The innovative battleship undergoing trials at sea. Her combination of high speed and heavy gunpower will be copied worldwide. Date: circa 1906

Aquitania Illustration
Cunard White Star Liner. 901 feet long, 45, 647 tons. Scrapped in 1950

Ship / Q Elizabeth / Pcard
Cunard White Star liner

MAURETANIA (PEARS)
Passenger liner of the Cunard line on the Atlantic run to New York

Section of Great Eastern
Longitudinal sections of Brunels Leviathan steamship, otherwise known as the Great Eastern

Steamship / Mikasa
The Japanese battleship Mikasa. Date: Circa 1895

Ship Leaves Capetown
A passenger ship of the Union Castle Line leaves Cape Town, South Africa. Date: circa 1920

New Mexico in Locks
The U.S.S. warship New Mexico in Gatun Locks : both the canal and the ships using it are very vulnerable to attack at this point

On Board Britannic
People on board the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic, taking part in a service; the ship, requisitioned as a hospital ship in WW1 was sunk by a mine

HENDRICK HUDSON
American steamboat of the Hudson River Day Line

STEAMSHIP DORIC
White Star liner on the Atlantic crossing from Liverpool to Canada

Steamship berengaria be
Passenger ship on the Atlantic crossing, at this time the largest liner in the Cunard fleet

IMPERATOR STEAMSHIP
Liner of the Hamburg-Amerika line - the worlds largest ship in her day: she made only one crossing, then war came, after which she became the Cunarder Berengaria

Steamship Alabama
British-built raiding vessel for the Confederate Navy during the war between the States

Steamship Australia Star
motor vessel of the Blue Star line

Winchester Castle Steam
Passenger liner of the Union Castle line

NIOBE WARSHIP
Battleship built in Britain for the Royal Canadian Navy

Ships at Southampton
An ocean-going passenger liner leaves the port of Southampton, beneath a remarkably cloudy sky

Great Eastern Building
The stern view of the Great Eastern under construction at Millwall, on the Thames

Caronia and Sisters
The Caronia. Carmania, Franconia and Laconia are sister passenger liners on the trans- Atlantic run

Andania, Alaunia
Passenger liners on the trans- Atlantic run

Lusitania Sinks (Dixon)
The Cunard passenger liner sinks, with the loss of 1198 lives, after being torpedoed off the Irish coast by German U-boat U-20, while returning to Britain from America

The Damage on the Lusitania by the first torpedo
A diagram showing the actually broken and the area weaked by the explosion. Date: 7 May 1915

White Star Line Olympic and Titanic trade card
A Cadburys Cocoa trade card depicting the White Star Line RMS Titanic or her sister ship the Olympic

Pyroscaphe Steamboat
Jouffroys steamboat proves its capability by steaming against the current on the Saone at Lyon, but the French government refuse to adopt the new technology

HMT SOMALI
H.M.T. Somali, troopship employed by the British government to carry troops to China and elsewhere. The ship was at Gallipoli in World War One

Steerage of a North German Lloyds Atlantic Steam-ship, 1872
Engraving showing the steerage of a North German Lloyds Atlantic Steam-ship, 1872. Emigrants from many countries, heading for North America, are shown in this image. Date: 1872

Auxiliary Steamship
At first, steam engines are fitted in ships only as a back-up to sail, hence vessels of this kind are known as auxiliary steamships. Date: 1882

White Star Line brochure
A White Star Line brochure advertising the Olympic and Titanic steamships, comparing their length to some of the tallest buildings in the world

Norddeutscher Lloyd poster
A poster for the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd which operated out of Bremen in North Germany, advertising travel to the Far East on the express service

Cunard White Star
Poster for the Cunard White Star shipping company, former rivals who had merged in 1933, featuring the White Star flagship RMS Majestic before its retirement in 1936

Egypt - Port Said - The Harbour
The Harbour at Port Said, Egypt - at the entrance to the Suez Canal

Rattler V Alecto Test
In a British government trial to compare the merits of screw and paddle wheel, the warsloop Rattler proves more powerful than the paddle- steamer Alecto

Winans Cigar-Ship
One of the series of cigar- ships built by the American engineer Ross Winans. This one is seen under construction at Blackwall, on the Thames. It was not very successful

Terra Nova Steamship
This Scottish whaler is used by Captain Scott in his ill- fated attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole, 1911. launched 1884

Nassau Warship
With three sister-ships, the Nassau is the first dreadnought in the German fleet : she carries twelve 280mm and twelve 150mm guns which will soon come in handy. Date: launched 1908

Von Der Tann Cruiser
Germanys first battlecruiser, she is severely damaged at the battle of Jutland, all guns out of action, but makes it home. She will be scuttled at Scapa Flow in June 1918. Date: launched 1909

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