Shipping Collection (page 3)

Welland Ship Canal, lower lock between Lakes Ontario and Erie, Ontario, Canada, North America

Tugboat and container ship, San Pedro Port, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, North America

Whitehaven Harbour, c. 1840-50 (engraving)
XJF448259 Whitehaven Harbour, c.1840-50 (engraving) by Bartlett, William Henry (1809-54) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Whitehaven is a port town in west Cumbria; ); English

Advertising postcard for the Carron Line Ferries which ran a service from London to Glasgow. A ferry boat ( The Avon ) is depicted here travelling under the Forth Rail Bridge

Stackpole Quay, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Scene at Stackpole Quay, near Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, with The Pride of Wales unloading coal and ready to load limestone

Painting of the Olympic
Painting of the White Star Line ship, Olympic, sister vessel to the ill-fated Titanic

Shipwreck Cove, Zakinthos, Ionian Islands, Greece, Europe

Ferry terminal at Dover harbour, Kent, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Vietnam / Saigon Boats 20C
Boats and shipping in the harbour of Vietnams principal port

Egypt / Alexandria
bird s-eye view of the harbour

The Dart paddle steamer Compton Castle. 1980s

Card commemorating Zeebrugge and Ostend raid, WW1
Card commemorating British raids on German shipping at Zeebrugge and Ostend, 23 April 1918. Date: 1918

Model of the Victory, Nelsons Ship at Trafalgar

Ships and locks on the Panama Canal, Panama, Central America

Queen Mary 2 on maiden voyage arriving in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Volkswagens
Flower power on imported Volkswagen to Sweden. Landskrona harbour 1961. Date: 1961

Cunard Line poster
Poster advertising the Royal Mail four screw steamers of the Cunard Line shipping line, Lusitania and Mauretania, the finest, fastest and largest steamers in the world

Freight poster
Poster advertising a French freight company for the transportation of containers by rail. A vast railway network ensures swift delivery

Union Castle Line poster
Poster advertising the service of the Union Castle Line to South and East Africa, encouraging travellers to avoid cold winters in Britain and to instead enjoy the winter months in a warmer climate

Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal, Panama, Central America

Cruise ship Terminal, Wathey Pier, Philipsburg, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, Leeward Islands, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

West India Docks 1810
The West India Docks in the great age of English trade - vessels lining the quays as far as the eye can see. Imports from the West Indies were especially important

Port of Kos Town, Kos, Dodecanese Islands, Greece

John McDermott, coxswain of the Hoylake lifeboat with crew members Richard Martindale, Alan Tolley. Steve Armitage and Jeff Kernighan. 4th October 1990

The Barry lifeboat RNLB Rachel and Mary Evans at Barry docks. Circa 1961

SS Orduna was an ocean liner built in 1913-14 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. After two voyages she was chartered to Cunard Line. Circa 1914

RMS Lucania steamship
Photograph of RMS Lucania, British ocean line steamship owned by the Cunard Steamship Line, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan, Scotland

T. S. Duchess of Hamilton, Caledonia Steam Packet Company
T.S. Duchess of Hamilton, Caledonia Steam Packet Company. Clyde Steamers

Whitby Harbour, Yorkshire
19th century vintage photograph: Whitby Harbour, Yorkshire, fishing boats in the harbour

Tenbys new 47 foot long Tyne Class lifeboat, the RFA Sir Galahad, arrives at the Tenby RNLI station yesterday. 14th July 1986

Framed by old timbers at Sammys Point, Hull, the New Holland ferry Wingfield Castle berths alongside the pontoon at Corporation Pier. 9th May 1961

The Kingstonian, pictured here at the Quay Head (now Cascade Steps) offered trips up river to Beeses Tea Gardens and Hanham and Keynsham locks throughout the 1950s and 60s

Sunshine on the bridge to Rock Ferry Pier. 6th October 1937

The crew of the New Brighton lifeboat seen here aboard their new vessel The Edmund and Mary Robinson. The boat a Watson 41 lifeboat was built by Groves & Gutteridge of Cowes, Isle of Wight

The 45, 000 ton liner Aquitania leaves Southampton dock on her final voyage, bound for her birthplace The Clyde to be broken up after 36 years service. 20th February 1950. RMS Aquitania

The Grand Union Canal near Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire. Circa 1948

Ships: Canberra September 1982 - First cruise after Falklands services

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England, Kent, Margate Kings Gate chalk headland, arch and beach

The Hayle lifeboat New Oriental Bank (later renamed E. F. Harrison) with the wreck of the SS Escurial in
SS Escurial, an iron built schooner-rigged screw steamer built by Alex Stephens of Lighthouse, Govan, for Raeburn and Verel of Glasgow in 1879, was outward bound from Cardiff, laden with 1

Ships in a Harbour, Eugene Boudin (1824-1898)
Oil on panel, French School, 19th century. Eugene Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors

Henry Scott Tukes French brigantine Julie of Nantes at the Mill Dam, Falmouth, Cornwall. Around 1886
The artist, Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929), purchased Julie of Nantes in 1886 for use as a floating studio. It is thought that he can be seen standing at the bow of the ship

Ketch Elizabeth loading cargo at Mother Iveys Bay, St Merryn, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Ketch Elizabeth loading cargo (possibly sand) at Mother Iveys Bay. The ketch is possibly the Elizabeth Couch of Barnstaple built at Bideford in 1838 or it may the Elizabeth of Burton upon Stather

The French three-masted barque La Rochefoucauld off Falmouth, Cornwall. 1910
The three-masted steel barque La Rochefoucauld was 89 days out of Caleta Coloso, bound for Ostend with nitrates. She arrived in Falmouth around 22nd August 1910 and was cleared on 29th October 1910

Maria Asumpta, Charlestown, Cornwall. August 1991
The tall ship Maria Asumpta enters Charlestown harbour. The oldest sailing ship in the world still sailing at that time, was invited to the port by the Charlestown Heritage and Trading Company

Fisting the Mainsail by Arthur Briscoe
Sailing clinging on to a ships mast to fix the mainsail. Date: 1931

A Cross-Section of H. M. S. King George V by G. H. Davis
A cross-section of a 35, 000-ton battleship, the H.M.S. King George V, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, and one of the more modern battleships of its time

Gravesend, Kent
A variety of shipping on the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent. Date: 1825

Rescue with the breeches buoy
Antique illustration of a Rescue with the breeches buoy

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