Shipping Collection (page 9)

Royal Eagle by A.F.D. Bannister, 1933. Date: 1933

Glen Gower by A.F.D. Bannister

Tocopilla, Antofagasta, Chile, South America
The port and docks of Tocopilla, in the Antofagasta region of Chile, South America. circa 1910

Shipping scene, Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies. Date: circa 1920

Malta - Dockyard Creek, Grand Harbour, Valletta Date: circa 1910s

The Bell Buoy
A bell buoy bobbing in foggy seas lights the way for a sailing ship. 1930

Suffragette Militants Smashed Windows
Photograph of the damage inflicted on the plate glass windows of the shipping line Hamburg - Amerika. The building in Cockspur Street was attacked in March 1912 during the W.S.P.Us window smashing

East London, Eastern Cape, Cape Colony, South Africa
Buffalo Harbour with dredger, East London, Eastern Cape, Cape Colony, South Africa. Date: circa 1925

Messageries Maritimes - Promotional postcard
Promotional postcard for Messageries Maritimes - a French merchant shipping company. Date: circa 1950s

Stavanger Market Square (Torget) - Norway
Stavanger Market Square (Torget), Norway. A market scene at the port square in Stavanger, with fruit and vegetables trading from carts and trucks. Date: circa 1930s

Hamburg America Line twin-screw express steamer, New York to Southampton, London and Paris and Hamburg

Pleasure routes across the Atlantic
Pleasure routes in the wake of Columbus - mapped in the manner of the old cartographers: ocean cruises to the Caribbean and the romantic islands of the West Indies, once the haunt of the buccaneers

Bergen, Norway - Bryggen (Tyskebryggen - German Wharf). Date: circa 1905

Merchant ship. 18th century. Engraving

International code of Signals flags and House Flags. circa 1910

View of the harbour ramps, Algiers, Algeria
View of the harbour ramps and shipping company rail terminus, Algiers, Algeria. Date: circa 1910

Tatler cover - Tina Onassis
Front cover of the Tatler featuring Athina Mary Livanos Onassis Spencer-Churchill Niarchos (19 March 1929 10 October 1974)

View of Taganrog port, Sea of Azov, Russia
View of Taganrog port, Sea of Azov, Rostov, Russia, with ships of the Imperial Russian Navy, including the battleship Ioann Zlatoust (centre right, with three funnels)

Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1933
Packed for shipping. The majority of Rothschilds (280, 000 items) bird skin collection was sold the AMNH in New York after he ran into financial difficulties

TRS Liemba, German ship, Lake Tanganyika, Kigoma
TRS Liemba, German passenger and cargo ferry, Lake Tanganyika, Kigoma, East Africa. Previously the Graf von Goetzen. Date: circa 1927

SMS Bussard, Imperial German Navy Cruiser Date: circa 1908

Shipping Offices of Gerhard & Hey, Thomas the Apostle, London, County of London, England. Looking down Great Trinity Lane to Great Street. Date: 1920s

World War One Mystery Towers, Shoreham by Sea, England
World War One Mystery Towers, Shoreham by Sea, near Worthing/Brighton, Sussex, England. The towers were built to protect allied merchant shipping from German U-boats

The Pool of London with ships and barges being loaded and unloaded with the distinctive outline of Tower Bridge in the distance. Date: circa 1920s

Jamaica - Jubilee Square, Port Royal
Slide showing a photograph of a mast on the sand at Port Royal, named after Queen Victorias jubilee. Port Royal was a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour

Jamaica - Street Scene, Port Royal
Slide showing a photograph of a street in Port Royal. Port Royal was a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in south-eastern Jamaica

Arrived Safely - Thanks to British Convoys, WW2
Arrived Safely - Thanks to British Convoys. Wartime flyer from World War Two showing civilian ships escorted safely across the sea by British planes and destroyers. Date: World War Two

British naval convoy system by G. H. Davis
The method of safeguarding the freedom of the seas: the British naval convoy system at work. Making the high seas safe for Allied

Blue Star Line advertisement
Advertisement for the Blue Star Line and its luxury passenger service to London and South America, the last word in ocean travel. Date: 1928

Cross-section of the Liner Mauretania by G. H. Davis
A cross-section of the Cunard Liner " Mauretania", after its refit. At the time, the liner held the Atlantic speed record, with an average speed of 26.25 knots

Sutor Stacks, Cromarty
One of the Sutor Stacks, near Cromarty, on the Black Isle, Ross-shire, Scotland. This commanding height was used as a gun enplacement during World War Two. Date: 1950s

RMS Olympic - Ocean Liner for the White Star Line (sister ship of the ill-fated RMS Titanic). Date: circa 1920s

Beirut, Lebanon - The Quay and Harbour Date: circa 1910s

Ancient Japanese Horse racing at Kamo Shrine, Tokyo, Japan. Date: circa 18th century

Attack of the 47 Ronin and Ryogoku Bridge, Tokyo, Japan
Beautiful Japanese promotional postcard for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Shipping Company which ran services between San Francisco, China and Japan

The Port at Genoa, Italy Date: 1903

Beira, Mozambique - birds eye view of the harbour Date: 1930s

Shipping Rum - British Guiana (Guyana)
Shipping Rum (and sugar cane required in the production of rum) - British Guiana (the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, now the independent nation of Guyana)

Blitz in London -- warehouse in Rotherhithe, WW2
Blitz in London -- the remains of a warehouse in Surrey Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe, SE London. Surrey Docks was extensively bombed on 7 September 1940, and on subsequent nights

Otto Arpke
1886-1943. Graphic artist, painter, illustrator, famous for his designs for the movie Das Kabinet des Dr Caligari and posters for the North German Lloyd shipping line

Bruce Ismay giving evidence during the Titanic Inquiry
The Chairman of the White Star Line, Joseph Bruce Ismay, giving evidence before Lord Mersey at the inquiry into the Titanic disaster

Sinking of the Daphne on the Clyde

Titanic launched at Belfast; Lord and Lady Pirrie
The launch of RMS Titanic, at Belfast on the joint birthday of its builder and his wife, Lord and Lady Pirrie, whose portraits are inset

Royal Exchange at Harrods, Knightsbridge. Erected for the convenience of Harrods visitors, the Royal Exchange fills many wants

Testing the Bascule Bridge, Carmarthen, South Wales
Testing the Carmarthen Bascule Bridge at Carmarthen, Dyfed, South Wales. The bridge was built to carry the Great Western Railway over the River Towy

Abidjan exposition poster
Poster advertising the 4th Abidjan exposition from 4 to 11 February 1951 in the Cote d Ivoire capital city in the French colonial region of Africa known at this time as the Afrique Occidentale

Canada by the Cunard Line poster
Advertising poster for the Cunard Line shipping company encouraging people, particularly emigrants, to travel to Canada via their ships

Norddeutscher Lloyd poster
A poster for the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd which operated out of Bremen in North Germany, advertising travel to the Far East on the express service

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