Funnel Collection (page 6)

Frontispiece design, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson
Frontispiece design by W Heath Robinson -- Mr W Heath Robinsons own private railway engine, not often allowed on the GWR. Date: 1935

Cover design, The Worlds Wonder Ships, showing the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Cunard Line cruise ships. circa 1957

Steamer of the Fall River Line, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1908

Final illustration, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson -- The End. An old man looks at a broken-down old engine rusting in a field. Date: 1935

Steamers of the Fall River Line, Massachusetts, USA
The river steamer Puritan, leaving the pier at Fall River, Massachusetts, on the way to New York (above) and the river steamer City of Bellow at the landing place of the Fall River Line at Newport

Public Landing, New London, Connecticut, USA
View of the Public Landing, New London, Connecticut, USA, with the steamship ferry Orient. Date: circa 1908

The Cunard Liner RMS Mauretania - Boat Deck - Funnels. Date: 1922

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

Large ship in Kobe Harbour, Japan
Large ship with smaller craft in Kobe Harbour, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

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

HMTS Dunera, passenger steamer, also used as a troop ship. Date: circa 1900

Funnel jellyfish, Medusa infundibulum.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Paddle Steamer Princess Elizabeth, . Made for Red Funnel Steamers Date: 1920s

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

HM cruiser Vigilant, Canadian gunboat, seen here at Port Dover, Lake Erie, Ontario, Canada. Date: circa 1911

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

Suffragette Publicity Votes for Women Train. A steam train heads along the track with a banner just below the funnel which reads Votes for Women

Vessel moored at a quayside. Date: 20th century

Maiden voyage of the Vaterland
The maiden voyage of what was at the time the biggest ship in the world: the German Hamburg-Amerika cruise liner, Vaterland

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

Dundee ferry crossing the Firth of Forth, Scotland
The Dundee ferry crossing the Firth of Forth in Scotland, with the famous bridge on the right. Date: circa 1930

Poster design for Orient Cruises, managed by Anderson Green & Co of Fenchurch Avenue, London. Showing people relaxing on the deck of a ship, with a huge funnel towering above them. Date: 20th century

People on a boat trip, looking across at a steamer called the Crested Eagle

Car ferry with coach on board
A car ferry with a coach on board

People on jetty watching a steamer
People standing on a jetty, watching a steamer

Kings Lynn at Dusk
An unusual view of the town of Kings Lynn, Norfolk, at dusk, with a steam ship travelling down the River Ouse. Date: 1930s

The P&O Liner Soudan off Cape Town, South Africa. Later to become a Troop Ship Date: 1902

The Parcs at low tide - Dieppe, France - Trap for fish
The Parcs at low tide - Dieppe, France. These constructions of long supported poles and igh nets were arranged as a trap for fish

The London Belle - Ferry from Woolwich to Eastern Ports - Clactonin Essex, Felixstowe in Suffolk and north to Yarmouth in Norfolk. uilt in 1893 and scrapped in 1929. Date: 1908

Istanbul, Turkey - Sirket-i Hayriye ferryboats
Istanbul, Turkey - View across Golden Horn toward the Yeni Camii with the Sirket-i Hayriye ferryboats at the Galata Bridge. Date: 1927

Istanbul, Turkey - View toward Galata in winter Date: 1927

Japan - Yokohama - The Hikawa Maru leaving port
The Hikawa Maru - a Japanese ocean liner that was built for the Nippon Yusen KK line by the Yokohama Dock Company, leaving the harbour

S. S. Fort St. George, Bermuda
S.S. Fort St. George, Bermuda Date: circa 1908

Steamer on the Delaware River, Delanco, New Jersey
Steamer of the Vansciver Line on the Delaware River, Delanco, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1907

The Tank Room, Darwin Centre
The Tank Room in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Lampromyia sp. fly
Larvae of this family Vermilionidae behave like ant-lions, they make a funnel in the sand and wait at the bottom for other invertebrates to fall in. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Collecting insects
A trap of funnels set out in the forest to collect insects as they fall from the trees after fogging

Deck of the Qe2
Passengers relaxing on the sun deck of the liner Queen Elizabeth II (QE2) Date: 2005

Poe / Descent / Maelstrom
A DESCENT INTO MAELSTROM " The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic, ...Upon the interior surface of a funnel." Date: First published: 1841

View of the Port at Buenos Aires, Argentina - lovely shot of a steam tugboat in the foreground Date: circa 1910

RMS Megantic arriving at Montreal, Canada
White Star - Dominion Line Liner RMS Megantic arriving at Montreal, Canada. Held the record for he Canadian Atlantic run. Date: 1921

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