Ship Yard Collection (page 2)

Workers riveting a girder at a Sunderland shipyard
Workers riveting the centre girder of a turret vessel at Messrs Droxford & Sons, a shipyard in Sunderland

Plate rolling machine and workers at a Sunderland shipyard
A team of men feed a sheet of metal through a rolling machine at Messrs Droxford & Sons, a shipyard in Sunderland

Ship Launch - Szczecin, Poland
The launch of a Uruguayan ship (called the Uruguay ) built for a Uruguayan Shipping company in the Vulcan shipyards at Strettin, Poland (Szczecin)

Niederfinow boat lift in the Berlin shipyards, Germany in 1934

Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey - Imperial barge
Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey (1844 - 1918) with his sons in an imperial barge returning to the Old Palace, with the more modern barge standing off in distance (see below)

White Star Line, SS Olympic window sketches
A White Star Line handwritten booklet entitled Particulars of Oceanic Steam Navigation Co, SS Olympic, May 1911. The vessel returned to the shipyard in Belfast in October 1911 for alterations

Titanic propeller shaft fitting
A framed photograph of the RMS Titanic propeller shaft being fitted at the Harland and Woolf yard in Belfast in 1911

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

R. M. S. Queen Mary, Clydebank, December 1931
Photograph of the R.M.S. Queen Mary at the John Brown shipyard, December 1931. Work on the ship, then known as Cunard No. 534, had been suspended on 13th December as Cunard had run out of funds

SS Peluge, 1912
Photograph showing the largest Bucket dredger then afloat, the SS Peluge, built at the Lobnitz Shipyard for the Suez Canal Company

Mauretania
The Mauretania, built in 1906 at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At the time, she was the largest liner in the world at 32, 000 gross tons

Canberra: tourist class playroom
Colour illustration depicting the tourist class playroom for young travellers on board P&Os superliner Canberra around the time of her maiden voyage to Sydney, Australia in 1961

The Launch of R. M. S. Queen Mary, 1934
Photograph of the launch of R.M.S. Queen Mary from John Browns shipyard, Clydebank, 26th September 1934. The Cunard Line ship is seen under the control of a number of tugs

SS Berengaria leaving Southampton for Jarrow, 1938
Photograph of the Cunard Liner Berengaria heading out of Southampton, with tugs, to head to Jarrow to be broken up, December 1938

King George V and Queen Mary at the Launch of the Queen Mary
Photograph of King George V and Queen Mary (in the tower on the right) at the launch of R.M.S. Queen Mary from John Browns shipyard, Clydebank, 26th September 1934

The Crimean Tartar Saloon, SY Livadia, 1880
Engraving of the Crimean Tartar Saloon on Czar Alexander IIs steam yacht Livadia, built at John Elders shipyard, Govan, in 1880

The Imperial Saloon, SY Livadia, 1880
Engraving of the Imperial Saloon on Czar Alexander IIs steam yacht Livadia, built at John Elders shipyard, Govan, in 1880

The Czars Bedroom, SY Livadia, 1880
Engraving of Czar Alexander IIs bedroom on his steam yacht Livadia, built at John Elders shipyard, Govan, in 1880. Extremely lavishly fitted out, this yacht was given a radical design

SS Carmania, 1905
Photograph of the Cunard turbine steamer Carmania, built in 1905 by the John Brown Shipyard of Clydebank. The Carmania was reputed to be the first very large turbine steamer

SY Livadia, 1880
Engraving of Czar Alexander IIs steam yacht Livadia, built at John Elders shipyard, Govan, in 1880. This yacht was given a radical design, supposedly based on the shape of a turbot

Viareggio Shipyard
The shipyard at Viareggio, on the Tuscan coast

The Great Eastern steam ship under construction
The Great Eastern steam-ship on the stocks at Millwall shipyard. Built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, at the time of her launch in 1858, she was the largest steam ship in the world

Interior Tea Room on the Titanic
Photograph of one of the interior tea rooms onboard the Titanic. Built by the shipyard Harland and Wolff for White Star Lines, the liner was almost identical to her sister ship

Erecting the Funnels
Erecting the funnels of a steamship in a British shipyard

German Warship Built
Building a warship at the Germania shipyard

Leaving Factory at Run
A young man leaves the shipyard at a run

WELDER / 1949
A welder, wearing protective mask and gloves at work

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

Making Torpedoboats
Building a torpedo-boat in a German shipyard

The Old Shipyard - a carpenter shapes the timbers of a sailing vessel

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