Cargo Collection

Pacific Line Poster
Pacific Line, Pacific Steam Line Navigation Company Liverpool, royal mail steamers to brazil and South America, 1904 1904

Queen of Bermuda, Furness Bermuda Line, passenger and cargo ship. Date: circa 1930s

Empire Marketing Board - Penang, British Malaya
Empire Marketing Board Poster design, Penang, British Malaya (now Malaysia), printed for the Empire Marketing Board. Showing a busy scene at the docks. Date: circa 1930

BEA and BOAC cargo buildings at Heathrow Airport

Cargo ship Tresillian wrecked in storm, 1954
Cargo ship Tresillian of the Hain Steamship Co. (St Ives) lost on the night of 29th to 30th November 1954 in St Georges Channel near Ireland with heavy loss of life

Smugglers Unload Goods
A band of smugglers unload their cargo of contraband into a secluded coastal cave, constantly checking for any nearby customs men

The Cromdale wrecked at Bass Point, The Lizard, Cornwall
The Cromdale, a fully rigged iron sailing barque, wrecked in heavy fog at Bass Point, The Lizard, Cornwall, on 23 May 1913. Date: 1913

Coal Narrow Boats
A pair of laden narrow boats, with their cargoes of coal, passing through a lock on the Grand Union Canal near Watford, Hertfordshire, England

Hudsons Dry Soap
Hudsons dry soap advert Date: 1900s

Smugglers landing their cargo
The sun dispelling a mist, with smugglers landing their cargo

RMS Windsor Castle, Union Castle Line
RMS Windsor Castle, passenger and cargo liner of the Union Castle Line. Date: circa 1960s

McDonnell Douglas YF4H-1 Phantom pre-production
Mcdonnell Douglas Yf4H-1 Phantom Pre-Production Model Which Set an Absolute World Speed Record at 1606Mph in 1961 Flown by Lt Col Robert B Robinson Date: 1961

Handley Page HP-70 Halton
Bond Air Servicehandley Page Hp-70 Halton Hp-71 Halifax A-9 Parked Date: 1940s

Poster depicting Colombo, Ceylon
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting dock workers loading and unloading cargo at Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Native vessels, Manama Pier, Bahrain, Persian Gulf
Native vessels by the pier at Manama, capital of Bahrain, Persian Gulf. Date: late 1940s

Fowey, Cornwall - Waterfront on the River Fowey
Fowey, Cornwall - Cargo Port at the Mouth of the River Fowey Date: circa 1908

Blitz in London, ship at Surrey Commercial Docks, WW2
A badly damaged cargo ship at the Surrey Commercial Docks complex after being engulfed by the fires caused by heavy bombing raids during the Second World War

Manila Docks
Unloading a shipment of cargo from ships in Manila docks, Philippines. Three young men in shorts wipe the sweat from themselves in the heat. Date: late 1930s

The Landing Jetty - Port Elizabeth, South Africa Date: circa 1905

Cargo ship Telamon run aground at Lanzarote
Cargo ship Telamon run aground in Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, 31 October 1981. 1981

Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, Whaleback ship - Poe Docks
Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, Whaleback ship leaving Poe Docks

Advert for the Ministry of Food 1940
The weeks food facts No. 6. If you eat more than you need, you are wasting food as surely as if you had thrown it away. So eat what you need, but no more. Buy wisely and cater strictly

Canadian Pacific poster
Canadian Pacific Railway cruise ship to Canada, 1906 Date: 1906

Barge and windmill, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
A picturesque view of a sailing barge and Archers Windmill at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

SS Orsova, 1909
Photograph of the Orient Steam Navigation Companys Australian Mail Liner SS Orsova at sea, 1909. Built in 1909 by John Brown and Co

Landing in a Surf-boat at Accra, Ghana, 1891
Engraving of a native surf boat heading through the breakers, to bring its cargo of two European officers to land at Accra, Ghana

Customs inspection with X-rays, World War I
An officer examines a bale of cotton with an X-ray machine to try and detect contraband during World War I in March 1915

RMS Baltic, the world's largest ship until May 1906. Designed as a cargo boat as well as to carry 2, 000 passengers. Photograph showing the steamer brought up alongside the jetty

"Leaves from Life: a New Series of Studies by Edmund Blampied." A crowded Covent Garden

Yangtze River at Kiang Pei, China Date: 1926

Whalebacks at dock, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Whalebacks at dock, with Belle Isle in the distance - Detroit, Michigan, USA

Steamer and railway train, Dover docks, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Canadian Prospector steam ship, Montreal, Canada, early 1900s. Date: early 1900s

Transport of goods by camel for loading onto ships. Facsimile after a woodcut from La cosmographie universelle by Andre Thevet (1516-1590), published in Paris in 1575

Boeing 747-123 N858FT (msn 20109 / 90), of Polar Air Cargo. Date: ca2000

Spain, Basque Country. Biscayan mining industry. Bilbao estuary. Loading docks of the Franco-Belgian Society and La Orconera, in Luchana. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Spain, Basque Country. Biscayan mining industry. Bilbao estuary. Orconera loading docks in Luchana. Engraving by Vela. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Egypt, Suez. Loading and discharging docks. Drawing by Cortellini Sanchez. Engraving by Tomas Carlos Capuz. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Egypt. Suez Canal. View of the entrance to Port Said (on the Mediterranean shore). Drawing by A. de Caula. Engraving by Rico. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Egypt. Suez Canal near Port-Said. Engraving by Rico, 1882
Egypt. Suez Canal near Port-Said. Drawing by Caula. Engraving by Rico. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

