Historic Maritime Images

Vintage photographs portraying boats, ships, and ports, illustrating maritime history from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Boats on the water; about 1860 - 1880; Tinted Albumen silver print

"Gothic" arrives in Hobart from Sydney carrying the Royal Couple. February 26, 1954.

Anefo photo collection. Arrival "Amerigo Vespucci" Sail Amsterdam. July 29, 1985

Harbor area at Ronnebyån's outlet.

Battleship moored in Wellington harbour, 1920s-1930s, Wellington, by Roland Searle.

Shipping, Westport gelatin dry plate negatives, black-and-white negatives

Shipping scene. American scenery, New York City and Central Park. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.)

Flower Corso on the Alster, Hamburg. .

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Steamboats salmon sweeping fishing. undated

Six people in a sailboat, presumably at Le Moulleau at Arcachon. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first automobiles and autoraces.

Elsevier photo collection. Fleoten Enkhuizen T.G.V. Visserijdag, 300 fishing vessels IJsselmeer participate. fleet seen Salon boat Enkhuizen-Stavoren. October 5, 1956. Enkhuizen

New York Gold Cup Regatta. This image depicts the patrol of New York Gold Cup Regatta.

USA, California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Harbor, fishing fleet

Photograph of Norwegian Fishermen at the Docks unloading and loading the boats. Dated C. 1900

Perim, the port, Yemen, Anonymous, 1920 - 1930, Mayyun in Arabic.

Transportation: Water. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Arrival of a German steamship in the port of Dar es Salaam; Einfahrt Eins Deutschen Dampfers, Dar-Es-Salaam .. Part of album with 191 photos from a trip to and through South Africa.

Harbour View, circa 1914, by George Crummer.

Battleship moored in Wellington harbour gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives

Halibut fishing vessel coming in from sea. Subjects: Southeast Alaska; Industries; Commercial Fishing; ARLIS; Alaska.

City Point, Virginia. Transports on James River. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Ships in Harbor, Sete. Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820 - 1884)

Bohuslän, Askims hd., Styrsö sn., Donsö.Boats. Nordic

The Last Picture The Ill-Fated "Pourquoi Pas"Associated Press Photo shows: The last picture to be taken of the Ill-fated French exploration ship "Pourquoi Pas" which foundered off the coast of Iceland near the Borgar Fjord in a fierce Gale on September 16. It shows the vessel at Reykjavik, Captian of Iceland, which was the "Pourquoi Pas's" Last port of call, on the 15th. October 12, 1936. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Marblehead, 'Out Beyond Lighthouse,' marine , Boats, Bodies of water. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

Reflections , Boats, Harbors. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Crossing a foussoum. .

Steamers passing through the Suez Canal, Egypt, 20th century. Artist: Unknown

The port of Messina five years after the earthquake in 1908, Sicily, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLI, No 1, January 4, 1914.

Lyttelton, 1880s, Dunedin, by Burton Brothers.

View of the Fir Leaf, a fishpacker loaded with herring ca. 1948 Credit: UBC Library

Ships along the quay near Blackpool, with the pier, anonymous, c. 1890 - c. 1910 stereograph Blackpool cardboard. paper. printing ink collotype ships (in general). pier, quay, wharf Blackpool

CA - South San Francisco. South San Francisco Light, California. Under erection, May 1913.

Steam Ship in harbour, 1912 - 1926, by James McDonald.

Autotype of the departure of the Du Pelerin ship from Marseille, France, 1880, Europe

Sailing ship Aratapu, 26 February 1903, New Zealand, by Fred Brockett.

Berenice Abbott, Watuppa, from Brooklyn Waterfront, New York , 1936, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Head of Harbour, Balaklava. Roger Fenton; English, 1819-1869. Date: 1855. Dimensions: 19.9 × 25.2 cm (image/paper); 40.1 × 53.3 cm (mount). Salted paper print, from the album "Photographic Pictures of the Seat of War in the Crimea" (1856). Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Arrival Julianadok in Surabaya. The marine tugboat HR. Ms. "Margriet". April 10, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Surabaya

Dressing halibut on deck of schooner for icing in the hold. By T. W. Smillie

Marblehead, 'Out Beyond Lighthouse,' marine , Boats, Bodies of water. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

Lower locks in Trollhätte channel at Trollhättan.

Salem, Pennsylvania Pier from Phillips Wharf, views , Piers & wharves, Boats. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Anefo photo collection. Ships for "Sail Amsterdam 700" arrived in the IJ. An overview of the ships in the IJ. August 15, 1975. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Nagasaki. Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)

Deep sea hotel

Whaling in the Ross Sea, 1924, Southern Ocean, by Captain George Samuel Hooper.

The Harbour of the Port of Batumi (formerly Batum or Batoum) a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia, 12 miles from the border with Turkey. Batumi is the last stop of the Transcaucasian Railway and the Baku oil pipeline. Date: circa 1909

Nukualofa, Tongatabu Nuku'alofa, Tongatapu, July 1884, New Zealand, by Burton Brothers, Alfred Burton.

12/31/1949. Boats in the port of Motril.

Otto, Wilhelm, Solvyns, E., Sailing ships on the beach, photograph, photo, photos, height mm, width mm, photographer, 1888 - 1888, fourth quarter 19th century, heliogravure

Head of the Harbor, Balaklava, Russia. Date/Period: 1855. Salted paper print. Width: 25.7 cm. Height: 20.5 cm (image). Author: Roger Fenton.

