Moorings Collection

LCC-LFB Massey Shaw fireboat at Blackfriars
The Massey Shaw was built in 1935 by the J Samuel White company at Cowes, Isle of Wight. She was built to a London County Council design, and cost around £ 18, 000 to build

Vagen Bay, Bergen, Norway - Aerial View of the Harbour. Date: circa 1910s

A Winters Mooring at Beccles
A woman poses with a motorbike alongside a boat moored at Captain Bloomfields Moorings at Beccles in Suffolk, East Anglia

Titanic / Southampton 1912
A bad omen: as the Titanic leaves Southampton, the steamer New York accidentally breaks its moorings. Captain Smith stops Titanics engines and a collision is avoided

Fowey, Cornwall - Waterfront on the River Fowey
Fowey, Cornwall - Cargo Port at the Mouth of the River Fowey Date: circa 1908

England / Boston
The River Witham, Boston, Lincolnshire, England, with the famous tower of St. Botolphs church, better known as the Boston Stump looking almost ghostly in the distance Date: 1930s

R34 Airship at Moorings
R34 airship at its moorings

Steamboats in the Harbour - Toronto, Canada. Date: circa 1910s

Small colourful boats for hire on the River Dee, Chester
A string of small colourful boats for hire on the River Dee, Chester, Cheshire, England Date: 1986

Canary Islands - Canary Islands - The Port, Santa Cruz de Te
Canary Islands - The Port, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Date: circa 1920s

Canary Islands - The Port, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Date: circa 1920s

Photograph of Moorings PH, Tower, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Trading Record 1934

SS Great Eastern - at her moorings in Deptford 1859
At half-past seven on Wednesday morning on the 8th September 1859, the Great Eastern, left her moorings off of Deptford, under the combined action of a charge of flour powerful towing-tugs

Sweden - Stockholm - The National Museum Date: 1914

A sturdy chain tie-ring for mooring boats at a quayside. Date: 1950s

Coasting barges at their moorings on the River Thames, near Greenwich, London, England. Date: 1950s

Boatman in stern of a small open fishing boat Menorca, Spain
A boatman in a sun hat sits in the stern of a small open fishing boat moored in Alcaufar, Menorca, Spain. The boat is a typical local design known as a llaut. Date: 1980

Fisherman walks up the beach - New Quay, Wales
A fisherman laden with coiled ropes walks up the beach after leaving his boat. New Quay, Wales Date: 1994

Wexford (Johnstown Castle) Airship Moorings (sub-station to Pembroke). 1918

Godmersham Airship Moorings (sub-station to Capel-Le-Ferne), 2 June 1918

LCC-LFB Massey Shaw fireboat, Blackfriars, London
Tied up at her Blackfriars moorings, the Massey Shaw fireboat gives a demonstration of her fire power from her Merryweather pumps

Harbour - Singapore, Malaysia. Date: circa 1920s

British Columbia, Canada - The Inner Harbour, Victoria Date: circa 1930s

Junks at moorings (probably Nagasaki) Japan, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

General view over the Port of Alexandria, Egypt. Date: circa 1910s

Singapore - Native Sampan boats moored on the riverbank Date: 1911

Thessaloniki, Greece - Quay Street on the Waterfront Date: circa 1907

Hungary - Siofok - The Port Date: circa 1930s

Town Beach, St. Marys, Isles of Scilly
Town Beach, St. Mary s, Isles of Scilly Date: circa 1910s

Ocean Yachts at anchor - Bermuda Date: circa 1930s

Hamilton - view from Paget - Bermuda Date: circa 1930s

Falmouth, Cornwall - Prince of Wales Pier Date: circa 1910s

Turin, Italy - Parco del Valentino park and River Po Date: circa 1930s

Two Short Sandringham 5s of BOAC at moorings in Hong Kong, including G-AHZD, Portmarnock, left

Laira Airship Moorings (sub-station to Mullion), 8 June 1918

Reconversion of Queen Elizabeth
When the work of reconversion was over the Queen Elizabeth was virtually a new ship, ready to cast off her moorings at Southampton and begin her maiden voyage as a passenger liner

NFS (London Region) fireboat at Grays, near Tilbury, WW2
An NFS fireboat at her moorings, R5Z-TS Exmouth river fire station, Grays near Tilbury, Essex, the furthest easterly river station in the London Region

Massey Shaw fireboat, Victoria Embankment, Blackfriars
The London Fire Brigades fireboat Massey Shaw being stowed with an anchor chain whilst alongside its moorings at the Blackfriars river fire station, its base station

Boats moored at Longridge Water Activities Centre

Saint-Omer, France - View at Clairmarais Date: circa 1910s

France, Le Havre - The Yacht Harbour Date: 1917

Heligoland - Naval launches arriving
Heligoland - a small German archipelago in the North Sea. Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands (population 1)

Indonesia, Java - Balangnipa
Waterfront at Balangnipa, Java, Indonesia Date: circa 1910s

Moran Brothers Shipyard at Seattle
The Moran Bros. Shipyard at Seattle, Washington State, USA. Date: 1913

Trieste, Italy - Church of San Niccolo and Carciotti River Date: circa 1903

Hamburg, Germany - Port Area (Steinhoft) Date: 1901

View of Fowey, Cornwall, at the mouth of the River Fowey. Date: 1906

Karakoy, Istanbul, Turkey - The Moorings
At Karakoy, the tourist liners moor up today. View showing little ferry boats (some had awnings to keep the sun off the delicate passengers, so this is likely to be off-season!)

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