Steam Ship Collection (#20)

Boat Drill Aboard the Aquitania. c1930. Creator: Unknown
Boat Drill Aboard the " Aquitania". c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

The Belgenland (Red Star Line), 27, 132 Tons, c1930. Creator: Unknown
The " Belgenland" (Red Star Line), 27, 132 Tons, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

The Cunard Aurania (14, 000 Tons) on the Stocks at Newcastle-On-Tyne, c1930
The Cunard " Aurania" (14, 000 Tons) on the Stocks at Newcastle-On-Tyne, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co

The White Star Liner Doric Under Construction, c1930. Creator: Unknown
The White Star Liner " Doric" Under Construction, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

The White Star Liner Doric (16, 484 Tons), . Creator: Unknown
The White Star Liner " Doric" (16, 484 Tons), . From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

The Olympic (46, 439 Tons) Shown in Section, c1930. Creator: Unknown
The Olympic (46, 439 Tons) Shown in Section, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

Cleaning the Hull of the Majestic in Dry Dock, c1930. Creator: Unknown
Cleaning the Hull of the " Majestic" in Dry Dock, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

Boat Deck of the Leviathan. c1930. Creator: Unknown
Boat Deck of the " Leviathan". c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

The Mauretania (Cunard Line), 30, 696 Tons, c1930. Creator: Unknown
The " Mauretania" (Cunard Line), 30, 696 Tons, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

The Aquitana (Cunard Line), 45, 647 Tons, c1930. Creator: Unknown
The " Aquitana" (Cunard Line), 45, 647 Tons, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

The Royal Mail Motor Liner Asturias (22, 500 Tons Gross), c1930. Creator
The Royal Mail Motor Liner " Asturias" (22, 500 Tons Gross), c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

The Mauretania at Cherbourg, c1930. Creator: Unknown
The " Mauretania" at Cherbourg, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

The Cunard Liner Lusitania. c1910. Creator: Unknown
The Cunard Liner " Lusitania". c1910. Ocean liner RMS Lusitania, launched in 1906, was built for the Cunard Steamship Line by John Brown & Co on the Clyde

Southern Belle Between Toronto, Niagara and Buffalo... mid-late 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Southern Belle Between Toronto, Niagara and Buffalo, in connection with Canada Southern Railroad, mid-late 19th century. Paddle steamer on on Lake Erie

Advertisement for Ellermans steamers, 1936. Creator: Unknown
Advertisement for Ellermans steamers, 1936. Travel with Comfort and Economy by the Ellermans " City" & " Hall" Lines One Class Steamers

The Braemar Castle off to the Cape, with Troops, c1900. Creator: Unknown
The " Braemar Castle" off to the Cape, with Troops, c1900. Union Castle Line ship Braemar castle was built in 1898

Steamboat at the quay by the Grand Hotel, Stockholm, c1928. Creator: Unknown
Steamboat at the quay by the Grand Hotel, Stockholm, c1928. Steamers for island-hopping in Stockholm, Sweden. From " Die Welt in Bildern", (The World in Pictures), cigarette card album

Landing from a steamer in Arctic country, Svolvaer, Lofoten Islands, N. Norway, c1905
Landing from a steamer in Arctic country (68 1/3° N. Lat.), Svolvaer, Lofoten Islands, N. Norway, c1905. From " The Underwood Travel Library - Norway". [Underwood & Underwood, London ]

Leaving old home and friends - waving emigrants for America, Christiania, Norway, c1905
Leaving old home and friends - waving goodbye to emigrants starting for America, Christiania, Norway, c1905. From " The Underwood Travel Library - Norway". [Underwood & Underwood, London ]

The Allan Liner Virginian, the First Vessel to Receive the Wireless Message... April 20, 1912
The Allan Liner Virginian, the First Vessel to Receive the Titanics Wireless Message of Distress. Unfortunately she Arrived too Late to be of Service, April 20, 1912

Breaking the News of the Titanics Loss, and RMS Virginian, April 20, 1912. Breaking the News of the Titanics Loss With Over Twelve Hundred Lives to London, and The Allan Liner Virginian

Unknown destroyer under way. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Unknown destroyer under way

Line of Torpedo Boats under way, 1911. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Line of Torpedo Boats under way, 1911

HMY Victoria and Albert and the Russian Imperial Yacht Standart at Cowes, 1909. Standart was built by order of Emperor Alexander III of Russia

The destroyer HMS Windsor at anchor, 1929. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
The destroyer HMS Windsor at anchor, 1929. HMS Windsor (D42) was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I and in World War II

Promenade deck on SS Insulinde, 1914. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Promenade deck on SS Insulinde, 1914. The Dutch steam ship SS Insulinde was built in 1914 for the Rotterdam Lloyd company and served as a passenger freight ship between Rotterdam and Jakarta

The steam yacht Valiant, 1912. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
The steam yacht Valiant, 1912

The steam yacht Valiant, 1913. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
The steam yacht Valiant, 1913

The paddle steamer SS Monarch under way. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
The paddle steamer SS Monarch under way

Top deck on steam yacht Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Top deck on steam yacht Venetia, 1920

Lower deck on Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Lower deck on Venetia, 1920

The steam yacht Laranda, under way. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
The steam yacht Laranda, under way. Laranda was built by Scott & Co at Greenock in 1895, orginally named Greta. At the time of this photograph she was owned by Sir Percival Perry

Interior of boudoir on Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Interior of boudoir on Venetia, 1920

Sabin being shipped, 1912. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Sabin being shipped, 1912

HMS Safeguard. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
HMS Safeguard

Long wood panelled corridor on steam yacht Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Long wood panelled corridor on steam yacht Venetia, 1920

Interior of main saloon on steam yacht Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Interior of main saloon on steam yacht Venetia, 1920

End of corridor and bar on steam yacht Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
End of corridor and bar on steam yacht Venetia, 1920

A boudoir on steam ship Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
A boudoir on steam ship Venetia, 1920

Interior of cabin on steam yacht Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Interior of cabin on steam yacht Venetia, 1920

Cabin on the steam yacht Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Cabin on the steam yacht Venetia, 1920

Interior of midships cabin on steam yacht Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Interior of midships cabin on steam yacht Venetia, 1920

The First Battle Between Iron Ships of War, published c. 1862
The First Battle Between Iron Ships of War, published c.1862 (colour lithograph)

The Danish squadron at anchor at Warnemünde rhed, 1842. Creator: Friedrich Theodore Kloss
The Danish squadron at anchor at Warnemunde rhed, 1842. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess arrive on the steamship "Kiel" to the squadron

Hans Bohrdt Muhlmeister & Johler Red Star Line
Hans Bohrdt, Muhlmeister & Johler, Red Star Line: Antwerp - New York - Philadelphia, Paper, Chromolithography, Total: Height: 106.6 cm; Width: 73 cm, Product and business advertising (posters)

The Damage on the Lusitania by the first torpedo
A diagram showing the actually broken and the area weaked by the explosion. Date: 7 May 1915

Chicago grain elevators loading ships, 1870s
Grain loaded in Chicago on ships bound for the Erie Canal, 1870s. Hand colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Entrance to the Erie Canal at Buffalo, New York, 1880s
Lake Erie freighters and Erie Canal barges along the waterfront of Buffalo, New York, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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