Steam Ships Collection

Barry Island poster
Daily steamship service to Barry Island, Wales

Union-Castle Line
Poster advertising the Union-Castle Line, a shipping line that operated a fleet of passenger liners and freighters between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977

Union-Castle Line poster
South and East Africa, Madeira and the Canaries with the Union-Castle Line offering a fast mail service and an address for the head office in Fenchurch Street, London

Warship Hms Hood
HMS Hood, completed in 1920, was the worlds largest warship for more than two decades. She was finally sunk by the Bismarck in 1941 at the Battle of Denmark Strait

Normandie Poster
Poster emphasising the great size of the French transatlantic liner at Le Havre - dwarfing even the New York skyline !

Lancastria Steamship
Passenger liner and mail steamer of the Cunard White Star Line

British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd
A poster advertising the British India Steam Navigation Company, better known as B.I. and its shipping agent Gray Dawes & Co. of London

Cunard White Star liner
The Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth sails into New York Date: circa 1940

Mauretania Postcard
Steam ship of the Cunard line at New York

Barry Docks 1899
The old and the new, Barry Docks

Union-Castle liner
The Windsor Castle, a steamship of the Union-Castle line, recognisable by the lavender hull and red and black funnel

French Line Normandie poster
French Line poster for the SS Normandie ocean liner, the worlds most perfect ship

Union-Castle
Advertising poster for Union-Castle, Mail Steamship Company Limited, featuring a liner running from Southampton to Cape Town and vice versa next to small sailing dinghies

LUSITANIA
At the time of her launch in 1907, she was the largest vessel in the world : her sinking by a U-boat in 1915 continues to inspire conspiracy theories

Hull Harbour
Barges and steamships in Princes Docks, Hull

HMS RODNEY
British battleship whose finest hour will come in May 1941 when her accurate gunfire is the crucial factor in the sinking of the German warship Bismarck Date: 1927 - 1941

Great Eastern 1857
The steamship of Brunel & Scott Russell in full steam

STEAMSHIP CAMERONIA
Anchor Line passenger ship sailing between Glasgow and New York

I K Brunel / Chain Cdv
ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL Designer and builder of railroads, bridges, tunnels, steamships, docks &c. pictured in front of the anchor chain of the Great Eastern

Empress of Britain poster
Poster advertising the Empress of Britain of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, the worlds greatest travel system, according to the poster

South America by Royal Mail
Poster for Royal Mail Lines Ltd - South America by Royal Mail - depicting a large ocean-going steamship

Paris, Paris all the way to New York. When you board any French Line ship you step right into Paris itself! French Line C.G.T. (Compagnie Generale Transatlantique) poster for the SS Paris ocean liner

Neptune Steamship
Since this paddle steamer is depicted on the Elbe, it is doubtless employed on the England to Hamburg run. The other ship is the Caledonia

Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
Poster advertising Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, the French shipping company, illustrated by the S.S

Wine shipping poster
Ste Navale de L Ouest, transport des vins - poster for a French wine shipping company showing men on the dock waiting to load barrels of wine on to a steamship

Royal Line poster
Poster promoting Royal Line Northern Canadian railway system and Atlantic steamship service, showing a ship crossing the Atlantic on the way to Canada from Bristol

CUTTY SARK CLIPPER
China clipper, though she only made 8 voyages to China before steamships destroyed the clipper business : she then became a wool carrier, then a training ship

EMPRESS OF JAPAN SHIP
Passenger ship of the Canadian Pacific line

I K Brunel / Anon
ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL Designer and builder of railroads, bridges, tunnels, steamships, docks &c

London Docks 1930S
Barges, cranes and tramp steamers at the London Docks

Hms Dreadnought 1906
The ship that gave her name to a new style of warship - the mighty HMS Dreadnought leaves Portsmouth harbour, escorted by a paddle-wheel tug

Messageries Maritimes poster
Poster illustrated by a stork advertising the arrival of the Felix Roussel of the Messageries Maritimes French steamship line

NORMANDIE (DINING)
French transatlantic liner - the First Class dining saloon

Sarpedon Steamship
Passenger liner of the Blue Funnel line

Orion Steamship
Passenger liner of the Orient Steam Navigation line

FRANCONIA STEAMSHIP
Passenger liner of the Cunard line, employed chiefly as a cruise ship

Queen Elizabeth Liner
The Queen Elizabeth, the largest of the P. & O. Liners, seen here in the Solent, off the Isle of Wight, England

QUEEN MARY
The Cunard White Star passenger liner at the time of her launch. Tonnage 70, 000. Length at water-line 306m

OLYMPIC LINER
Liner of the White Star line

Great Eastern
Laying the Atlantic Cable

Ship / Q Mary (Lounge)
Cunard White Star liner Interior photograph of the air conditioned main lounge

