Liner Collection (#36)

RMS Titanic - In Memoriam card with cross and ivy, issued after the sinking of the Titanic. In Sacred Memory of the Titanic which collided with an iceberg off Cape Race, on 15th April 1912'

RMS Titanic - the ship at sea
RMS Titanic - rare sepia photo postcard of the ship at sea, postally unused

RMS Titanic - Captain Smith and Jack Phillips
RMS Titanic - In Memoriam Captain Smith and Jack Phillips, postcard published by Bragg

Silk postcard, HMS Olympic, giving the liner's measurements

RMS Olympic - silk postcard
RMS Olympic - extremely rare hand coloured prototype for a silk postcard

RMS Lusitania - en route to New York, August 1912
RMS Lusitania - Hutchinson Archive. Original photograph taken on board the Lusitania en route to New York on 22 August 1912

RMS Titanic - large copy plan of the ship
RMS Titanic: large copy plan of the ship. The plans were the property of George Tulloch, wreck explorer and salvager, and were probably used for his historic Titanic expeditions

Transatlantic Ocean Liner interior
The lavish and plush interior of a Transatlantic Ocean Liner of the late 19th century. Date: circa 1890

RMS Victorian - Allan Line - Route to Canada. Date: 1910

RMS Majestic, White Star Line cruise ship, USA
RMS Majestic (left), White Star Line cruise ship, alongside a railhead pier on the east coast of America. Date: circa late 1920s

RMS Queen Elizabeth ocean liner at Southampton
RMS Queen Elizabeth ocean liner of the Cunard Line at Southampton, with tugs Formby and Kestrel. Date: circa 1940s

Hamburg America Line twin-screw express steamer, New York to Southampton, London and Paris and Hamburg

Pleasure routes across the Atlantic
Pleasure routes in the wake of Columbus - mapped in the manner of the old cartographers: ocean cruises to the Caribbean and the romantic islands of the West Indies, once the haunt of the buccaneers

Sleeping on deck aboard the R. M. S. P. Atlantis
A passenger on board the RMSP Atlantis takes to sleeping in the shade on deck with an ice pack on her forehead to cool her down. Date: 1931

Colonel de Basil & dancers arrives in England on Normandie
Colonel (Wassily) de Basil, Russian ballet impresario, pictured on board the ocean liner, Normandie, with dancers in his company including, from left, David Lichine, Irina Baronova, Colonel de Basil

Frank Capra takes his first shot of England
American film director, Frank Capra, along with his wife, Lucille Warner, arrives in Egnland on the ocean liner Normandie

MV Britannic - Cunard White Star ocean liner
MV Britannic - Cunard White Star transatlantic ocean liner. circa 1930s

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, swimming pool
The swimming pool for Cabin Class passengers on the Queen Mary Date: 1936

RMS Mauretania leaving Southampton for the last time
RMS Mauretania, Cunard ocean liner, leaving Southampton for the last time, heading to Rosyth, Scotland, where she was to be broken up. Date: 1935

The Cunard Ocean Liner RMS Mauretania leaving Southampton Docks. Date: 1922

RMS Aquitania, a Cunard Line ocean liner, in the Mersey
The RMS Aquitania, a Cunard Line ocean liner, in the Mersey - Liverpool, England. Date: 1922

RMS Queen Mary - The Main Smoking Room
Cunard White Star Line RMS Queen Mary - The Main Smoking Room. Date: circa mid-1930s

WW1 - RMS Laconia torpedoed, 25th February 1917
WW1 - RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner torpedoed by SM U-50 while returning from the USA to England with passengers. The first torpedo struck the liner, but did not sink her

Interior on the Queen Mary Ocean Liner, main lounge
Interior of the main lounge, cabin class, (later named the Queens Salon). 90 feet long by 70 feet wide, three decks high, can also be converted into a threatre or cinema room

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, entering dry dock at Southampton
Reaching Southampton the Queen Mary entered an enormous King George V graving drydock, at the time of construction in 1933, it was the largest graving dock in the world

