Classic Sailing Ships

Artistic depictions of various sailing ships at sea, featuring detailed watercolors and historical maritime scenes.

Shipping Off Scarborough. Charles Bentley (1805/06-1854). Watercolour. Signed and dated 1848. 48.8 x 74.9cm.

Boats of Vasco da Gama s fleet, 1497, Angra de Sao Bras, South Africa, digitally edited Boats of Vasco da Gama s fleet, 1497, Angra de Sao Bras, South Africa, digitally edited Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660590

Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam, The Netherlands becalmed Inscribed, lower right: "Dort" Signed and dated, lower right: "JMW Turner RA 1818", Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British

The Kurbrandenburg fleet: the fleet at the sea

Sailing Ships, Richard Dadd, 1817-1886, British, 1861, Oil on panel, Support (PTG): 7 3/4 x 21 inches (19.7 x 53.3 cm), marine art, ocean, sails, schooners, sea, ships, sloops (sailing vessels), waves (natural events)

detail from a painting depicting visiting foreign warships in Barcelona, Spain 1888

The America at Newport, August 16th 1880'Oil on canvas, 18' x 30', 1995. Private collection.The famous schooner 'America', owned by Colonel Benjamin Franklin Butler, is sailing across Newport Harbor

View of a southern harbor with ships and boats on the wild water; Vue d'un port de la Méditerrannée. .

Storm on the Meuse River. Fishing vessels on the water of the Maas River at Storm.

Vasco da Gama leaving the port of Lisbon, Portugal, 1497 Vasco da Gama leaving the port of Lisbon, Portugal, 1497 Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660685

Ships of William the Conqueror, colored engraving, France

The frigate Oryol, Zhayvoronsky, Pyotr Petrovich (*1974)

Passenger ship, miniature from Turkish Memories, Arabic manuscript, Cicogna Codex, Turkey 17th Century.

An Elizabethan ship of 1588. Gallion. Modern period. England. Europe. Engraving, 19th century. Color.

Battleships by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Oil on canvas, 1877, 1817-1900, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Central Navy Museum, 65x84

Sur. Sailing Vessels & A Cross Channel Packet Steamer Pass Off Folkestone Koekkoek, Hermanus(1815-1882 Dutch) Oil On Canvas Christie's Images, London, England

The Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hulk to the Great Eastern 1865 Robert Charles Dudley British One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer. An initially successful attempt in 1858, led by Cyrus W. Field and financed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, failed after three weeks. Two working cables were finally laid in July and September 1866, the result of repeated efforts by the indefatigable Field, a cadre of engineers, technicians, and sailors, two groups of financial backers, and significant help from the British and United States navies. This watercolor by Dudley shows the cable being loaded onto the ocean-going steamer, the Great Eastern, off the Thames Estuary on the Kent coast. In 1865 the huge ship ship set

Calm: Fishing Boats under Sail - Willem Van De Velde, 1655

Painting Of The Ship The Mayflower 1620 In Plymouth Harbor By William Halsall Pilgrims Transport

Ships in La Rochelle harbour in 1849, by Edouard Pinel, France 19th Century.

Port of Singapore, ca.1850. At the background, the hill of Fort Canning. Naval Museum. Madrid. Spain.

The Savannah River, Savannah, Georgia, United States, 1890, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Fishing Boat With the Wind in the Sails. Sea face with a fishing boat sailing in front of the wind, a few sails on the horizon.

Dordrecht from Papendrecht, by Christiaan Lodewijk Willem Dreibholtz, 1830-37, Dutch oil painting. Fishing boats are moored in the foreground. (BSLOC_2016_1_209)

Port of Marseille Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789/French)

Port of Singapore, ca.1850. At the background, the hill of Fort Canning. Naval Museum. Madrid. Spain.

A sailing ship on the high seas, illustration from the weekly Rivista Illustrata (Illustrated Magazine), No 255, 18 November 1883. Digitally colorized image.

