Vessel Collection (page 10)

Gallant Affair of the Hecla and Arrogant, 20 May 1854 - cutting out a Russian barque from under the batteries of Eckness. The Arrogant, anchoring off the batteries, kept up a furious cannonade

Titanic sinking Memorial Card with luminous cross
The dramatic image of the sinking ship surrounded by lifeboats is entitled NEARER MY GOD TO THEE - a reference to the tune that the ship's band was often said to have played as the vessel sank

Samuel Plimsoll MP (1824-1898) - English politician and social reformer, now best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line (a line on a ship's hull indicating the maximum safe draught)

Poster, Monaco, Motor Boat Exhibition and Competition, March - April 1900 Date: 1900

Launch of HMS Trafalgar at Woolwich, 21 June 1841
The Launch of HMS Trafalgar at Woolwich Dockyard, 21 June 1841 Date: 1841

Royal Mail Steamer leaving Cape Town Docks, South Africa Date: circa 1920s

Liverpool Clipper Ship Date: circa 1850

Liverpool Ship Date: circa 1700

Liverpool Privateer Ships Date: circa 1800

Cape Town Docks and Table Mountain, South Africa, showing Royal Mail Steamer Date: circa 1920s

Steamship TS St Tudno of the LNWSC
Steamship TS St Tudno of The Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company (LNWSC), a pleasure cruise company based in Liverpool. Sold for scrap in 1963. Pictured in the Menai Straits. Date: circa 1927

St Tudno of the LNWSC - off Llandudno Pier
Steamship TS St Tudno of The Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company (LNWSC), a pleasure cruise company based in Liverpool. Sold for scrap in 1963. Pictured off Llandudno Pier. Date: circa 1927

St Tudno of the LNWSC
Steamship TS St Tudno of The Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company (LNWSC), a pleasure cruise company based in Liverpool. Sold for scrap in 1963. Date: circa 1927

1889 photograph - RMS Teutonic - from an album of images relating to the launch of the vessel, which was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast

Ships in the harbour Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 1889. Vintage 19th century photograph

Herring fishing boats coming into harbour, Wick Scotland
Vintage 19th century photograph: Herring fishing boats coming into harbour at Wick Scotland

New RMS Mauretania, ocean liner 1938
Diagram of the second liner to be named Mauretania an ocean liner by Cunard White Star. Date: 1938

RMS Mauretania, ocean liner being launched 1938
The launch of the RMS Mauretania unveiled the name by Lady Bates, wife of the Chairman of the Cunard White Star taking place at Cammell Laird's yard, Birkenhead

Advertisement for RMS Mauretania, the newly formed Cunard-White Star company, ocean liner. Date: 1938

Stothert & Pitt vessel. Date: circa 1940

Germany and France - Conquest of the Air 1907
German and France, rivalry between two air-ships. The German air-ship that stayed up the longest for three hours over Berlin, over the French rival La Patrie. Date: 1907

Biggest experimental airship built at the time, designed by Dr. Barton and F. L. Rawson flying over Alexandra Palace, London. Date: 22nd July 1905

Industry Industrial Power Station 1960 1960s
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RMS Columba -Clyde Paddle Boat
Pleasure steamer 316 feet in length, 50 feet across with dinning saloon for 100 persons. Started from Glasgow, Craigendoran, Greenock, which called at pier to pier along the popular routes

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands aboard a submarine
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880-1962) standing on board the deck of a submarine, September 1916. The Queen was attending manoeuvres carried out by the Dutch navy

Mythical Sea Serpent
A huge sea serpent attacking a ship

HMS Worcester, training Ship for the Thames Marine Officers, moored at the lower estuary of the River Thames, off Greenhithe. Date: 1895

Old Floating Church for Seamen, London
Sailors Floating Church was moored near Tower Hill in London, the ship was a well attended place of worship, with religious teachings for the seafarers that docked there. Date: 1846

KRAKATOA/CORPSES 1883
The day after the eruption, a sailing vessel makes its way through a sea of floating corpses Date: 26-8 August 1883

A TRIREME (three banks of oars) The larger oar at the stern is for steering ; note also the lantern, and the hooked prow for ramming an enemy vessel

An ancient vessel used for commerce

This derelict sailing vessel is found by the sealer Ariebis ; the captain, lashed to the helm, has frozen to death Date: 1905

The Vinh-Long, French naval vessel (a 5500-ton screw steamship, which was built in 1881) - on 16 November 1922, while carrying 495 persons

Visit of Edward, Prince of Wales to Japan (3 / 3) Date: 1922
Visit of Edward, Prince of Wales to Japan (3/3) Date: 1922

Lieutenant Edward Nicolls boarding a French privateer cutter, the Albion, off Monte Cristi, Santo Domingo, West Indies, 5 November 1803. Date: 1803

Vintage 19th century photograph: Bridge of Sighs, Ponte dei Sospiri. The Bridge of Sighs is a bridge in Venice, Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars

Vintage 19th century photograph: city of Koln, Cologne, pontoon bridge of baots, River Rhine, Germany

19th century vintage photograph: boat on the Rewa River, Fiji. The Rewa River is the widest river in Fiji. Located on the island of Viti Levu, the Rewa originates in Tomanivi

c. 1890 New Zealand - Port Chalmers Otago Dunedin
c.1890 New Zealand - Port Chalmers Otago Dunedin

View of St Michaels Mount from the Cornwall coast
19th century vintage photograph: view of St Michaels Mount from the Cornwall coast, boats and beach. Image c.1880 s

Boats pulled up along the shore, Port Said, Egypt
19th century vintage photograph: boats pulled up along the shore, Port Said, Egypt. Zangaki studio

Germany - view of the city of Mainz
Vintage 19th century photograph: Germany - view of the city of Mainz

Germany, city of Koblenz, River Rhine
Vintage 19th century photograph: Germany - Koblenz, spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and of the Moselle

Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul - boats, boatmen Bosphorous
Vintage 19th century photograph: Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul - boats and boatmen on the Bosphorous

Pont Saint Esprit, Bayonne, France
Vintage 19th century photograph: France - Pont Saint Esprit, Bayonne, France

India - Hooghly Bridge, pontoon, Calcutta, Kolkata
Vintage 19th century photograph: India - Hooghly Bridge, pontoon, Calcutta, Kolkata

Antwerp; port city on Belgiums River Scheldt
19th century vintage photograph: Anvers, antwerp. Antwerp is a port city on the River Scheldt, Belgium

Ships at the Timber Wharf, Exeter
19th century vintage photograph: ships at the Timber Wharf, Exeter, Devon, image by Francis Bedford

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