Vessels Collection (page 10)

Silhouettes of wartime scenes with soldiers
Silhouettes of wartime scenes, showing soldiers in various situations. From the top: every dog has his day, the last straw, empty vessels cause the most sound, and a couple is not always a pair

Villefrance-sur-Mer toward Cap Ferrat
Villefrance-sur-Mer, France, looking past the moored French fleet toward Cap Ferrat Date: circa 1920s

Card Series 5
He equips a fleet of three vessels at the port of Palos, and sets sail for the New World despite the doubts and fears of his crew. Date: 1446 - 1506

Dogali - Italian naval vessels in dock
Dogali, Italy - Italian naval vessels in dock Date: circa 1910s

Exeter Quay
Sailing vessels at the quay : Exeter was formerly a port of some importance, despite being a few miles from the sea. Date: circa 1910

Teignmouth Quay
A glimpse of Teignmouth, Devonshire, England, seen from the deck of one of the fishing vessels moored in the Old Quay. Date: early 1960s

Stormy Coast
A storm drives sailing vessels onto the shore. Date: 1901

A Sea Battle - New Guinea

Sardine boats - Southern France
Sardine boats - Saint Jean de Luz, Southern France. View of the quay and (back left) the Maison de l Infante (House of the Infanta)

Copenhagen Harbour
Steamers and sailing vessels moored at the quays at Kvaesthusbroen, in Kjobenhavn harbour. Date: 1888

Monitor / Merrimac / Beilch
The Battle of Hampton Roads. The Confederates armoured frigate Merrimac destroyed many Federal vessels, but retreated following action with Monitor, a turret ship. Date: 8-9 March 1862

Attacking Channel Ships
German JU-87 Stukas and Messerschmitt 110s operating from French bases attack shipping in the Thames estuary, sinking many allied vessels Date: December 1940

Monitor & Merrimac
The Battle of Hampton Roads. The Confederates armoured frigate Merrimac destroyed many Federal vessels, but retreated following action with Monitor, a turret ship. Date: 8-9 March 1862

Italians Attack Ships
Italian warships fire on suspicious-looking vessels in the Aegean Date: November 1940

Events / Britain 1510
Scottish hero Sir Andrew Wood defeats English insurgents in his ships " The Yellow Carvel" and " The Flower". The English vessels were in the Firth of Forth to raid the area

Boat Invention / Lincoln
An improved system for buoying vessels, patented by Abraham Lincoln, future President of the United States. A model of the invention and facsimile drawings are shown here Date: 1849

Ships of the Conquest
696 vessels of this type, similar to Viking boats, are used by duke William to bring his forces to England. Each carries about 100 men. In the foreground is the Commander s. Date: 1066

Docks, fishing vessels and smoke houses, Hull, Yorkshire
View of the docks in Hull (Kingston upon Hull), Yorkshire, with fishing vessels and smoke houses, where the fish was smoked

Trading vessels at Solva, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A view of trading vessels, with a group of people on the shore, at Solva, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

The Terra Nova mourns for her Commander
The ensign flying at half-mast on the Scott Polar expeditions vessel in February 1913, as it neared Lyttelton in New Zealand following the relief partys discovery of Captain Scott

Dockside facility for loading bananas
A dockside facility for loading bananas, with various vessels nearby

Georgia - Tbilisi - Tinsmiths
Tinsmiths at work in their shop at Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis. Located strategically at the crossroads between Europe and Asia

Croatia - Opatija (Abbazia) - Harbour
The Boat harbour at Opatija (Abbazia), Croatia

Metal worker at Matiari, West Bengal, India
A metal worker makes a brass pot by traditional methods at Matiari, a village in West Bengal, India. Date: 2007

South American ceramics
Items of material culture from South America. Distinctive ceramic bowls and drinking vessels, sporting fierce mask faces and anthropomorphic forms. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

The Admiralty and naval vessels - Algiers
The Admiralty and elements of the Algerian Navy. The lighthouse can be seen in rear

Boatmen on the Golden Horn, Constantinople, Turkey

Senegal River
Sailing vessels in the mouth of the Senegal River

Great Snowstorm 1881
Various ships and vessels including the Lucknow and Havelock on Ryde Pier are battered by the great snow storm & gales of 18th January 1881

Portland Harbour - Croatian Mother Ship
A Croatian Mother Ship with two Croatian (Yugoslavian as was at this time) submarines moored at the Naval Base at Portland, Dorset

Royal Navy at Portland
Royal Navy vessels moored at Portland Harbour, Dorset

Island of Samos - Turkish Troops evacuating
Island of Samos - Turkish troops called to evacuate island after the Revolution of September 1912 - the infantry is seen boarding Samos sailing vessels

Crimea War Ships
British naval vessels in the harbour at Balaklava, with tarpaulins stretched over the decks against the cold

Bombardment of Fort Masnaah, Gulf of Oman, 1874
Bombardment of Fort Masnaah, Gulf of Oman, by two vessels of the Royal Navy, H.M.S. Rifleman and H.M.S. Philomel and the Hugh Rose, a vessel from the Bombay Marine service

Fishing Boats on the Sea of Marmara, Istanbul

Burin, Newfoundland. Aerial view of the harbour and part of the town with anchored sailing vessels

Laundry on an Italian Submarine; Second World War, 1943
Photograph showing the crew of an Italian submarine airing their blankets and bedding on arrival at Malta in 1943. When Italy fell that year

Norway North Cape
Fishing vessels off the Cape

Charlemagne & Norsemen
As if the Saracens aren t problem enough, Charlemagne also has to deal with the Norsemen : he watches with apprehension the approach of their vessels

Trading Vessels
Trading vessels in an Italian sea-port

PERU / LIMA / 1591
Spanish vessels of the Conquistadors in the harbour at Lima

Women of the Pimo Tribe, 1858
Illustration showing a group of native American Indian women of the Pimo tribe carrying baskets and water vessels on their heads, wearing full wrap around skirts and heavy jewellery

Below Decks on an Emigrant Ship, 1849
Engraving showing a family of emigrants, below decks, poring over a large map, working out the position of the ship on its long voyage to Australia

Sacred Jewish Vessels
JEWISH CEREMONIAL VESSELS despite its modern appearance, this fine print is from a 15th century Spanish manuscript

Tunis, Circa 1760
View from the sea looking towards the town and the country beyond, with galleys large and small and sailing ships in the outer harbour, smaller vessels in the inner

Federal Ironclad Keokuk off Charleston Harbor, 1863
Engraving showing the Federal ironclad Keokuk and other battered vessels after their attack on the Confederate held Fort Sumter and Charleston Harbour

Ship of Jupiter
On the planet Jupiter, electrical power propels the ocean-going vessels through the sea of sticky heavy oil which would clog the propellors used on Earth

Ship of Callisto
On Callisto, one of Jupiter;s moons, they have trees which grow beneath the water, and from the bark of these they construct their vessels which are rowed like Earth galleys

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