Liners Collection (page 5)

Poster, cruises to America via Cunard, showing a Native American Indian on horseback. Date: 20th century

Advertisement, Union Steamship Company, Castle Line, showing destinations including Madeira, Canary Islands, South African Gold Fields, Cape Colony, Madagascar, Delagoa Bay, Natal

RMS Queen Mary, Cunard White Star Line, main hall and shopping centre. Date: circa 1935

American cruise ships lounge. Date: late 1920s

Jubilee Review layout, Portsmouth Harbour, printed on board the battleship HMS Renown, for the Silver Jubilee of King George and Queen Mary. Date: 1935

Agnes Pinder Davis with designs for the Queen Mary
Agnes Pinder, an artist well known for her pictures combining metal and oils engaged on the decoration of the starboard lounge of the liner, Queen Mary. Date: 1935

Advert for Paris A city of a thousand moods by the French Line Date: 1928

A striking view of steamships in Fishguard Harbour, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Date: 1950s

Volunteer Date: 1887

On the Mississippi, Loading Cotton Date: 1860

Horses Pulling Barge Date: 1880

Steam and Sails Date: 1880

Full Steam Ahead Date: 1880

Gondola with Passenger Date: 1880

Tugboat at Sea Date: 1948

Relaxing on Deck Date: 1941

Pool Deck Date: 1938

Tugboat Piloting Ship Date: 1954

Donald McKays Clipper Date: 1948

Captain Steers Boat Date: 1950

Upper and Lower Bay of New York

Seagulls Following Ship Date: 1917

Protection from fire at sea on British liners 1932
Diagram showing the safety rules on board a British passenger ship in 1932. Date: 1932

Secret name revealed, the Queen Mary
Queen Mary and King George V in a glass covered royal box on the lauching platform. Queen Mary over a microphone revealing the name of the long-kepted secret pronouncing the words

Genoa Maritime Station - Nuova Stazione Marittima - Italy
The Genoa maritime station - finally opened in 1930 - the main point of embarkation for the cruise traffic of the port of Genoa (Genova), Italy. It is located in Ponte dei Mille. Date: 1933

Tea time in the lounge on board the Berengaria
With windows opening on the foam of perilous seas: land-like stability and palatial luxury afloat. As in a seaside hotel, but with ever-changing outlook

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, dining saloon
The dining saloon (not to be confused with the restaurant) for Cabin Class passengers on the Queen Mary Date: 1935

H. M.s Caledonia formerly Majestic 1937
The former Cunard White Star Liner Majestic, changed to H.M.S Caledonia, was bought in 1937 by the Admiralty and was converted at a cost of 391

RMS Titanic, Dutch Suite, Room B60. Date: circa 1912

Queen Mary ocean liner: Lifeboats & gravity davits
Lifeboats built to carry 145 passagers, more than the total accommodated in the first Cunarder, " Britannia" : One of the Queen Marys 24 large lifeboats

Cunard ships of increasing size by G. H. Davis
A diagram showing the advance in ship-building from the foundation of the Cunard Company from the 1840 Cunarder Britannia

Lowering the Titanic life boats
A view of the mechanism by which the Titanic lifeboats were lowered, showing a pair of Welin Davits on board. The Davit, an invention by Mr Axel Welin, could be found on most passenger liners

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The RMS Lusitania, British ocean liner in port

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

Canada by the Cunard Line poster
Advertising poster for the Cunard Line shipping company encouraging people, particularly emigrants, to travel to Canada via their ships

The Shipbuilder, Souvenir Number
Front cover of a Souvenir Number of The Shipbuilder industry journal, focusing on the White Star Line triple-screw cruise liners, Olympic and Titanic

Cunard Line to New York
Poster advertising the Cunard Line service to New York and the Continent via Fishguard in Wales, featuring a passenger liner

Advertisement for the Arandora Star cruise ship
Advertisement for the Arandora Star from the Blue Star Line, the worlds finest cruising steamer. In 1940, the ship was requisitioned to transport interned enemy aliens from the UK to Canada

A Monster of the Ocean Speedway - ocean liner
An ocean liner being manoeuvred in port by tug boats. Accompanies an article about the rivalry to make the fastest Atlantic crossing by various ocean liners during the 1930s

Vancouver, Canada - The Harbour
Vancouver, British Columbia, Western Canada - The Harbour, with ocean liners moored. Date: circa 1920

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