Ss Collection (#4)

An SS-class airship at the Naval Airship Station, Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness, 2 March 1918

Junkers Ju46 of Lufthansa shortly after being catapulted
Junkers Ju46 of Lufthansa, shortly after being catapulted from the SS Bremen

Junkers Ju46 D-2244 of Lufthansa
Junkers Ju46, D-2244, of Lufthansa, shortly after being catapulted from the SS Europa

FRANCE. CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE. MARNE. Reims. Basilica of Saint-Remi. Basilica of Saint-Remi (ss.XI-XII). Gothic art. Architecture

Spain (1868). Glorious Revolution. SS. Viajeros
" Spain (1868). Glorious Revolution. " SS. Viajeros al Tren...", caricature of the magazine " La Flaca". Joan Prim drives the train that brings the monarchy

Red Sea - Sudan - S.S.Salween shipboard swimming pool and play area - not normally supplied - but vital as there were lots of children. Date: 1951

Suez Canal - Egypt - S.S.Salween looking ahead Date: 1951

Fire boat SS Sambre at Enderbys Wharf, Greenwich
The London Fire Service fire boat, the SS Sambre, at Enderbys Wharf, Greenwich, SE London

Church of SS. Claudius and Andrew of the Burgundians, Rome

The S. S. Princess Sophia, coastal passenger liner
The S.S. Princess Sophia, coastal passenger liner of the Canadian Pacific Railway. She was sunk in October 1918 with the loss of all aboard after grounding on Vanderbilt Reef in Lynn Canal near

S. S. Prince Albert
S.S. Prince Albert in the Bay of Fundy. The SS Prince Albert was wrecked on Butterworth Rocks off South Dundas Island in August 1914. She belonged to the Canadian National Railway. 1902

The Knickerbocker Bar on the S. S. Empress of Britain
Canadian Pacific S.S. Empress of Britain. The Knickerbocker Bar. She was torpedoed by the german U-boat U-32, on the 28th October 1940. She was the largest British ship to be lost in the war. C. 1930s

The Canadian Pacific S. S. Empress of France
The Canadian Pacific S.S. Empress of France (18350 tons) 1930s

Mrs. R - ss; the aerial traveller. Pair of oval head-and-shoulder portraits; at left is a woman, Mrs. R - ss and the man at right is an unnamed balloonist. Date between 1790 and 1820

Vincente Lunardi ascending from the Royal Palace, Madrid, January 8, 1793 with royal coat-of-arms hanging from the gondola; Lunardis second balloon ascension in Spain

Messrs. SS Shubert & Nixon & Zimmermans production of A Chinese honeymoon by George Dance & Howard Talbot. Date c1902

Cathedral of SS, Peter and Paul, St. Petersburg, Russia. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Scenes on board the SS Austral: the drawing room, the dining room and the promenade deck. The SS Austral, a passenger vessel which took part in the early transportation by sea of refrigerated meat

Sea Scouts assembling on a quay

Advertisement for refrigeration equipment for ships
Advertisement for the Dry Air Refrigerator or Freezing Machine, from the Haslam Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd of Derby, showing refrigeration equipment for ships. circa 1883

The SS Austral, a passenger vessel which took part in the early transportation by sea of refrigerated meat between Australia and Europe

On board SS Lady Rodney, Dominica, West Indies
View on board the SS Lady Rodney (built in 1929) off the coast of Dominica, West Indies. 1949

SS Bloodhound towed to shore - Newfoundland
SS Bloodhound with a broken shaft, being towed to port by SS Diana - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: 1910

Japan - Kobe - Enormous Floating Dock
The enormous floating dock at the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Yard at Kobe, Japan. The liner Hakozaki Maru SS (pictured being finished in the dock)

The Great Halifax (Nova Scotia) Explosion (4 / 4)
Disaster at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on 6th December 1917, when a French cargo ship, the SS Mont-Blanc caught fire in the harbour and drifted inland

