Ship Building Collection

Poster for the RMS Majestic
Poster for visits to the RMS Majestic, the worlds largest liner in the worlds largest dock, the King George V graving dock in Southampton

The Shipbuilder, Special Aquitania Number
Front cover of The Shipbuilder industry journal, June 1914 issue, focusing on the Cunard cruise liner Aquitania, launched the same year

HMS Courageous, British battlecruiser, WW1
HMS Courageous, British battlecruiser, launched 1916, served during the latter part of the First World War, converted to use as an aircraft carrier during the late 1920s

Tyneside Shipyard
Shipbuilding on the River Wear in Sunderland, Tyneside

Boys Watching Ship
A group of boys lean against the dock railings and watch a steamship being built

Titanic being Built
The ill-fated passenger liner, RMS Titanic under construction in a dry dock at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast

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

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

RMS Carisbrook Castle, 1898
Photograph of the Castle Line Mail Steamship Carisbrook Castle, shortly after her launch in 1898. Built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company on the Clyde, she was 500 foot in length

Thames Shipbuilding
A birds eye view of the Thames ironworks and shipbuilding yard. Date: 1902

Thames Ironworks demonstration, London
Employees of Thames Ironworks staged a mass demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, in a bid to secure a contract for a warship

Launching the Deutschland
Launching of the cruiser Deutschland at Kiel 19/5 1931. Date: 1931

Japan - Kobe - Enormous Floating Dock
The enormous floating dock at the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Yard at Kobe, Japan. The liner Hakozaki Maru SS (pictured being finished in the dock)

Launching a ship
Launching of the first ship, SS Torild, built at the Landskrona Shipyard 1918. Date: 1918

Floating Dock at Galati
A view of the battleship Elisabeta in a floating dock at Galati, Romania - the largest seaport on the River Danube. The handwritten message states that the cards recipient will recognise the dock

Shipbuilding 1970
Towboats assist m/s Varenna to leave Landskrona shipyard built 1970 Date: 1970

Framing and plating the hull of a ship, WW1
Framing and plating the middle portion of a ships hull during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Arendal shipyard, Gothenburg, 1970s Date: 1970s

Shipbuilding 1959
Building the M/S Torne at the Shipyard, Landskrona, 1959. Date: 1959

Shipyard
The first ship built at Landskrona shipyard. Photo from 1918. Date: 1918

Kockums shipyard, Malmo, Sweden

Transporting masts

British destroyers under construction, WW1
British destroyers under construction at a shipyard during the First World War. Date: 1917

Erecting the double bottom of a ship, WW1
Erecting the double bottom of a ship during the First World War. Date: 1917

Great Eastern at the Isle of Dogs, October 1857
The Great Eastern steamship being constructed at the Isle of Dogs, October 1857. Date: October 1857

Floating Dry-dock, Southampton. The largest floating dry-dock in the world

Naval Shipyard - Ferrol, Spain
Views of the Spanish battleship Espana under construction in the naval dockyard at Ferrol, Spain. The city has been a major naval shipbuilding centre for most of its history

Niederfinow boat lift in the Berlin shipyards, Germany in 1934

Scottish Shipbuilding Yard, 1915
Dinner hour at a Scottish Shipbuilding Yard, 1915

Brest Shipbuilding
A frigate under construction in the shipyards at Brest

Royal Mail Turbine Steamer Viper, 1906
Photograph of the Royal Mail Turbine steamer Viper, built in 1906 by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. for the Ardrossan-Belfast daylight service of Messrs. G. and J. Burns, Glasgow

Alfred Krupp
ALFRED KRUPP German industrialist, whose iron and steel works diversified into shipbuilding and armaments

Shipbuilding, England
The construction of a warship. This photograph shows the stern with the barbette, as worker put on the thick layers of metal armour

Shipbuilding 1832
A wooden ship is worked on, while in the distance crowds cheer a vast vessel with five huge flags as it takes to the sea

French Shipbuilding
A ship being constructed in a covered cale at the French naval port of Lorient

Mykolayiv / Nicolayev
Nicholaief, on the river Bug, was one of Russias leading shipbuilding centres at the time of the Crimea War. Now named Mykolayiv

Peter I / Scribners 1880
PETER I the Great In 1697/8 he toured western Europe picking up ideas : here he is studying shipbuilding at Zaandam in the Netherlands

Shipbuilding, Ww1 Period
A ship on the stocks in a British shipyard during World War One, when ships were being built as rapidly as possible to replace those sunk by the German U-boats

Ship Building C17
Seventeenth Century shipbuilding

C16 Shipbuilding
Olandus, a Spanish commander in Colombia, has his men build a caravel from the timbers of their wrecked ships

Peter I The Great, Tsar of Russia, in Holland
Peter I The Great (Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov), Tsar of Russia (1672-1725, reigned from 1682) during his fact-finding visit to Holland, seen here in his lodgings at Zaandam

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