Painting of Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage by JWM Turner

Homeward Bound George Stainton (Fl. 1860-1890) Christie's, London

Illustration of the Golden Hind, an English galleon best known for her circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. Dated 17th Century

Waterloo Bridge from the Garden of M. A. Taylor, Esq., William Parrott, 1813-ca. 1869, British, undated, Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 4 5/16 × 8 3/8 inches (11 × 21.3 cm), barges, boats, bridge (built work), bridges, arch, buoy, cathedral, cityscape, marine art, Masts and rigging, oars, river, shipping, skyline, City of Westminster, England, Europe, Greater London, London, United Kingdom, Waterloo Bridge

Imperial Russian Navy by Alexei Petrovich Bogolyubov, Oil on canvas, 1845, 1824-1896) State Central Navy Museum, St. Petersburg 67x95

This illustration of a 17th-century English warship under full sail is an adaptation of a similar scene painted by English artist Charles Dixon (1872-1934).

Painting depicting the Oosterdok and the Naval Shipyard in Amsterdam by Jan Evert Morel (1835-1905) a Dutch artist.

Flight of Lord Dunmore - passengers in rowboat with British flag at the stern as they near the British man-of-war ship "Fowey".

Beached Fishing Vessel, Thomas Miles Richardson Sr., 1784-1848, British, undated, Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 9 1/2 × 6 inches (24.1 × 15.2 cm), architectural subject, boat, fishing, hull, marine art, Masts and rigging, rigging, sails, vessel

The frigate; Amsterdam' in front of Den Helder; 1649/50 Simon de Vlieger; Dutch (1601-1653)

Popular Eighteenth century print of various sailing vessels.

Sailboat and Windmill, Everdingen, Allaert van

Boston Harbor, Sunset ca.1855 Fitz Hugh Lane (1804-1865 American) Oil on canvas

Parma ship bridge over the Scheldt, 1585, Romeyn de Hooghe, after Don Juan de Ledesma, 1670 - 1699 print The ship bridge laid out by the Duke of Parma over the Scheldt, 1585. Left front Farnese approves the design for the ship bridge. In the distance the city of Antwerp. Carriages and soldiers cross the completed bridge. In the middle of an empty cartouche. Netherlands paper etching pontoon bridge Antwerp. Scales

Packet Boat Entering Harbour, 1855. By Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding

Midday break at a Shipyard on the Maas. Dating: 1865 - 1867. Measurements: h 78 cm × w 119 cm; d 13 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Johan Conrad Greive.

The Splendid Naval Triumph on the Mississippi River, lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1862

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802-1828, British, Barges on a River, 1826. Oil on millboard.

Viking longships, known as Drakkars, under sail. The average length of a drakkar, which means dragon ship, was 28m.

Eugène Boudin, Yacht Basin at Trouville Deauville, probably 1895 1896 Yacht Basin at Trouville-Deauville

Venetian print of the seventeenth century. engraving. parade gondola.

Ships off IJsselmonde. Dating: 1617. Measurements: support: h 42.2 cm × w 80 cm; d 8.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Aert Anthonisz.

Ships in a Harbor.

Shipping Vessels in Helsingor Harbour. Thorolf Frederik Paludan Muller Pedersen (1858-1942). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1889. 110.5 x 138.4cm.

Rail transport in California, Rail passenger cars of the United States, 1906, California, Panoramics in California, San Pedro, Hafen mit Schiffen und Eisenbahnwagen

Eugène Boudin, Boats Returning to Port, Trouville, 1894, oil on canvas, marouflaged to aluminum.

River bank. River landscape. All kinds of people are loaded in and out of boats on the shore of a water.

A Ship Sailing on an inland Waterway.A seagoing vessel sails an inner water, left a botter, in the foreground a man in a rowing boat. There is a large farm on the other side of the water.

Ships at low water in a French port.

The port of Christiansted in Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands, 19th Century. Lithograph.

On the Merrimack , Rivers, Boats, Hay. Louis Prang & Company Collection

Boats at a quay, draughtsman: Everhardus Koster, 1846, paper, pen, brush, h 138 mm × w 205 mm

The Ship that Sank in Victory Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930 American)

Ships off IJsselmonde; The 'Eendraght' off IJsselmonde, 1618.The ship 'De Eendraght' for IJsselmonde in the year 1618 during the Treug Journey after discovery through Schouten and Le Maire of Cape Hoorn and the street of Le Maire. On the left the village of IJsselmonde with a church and castle, around the ship sailing the states hunt and other barges.

Efford ... Eh, '26 xb, 1817.

Hauling the Mainsail, Arthur Briscoe (Birkenhead, England, 1873 - 1943) 1933

Denmark, Copenhagen, Return of the Bucintoro, close-up

London & the Thames Giovanni Antonio C. Canaletto (1697-1768 Italian)

A fair wind to victory. The America salutes the Victoria and Albert I as she leaves the Needles astern on her way to winning the Hundred Guinea Cup, (now the America's Cup). August 22nd, 1851.' Oil on canvas, 26' x 40', 1998

Icebound Whaling Ship; about 1875 Oil on canvas William Bradford American; 1823-1892

Eugène Boudin, Ship on the Touques, c 1888 1895 Ship on the Touques

Beached Vessels and a Wagon near Trouville, Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802-1828, British, ca. 1825, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 14 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches (37.1 x 52.4 cm), beach, blue, broken, clouds, clouds, coastline, horses (animals), light, luggers, ocean, ruins, sails, sand, sea, seascape, ships, shore (landform), sky, vessels (watercraft), wagon, Basse-Normandie, Calvados, France, Trouville

Launching the lifeboat , Ships, Lifeboats, Seas, Horses, Carts & wagons. Louis Prang & Company Collection

Italy. Castellmmare. Launch of the battleship L'Italia (September 29, 1880). Colored engraving of "The Spanish and American Illustration", 1880.

Henry Hudson (1570 - 1611), English sea explorer and navigator, sailing the 'Half Moon' discovers the Hudson River in September 1609. Sent in 1909, this card celebrated the 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage. Hudson's explorations of the Hudson River laid the foundation for Dutch colonization of the region. Date: 1609

Shipping, Venice, circa 1913, by Sir David Murray. Bequest of the artist, 1939.

Pińsk (city in Polesie, Belarus), Biedermeier (style), clouds, characters, rivers, genre scenes at transport, panoramic views, peasant cars, boats

Fishing Boats on Shore, The Shore, Unloading a Fishing Smack, Willem van de Velde, II, 1650 - 1707

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802-1828, British, Beached Vessels and a Wagon near Trouville, ca. 1825. Oil on canvas.

Wagons transport cargo to and from the ships and piers on Manhattan's South Street in 1901. In the background is the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River (BSLOC_2018_2_162)

The Port of Caen; Le Port de Caen. Stanislas Lepine (1835-1892). Oil on canvas. 35 x 46.3cm.

Port of Shimonoseki in the Nagato province, from the series: Ports of Japan /Nihon Minato zukushi

View of a river with boat moorings. River view with mooring place. A large group of people have collected at a landing place. On the right on the water all kinds of boats, in a city viewed on the river.

Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames, Canaletto, 1697-1768, Venetian, active in Britain (1746-55), 1747, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 37 3/4 x 50 1/4 inches (95.9 x 127.6 cm), barges (ceremonial watercraft), barges (flat-bottomed watercraft), boats, bridge (built work), cathedral, celebration, church, cityscape, commemoration, event, festival, flags, holiday, Lord Mayors Day procession, monument, people, procession, river, rowboats, sailboats, ships, sloops (sailing vessels), City of Westminster, England, Europe, Greater London, London, Thames, United Kingdom, Westminster, Westminster bridge

Barge on the River at Sunset, Amsterdam, Fine Art

RMS Carinthia was first laid down in Barrow-in-Furness in 1924 with the yard number Hull 586. Originally she had the name Servia but was renamed at the time of her launching on 24 February 1925. She made her maiden voyage on 22 August, 1925 from Liverpool to New York. At her launch she was the largest of the five post First World War intermediate size liners. On the Bosphorus at Constantinople, Turkey. Date: 1925

The British Railways Carry On. Charles Cundall (1890-1971). Oil on canvas. Dated 1941. 81.3 x 122cm

Railway line at Northfield, 1871. Thomas Thomas. Though to be Northfield, Birmingham. Northfield Station opened in 1870.. .

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