Steamships Collection (page 4)

EMDEN POSTCARD
This German light cruiser was very successful during the first months of the war under her captain Muller, but she was sunk by HMS Sydney in November 1914 1914

STEAMSHIPS / CELTIC
Steamship Celtic, depicted arriving at Liverpool after crossing the Atlantic early 20th century

STEAMSHIP FRANCE
Passenger liner of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, she was immensely popular with travellers who had to bid for her cabins Date: 1910

STEAMSHIP BERLIN
Doppelschraubensalondampfer (twin screw passenger liner) of Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen Date: early 20th century

Great Eastern Built
Brunels " Great Eastern" under construction at Millwall, London. Date: 2 November 1857

Standart Interiors
Russian royal steam yacht - interior views of the Imperial cabin and dining room. Date: 1903

Advert for Bremen & Europa German ocean liners 1937
German-built, SS Bremen and her slightly smaller sister ship SS Europa, later SS Libert鬠 were both high-speed steam cruises, traveling to New York, the continent and Far East. Date: 1937

Steamship, Capital City, California, USA
Steamship, Capital City, running between San Francisco and Sacramento, California, USA. Date: circa 1912

GLOIRE
French ironclad frigate Date: 1859

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Burrard Inlet, showing the steamers Empress of Canada, Empress of Russia and Niagara. Date: 1929

Poster, Canadian Pacific, Empress of Britain
Poster advertising Canadian Pacifics Empress of Britain, Canadas Challenger. Date: circa 1930s

Szczecin - town view of the Haken terraces in Poland
Szczecin (Stettin) - town view of the Haken terraces in Poland Date: circa 1905

Cover of a souvenir booklet for the Docks at Southampton, shaped into the form of an ocean liner. Date: circa 1935

Ships, boats and a steamer on the sea. Date: circa 1920s

Scene in a harbour with steamship in foreground
Scene in a harbour with a steamship and crew in the foreground. Date: circa 1930s

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, manoeuvring down the Clyde
Queen Mary set out on its first voyage, from Clydebank where her interior was fitted out, down the river Clyde to Greenock Scotland

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, passing French liner L Atlantique
Queen Mary Ocean Liner, first journey down the river Clyde. Passing on the way lyng off Greenock was the luxurious ocean liner L Atlantique a French vessel, which was caught on fire in January 1933

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, down the river Clyde
Queen Mary set out on its first voyage, from Clydebank John Browns shipyard where her interior was fitted out, down the river Clyde to Greenock Scotland, escorted by tugs to the sea

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, ready for journey down the Clyde
Queen Mary Ocean Liner, at her berth in Clydebank, ready to take her first journey down the river Clyde to Southampton, for her final fitting-out on 24 march 1936. Date: 1936

Advert for Osram lamps, installed on Queen Mary Ocean Liner
Advertising that Osram lamps were fitted upon the Queen Mary Ocean Liner. Date: 1936

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, stocking out
Housekeeping aboard the liner. The huge supply for the Queen Marys stay at port between voyages. To ensure that fresh supplies were always available, triplicate stocks of linen were ordered

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, final preparations for launch
Final preparations for the launching R.M.S. Queen Mary Ocean Liner then know as Hull Number 534. Hundreds of tons of tallow, soft soap

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, in construction
John Brown & Company in Clydebank in Scotland, begin the major task of constructing Queen Mary Ocean Liner then know as Hull Number 534, which began in December 1930 on the River Clyde

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, journey down the Clyde
Map to show how Queen Mary Ocean Liner navigated on its first journey from Clydebank where her interior was fitted out, down the river Clyde to Greenock Scotland, escorted by tugs to the sea

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, suspended
R.M.S. Queen Mary at the John Brown shipyard, December 1931. Work on the ship, then known as Cunard No. 534, had been suspended on 13th December 1931 as Cunard had run out of funds