New Zealand - Chatham Island
A Christmas card from Chatham Island, New Zealand. Scenes pictured include the SS Storm, Torotoro, a bridge over the Waitangi River, the Waitangi Port, Te One

Death of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife
Portrait of the late ALEXANDER WILLIAM GEORGE DUFF 6th EARL and 1st DUKE of FIFE (1849 - 1912), husband of Princess Louise Victoria, eldest daughter of Edward VII

SS Saxon off Gibraltar, WW1
The British SS Saxon, a cruise ship used for transporting troops during the First World War, seen here off Gibraltar on the way to Egypt. Date: spring 1917

Canada - Newfoundland -ss Florizel at Icefields
Canada - Newfoundland - SS Florizel at Icefields - the crew boarding. A passenger liner, the Florizel was the flagship of the Bowring Brothers Red Cross Line of steamships

Brunels SS Great Western at sea
Brunels steamship, the SS Great Western, at sea

Soldiers on board SS Lake Michigan, WW1
Men of the 2nd Scots Guards and the 2nd Gordon Highlanders on board the SS Lake Michigan during the First World War. 6 October 1914

Capture of Rimskaya during Russian Civil War
Capture of Rimskaya, near Archangel in northern Russia, by the Syren Force Artillery during the British intervention in the Russian Civil War. Date: 3 August 1919

C. Q. D. signals that meant safety on the Republic
C.Q.D. signals that meant safety to two thousand souls: the means by which the sinking liner Republic sent three hundred miles for immediate help

Scots Guards on board SS Lake Michigan, WW1
Men and officers of the 2nd Scots Guards on board the SS Lake Michigan during the First World War. Date: 6 October 1914

President Wilson arriving at Dover on SS Brighton
The American President, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, arriving at Dover on the SS Brighton, probably after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War

HM torpedo gunboat, Hazard and seaplane. Participated in a Victoria Cross action in Crete in 1898. Dryard Class torpedo gunboat, she sank in 1918 after colliding with the SS Western Australia

Where Dr Crippen stayed
Disguised as Mr and Master Robinson, Dr Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve stayed overnight at the Hotel des Ardennes in Brussels after fleeing London

Inspector Dew leaving the Laurentic
The End of a Dramatic Chase. Inspector Walter Dew leaving the ocean liner SS Laurentic and about to embark on the pilot steamer that took him to the SS Montrose

Items belonging to George Moore, Titanic seaman
Assorted items belonging to George Alfred Moore, seaman on the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship which sank on 15 April 1912 -- a pocket watch with ornate fob, a cigarette lighter

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 blueprint (part)
Part of the blueprint of the SS Titanic, showing first, second and third class passenger areas, crew rooms and boiler rooms

Letter from Captain EJ Smith
A two-page letter from EJ Smith, future Captain of the ill-fated SS Titanic, to My dear Alvin Taylor. It is written on RMS Baltic White Star Line headed paper

Selection of Titanic paperwork
A selection of paperwork from the ill-fated SS Titanic: 1. Account of Wages for James Witter, Steward. 2. A letter written on board the RMS Laconia from a survivor, Mary Hewlett, dated 30 May 1912

Leviathan refueling
The fuel ship British Councillor bunkering (refueling) the large liner Leviathan. The second of a trio of transatlantic liners built by Germanys Hamburg America Line as the SS Vaterland for

Chums 7 Bramusas at Poole s
Young girl in a sailor suit wearing the cap of the SS Bramusas holding a beater and cymbal and sat beside a large bass drum

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

SS City of Exeter, July 1914
Photograph of the Ellerman twin-screw liner, SS City of Exeter on passage from Britain to Calcutta, July 1914

SS Great Western in a Heavy Gale, North Atlantic, 1846
Engraving showing the Steamship Great Western being struck amidships in a gale during a crossing from Liverpool to New York in 1846

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