Transatlantic Collection (page 6)

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

Poster advertising Cunard cruises to USA and Canada
Poster advertising the Cunard service to the USA and Canada, offering sunshine cruises. Date: circa 1930s

R34 Airship, Transatlantic crossing 1919
Flying over the fleet in the firth of forth, the R 34 the first British transatlantic dirigible. Illustration showing the armed demonstration flight over Heligoland

Pan American poster, To Paris, designed by Jean Carlu. Showing a stylised image of a woman with a basket of flowers, with Parisian landmarks in the background. Date: 1958

Cunard White Star Queen Elizabeth Liner Launch Booklet
Cunard White Star Queen Elizabeth Liner / Ship Launch Booklet. Date: 1938

Cunard Companys regular passenger, mail, freight services
Brochure page listing the Cunard Companys regular passenger, mail and freight services. Date: 1922

The Cunard British Line Ocean Liner RMS Mauretania sailing across the Atlantic Ocean with a stylised setting sun behind her. Date: 1922

WW2 - Cunard Liner Queen Mary on War Service, New York, USA
WW2 - Cunard Liner Queen Mary on War Service (as a Troop Transport Ship), New York, USA Date: circa 1945

Christopher Columbus nears the New World
Christopher Columbus about to set his eyes on the New World for the first time, after his perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean, sighting the Bahamas archipelago on 12th October, 1492

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 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

RMS Kenilworth Castle, Union Castle Line, at sea
RMS Kenilworth Castle, Union Castle Line ship, at sea. early 20th century

White Star advertisement for winter cruises, 1932-1933, visiting the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the West Indies. Date: 1930s

The Lusitania at landing stage, Liverpool Date: circa 1913

RMS Aquitania, cruise ship, with destroyers, WW1
RMS Aquitania, Cunard Line cruise ship, seen here with destroyers during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

RMS Lusitania, Cunard cruise ship, at the Liverpool landing stage. circa 1910s

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

Hearts Content Bay, Newfoundland
A view of Hearts Content Bay, Newfoundland, Canada, from the deck of the Great Eastern, during the Atlantic telegraph expedition. Date: 1866

Laying the shore end of the Atlantic telegraph cable at Foilhommerum, Isle of Valentia, Ireland. The first attempt at laying a transatlantic cable had been in 1858

Telegraph station in Hearts Content Bay, Newfoundland. The first attempt at laying a transatlantic cable had been in 1858

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

Refuelling aloft by G. H. Davis
Refuelling aloft -- a device which enables transatlantic flying boats to carry a much increased payload. How Imperial Airways transatlantic flying boats are refuelled in the air

Transatlantic flight by G. H. Davis
The transatlantic flight: the type of British machine which will attempt it. Top: dropping the chassis at the moment of setting out -- a daring device

Europe to America in 45 minutes by G. H. Davis
Not a Wellsian fantasy, but an actual project in preparation by Germany: Europe to America in 45 minutes. Drawings of a long-range rocket designed in Germany during the Second World War

Greyhound racing on board the Berengaria
Mimic greyhound racing, at the height of its popularity among smart society in 1930, on board the transatlantic passenger liner, the Berengaria

Transatlantic telephone system by G. H. Davis
A step-by-step diagram demonstrating the new transatlantic telephone system between Britain and the United States in 1927

Sir George Elliot MP, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR GEORGE ELLIOT MP, 1st Baronet (1814-1893) Conservative Party Member of Parliament, Businessman from Gateshead, North-East England

Sir Richard Tangye
Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye, civil engineer and industrialist, manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment. Seen here in the late 1850s with the Great Eastern steamship before its launch to

RMS Carinthia - Cunard White Star Line - launched in 1925 - torpedoed by German U-46 in 1940 during WW2. Date: circa 1926

Mistaken translation of saying difficult English surnames Overheard on an Atlantic Liner Colonel Moses R. Hankey - " Theres one thing I kaant understand about your English way of spelling names

Canadian Pacific Liner - Duchess of Bedford. Lanched in 1928 - scrapped in 1960. Made a total of 310 Atlantic round trips! Date: circa 1930s

Empress of Britain liner - Olympian Swimming pool. Launched in 1930 -sunk by a torpedo strike in 1940 during WW2. Date: circa 1931

Empress of Britain liner - Salle Jacques Cartier
Empress of Britain luxury liner of the Canadian Pacific line - Salle Jacques Cartier. Launched 1930 - torpedoed during WW2 in 1941. Date: circa 1931

Handley Page V / 1500 F7140 Atlantic
Handley Page V/1500, F7140, Atlantic, entered for the attempted 1919 transatlantic crossing. Date: 1919

The 1930 transatlantic crew (from left) Capt Charles Kingsford Smith, leader; Capt Evert van Dijk, pilot; Capt Paddy Saul, navigator and John Stannage, wireless operator

HP117 civil transport transatlantic version
HP117 civil transport, transatlantic version. Span approx 150ft

Fokker FXVIII PH-AIS Snip of KLM
Fokker FXVIII, PH-AIS, Snip, of KLM. This aircraft made the first Dutch transatlantic flight, flying from Amsterdam to Curac

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