RMS Aquitania, cruise ship in war paint, WW1
RMS Aquitania, Cunard Line cruise ship, seen here in war paint during the First World War. The ship served as an armed merchant cruiser, as a troop ship and as a hospital ship. Date: 1914-1918

RMS Queen Elizabeth, Cunard ocean liner, passing Cowes, Isle of Wight. Date: 1950s

W. S. P. U Handbill Mrs. Pankhurst Arrested
W.S.P.U Handbill Mrs. Pankhurst Arrested. Handbill, given out at an unnamed theatre, reports on Mrs. Pankhursts re-arrest on her arrival from America

Queen Mary ocean liner: Steering-wheels; crows nest
The first example of complete steering-gear duplication; and the first crows nest provided with warmth (besides improved shelter) for the look-out men. Date: 1936

SS Orion in front of the Rock of Gibraltar
SS Orion, later to become The Cruise Ship Oriana, owned by The Orient Line at Gibraltar. Date: 1936

Emigration of the Russian Jews from Liverpool
Emigration of the Russian Jews - the doctor examining steerage passengers before their departure from Liverpool. A scene on board the Guion liner Wisconsin, in the Mersey. Date: 1891

Germans showing guns on the Lusitania 1915
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on 7 May 1915 during the First World War, by a German U-boat, hitting the Lusitania twice with torpedoes, sinking within 18 minutes

Blue Star Line advertisement
Advertisement for the Blue Star Line and its luxury passenger service to London and South America, the last word in ocean travel. Date: 1928

Cross-section of the Liner Mauretania by G. H. Davis
A cross-section of the Cunard Liner " Mauretania", after its refit. At the time, the liner held the Atlantic speed record, with an average speed of 26.25 knots

Sinking of the Lusitania
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915, by torpedo off the south-west of Ireland, the German act which more than all else determined Americas entry into the First World

The Lower Pool - River Thames, London
A beautiful view of the Lower Pool - River Thames, London (see: 10932800 for the companion image). Date: circa 1910s

RMS Olympic - Ocean Liner for the White Star Line (sister ship of the ill-fated RMS Titanic). Date: circa 1920s

The Troop Ship (HMTS) Soudan - formerly a P&O liner serving Southern Africa (this card was sent from Cape Town, so her route of passage appears to have stayed somewhat constant!). Date: 1907

Japan - Yokohama - The Grand Pier. The HMS Rawalpindi (left) was a British armed merchant cruiser (a converted passenger ship - as it was at the time of this photograph - as the P&O vessel the SS)

The RMS Lusitania, British ocean liner in port

Titanic - sunrise on April 15th after the ship had sank
On the verge of the ice floe. A tranquil, yet eery impression of the area of the Atlantic ocean where the White Star passenger liner, RMS Titanic sank the morning after

Bruce Ismay giving evidence during the Titanic Inquiry
The Chairman of the White Star Line, Joseph Bruce Ismay, giving evidence before Lord Mersey at the inquiry into the Titanic disaster

Alexander Carlisle (1854 - 1926)
Alexander Carlisle, one of the designers of the Olympic class ocean liners, including the ill-fated Titanic. 1912

Madonna - Fabre Line
The liner Madonna of the Compagnie Francaise de Navigation a Vapeur Cyprien Fabre & Compagnie. The funnel pattern dates this card to between 1905-1915

Titanic launched at Belfast; Lord and Lady Pirrie
The launch of RMS Titanic, at Belfast on the joint birthday of its builder and his wife, Lord and Lady Pirrie, whose portraits are inset

Sea and Ships Pavilion, Festival of Britain site, London
View of the Sea and Ships Pavilion, part of the Festival of Britain site, South Bank, London, with models of sterns of different types of vessel, to illustrate British skill in shipbuilding

London Life front cover featuring the model Ro
Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

SS Megantic arriving in Liverpool
The ocean liner SS Megantic arriving at Liverpool to officials and a crowd of people. The Queens Own Rifles of Toronto who were taking part in army manoeuvres were on board

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