Ships Collection (page 10)

Egypt / Port Said / Docks
Ships load and unload at docks in Port Said, at the Northern entrance to the Suez Canal

Stern of Warship
The stern of a British warship showing the British coat of arms

Greek Warship
A light fighting ship from classical Greece

Viking Ships 9 / 10C Cig
A Viking ship

Amazing Stories scfi magazine cover, Bermuda Triangle
The non-gravitational vortex, in which ships are mysteriously lost in the Atlantic Ocean

Woolwich Power Station, SE London, with coal barges on the River Thames. Date: circa 1950s

c. 1870s England London - Fresh Wharf - ships
c.1870s England London - Fresh Wharf - ships tied up in the dock

Ancient Greek warships, the upper one with a turret. Date: BCE

HMT Assaye, P & O liner and British troop ship
HMT (RMS) Assaye, P & O liner, used as a British troop ship during the 1920s, mostly between the UK and India. Date: circa 1925

Tea pot and warmer from Delft, Netherlands, 18th century, decorated with vignettes of ships at sea and floral borders. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient

HMS Aberdare, British hunt class minesweeper, WW2
HMS Aberdare (J49), British hunt class minesweeper. Date: circa 1943-1944

Advert, John Cran & Co, Shipbuilders, Leith, Scotland
Advert for John Cran & Co, Shipbuilders and Engineers, Leith, Scotland. 1905

Advert, Ferguson & Co, Sailmakers, Greenock, Scotland
Advert for Ferguson & Co, Sailmakers for Ships, Steamers and Yachts, Roslin Street, Greenock, Scotland. 1905

Canal at Corinth, Greece. Date: circa 1930

The Lifeboat Men. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1966. Date: 1966

Combe Martin, East Cliff, near Ilfracombe, North Devon. circa 1900s

HMS Lysander, Laforey class destroyer. Date: circa 1914

Poster, Cunard cruise liner the Sylvania. 20th century

Poster, Cunard cruise liner the Caronia. 20th century

Cunard Line poster
Fabulously detailed poster for Cunard Line shipping company showing a passenger liner in cross-section with cabins and rooms visible on various decks

Battleship and destroyer in a heavy sea. Date: circa 1913

BATTLE OF CAMPERDOWN Duncan defeats a Dutch fleet on its way to help the French who plan to invade Ireland; eight Dutch ships are captured Date: 11 October 1797

8th Crusade - Fleet
EIGHTH CRUSADE The ships which carried Louis IX from France to Carthage on his fatal crusade in North Africa Date: 1270

The Cherbourg Fetes, the Pera leaving Southampton
The " Pera" with members of the House of Commons on board, leaving Southampton to take part in the Cherbourg Fetes

The Dar Mlodziezy, Polish tall ship, fully rigged, Falmouth
The Dar Mlodziezy, a Polish tall ship, fully rigged at Falmouth. Date: circa 1980s

HMS Venus, Scapa Flow, WW2. 1943

D-Day, HMS Ramillies, WW2
D-Day, HMS Ramillies, June 1944. 1944

Port Natal, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Happy Families - Mrs Jack Tar. circa 1940s

Music cover, The Torpedo Galop, by Charles d Albert, based on music from Edmond Audrans comic opera, Olivette. 1880

Samuel Plimsoll, politician
SAMUEL PLIMSOLL Politician, responsible for introducing the Plimsoll Line to regulate the loading of ships Date: 1824 - 1898

Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies Date: circa 1860

RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Queen Elizabeth, . 1940s

Dolmabahce Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, with warships of the Turkish navy on the Bosphorus in the background. 1930s

HMS London, British heavy cruiser
HMS London (69), British County class heavy cruiser, showing the main guns on the bridge. Date: circa 1930s

HMS Exeter, British heavy cruiser
HMS Exeter (68), British York class heavy cruiser. Date: circa 1930

HMS Dorsetshire, British heavy cruiser
HMS Dorsetshire (40), British County class heavy cruiser. Date: circa 1930

HMS Kent, British heavy cruiser
HMS Kent (54), British County class heavy cruiser. Date: circa 1930

HMS Delhi, British cruiser, Alexandria, WW2
HMS Delhi (D47), British Danae class cruiser, seen here at anchor in Alexandria, as Admiral Cunninghams flagship. Date: 1940

HMS Argyll, British protected cruiser
HMS Argyll, British Devonshire class protected cruiser. Date: circa 1910

Rosia Bay, Gibraltar
View of Rosia Bay, Gibraltar. Date: circa 1910

American submarine chasers, WW1
Six American submarine chasers during the First World War. They served in minesweeping operations in the North Sea. Date: 1917-1918

USS Osborn, American destroyer
USS Osborn (DD295), American destroyer. Date: 1926

Volley firing by Scott Method by G. H. Davis
The gunnery experiment of which all the naval world is talking: the six-to-one superiority of volley firing by the Scott Method

God Save the King in living letters on HMS Terrible
An impressive living display formed by the crew (dressed in white) of H.M.S. Terrible in honour of the Coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. It was organised by Captain Percy Scott R.N

Suez Canal
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, Suez Canal Date: 1927-1933

HMS Forth in Devonport, with seven submarines moored alongside. 1914

Titanic - Lord Mersey, head of inquiry into the disaster
Front cover of the Illustrated London News featuring a portrait of Mr Justice Bigham, Lord Mersey who was appointed as chairman of the Court of Inquiry into the Titanic disaster. Date: 1912

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