Steamboat Collection

Grace Darling, rowing with her father
Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, seen here rowing with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838

Advert, Richard Irvin & Sons, Aberdeen, Scotland
Advert, Richard Irvin & Sons, Steam Fishing Vessel Owners, Licensed Auctioneers and Fish Salesmen, Aberdeen, Scotland. 1905

Paddle steamer La Marguerite, off Penmaenmawr, with Great Orme in the distance. Date: circa 1907

Grace Darling, lighthouse keeper's daughter
Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, who rowed with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838

Paddle steamer Medway Queen, Sheerness, Kent
Paddle steamer Medway Queen, arriving at Sheerness-on-Sea, Kent. During the Second World War she acted as a minesweeper, and made seven evacuation trips from Dunkirk in 1940, rescuing 7000 men

Latvia - Riga - Agenskalns
Agenskalns a district in Riga, located on the left bank of the Daugava, an old neighbourhood, mainly built in the late 19th - early 20th century. Formerly known as Hegensberg. Date: circa 1901

Steamboat Pier, Fleetwood, Wyre district, Lancashire
Steamboat Pier and Railway Station, Fleetwood, Wyre district, Lancashire Date: circa 1907

Steamship in port of Mollendo, Peru, South America
Moonlit scene with a steamship in the port of Mollendo, southern Peru, South America. Date: 1916

The Harbour, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England. Showing steamboat Date: 1940s

Charlotte Dundas Paddle Boat
Print of the Charlotte Dundas, the first practical application of steam power driving a paddle wheel. Designed by William Symington and trested on the Forth and Clyde Canal in 1802

Italy - Bellagio - Great British Hotel on Lake Como Date: circa 1900s

Patrick Miller, the first steam engine boat, 1788. 1788

Pier and Harbour, Littlehampton, West Sussex, with the paddle steamer Worthing Belle on the left and Arun Mill in the distance on the right. Date: circa 1905

Steamboat passing through lock near St. Louis. Missouri, USA Date: circa 1910s

John Fitch - American inventor of the steamboat
John Fitch (1743-1798) - the ill-fated inventor of the steamboat, who ended his own life in Bardstown in 1798, Kentucky, USA

Steamboat Alert in Creux Harbour, Sark, Victorian period

CGT/PLM Poster, Paris to Marseille and North Africa. Compagnie Gnrale Transatlantique and its joint venture with the PLM railway

Thomas Cook's Tourist Steamer Sudan Date: 1921

Cologne to Dusseldorf paddle steamer boat

Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, SW London Date: circa 1910

Town Hall and Broad Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Malpas Ferry, on the Fall, near Falmouth, Cornwall - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Steamship Stanley - E. A. Tilly
History of Africa. Steamship Stanley. It was built for the journey of Henry Morton Stanley on the Congo River. Engraving by E. A. Tilly

History of Africa. The Congo. Leopoldville station
History of Africa. 19th century. The Congo. Leopoldville station. Panoramic view of the trading post and port from Ngaliema Bay in 1884. It was the first main Colonial Post near Stanley Pool

The Comet, the first commercial steamboat in Europe Date: early 19th century

German ocean tug Hansa of the Hamburg-Amerika Line Date: early 20th century

PS Cambria, paddle steamboat

Passagers On Board Dundee Steamer 1873
Departing from Wapping, London on Wednesdays and Saturdays, Londoners taking a holiday trip. Passagers sitting on the deck going on hoilday to Leith or Granton Pier for Edinburgh or change for

Bennett Lake, White Pass & Yukon Railway, Canada
c.1900 vintage photograph: Steamboat landing at Bennett Lake, White Pass and Yukon Railway, Canada

Place de la Concorde, Paris, 1877. Two fashionable women in dark slim dresses, bonnets, walking near the fountains at the Luxor Obelisk. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Passengers by the Corbeil Steamboat, Paris, 1846. Woman in green crinoline dress with bows, bonnet and cashmere shawl. The Corbeil bateau a vapeur took travelers out of Paris along the River Seine

Opposite the first Cafe de Paris, Boulevard des Italiens, 1845. Two bearded dandies in redingotes and top hats watch a woman in long riding dress side-saddle on a horse

Branch of pink plum blossom. Color woodblock mokuhanga from Kaishien Gaden, Japanese edition of Wang Gais Jieziyuan Huazhaun or Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden, Second Collection, Ichimura Bunko

Henry Bells first English steamboat, The Comet Henry Bells first English steamboat
Henry Bells first English steamboat, The Comet, built in 1812. circa 1812

Steamboat pleasure cruiser off Gibraltar

Gosport from the Point, Portsmouth, Hampshire. 1860

The Comet, early paddle steamer
The Comet, an early paddle steamer, built in 1812 in Scotland, the first commercially successful steamboat service in Europe, operating on the River Clyde between Glasgow and Greenock

New Railway Bridge, Pimlico, London 1860
The new Railway Bridge across the Thames at Pimlico. Date: 1860

Paddle steamer Chippewa at Lewiston, Ontario, Canada
Niagara River Line paddle steamer Chippewa at Lewiston, Ontario, Canada. Date: circa 1908

Hull of a frigate, cannon and section through
Hull of an 18th century Royal Naval frigate, cannon and section through steamboat. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Steamboat landing, Hanlons Point, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Steamboat landing at Hanlons Point, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. circa 1908

Opening of LCC steamboat service by Prince of Wales
Opening of the London County Council steamboat service by HRH George, Prince of Wales, at Westminster Pier, London, 17 June 1905. 1905

Steamer, Resolute, with passengers at Great Yarmouth
Steamer (double-ended ferry), Resolute, with passengers at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, owned by the Yarmouth & Gorleston Steamboat Company. Date: circa 1920

The Landing, Island Beach, New Jersey, USA, with the Queen Anne paddle steamer and disembarking tourists. Date: circa 1906

Queen Astrid steamer on the Congo River
Page from The Sphere reporting on the steam Queen Astrid, one of the flagships of the Congo River. It was timber-burning and made two trips up river every month. Date: 1953

Interlaken, Heimwehfluh and Jungfrau, Bern, Switzerland, with a steamboat on the lake. Date: circa 1930s

Advert, Thames & Channel Passenger Service, London Steamboat Company Limited, for steamboats calling at various points along the River Thames in London and places further afield in Essex

Whaleback Steamer on Lake Michigan, Chicago, USA
A Whaleback Steamer on Lake Michigan, Chicago, Illinois, USA. circa 1907

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