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Britannia Cunarder 2Cunard passenger liner which starts the first regular transatlantic mail service; in 1849 she is sold to Germany and ignominiously ends her career sunk as a target ship. Date: launched 1840
United States SteamshipAn American passenger ship is helped into port by some tug boats
TIGRE WARSHIPAn aggressive-looking vessel of the French navy intended for coast protection - she looks like she d scare most would-be invaders away... Date: 1874
STEAMSHIP FLORA 1862Dudgeons new double-screw iron steam-ship Flora. Date: 1862
WARSHIP STRASBOURGFrench battleship Date: 1930s
Kasuga Japan WarshipItalian-built cruiser, bought by Japan, in service till the 1920s when she becomes a training ship, finally scrapped in 1948. Date: launched 1902
Iron Duke WarshipThis dreadnought, seen here in the Pentland Firth, is the flagship at the battle of Jutland : she will become a training ship in 1931 and will be scrapped in 1946. Date: launched 1912
King Edward VII (Card)Warship of the Royal Navy. Date: 1907
LIGHT CRUISER EMDENLaunched in 1908, the German light cruiser Emden was highly successful during the early part of the Great War, before being sunk by HMS Sydney in November 1914 Date: circa 1914
WARSHIP DUNKERQUEFrench battleship Date: 1930s
Lucania SteamshipThis Cunarder is the first ship to be equipped with Signor Marconis wireless system : for a while she holds the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing. Date: 1901
FURIOUS AIRCRAFT CARRAircraft carrier which was built during World War One and served in World War Two : she is seen here in the 1930s with a flight of Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers Date: launched 1916
Great Eastern wheelhouseThe Wheelhouse and steering apparatus of Brunels massive steamship. Date: 1859
Petropavlovsk WarshipRussian battleship Date: 1912
Steamer on the Hudson River and Grants Tomb, Riverside Drive, New York City, America
The Quayside at Zadar (Zara) - Croatia
The Pool of London and Tower Bridge, London
The Waterfront - AlgiersThe waterfront of Algiers, Algeria, showing the elegant colonaded seafront and the houses of the city rising up the hill behind
Saray Burnu, Constantinople, TurkeyPalace Point, Constantinople - La Pointe du Seraile or Saray Burnu (in Turkish)
The Embarkation Quay - SirkeciThe embarkation quay at Sirkeci. Today, a big ferry terminus with the Sirkeci railway station, the last stop for trains from Europe to Istanbul
Haydar Pasa Station - Constantinople, TurkeyHaydar Pasa Station viewed from the waters of the southern mouth of the Bosphorus - Constantinople, Turkey
Shipping in the Harbour at ConstantinopleShipping in the harbour at Constantinople, Turkey, showing H.M.S. Centurion and Benbow (in the distance)
Worms & Cie posterPoster advertising the shipping company Worms and Compagnie, founded in 1848 for the importation of English coal to France
Atlantic Transport Line posterPoster advertising the Atlantic Transport Line offering an exclusively tourist third class monthly service throughout the year
Port of RouenPoster advertising the port of Rouen from the Rouen Chamber of Commerce. The port is full of ships of every description from steamships to tugs
Canadian Pacific White EmpressesThe Empress of Japan Canadian Pacific ocean liner, the fastest trans-pacific steamship of its time, sailing from Vancouver to Japan and China via Honolulu
Compagnie de Navigation PaquetPoster advertising the Compagnie de Navigation Paquet French steamship line based in Marseille
Poster advertising Messageries Maritimes, French mail service steamships to Australia, Indochina, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, Brazil and Argentina
Village and Bay of Kozlu, Turkey - General ViewThe Bay and Village of Kozlu, 6kilometres from Zonguldak (formerly Heraclea), a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. An important coal mining centre
Sydney, Nova Scotia, CanadaBritish (rear) and French (foreground) warships in the harbour at Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Queen Mary itemsA commemorative clock with a model of the RMS Queen Mary, and a Meccano Dinky Toy no.52, both marking the launch of the Cunard cruise ship in 1935
White Star Line 1st and 2nd Class bookletTitle page of the First and Second Class Accommodation passenger booklet for White Star Line Olympic and Titanic cruises
White Star Line Third Class bookletFront cover of the Third Class Accommodation passenger booklet for White Star Line Olympic and Titanic cruises
Bulgarian State Steamships - The Boris and the Bulgaria. Prince Boris and a Bulgarian soldier are also pictured. This young Prince was to become Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria (1894 - 1943)
Repatriated PowA cheering crowd of repatriated British prisoners of war returning to England at the end of WWI on the steamships Archangel and Stockport at Hull
Ferryboat embarkation point - ArnavutkoyEmbarkation point at Arnavutkoy ( The Albanian Village ). It is charming and picturesque, particularly the back streets and lanes. There is still a lively Greek community
Oceanic SteamshipBuilt for the White Star line with the emphasis on luxurious comfort rather than speed, she is a very popular ship; in World War One she will become a cruiser but wreck in 1914. Date: launched 1899
The American Harbour in Kobe, JapanThe American Wharf in Kobe, Japan
Norddeutscher Lloyd posterPoster for the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping line which operated out of Bremen in North Germany. The poster features the Europa and Bremen passenger steamships
The Ottoman Fleet - a patriotic card from the time of WWI
Strathnaver IllustrationThe P&O liner Strathnaver. 202.4 m in length with a speed of 20 kn. Scrapped in Hong Kong in 1962
Lusitania Painted GreyThe Lusitania is painted war- grey early in the war on its trip back from New York in 1914, a disguise which does not save it from being torpedoed on 7 May 1915
NELSON WARSHIPH.M.S. Nelson
Pourquoi Pas SteamshipOne of the few ships with a question mark in her name, this is the steamer used by French explorer Charcot
WILLIAM FAWCETTAlthough this vessel is not identified, it closely resembles the William Fawcett, the first steamship of the Peninsula Steam Navigation Co (later P&O)
Rhine SteamboatGerman steamboat on the Rhine
Pleasure SteamerPassengers on the deck of a pleasure steamer at Southend, Essex, England
Japanese SteamshipAn early steamship among traditional Japanese boats, watched by a warrior from the coast