American steam locomotive with cow catcher
Vintage 19th century photograph: American steam locomotive with cow catcher on the front

Advert, The Leith, Hull and Hamburg Steam Packet Company
Advert for The Leith, Hull and Hamburg Steam Packet Company Ltd, Passenger and Cargo Ships, Bernard Street, Leith, Scotland. 1905

Pregnant Guppy N1024V under construction with On Mark Engineering at LAX - March 1962

A Rickshaw boy of Durban in their remarkable costume. Introduced from Japan, the rickshaw became a form of transport in Durban in the late 19th century

Bristol B-170 Freighter Mk 21
Channel Airways Bristol B-170 Freighter Mk 21 with a White, Sun-Proof, Louvered Box Called a Stevenson Screen in the Foreground Date: 1960

Douglas DC-3A N401JB (msn 3299), of Airgo (on lease to Horizon Cargo) Date: circa 1975

Canadair CC-109 Cosmopolitan 11162 (msn 440-454, CL-66C / CV-540)

Budd RB-1 Conestoga. The sole survivor of 20 Stainless-steel cargo aircraft built during WWii, at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ. Date: circa 1990

Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C G-ARPT tail
Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C G-ARPT (msn 2121), of British European Airways, at London Heathrow Airport, after the crash of BKS Air Transport Airspeed Ambassador G-AMAD on 3 July 1968

Loading a ship at a tobacco plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s

Port of Seville, Spain
The Port of Seville, Spain Date: 1912

Imperial Tobacco's Docks at Norfolk, Virginia, USA Date: 20th century

City of Port Elizabeth at Royal Albert Dock, London
TMV City of Port Elizabeth loading at the Royal Albert Dock, London

Battle of Cape Ecnomus, First Punic War
Battle of Cape Ecnomus (Eknomos), a naval battle fought off southern Sicily in 256 BCE between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic during the First Punic War. 1. Carthaginian fleet, 2

Cover design, Busy Brownies by George E Hobbs, 1910 Date: 1910

Ten thousand ton ore-carrying turret steamer
A ten thousand ton ore-carrying turret steamer, in a chapter entitled Some Strange Ships, by G G Jackson

Advert, Prince Line to Mediterranean Ports Date: 1955

Great Eastern, steamship

Phaeton, cargo ship

Gracie, cargo ship

Thermopylae, cargo ship

Persian Monarch, cargo ship

Merton Hall, cargo ship

General Williams, cargo ship

Henry cartoon, boy takes a ride, by Carl Anderson Date: 1936

Parbury's Wharves
This watercolour painting shows Parbury's Wharves, at Miller's Point, Sydney, a docking area where ships will stop to unload or load cargo. Date: circa 1917

Two Pioneer films, Streets of London, and The Second Mate - and now in production, Human Cargo Date: 1929

British Aerospace Jetetream 31 N485UE (msn 901, ex G-31-901), of United Express with speed pack cargo pannier. Seen on display at the SBAC Farnborough Air Show held between 5-12 September 1990

Canadair CL-44D G-AXUL
Canadair CL-44D4-2 G-AXUL (msn 24), of Trans-Meridian Air Cargo, at Luqa International Airport / RAF Luqa. Date: 1970

Lockheed L-100 Hercules 9J-RCY (msn 382-4109, Model 382B-1C), of the Zambian Government, leased to Zambian Air Cargo, at Lusaka Airport with the #3 engine removed

Longitudinal section of the Great Eastern Steam Ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. To be launched on 3 November 1857 but there was major logistical issues. Date: 1857

Boeing 737-490F N709AS (msn 28896, line number 3099), of Alaska Air Cargo. Date: circa 2010

Antonov An-26 5A-DOH (msn 132-02) of Libyan Arab Air Cargo Date: circa 2005

United States Air Force Boeing WC-135B 61-2666 (msn 18342) at McCleelan Air Force Base

Loading freight into one of the Fleet of International Air Freight Ltd.s Cargo Planes - capacity per machine over 2 tons or 700 cubic ft. Date: circa 1920s

Wreck of the ship Cromdale at the Lizard
The British built iron sailing barque Cromdale ran into the Lizard rocks in thick fog on May 23 1913. She was carrying a cargo of nitrates from Chile and was a total wreck Date: 1913

c. 1880s China - Chinese junk
c.1880s China - Chinese junk, trading, cargo ship

China - waterfront and boats at Canton Guangzhou
c.1880s China - waterfront and boats at Canton Guangzhou

Dredging barge on the River Nile, Egypt, c. 1890 s
19th century vintage photograph - steam driven dredger, dredging barge on the River Nile, Egypt, c.1890 s

c. 1880s China - boats tied up, Bund, Hankow Wuhan
c.1880s China - boats tied up along the Bund, Hankow Hankou, Wuhan

c. 1880s China - Chinese river boats at a quay
c.1880s China - Chinese river boats at a quay

Canal scene with boats, Netherland, Holland, 1890 s

c. 1880s Egypt Cairo - sail boat on the river Nile
c.1880s Egypt Cairo - sail boat on the river Nile

Egypt - boats on the River Nile and bridge Cairo
c.1890s Photochrome Egypt - boats on the River Nile and bridge Cairo

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