Ships Collection (page 9)

HMS Monarch, British cable ship
The HMS Monarch, a British cable-laying ship. There were three cable ships of this name -- this is probably the third one, built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson in 1916. Date: 20th century

Training Ship HMS Conway - Boys on the Upper Deck
The naval training ship HMS Conway was established in 1859 and for many years was moored on the River Mersey near Liverpool. Here, the ships boys and officers are seen on the upper deck. Date: 1898

Britain poster, HMS Victory, Southsea and Portsmouth, bys Cribb for The Travel Association. Date: circa 1948

Monte Pellegrino, Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Date: late 19th century

HMS Shannon, view of the armoured cruiser, taken from the fighting top, shows the deck and some of the chief guns. Built in Chatham Dockyard, England, fro the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s

WW1 - King George V - his message to the Royal Navy - The Sure Shield. The shield in the bottom left-hand corner is the Royal Navy Kings Colours. Date: circa 1914

Ancient and Modern Nassau, Bahamas - Primitive (yet colourful) sloops which carry freight and passengers hundreds of miles to and from the outer Bahamian Islands

Harbour Scene at Sunset, by Carlo Bonavia (fl.1740-1788). Date: circa 1750s

Blanchard and Jeffries crossing English Channel
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jeffries crossing the English Channel by balloon. They left Dover, crossed the sea, and landed near Blanay, between Calais and Boulogne

Gokstad Ship
" The Gokstad ship, found at the Gokstad and Gjekstad farms in Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway. The ship is classed as a " karv" (old norse " karfi" ) built around 890 AD

Italian cruiser Nino Bixio at Brindisi, Italy
The Italian light cruiser Nino Bixio, launched 1911, served during the First World War, decommissioned 1929. Seen here at Brindisi, Italy. Date: 20th century

Thames Barge
A coasting barge on the River Thames, London. In the background are a power station and Greenwich Hospital. Date: 1930s

HMS Empress aircraft carrier, WW1
HMS Empress, British Royal Navy aircraft carrier during the First World War. Launched 1907 as a cross-channel steamer, converted as aircraft carrier 1914, based at Harwich, then Queenstown

British battleship HMS King Edward VII sinking, WW1
The British battleship HMS King Edward VII with her stern down during the First World War. She struck a mine off Cape Wrath, off the northern Scottish coast

HMS Arethusa, British light cruiser, WW1
HMS Arethusa, British light cruiser, launched 1913, served in various locations during the early part of the First World War, damaged by a mine off Felixstowe and wrecked 1916

HMS Walker, British destroyer, WW1 and WW2
HMS Walker, British V & W class destroyer, launched 1917, served briefly during the First World War and throughout the Second World War, decommissioned 1946. Date: 20th century

HMS Shakespeare, British destroyer at sea, WW1
HMS Shakespeare, British Thornycroft-type destroyer leader, launched 1917, badly damaged by a mine towards the end of the First World War, decommissioned 1936. Date: 1917-1918

HMS Broke, British destroyer, WW1
HMS Broke, British Faulknor-class destroyer leader, launched 1914, served during the First World War, sold to Chilean Navy 1920, scrapped 1933. Date: 1914-1918

Wartime poster, More Ships -- come on! War Savings are Warships. Encouraging people to save money and help the war effort. Featuring a British bulldog wearing an HMS Victory naval cap. 1940s

Aerial plan of the Festival of Britain site, London
Aerial plan of the Festival of Britain site, South Bank, London, showing all the main buildings and other venues of interest. Date: May 1951

Ferry boat on the Colorado river at Needles, California

Royal Mail Line Poster
Striking poster for the Royal Mail Shipping Line to South America, depicting a large ship or passenger liner nearing a harbour

White Star Line / American Line poster
Graphic and modernist style German travel poster advertising the services of White Star Line and American Line ships to America

Unhabitable by Charles Pears
Painting by maritime artist, Charles Pears of a warship, visible sailing over the horizon under a dramatic sky of billowing clouds. Presumably the ship is named Unhabitable

Red Cross Poster - World War I
Poster asking for donations to the British Red Cross during World War I, stressing urgently that six pounds a minute is required to maintain the number of motor ambulances, hospital ships

Royal Mail Lines L Amerique du Sud
Royal Mail Lines poster for the French office in Paris advertising travel to South America, to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. The ocean liner advertised is the Andes

Les Filles Jackson et Cie operetta poster
Poster advertising the operetta " Les Filles Jackson et Cie" composed by J. Clerice, showing a scene with a lady halfway up a ships netting much to the astonishment of more conservative

White Star to New York
Poster for the White Star Line to New York featuring the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the Britannic and Titanic) in New York harbour with the Woolworth Building in the background

Convict Hulk Gallery
View of the convict hulk, " The Warrior", docked at Woolwich in London and capable of holding 600 men

Royal Navy losses in both World Wars, 1945
Illustration showing the ships lost by the British Royal Navy during the Second World War (main picture) compared with those lost during the First World War (inset bottom right)

Liverpool Docks / 1902
Scene at Liverpool Docks showing sailing ships and salthouse

The Battle of Pacocha; Action between HMS Shah and Ameth
Engraving showing the battle between HMS Shah and Amethyst and the Peruvian Ironclad turret ship Huascar on the 29th May 1877

Ships of the P&O, Cunard, Orient, Union and Guion Lines, 188
Engravings of the steamships Lusitania, Khiva, Mexican, Australia, Arizona, Zambesi, Poonah, Nepaul, Ganges, Geelong, Rosetta, Umbria and Etruria (left to right, top to bottom)

Greek Trireme
A diagram of a Greek trireme showing the various sections

Poster for a Royal Navy Auction, 1910
Poster advertising an auction held in 1910 to sell a number of obsolete Royal Navy vessels. The Navy was selling these five vessels to the highest bidder

England / Maidenhead
A view of the silvery River Thames at Maidenhead, Buckinghamshire, England, one of the best known popular up- river resorts

Sri Lanka / Colombo C1700
Colombo: general view, with ships in the harbour

Communications Room on an Atlantic liner
A communications room onboard an Atlantic liner, an example of the kind that would have been on board the Titanic. Built by the shipyard Harland and Wolff for White Star Lines

Cutty Sark Passes Cimba
The tea clipper Cutty Sark under full sail passes the Cimba - th Cutty Sark wasa badly damaged whilst under restoration in dry dock in Greenwich on 21st May 2007

Mascaret (tidal bore) of the Seine, Normandy, France
People watching the mascaret (tidal bore) of the River Seine at Caudebec-en-Caux, Normandy, France, which resulted from large spring tides, and caused the loss of many ships

JOSHUA BATES SAIL SHIP
American sailing packet

Lightning Strikes Ship
Sailing ship in stormy seas struck by lightning

TRUE BRITON
East Indiaman, sank in 1809

Lifeboat to Sail Ship
Lifeboat going to the aid of a sailing ship in trouble

Ships / Tyburnia / 1885
The ship Tyburnia leaves Madeira under fire from a custom house on The Loo Rock

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

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