R. M. S. Queen Mary, record Atlantic crossing, by G. H. Davi
The ever-shortening Atlantic crossing: Epochs in its history; with a scale showing, graphically, the reduction from Columbuss seventy days to the Queen Mary in four days. 1936

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, takes to the sea
With all the difficulties and dangers of her journey down the Clyde behind her, the Queen Mary enters for the firts time open sea which she was built for. 1936

Interior on the Queen Mary Ocean Liner
Interior of an private luxurious sitting-room, with comfortable dinning room chairs, wooden panels and soft furnishings. 118 feet long assembly room for cabin class

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, entering dry dock at Southampton
Reaching Southampton the Queen Mary entered an enormous King George V graving drydock, at the time of construction in 1933, it was the largest graving dock in the world

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, ready for travel to Greenock
Front cover of Weekly Illustrated magazine, photograph showing the Queen Mary lying in the dock ay Clydebank in Scotland, from which she will have to be manoeuvred across the river into the mouth of

Queen Mary Ocean Liner to Greenock, Inverclyde
Queen Mary set out on its first voyage, from Clydebank where her interior was fitted out, down the river Clyde to Greenock Scotland, escorted by tugs to the sea

King Edward VIII visits Queen Mary Ocean Liner
Shortly before the liner leaves Clydebank in Scotland, for Southampton on her trials. King Edward VIII visits Queen Mary Ocean Liner, for the third time

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, interior fitted for passenger use
Queen Mary Ocean Liner, in the fitting-out berth at Clydebank in Scotland, which was her home for two years after the launch by Queen Mary in September 1934 to 1936

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, being fitted out
With the launching of the Queen Mary Ocean Liner a new phase of work began. Eighteen months between September 1934, and her departure for preliminary trials on 24 March 1936

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, nearly ready for launching
The Queen Mary, then known as Hull Number 534, had been halted between 1931 and 1934 due to the Great Depression of the 1930s

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, 6 months of activity
Six months of ceaseless activity. The Queen Mary, then known as Hull Number 534, had been halted between 1931 and 1934 due to the Great Depression of the 1930s

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, supplying her 1000 needs
The Queen Mary, then known as Hull Number 534, had been halted between 1931 and 1934 due to the Great Depression of the 1930s

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, work resumed
John Brown & Company in Clydebank in Scotland, begin the major task of constructing Queen Mary Ocean Liner then know as Hull Number 534, which began in December 1930 on the River Clyde

Queen Mary Ocean Liner crisis stops work
Tragedy comes to Clydeside. On 10th December 1931, almost exactly a year after signing of the contract for the construction of Hull Number 534, know as Queen Mary Ocean Liner

Queen Mary Ocean Liner work begins
Full Steam Ahead. John Brown & Company in Clydebank in Scotland, begin the major task of constructing Queen Mary Ocean Liner then know as Hull Number 534

Building of the battleship Dreadnought
Construction of one of the Eight Dreadnoughts (battleships) being constructed in the early 20th century by the British, at Portsmouth dockyard. 1909

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Detail of Queen Mary ocean liner, by G. H. Davis
Detail of the equipment of the Queen Mary ocean liner, which contained 40, 000 tons of steel, in the hull plating and bulkheads and 10, 000, 000 rivets. 1936

Cunard Liner Lusitania 1915
The Cunard liner Lusitania was torpedoed by German submarine off the south coast of Ireland on 7th May 1915, and sank within half an hour, of the 1, 906 persons on board, only 708 were saved

Orient Line steamship interior
The luxurious interior of an Orient Line mail steamer ship whose routes to Australia took in stops at Spain, the South of France, Italy, Egypt and Ceylon

Steamship deutschland
Passenger liner of the Hamburg-Amerika line, passing the Statue of Liberty (note : there were many vessels with this name) Date: 1900

Senegal - Dry Dock at Dakar Date: 1910s

Mersey Salvage Vessel
A salvage vessel steamship on the River Mersey, Merseyside, England. Date: 1950s

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