Freight envelope at a icy landing site between sailing ship and two-plain load slides

Molo, Durazzo and sinked ships in the background. .

Description: Shipping bananas in Kingstown. Location: Kingston, St Vincent Date: 1957-1960 caribbean, saintvincent, caribbeanthroughalens

The photo dates from 1922. The caption reads: The Busy River Front at Louisville. Louisville, with a population of a quarter of a million, is the largest city of Kentucky and the center of a vast distributing and export trade, with exceptional facilities by river and railroad.

In the harbor of Theodo. .

Waiting, possibly Chinese contract workers, on the quay of Belawan (above) and face on that port (below); Belawan harbor.part or album with heliogravures from Sumatra's East Coast.

HMS Spartan off Norway, 1904 (1908).Artist: Queen Alexandra

Vintage Polar Exploration Photography of the Fram, Amundsen Ship to the South Pole, 1911.

Aussig. Village Schreckenstein with Personal Side Bike Stampers "Saxony" (1885, shipyard Blasewitz)

Platinotype photograph showing a fishing boat with crew, depicting sails, hull, water, and surrounding coastal environment, created in 1894.

'View of Sydney Harbour from North Shore, No. 1, c1900. Creator: Unknown.

12/31/1956. Port of Noya.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. A boat puts on with a scaffolding with flags. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Red flag at half mast on the lugger "Petta" signifies the death of a member of the crew, as the vessel sails into harbour at Thursday Island. Signals from the "Petta" recalled all luggers to harbour to take part in the funeral ceremonies, which last three days."Pearling luggers still - in spite of all of ***** heard about the bottom having dropped out of the market - go but for commercial shell. October 13, 1950.

Lynn, ship , Harbors, Ships. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

After being capsized, the lifeboat being leveled / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères

Ships "Sequoia" and Kukui" awaiting transfer to Pacific

Pola (now Pula), principal port of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, present day Croatia, 1896

Anefo photo collection. Volendam under the snow. 12 February 1947. Noord-Holland, Volendam

Island of St. Heleny View from a distance to the ship's ship Queen of Japan unknown

Transparency - Harbour, Saint John, NB, about 1927

Birds eye view of Sixth Street wharf, Washington, D.C.. Transfer; Map Division, 1908. Piers & wharves, Washington (D.C.), 1860-1870, Side wheelers, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Washington (D.C.)

View of a quay and the port of Audierne. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first automobiles and autoraces.

Greymouth gelatin dry plate negatives, black-and-white negatives

Anefo photo collection. Ship CharlotteW Rhodes from TV series OneDinLine, in Harbor Monnickendam in connection with Event Week. August 3, 1977. Monnickendam

Valparaiso Harbor, Chile, circa 1890

On river to Foochow. On river to Foochow

Market boats being unloaded at low tide, Panama. Photograph, ca. 1910.

View from passenger seat in rail bus.

Budapest. Danube picture with steamboats and Elisabethbrücke

Washington D.C., Aerial Photograph.

This photo from 1906 shows fish arriving on the pier in the French city of Boulgne-sur-Mer. The fish are laid out on the carts and ready for sale, fresh from the sea.

Ice boat racers at the line, Red Bank

Departure of the steamship "Horsa" from Savannah, Georgia, March 19, 1895, with two hundred Negroes aboard for Liberia. Illustrations. 1895-04-27. General Research Division. Ships, Savannah (Ga.), African Americans, Liberia, Crowds, African Americans , Colonization , Africa, Memphis (Tex.)

Air views of Palestine. Aircrafts etc. of the Imperial Airways Ltd., on the Sea of Galilee and at Semakh. Flying boat awaited at Tiberias. Crowds expecting the first sea plane to alight on the Lake of Galilee. 1931, Spectators, Children

History of Spain. Santa Cruz de La Palma, La Palma, Canary Islands. Inauguration of the telegraph cable that established direct communication between the island of La Palma and the island of Tenerife. Aspect of the port on the morning of 16 November 1883, when the ships that were conducting the telegraph cable were visited. The cable squad was composed of the ships "Dacia", "International" and "Ceres", which are the ones in the foreground, on the left of the image. Engraving by Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). (La Ilustración Española y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), January 15, 1884. Author: Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). Spanish painter and engraver.

España. Santander. Mujeres descargando un barco en el muelle. Año 1910.

Description: Barbados. 'Barbados flying fish fishing fleet'. Photograph No D 83692 Official Barbados photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Writing and square up marks appear on the front. Publicity statement on reverse. Location: Barbados Date: 1956 Nov barbados, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Travellers boat at Ibrim. .

The Mew : the Great Western Railway ferry which ran to Kingswear from 1908 to 1954 Date: 1919

Piers in Poland, Sailboats in Poland, Old, Świnoujście, 1900, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Swinemünde, Landungsplatz

Suez Canal

Tunis, Tunisia-Axis planes...

"Image of the Mayflower yacht arriving at the Washington Navy Yard pier with the French Mission onboard during World War I. Distinguished visitors are being transported to their temporary residence, the Henry White residence, with a line of automobiles waiting on the dock. Official use only, dated April 26, 1917."

Shipping, Circular Quay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1886.Artist: JR Ashton

On river at Foochow. On river at Foochow

Large group swimming at the beach, with ships, circa 1915, Smoa, by Thomas Andrew.

South Street Seaport, New York City, New York, USA, Detroit Publishing Company, 1901

View of the Port at Buenos Aires, Argentina Date: circa 1906

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