Shipbuilding Collection

Wallsend-on-Tyne - Shipbuilding and the BP Tanker British Hazel in dock. Date: 1963

Devonshire Dock - Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria Date: circa 1910s

Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company - Building a Warship Victorian period

Election poster, The Great Naval Eclipse 1900 to 1910, a vote for the radicals is a vote against the British Navy. circa 1910s

Sir Arthur Helps, Vanity Fair, Ape
Sir Charles Mark Palmer, 1st Baronet (1822 1907), English shipbuilder born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear (county Durham), England. He founded Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company in 1852

Messrs Vickers Iron Foundry - Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Date: circa 1910s

Finnieston Cantilever Crane, Stobcross Quay, Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1950s

The launch of the Cunard White Star Liner - Queen Mary by HM The Queen at Clydebank, Septmeber 26th, 1934. Now permanently located at Long Beach, California, United States. Date: 1934

Advert, Mackie & Thomson, Shipbuilders, Govan, Glasgow
Advert for Mackie & Thomson, Shipbuilders, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Shipbuilding - RMS Franconia 1910
In construction the Cunard companys steamer RMS Franconia, covered in girders and scaffolding. Franconia, was intended for the lines Boston service, between Liverpool and Boston, USA. Date: 1910

Launching of a Dhow - Aden Maalla Village, Yemen Date: 1910s

H. M. S. Mariner (M380) - Algerine-class minesweeper
H.M.S. Mariner (J380 - later M380) - reciprocating engine-powered Algerine-class minesweeper - commissioned in 1944, built by Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Port Arthur. Date: circa 1950s

Harland & Wolff ledger from engineering works, Belfast
BELFAST SHIPPING HISTORY: Rare late 19th century Harland and Wolff ledger from The Engineering Works, Queens Island. Date: late 19th century

White Star Line, RMS Titanic and Olympic, postcard
White Star Line, RMS Titanic and Olympic, Philco Publishing Company photo card of ships in ?The World?s Greatest Gantry? in the Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, bordered by shamrocks

Harland and Wolff, Belfast, gatehouse wall clock
Rare gatehouse wall clock from Harland and Wolff, Queen?s Road, Belfast, dating from approx. 1900?1910 and still in working condition

Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Company Handbooks for Staff
BELFAST SHIPBUILDING: Harland and Wolff soft bound Company Handbooks for Staff Employees. 6ins. 4ins

Shipbuilding, Rye
This painting shows the process of shipbuilding, involving a stage in which the boats are sat in some frames constructed to keep them in place while work is undertaken

Harland & Wolff - rare diary with handwritten entries, written by a member of the drawing office describing the events in the yard in 1880

Painting the name on RMS Queen Mary Date: 1930s

RMS Queen Mary towering over Clydebank
The bow of RMS Queen Mary towering over Clydebank Date: 1930s

HMS Hornet, Acheron-class Destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Hornet, an Acheron-class Destroyer that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet

Leo McGree, communist and trades union activist
Leo McGree (1900-1967), member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and trades union activist Seen here taking part in a political rally

The Royal Opening of the new Dry Dock at Southampton on Wednesday, July 26, 1933 by King George V, accompanied by the Queen and the Duke and Duchess of York

French officers at a boatyard near Kupang, Timor, 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Corsi after Alphonse Pellion from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Adverts, Dunsmuir & Jackson, Stewart & McDonald
Adverts for Dunsmuir & Jackson, Marine Engine Makers, Govan Engine Works, Glasgow, and Stewart & McDonald, Wholesale Warehousemen and Manufacturers, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Designs for a system of composite shipbuilding, recommended by Lloyds (class 66). By J.H. Cornish Date: 1867

Launch of the Marion Macintyre and part of ship Iron Frame
Launch of the " Marion Mactintyre" and part of the ship " Iron Frame", at Messrs Jordan and Gettys building-yard Liverpool (not Getley as printed in the ILNs caption), 1851

American poster, Shoot Ships to Germany, WW1
American poster, design by Adolph Treidler, Shoot Ships to Germany and help America Win, First World War. 1917

Four Contingent Battleships Ordered 1909
Building a Dreadnought, at Barrow-in-Furness. Digging out the upper half of a Dreadnought turbine cover. Thedressing shop in the large iron foundry of the works of Vickers, Sons and Maxim

John Scott Russell (1808 - 1882), Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder who built the Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Date: 1858

Construction of The Leviathan later Great Eastern 1857
Christened Leviathan in construction, thereafter always known as SS Great Eastern, showing the bows with shipbuilders on the sides of the vessel hanging form hoists. Date: 1857

Construction of The Leviathan later Great Eastern 1855
Christened Leviathan in the early stages, thereafter always known as SS Great Eastern, an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by J

Nagasaki, japan - Mitsubishi No. 3 Dry Dock Date: circa 1910s
Nagasaki, japan - Mitsubishi No.3 Dry Dock Date: circa 1910s

Prince Albert visits the Beardmore Works
Prince Albert (later King George VI - 1895-1952) spent eight hours inspecting Glasgow Factories in December 1919, including a visit to William Beardmore and Company - a Scottish engineering

William Pirrie
William James Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, (1847 - 1924), leading Irish shipbuilder, partner and later chairman of Harland & Wolff, who built Titanic. Caption: Harland & Wolff. Date: 1903

Leviathan later named SS Great Eastern under construction
Front cover for The Illustrated Times, dated 7 November 1857. Christened Leviathan in the early stages, thereafter always known as SS Great Eastern, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel

PETER I / MACLISE / DEPTFORD
PETER I the Great In 1697/8 he toured western Europe picking up ideas : here he is studying shipbuilding at Deptford, on the Thames east of London Date: 1682 - 1725

King George V (1865-1936) and Queen Mary (1867-1953) visit a factory workshop during a tour of the North Eastern Counties of England. Date: circa 1916

Arab dhow under construction, Bombay Harbour, India
Arab dhow under construction, Bombay (Mumbai) Harbour, India. Date: circa 1920s

Some types of model ships. Date: circa 1920s

Board game, The Dockyard, or Table Shipbuilding, by Mrs Alliston - Yacht. 19th century

Board game box lid, The Dockyard, or Table Shipbuilding, by Mrs Alliston. 19th century

Women WW1 Work
A group photograph of View Room Girls at Thornycrofts, the shipbuilding and engineering firm which was based at Woolston, Hampshire. The card is dated by the sender, 27th May 1917 and is marked K.A

The Largest Floating Dry Dock in the World - Southampton
The Largest Floating Dry Dock in the World (960 ft. long and 134 ft. wide) at Southampton, Hampshire, England. Built in 1922 by Armstrong, Whitworth, for the Southern Railway. Date: circa 1923

Shipbuilding at Belfast, the 200 Ton Floating Crane - a view of the large crane. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Replace ships that have been sunk by German u-boats 1917
The first steps of the great programme of shipbuilding which is designed to counter the ruthless submarine warfare of the German attack

Communist China - shipbuilding yard workers and technicians with plan, working together to raise standards during the Cultural Revolution era. circa 1960s

Communist China - shipbuilding yard
Communist China - a shipbuilding yard with two ships ready for launching, decorated with red and yellow bunting. This was seen as a new era for China during the Cultural Revolution. circa late 1960s

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