Steam Ship Collection (#27)

Gudvangen, Norway - open cabs await the disembarking steamboat tourists

Dubrovnik, Croatia - Main port at Gruz (Gravosa)
Dubrovnik, Croatia - A large steamship moored at the main port at Gruz (Gravosa). Located in a naturally protected bay, the port is still the place for large cruise ships to dock

Zadar (Zara) - Croatia
A panoramic view looking over Zadar (Zara) - Croatia - showing the harbour, where an impressive white steamship has docked

Croatia - Rijeka (Fiume) - The Maritime Dept
Croatia - Rijeka (Fiume) - The Governors Palace (now the Maritime and History Museum) and Palace Adria, the headquarters of one of the leading shipping companies - Jadrolinije

Edward VII - Visit to Portugal. He took the Victoria & Albert III steam yacht (launched in 1901) - here the Royal party disembark at Lisbon on 7th April, 1903

Korcula, Croatia
A view of Korcula, Croatia - an island off the Dalmatian coast on the Adriatic Sea

Russian Steam sailing ship in a storm

Merligenstrasse running alongside Lake Thun. Picture from a postcard set of views of Interlaken in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland and local countryside scenes

Wapping Docks
A large steamship moored against the quay at Wapping Docks. Pen & ink drawing (with watercolour wash) by Raymond Sheppard

A White Ship
View across a dock toward a smart white navy steamship in port, moored alongside a tall ship. Oil painting by Raymond Sheppard

Ships in Dock
A large cargo steamship in Dock, alongside a row of low barges. Watercolour sketch by Raymond Sheppard Date: circa late 1940s

Moored ships
Ships Moored up by a woodyard. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Fire Boat and Station - The Battery - New York City

Toulon, France - President inspects submarine
Toulon, France - The Military Port - The President of France, Emile Loubet visits the submarine Gustave-Zede

Japanese Embassy at Washington
Arrival of the Japanese Ambassadors to the United States at Washington on board the steamship Philadelphia. A box containing the treaty and treasure is brought ashore

The port at Bone, Algeria
Bone, Algeria. The Port

The port at Oran, Algeria close to the Harbour Mole

Suez Canal Scene, Egypt
A fine view of the Suez canal, showing the old and the new; a large transport steamship and a traditional small sailing boat

Turkish Steamship Ertogrul
Turkish Imperial steamship (albeit still with high masts for sails) the Ertogrul (named after the father of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire) riding high in the Bosphorus

The Embarkation Quay - Sirkeci
The embarkation quay at Sirkeci. Today, a big ferry terminus with the Sirkeci railway station, the last stop for trains from Europe to Istanbul

English Naval steamship Imogene
The anchored English Steamship Imogene - flying the White Ensign (an ensign flown on British Royal Navy ships and shore establishments)

Haydar Pasa Station - Constantinople, Turkey
Haydar Pasa Station viewed from the waters of the southern mouth of the Bosphorus - Constantinople, Turkey

Men painting the side of a large boat
Three workmen sit on suspended planks and paint the hull of a large steamship. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

The Port Campbell Steamship, presumably near Port Campbell, Victoria, on the southern coast of Australia. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Poster advertising Fraissinet & Cyprien Fabre cruises
Poster advertising Fraissinet & Cyprien Fabre luxury cruises to the West African coast via Marseilles

Constantinople Ferryboat - Galata
The Ferryboat from Haydar Pasa at the Galata Dock/Station/Bridge at Constantinople, Turkey

Constantinople Ferryboat on the Bosphorus (No. 33)

Belgium - Port of Ostende
Port of Ostende, Belgium. The mailship ferry departs the harbour as young boys fish off the pier, while others just lean on the railings watching the ships disappear into the North Sea

Shipping in the Harbour at Constantinople
Shipping in the harbour at Constantinople, Turkey, showing H.M.S. Centurion and Benbow (in the distance)

Steam Ferry from the Bosphorus - Halas
The whole business of Constantinople has historically been linked to the Bosphorus that divides the European side of the city from the Asian side of the city

Bosphorus Steam Ferry
The whole business of Constantinople has historically been linked to the Bosphorus that divides the European side of the city from the Asian side of the city

KNSM shipping company
A Spanish language KNSM Royal Netherlands Steamship Company poster depicting the lifeboats of an ocean liner

Worms & Cie poster
Poster advertising the shipping company Worms and Compagnie, founded in 1848 for the importation of English coal to France

Compagnie Rouennaise de Navigation
Poster advertising the French shipping line Compagnie Rouennaise de Navigation, and their steamer the Felix Faure, named after the president of the French Republic

Atlantic Transport Line poster
Poster advertising the Atlantic Transport Line offering an exclusively tourist third class monthly service throughout the year

Port of Rouen
Poster advertising the port of Rouen from the Rouen Chamber of Commerce. The port is full of ships of every description from steamships to tugs

Canadian Pacific White Empresses
The Empress of Japan Canadian Pacific ocean liner, the fastest trans-pacific steamship of its time, sailing from Vancouver to Japan and China via Honolulu

Compagnie de Navigation Paquet
Poster advertising the Compagnie de Navigation Paquet French steamship line based in Marseille

Grand Harbour / Marina - Island of Capri
The Grand Harbour (Marina Grande) on the Island of Capri, Bay of Naples, Italy

R. M. S. Ormonde leaving Sydney
R.M.S. Ormonde leaving Sydney, Australia in a mass of streamers

Jointed Steamship
A remarkable concept steamship, jointed in three places, seeminglyto counteract the motion of the sea!

Morocco, Casablanca - The Port and Harbour
The port and harbour at Casablanca in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. The capital of the Greater Casablanca region

French Warship (Destroyer) Vautour at Zonguldak
The French Destroyer Vautour at Zonguldak (formerly Heraclea), a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. An important coal mining centre. Miners

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Ferry
The Karatas Ferry Guzel Izmir (" Good Izmir" ) approaching the ferry Station at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

The Terraces - Monte Carlo with departing Steam Packet

Dalian, China - The Harbour and Railway Depot, during Japanese occupation. The settlement was occupied by the British in 1858, returned to the Chinese in the 1880s

Steamer on Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, Canada
Large steamer Sagamo approaching Elgin House, Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, Canada

Albanian Seamen onboard a small steamer

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