Vessels Collection (page 4)

Viking Ship
Crossing the North Sea with three vessels lashed together for protection Date: circa 800

Torquay Harbour, Devon in the atmospheric evening light. Date: 1932

The King and his fleet, Spithead, July 1914 -- some 400 ships assembled in the Solent. Date: 1914

Nefeli wrecked at Dollar Cove, Lands End, Cornwall
A cargo ship, the Nefeli, wrecked at Dollar Cove, near Lands End, Cornwall, October 1972. Date: 1972

Minoan Art. The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus. Painted with scene
Minoan Art. Crete. The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus. Painted with scenes from Cretan life. Ritual. Bull sacrifice. Woman wearing a crown is carrying two vessels. A man playing a seven string lyre

Ancient Egyptian objects
Selection of Ancient Egyptian every day items. Date: Ancient Egypt

Tomb of Rekhmire. Mural painting
Tomb of Rekhmire. EGYPT. Dayr al-Bahri. Valley of the Nobles. Tomb of Rekhmire. Making gold and silver vessels. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. Painting

Grays Anatomy - carotid artery
Two pages from the second edition of Grays Anatomy dealing with the common carotid artery. With hand-coloured illustration showing the blood vessels of the neck

Cunard ships of increasing size by G. H. Davis
A diagram showing the advance in ship-building from the foundation of the Cunard Company from the 1840 Cunarder Britannia

Tarot Card 14 - La Temperance (Temperance)

HMHS Britannic - dinner menu, WW1
HMHS Britannic - extremely rare dinner menu from the hospital ship Britannic, Titanic's ill-fated sister ship. The menu is dated 25 September 1916, in the middle of WW1

White Star Line - RMS Britannic, launch at Belfast - Signal series real photo postcard of Titanic's younger sister Britannic being launched in Belfast on 26 February 1914. Date: 1914

RMS Titanic - Titanic passengers rescued by Carpathia
RMS Titanic - Hutchinson Archive - first generation image of the passengers on the Hutchinsons table on board the Carpathia, with handwritten notation naming them

RMS Lapland - silk postcard with Hands Across the Sea. The Lapland was the liner that transported most of the Titanic's surviving crew back to England

Tocopilla, Antofagasta, Chile, South America
The port and docks of Tocopilla, in the Antofagasta region of Chile, South America. circa 1910

Demonstration of Britains sea power, Spithead, July 1914
The finest demonstration of Britains sea power ever seen, Spithead, July 1914. Date: 1914

Quayside at Tjilatjap (Cilacap), Central Java, Indonesia
Quayside on the Donan River at Tjilatjap (Cilacap), Central Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). With steamships and railway track, serving the sugar industry. Date: circa 1908

Peaceful scene at Paignton Harbour, Devon. Date: circa 1960s

British hospital ship Asturias and the ship Dacia
Not warships, but of Great War fame: two notable vessels. The first is the British hospital ship Asturias, attacked by a German submarine off Le Havre

RMS Victorian
The Royal Mail Ship RMS Victorian, operated by the Allan Line, and one of the vessels used for the emigration of orphaned and pauper children to Canada. Date: Date unknown

HMS Royal Oak, WW2
HMS Royal Oak, British Revenge-class battleship completed in 1916, seen here at the beginning of the Second World War -- a commemorative plaque listing the battles fought in by this

Latvia. Riga. Port. 17th century. Engraving
History. Modern Age. Latvia. Riga. Puerto. 17th century. Engraving. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Latvia. Riga. Port. 18th Century. Colored engraving
History. Modern Age. Latvia. Riga. Port. 18th Century. Colored engraving

MAGELLAN
One of the five vessels of his fleet, the caravel Victoria Date: 1519 - 1521

Friedrich I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor from 1155. He drowned in a river near Antioch while on a Crusade, but as depicted here there is a legend that he is sleeping with his knights in a cave

Boat club regatta, Tigre, Buenos Aires province, Argentina
Boat club regatta at Tigre, a town on the River Parana delta, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Date: circa 1905

Fishing boats in Brixham Harbour, Devon. Date: 1956

Rideau Canal at Bytown (Ottawa), Ontario, Canada
Rideau Canal at Bytown (now Ottawa), Ontario, Canada. Date: circa 1840

Fishing boat in Brixham Harbour, Devon
Fishing boat (BM 61) with nets in Brixham Harbour, Devon. Date: circa 1980s

Vessels in Brixham Harbour, Devon, with houses in the background. circa 1980s

WW1 - Kaiser disappointed with his Zeppelin and U-Boat
WW1 - An illustration mocking the German Emperor Wilhelm II. Here he is depicted in his night robes, holding a down-scaled zeppelin in one arm, and a U-Boat in the other

Aquitania and Vaterland compared by G. H. Davis
The Aquitania (British) and Vaterland (German) compared. Showing their relative length, displacement, engines and horsepower. Date: 1914

Transformation of the Royal Navy by G. H. Davis
The transformation of the Royal Navy: some present-day vessels typical of those which are being developed to meet the conditions of modern warfare. Date: 1953

Whale hunting vessel and factory by G. H. Davis
Floating whale factories: ships which reduce their prey to oil and by-products on the spot. A whale-hunting factory and its catcher vessels at work in the Antarctic

Malaysia Melaka
The harbour, filled with Dutch trading vessels. Date: 1676

Six nations pocket battleships
How the six cheif naval powers have developed their cruisers under treaty limits. Date: 1930

Mexico - Patzcuaro Michoacan Mariposas - Butterfly Boats
Mexico - Mariposas, Patzcuaro, Michoacan - Butterfly Fishing Boats Date: circa 1930

Japan - Yokohama - The Grand Pier. The HMS Rawalpindi (left) was a British armed merchant cruiser (a converted passenger ship - as it was at the time of this photograph - as the P&O vessel the SS)

LCC-LFB Massey Shaw fireboat, Blackfriars, London
Tied up at her Blackfriars moorings, the Massey Shaw fireboat gives a demonstration of her fire power from her Merryweather pumps

LCC-LFB fireboat Gamma II on River Thames
Fireboat Gamma II and crew, mid-stream on the River Thames in central London

LFB fireboat Beta II at Cherry Garden Pier
LCC-LFB fireboat Beta II (the sister craft to fireboat Beta) moored off its fire station at Cherry Garden Pier, Rotherhithe, SE London

Auxiliary Steamship
At first, steam engines are fitted in ships only as a back-up to sail, hence vessels of this kind are known as auxiliary steamships. Date: 1882

Tower Bridge 1950S
Tourist vessels such as Skylark London and other ships, passing under Tower Bridge, a bascule bridge which has been raised to let them sail through on the Thames. Date: 1950s

Fighting Stralsund
The Danish fleet attacks vessels of its trading rivals, the Hanseatic League based at Stralsund, Germany

The Smallpox Hulks, Atlas and Endymion, at Deptford Cree
Engraving of the two old hulks, Atlas and Endymion, at Deptford Creek, London, from The Illustrated London News, 23rd July 1881

14th C Sailing Vessels
Ships with designs of lions & sunbursts on their sails are boarded from rowing boats

Yarrow and Hedley Torpedo Steam Launch, 1875
Engraving of a torpedo steam launch built by Messrs. Yarrow and Hedley of Poplar, London, for the Argentinian Navy, February 1875

Human body with blood vessels
The blood vessels of the human body, with the arteries shown in red and the veins in blue

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