Mauretania Photograph
Cunard Line R.M.S. Mauretania

EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND
Canadian Pacific liner, sailing between Europe and Canada

NORMANDIE (DECKS)
French transatlantic liner - the Promenade Decks

Carnarvon Castle Liner
Passenger liner of the Union Castle Line

The Canadian Pacific S. S. Montnairn
The Canadian Pacific S.S. Montnairn. (17282 tons) C. 1920

The R. M.s Empress of Ireland
The R.M.S Empress of Ireland, and Oceanic Liner of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. On the 29th May, 1914, she collided with a Norwegian collier and sank in the Saint Lawrence River

SS KARMALA
Passenger liner of the P&O line, depicted entering Columbo harbour, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Chargeurs Reunis shipping
Poster advertising the services of the French shipping line, Chargeurs Reunis, and the various routes they sail to Brazil, Indo-China, French West Africa and the Far East

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

Entrance to the Suez Canal at Port Said
Port Said - Harbour and entrance to the Suez Canal, Egypt

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)

Turbinia - the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894, Turbinia wasy the fastest ship anywhere in the world at that time

STEAMSHIPS / MAURETANIA
Cunarder on the Atlantic run, at this time the fastest ocean-going liner of them all, breaking all the Atlantic records

EMPRESS OF FRANCE
Canadian Pacific liner, sailing between Liverpool and Quebec and doing cruises during the winter

CITY OF NAGPUR LINER
passenger liner of the Ellerman line, sailing to India via South Africa

Strathnaver Steamship
Passenger liner of the P&O line

Queen Elizabeth in 1940
She anchors beside her elder sister, Queen Mary, in the docks at New York, for safety during World War Two : both will be used for wartime purposes

Ships at Southampton
An ocean-going passenger liner leaves the port of Southampton, beneath a remarkably cloudy sky

Great Eastern Building
The stern view of the Great Eastern under construction at Millwall, on the Thames

Steamship Crowd 1899
A crowd clamour to get a good glimpse of St. Elvies a paddle steamer of the Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Co. at Llandudno, North Wales

Lusitania Sinks (Dixon)
The Cunard passenger liner sinks, with the loss of 1198 lives, after being torpedoed off the Irish coast by German U-boat U-20, while returning to Britain from America

Dreadnought at Speed
The innovative battleship undergoing trials at sea. Her combination of high speed and heavy gunpower will be copied worldwide. Date: circa 1906

Aquitania Illustration
Cunard White Star Liner. 901 feet long, 45, 647 tons. Scrapped in 1950

Ship / Q Elizabeth / Pcard
Cunard White Star liner

NORMANDIE (POOL)
French transatlantic liner - the First Class swimming pool

MAURETANIA (PEARS)
Passenger liner of the Cunard line on the Atlantic run to New York

Section of Great Eastern
Longitudinal sections of Brunels Leviathan steamship, otherwise known as the Great Eastern

Steamship / Mikasa
The Japanese battleship Mikasa. Date: Circa 1895

Ship Leaves Capetown
A passenger ship of the Union Castle Line leaves Cape Town, South Africa. Date: circa 1920

New Mexico in Locks
The U.S.S. warship New Mexico in Gatun Locks : both the canal and the ships using it are very vulnerable to attack at this point

On Board Britannic
People on board the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic, taking part in a service; the ship, requisitioned as a hospital ship in WW1 was sunk by a mine

HENDRICK HUDSON
American steamboat of the Hudson River Day Line

STEAMSHIP DORIC
White Star liner on the Atlantic crossing from Liverpool to Canada

Steamship berengaria be
Passenger ship on the Atlantic crossing, at this time the largest liner in the Cunard fleet

IMPERATOR STEAMSHIP
Liner of the Hamburg-Amerika line - the worlds largest ship in her day: she made only one crossing, then war came, after which she became the Cunarder Berengaria

Steamship Alabama
British-built raiding vessel for the Confederate Navy during the war between the States

Steamship Australia Star
motor vessel of the Blue Star line

Winchester Castle Steam
Passenger liner of the Union Castle line

NIOBE WARSHIP
Battleship built in Britain for the Royal Canadian Navy

Caronia and Sisters
The Caronia. Carmania, Franconia and Laconia are sister passenger liners on the trans- Atlantic run

Andania, Alaunia
Passenger liners on the trans- Atlantic run

The Damage on the Lusitania by the first torpedo
A diagram showing the actually broken and the area weaked by the explosion. Date: 7 May 1915

White Star Line Olympic and Titanic trade card
A Cadburys Cocoa trade card depicting the White Star Line RMS Titanic or her sister ship the Olympic

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