Pacific Gallery

Kiss of the Oceans - Atlantic meets Pacific - Panama Canal

The Kiss of the Oceans - The Atlantic meets the Pacific due to the construction of The Panama Canal - A lovely allegorical card relating to this phenomenal engineering project, also bearing full statistics including length, width and cost of the project. Likely to date from the opening of the canal in 1914. Date: circa 1914

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Canadian Pacific

Poster for the Canadian Pacific shipping line advertising the "Empress" Steamers, and illustrated by the Empress of Ireland, the finest and fastest way to Canada and only four days open sea. Weekly sailings from Liverpool. Intended sailing dates and prices are listed in the lower portion of the poster

© Mary Evans Picture Library/ONSLOW AUCTIONS LIMITED

A Cross-Section of H.M.S. King George V by G. H. Davis

A cross-section of a 35, 000-ton battleship, the H.M.S. King George V, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, and one of the more modern battleships of its time. The diagram itself shows a variety of different facilities found on the ship, including messes, quarters, gun rooms, as well as less obvious features of a battleship, a butchers, a soda fountain and a coppersmith's shop. Date: 1946

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans