Historic Maritime Activities

Vintage images depicting maritime activities, including loading and unloading goods at bustling ports.

New York, New York: August 31, 1919 The New York City police boat "Mayor Hylan" carries hundreds of persons across the river to Brooklyn and Coney Island during the Brooklyn Rapid Transit streetcar strike.

Workers Unloading Bananas From Steamer, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Detroit Publishing Company, 1905

Streamers For Dutch Ship -- Streamers, strictly forbidden on most foreign and all British warships, struck a new naval note when the Dutch sloop, Flores sailed yesterday afternoon after its goodwill visit to Sydney for the Celebrations. The streamers, held between well-wishers on the wharf and the straw-hatted sailors, added color to the warship. February 13, 1938.

New York, New York: August 31, 1919 The New York City police boat "Mayor Hylan" carries hundreds of persons across the river to Brooklyn and Coney Island during the Brooklyn Rapid Transit streetcar strike.

Anefo photo collection. Arrival Sint Nicolaas, Parkkade Rotterdam. November 28, 1959. Rotterdam, South Holland

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949. The transport ship Bulgaria with emigrants (Oliem) on the quay in the port of Haifa, seen from the quay. January 1, 1948. Haifa, Israel

Anefo photo collection. Queen and Prince on Taster of Cheap. February 1, 1962

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Government information service own, photo number 156-0598. 1956

Anefo photo collection. Photos "New Holland". March 23, 1948. Holland

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana visits the Rotterdam municipal police. April 10, 1962. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. HR. Ms. From Speijk departure Den Helder to Antilles. June 26, 1956. Den Helder

Departure after a visit from HKH Princess Beatrix (1938, at the front of Valepreke) and ZKH Prins Bernhard (1911-2004, at the back of CMM headquarters (Commandement Maritime resources) Vlissingen Hr.Ms. Jacob van Heemskerck (A 879) On the occasion of the launch of the Limburg submarine booth (D 814) at the Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde in September 1955.

Anefo photo collection. Kortenaer leaves Den Helder. April 3, 1948

Anefo photo collection. Departure Hr. Ms. "Batjan" to India. May 28, 1948. Den Helder, Indonesia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Sinterklaas in Rotterdam arrived at the Parkkade. November 14, 1962. Rotterdam, South Holland

Cruises of the Hamburg America line, around 1911/1913. Passengers of the 3rd class (emigrants) at the crossing on a high-sea passenger steamer

Knightly order of merit for labour visiting the harbour in a tugboat, June 6, 1938, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.

Anefo photo collection. Departure Korea volunteers from Rotterdam. August 28, 1952. Rotterdam, South Holland

Elsevier photo collection. Boat trip Congress Society Industry Trade Amsterdam. July 1920. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Port Marseilles. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Arrival "Aquarius" Rotterdam. September 9, 1949. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Fire aboard the Badagiy Palm in the Waalhaven in Rotterdam. Firefighters decrease in spacious with oxygen masks. March 28, 1961. Rotterdam, South Holland

Passengers on board a boat, Bournemouth, Dorset, 1921. Artist: Unknown

Anefo photo collection. Transfer "Prins Hendrik" new lifeboat Den Helder. March 8, 1952. Den Helder, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Dutch self-employed arrive in Melbourne with the "Oranjefontein". The "Oranjefontein" with Dutch internees from Japanese prison camps in Batavia (Dutch East Indies) arrives in Melbourne on 27 October 1945. 27 October 1945. Australia, Melbourne

Anefo photo collection. Prince Bernhard opened the new 150,000 tons of dry dock at Wilton-Fijenoord in Schiedam, at the opening of the dock. June 21, 1966. Schiedam, South Holland

The ferryboat DONGAN HILLS, filled with commuters, is about to dock at a New York City pier. New York City, ca. 1945

Anefo photo collection. Sint Nicolaas and Zwarte Piet visit the emigrant ship Groote Beer. December 4, 1954

Vintage Photograph. Ship loading in New Orleans Louisiana.

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana in the return of the ship Groote Beer, on board with superints. January 9, 1950

Anefo photo collection. HISWA / Caravelle 1964 Hunting f. 600,000 A report from the transport of this pleasure yacht from the Amstel to the RAI building. March 10, 1964

Anefo photo collection. Fleet days in Den Helder. Visitors on the ships. August 18, 1961. Den Helder

Anefo photo collection. Trial run and transfer "Spolesto". March 6, 1958

Anefo photo collection. Mammo tanker Fina Canada is baptized at NDSM Amsterdam overview. August 19, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

M/S "Trelleborg" passes and freight wagons are switched on board the ferry in Trelleborg.

Anefo photo collection. Departure Korea volunteers from Rotterdam with the "Zuiderkruis" of the Rotterdamse Lloyd. October 26, 1950. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Den Helder Arrival Four mining sweeps from Indonesia M801 Abraham Crynssen, M802 Abraham van der Hulst, M803 Jan van Gelder, M804 Pieter Florisz. October 27, 1951. Den Helder

Anefo photo collection. DewaterLating Hopperzinger "Akdenger" Smit and Zn. (Kinderdijk). December 29, 1953. Kinderdijk

Anefo photo collection. Latitude "Crania" at C. van der Giessen & Zooen's shipyards N.V., Krimpen aan den IJssel. January 11, 1955. Krimpen aan den IJssel

Anefo photo collection. Ir. Bur. The kite at Gebr. Of the yard deest. July 27, 1954

Anefo photo collection. Den Helder Arrival Four mining sweeps from Indonesia M801 Abraham Crynssen, M802 Abraham van der Hulst, M803 Jan van Gelder, M804 Pieter Florisz. October 27, 1951. Den Helder

Anefo photo collection. Launching "Merida Yvbr." Werf Gusto in Schiedam. July 4, 1954. Schiedam, South Holland

Haldane party boarding Morgan yacht

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Departure m.s. "Zuiderkruis" Hollandia 250 repatrants Netherlands. September 21, 1961. Hollandia, Guinea

Anefo photo collection. Closure Veerse Hole. April 28, 1961

New Port Of Entry For Mr. Whale, In Most Modern Of Whaling Vessels.The Huge Runway in the stern of the Whaling Vessel "Sir James Clark Ross" through which whales of all sizes and description were jhauled aboard the ship, after being shot or harpooned by one of the ship. After being shot or harpooned by one of the 250 Viking members of the ship's crew. The ross dropped anchor in Quarantine this morning after one of its most successful voyage to arctic waters. April 18, 1931. (Photo by International Newsreel Photos).

Anefo photo collection. Towing off coast of French boat "Carthago" Scheveningen. April 12, 1953. Scheveningen, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Mijnenveger Venlo in Rotterdam at Wilton-Fijenoord. April 27, 1956. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Transfer commissioning coastal mine sweeper "Drachten" by Werf NV Niestern, Shipbuilding Union in Hellevoetsluis. January 27, 1956. Hellevoetsluis

The Hurricane of 1900 made landfall on September 8, 1900, in the city of Galveston, Texas, in the United States. It had estimated winds of 145 miles per hour (233 km/h) at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. It was the deadliest hurricane in US history. The hurricane caused great loss of life with the estimated death toll between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals; the number most cited in official reports is 8,000, giving the storm the third-highest number of deaths or injuries of any Atlantic hurricane, after the Great Hurricane of 1780 and 1998's Hurricane Mitch. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States. The hurricane occurred before the practice of assigning official code names to tropical storms was instituted, and thus it is commonly referred to under a variety of descriptive names. Typical names for the storm include the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the Great Galveston Hurricane, and, e

Anefo photo collection. Commissioning HR. Ms. "Bulgia" Den Helder. September 20, 1954. Den Helder

Anefo photo collection. Largest Esso Hampshire built in the Netherlands baptized by Mrs. L.w. Elliot (wife of the vice president of the stand. Oil Company). March 14, 1962. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Fleet days IJ Amsterdam; Printed fleet days. 28, 1988. Amsterdam, IJ

Anefo photo collection. Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard have transferred the motor yacht Piet Hein in Rotterdam to the Piet Hein Foundation. December 17, 1980. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Tugboat Baltic Sea brings the cruiser Hmas Shropshire to Dalmuir Sydney (Australia) to Dalmuir in Scotland over a distance of 20,000 km. Tugboat crew. October 12, 1954. Australia

Anefo photo collection. Under Sea service 50 years. May 29, 1957

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana visits the Rotterdam municipal police. April 10, 1962. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Fishermen in IJmuiden urge their boats. May 20, 1960. IJmuiden

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Telegraaf, car is removed from water. December 16, 1964

Royal River Pageant -- The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh watch from the saluting base on the festival hall pier as a tableau depicting the barge in which Queen Elizabeth greeted the great discoverers passes during the procession today July 22nd. In Prow of thee barge is a globe symsolising the first circumnavigation of the World by Sir Francis Drake. Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, reviewed today July 22nd, the most spectacular pageant ever staged on the River Thames.From a dias on Festival Hall pier, South Bank, the Queen saw nearly a thousand years of English history pass in living pageantry, as a procession three and a half miles long steamed proudly past. July 22, 1953. (Photo by The Associated Press Ltd.)

Anefo photo collection. Ir. Bur. The kite at Gebr. Of the yard deest. July 27, 1954

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Banjoemas, Chinese control committee. Port tjilatjap. Waranedia. Tjilatjap: a new 30,000 volt transformer hangs in the hoists. On the Empire Farrar also two locomotives, which have been put forward for the state railways. October 10, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Zaanlandse Scheepsbouw Maatschappij, Proefaart Lis Frelsen (Report). May 18, 1962

Anefo photo collection. ABC-Mars in Amsterdam on the road on Easter Monday (at Dokwerker). April 11, 1966. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Passengers on a Cunard Line cruise to the West Indies, January-March 1931. Artist: Unknown

Indian men posing aboard the ship from Outhoorn; At the K.P.m.-steamer "Van Outhoorn". Part of photo album offered to the resident of the Lampong districts f.J. Junius through studying officials from the board school in Batavia.

Yankee Leaves On World Cruise -- With the pier jammed with people seeing her off, the brigantine Yankee slips out into the stream in Gloucester, Mass., Nov. 2 as she leaves on an 18-month world cruise carrying 18 paying crew members in a ship's company of 24. March 11, 1947. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Anefo photo collection. Ir. Bur. The kite at Gebr. Of the yard deest. July 27, 1954

Anefo photo collection. Arrival "Van Kinsbergen" in Rotterdam. August 9, 1948. Rotterdam, South Holland

Edinburgh, Scotland. Hapag tourists on a tender boat while driving on the Firth of Forth

Anefo photo collection. First new herring supply IJmuiden Scheveningen 9. 25 May 1951. IJmuiden

Crowd of men and women immigrants on deck of S.S. Patricia, Edwin Levick, December 1906

Bog visa inauguration of the "Bird Road Line" between Rodbyhavn, Lolland, Denmark and Puttgarden, Fehmarn, Germany. The new ferry line is called "The Bird Road Line", on the Danish Fugleflugtslinien and on German Vogelfluglinie, as the line follows the migratory birds' flight route. M/S Theodor Heuss Puttgarden

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Anefo photo collection. Ir. Bur. The kite at Gebr. Of the yard deest. July 27, 1954

Vintage Photograph. Ship being unloaded and giraffes packed for shipment.

Anefo photo collection. Departure from Rotterdam from the "Fair Sea" with 287 ambone resources that repatriate again to Indonesia. Boarding of ambone lenses in Rotterdam. Lagged wave goodbye in the IJsselhaven. November 29, 1961. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. The launch of Punque N.V. Verschure Amsterdam. March 15, 1952. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Passenger steamer Cleveland. Spectators during the collection games on deck

Anefo photo collection. Departure Korea volunteers from Rotterdam with the "Zuiderkruis" of the Rotterdamse Lloyd. October 26, 1950. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Karel Doorman back from the West. April 18, 1962

Ship departing from Genoa for a cruise to Naples, September 18, 1938, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.

Queen Victoria's arrival at Trelleborg.

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Arrival HR. Ms. Frigate Piet Hein. HR. Ms. Jager Amsterdam. 10 June 1961

Travel Photos Italy. Harbor scene

Six men aboard sail ship. Sex män ombord på segelskuta.

Passenger Waarden Cleveland. Boekspiele (afterDeinfädeln) An Deck

Anefo photo collection. NDSM launch tanker, "Western Gulf" Amsterdam. September 3, 1955. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Sailboat at quay plus many men / boys ...

Anefo photo collection. Mn Merchant Navy / Anefo London series. Caption: "The Dutch Flag Up" Tugboat. Dutch flag hoisted. June 1943. Britain

M/s Trelleborg, travelers on deck

Anefo photo collection. Departure of herring fleet from Ijmuiden. May 22, 1951. IJmuiden

Wally Robinson: Broome Taxi Man - Whenever a ship or a lugger comes into Roebuck Bay, Wally Robinson is there - sailors hate walking. November 02, 1955.

Transfer passengers. isola d'elba. tuscany. Italy 1952.

Fisherman. 1920-1930.

Anefo photo collection. Departure "Van Kinsbergen" from Rotterdam and "Willem to De Zaan". October 15, 1948. Rotterdam, South Holland

Elsevier photo collection. Water shortage 1953. Closure dike hole Rilland-Bath accompling prepared ship scasco. partially ship drops remains water part. Subsequently, boulders ship thrown water sunken ship. April 21, 1953. Rilland-Bath, Zeeland

07/27/1936. The Neighbors of Alicante Grouped around the steamship Jaime I, enabled as a prison ship for the Civil Guards who joined the uprising in Albacete.

Louisiana Flood 1912-- refugees saved by gov't i.e. government boat

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949. See the last minute when disembarking emigrants (Oliem) from Bulgaria from the Transportship Bulgaria in the port of Haifa .. January 1, 1948. Haifa, Israel

Anefo photo collection. Arosa-Sun in Ijmuiden, logging ship on fire, the burning ship. The extinguishing work on board. April 9, 1963. IJmuiden

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