Packet Collection (page 8)

Coaling a Royal Mail steam packet at Kingston, Jamaica
Scene at the harbour in Kingston, Jamaica, showing lines a women carrying baskets of coal on their heads on board a Royal Mail steam packet ship

Cigarette Paper Wrapper
Splendid wrapper for a packet of Zig-Zag cigarette papers, winner of many gold medals

SS Ireland, 1885
Engraving of the City of Dubin Steam-Packet Companys Mail Paddle Steamship Ireland, shortly after its launch, 1885. This ship, built in the Laird Shipyard at Birkenhead

SS Great Western in a Heavy Gale, North Atlantic, 1846
Engraving showing the Steamship Great Western being struck amidships in a gale during a crossing from Liverpool to New York in 1846

RMS Forth, 1849
Engraving of the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Companys paddle-steamer Forth. Built in Leith in 1841, the Forth went missing between Southampton and the West Indies early in 1841

Corsica Bastia
The Mediterranean can get surprisingly rough : the packet-boat La Louise is wrecked at the entrance to the harbour of Bastia, in northeastern Corsica

A Bath-room on the R. M. S. P. Almanzora, 1920
Photograph of a bathroom aboard Royal Mail Steam Packet Companys Almanzora, 1920. Launched in 1914, she served as an Armed Cruiser in World War I, then was reconverted into a liner

The Childrens Playroom, R. M. S. P. Almanzora, 1920
Photograph of the Childrens Playroom aboard Royal Mail Steam Packet Companys Almanzora, 1920. Launched in 1914, she served as an Armed Cruiser in World War I, then was reconverted into a liner

NORMANDIE
Surcouf is the worlds largest submarine before World War Two, with a range of 19, 000 km and carries 80 days stores for long trips away from base. She will be lost in 1942

Steamship Arcadian
passenger liner of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

Ship in High Seas
The transatlantic steam-packet France caught in high seas

Folkestone Packet / France
Boulogne-sur-Mer: a crowded quayside as the Folkestone packet arrives

American Packet Boat
An American packet-boat enters the harbour of Le Havre after crossing the Atlantic

Steamer Poster
Poster for the South American service of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

STEAMSHIP OHIO
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company liner on the New York - Europe run

STEAMSHIP ALMANZORA
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company liner on the South American run

Holyhead-Howth Crossing
Passengers on the deck of the steam packet plying between Holyhead (Wales) and Howth (Ireland) : note that two private carriages are also being carried

LADY HOBART WRECKED
This Falmouth packet strikes an iceberg off Halifax, Nova Scotia : her crew escape in the ships boats

Carreras Cigarette Cards
Carreras Virginia cigarettes - the packet contains cigarette cards

Dover Harbour 1850
A steam packet (with sail) enters Dover harbour

Steamship Brochure
Brochure for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and the Pacific Steam Navigation Company

Cigarettes in Ashtray
A close-up photograph of an ashtray full of cigarette butts, with a government health warning, torn from a cigarette packet, in the centre

Holyhead Pier & Boat
Irish farm labourers come to England for harvest work; the scene depicted is Holyhead Pier at the time of their return, as they jostle to board the Dublin packet

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