Cargo Collection (page 10)

Shipping the Atlantic Telegraph onboard the Great Eastern
Engraving showing Isambard Kingdom Brunels steam-ship Great Eastern receiving the Atlantic cable from a smaller vessel. The cable was manufactured at Messrs

Ships in Suez Canal
Two cargo steamers pass in one of the wider stretches of the Canal : note the desert areas on either side of the cutting

Custom House / Dublin
A prospect of the Custom House and Essex Bridge in Dublin. This new Custom House met with opposition from merchants who felt moving downriver would lessen their properties value

Mail Coach / Cargo of Game
DECEMBER The Norwich to London mail coach transports a large cargo of game, including turkey rabbits, partridge and pheasant

Baychimo on Iceberg
The cargo ship " Baychimo" lost in 1931, is seen stranded on an iceberg by Eskimos in 1936

The Unfortunate Merchant
A merchant receives news that the ship in whose cargo he had invested all his capital is sunk, and with it all his hopes of making his fortune. Ah, the vanity of human wishes!

German Trading Vessels
German trading vessels

Royal Albert Dock / Wool
Unloading bales of wool at the Royal Albert Dock in the Port of London

Chinese Cargo Boat
A cargo boat on the Yellow River

Viking Explorers / 1007
Viking explorers stop off in Scotland to mend their longships, take on extra cargo and prepare for the long voyages north toward Greenland and Vinland (North America)

Flushing 4 / Pillement
Flushing in the province of Zeeland: depicting barges laden with cargo. A sailor walks a plank between two vessels using a pole to aid his balance

Flushing 2 / Pillement
Flushing in the province of Zeeland in South-West Netherlands: depicting barges laden with cargo including barrels

London / Schenck C. 1660
A view of London from the River Thames showing the old St. Pauls Cathedral without its spire in the background. Various boats containing cargo are on the river

Portsmouth 1750
West prospect of Portsmouth, Hampshire: important buildings & shipping depicted & in the foreground inhabitants & sailors smoke, canoodle with local lasses or load cargo

Unloading Spanish Salt
Men unloading a cargo of Marine (sea) salt from Spain. at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. Produced from evaporated sea water, it will be used to salt and cure fish

Gulliver: Blefuscu Fleet
He captures the Blefuscu fleet for the Emperor of Lilliput; " I waded through the middle with my cargo"

Concepts / The Life of Man
The life of man is like a trading voyage, when many dangers must be risked if the cargo (the soul) is to be brought safely to port

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