Funnel Collection (page 7)

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

Instantaneous Views of a tornado
From photographs taken near Jamestown, Dakota, 6th June 1887 by Mr. C.L Judd, while the column was 18 miles distant and rapidly receding

Ship with two funnels at sea, WW1
A ship with two funnels at sea during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British drifter fleet at sea, WW1
A British drifter fleet at sea during the First World War, when many fishing drifters were converted for naval use. Date: 1914-1918

Picking up provisions - Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France
A small steam-powered sardine fishing boat picks up provisions for the fishermen crew from a beach at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, South west France. Date: 1906

STEAMSHIP FLORA 1862
Dudgeons new double-screw iron steam-ship Flora. Date: 1862

Loco Section 1882
Section of a steam locomotive, showing how the heat from the furnace drives the wheels and emits smoke from the funnel. Date: 1882

Scientist at Work 1950S
A scientist pours a liquid into a glass funnel. Date: 1950s

Scientist Pours 1955
A scientist pours liquid into a beaker using a glass funnel. Date: 1955

Hospital shelters at South Wharf, Rotherhithe, London
View of hospital shelters at South Wharf, Trinity Street, Rotherhithe, south east London, where smallpox patients waited before being transported down the Thames to hospital ships moored at Long

River ambulances Albert Victor, Geneva Cross, Maltese Cross
View of the river ambulances Albert Victor, Geneva Cross and Maltese Cross. They were operated by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to transport smallpox patients from London down the Thames to

Metropolitan Police boat on the River Thames
A Metropolitan Police boat on the River Thames

Riverboat on a river in the Far East
A riverboat on a rather murky looking river, with smoke coming out of its funnel, somewhere in the Far East

Boat off Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, South Wales
A long passenger boat off the coast at Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The village is located on the western bank of the Cleddau Estuary

Traction engine, Victoria Place, Haverfordwest, South Wales
A large traction engine with a smoking funnel transports a load of stone from the station, along Victoria Place, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

City of Paris ship at Milford Haven Docks, South Wales
View of the City of Paris ship in for repair at Milford Haven Docks, South Wales, with a railway track in the foreground

Old steam engine still in use
An old steam engine, puffing away in a field, still in use for something or other

Filling Oil Cans - Hackney Wick
A female employee fills BP Oil Cans at a plant in Hackney Wick, London

Clayton & Shuttleworths Compound Steam Engine
Clayton & Shuttleworths Compound Undertype Steam Engine and Boiler. Clayton & Shuttleworth was an engineering company located at Stamp End Works, Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Kissing on a Steamroller
We are coming on a slow train ! A couple share a lingering kiss on their transport of choice - an enormous steamroller!

Russian Steam sailing ship in a storm

The Royal Train Pilot

Ships in Dock
A large cargo steamship in Dock, alongside a row of low barges. Watercolour sketch by Raymond Sheppard Date: circa late 1940s

Turkish railway locomotive
Turkey - Locomotive for the route to Damascus and beyond. The engine weighed 47 tonnes!

Steam Ferry from the Bosphorus - Halas
The whole business of Constantinople has historically been linked to the Bosphorus that divides the European side of the city from the Asian side of the city

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