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Black and white photographs capturing naval history with ships and officers during notable moments, featuring formal arrivals and state visits on board.

Children Playing Quoits on Deck of Steamship Comus, USA, circa 1915
Children Playing Quoits on Deck of Steamship Comus, USA, circa 1915
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Sponsor Mrs. William C. Abhau (right) with her daughter Miss Elliot Abhau assisting, christens the USS REID (FFG-30) during launching ceremonies. Mrs. Abhau is the great-great granddaughter of Sailing Master Chester Reid for which this guided missile frigate is named at the Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp., Los Angeles Div. Base: San Pedro State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Group picture on deck of the high-sea passenger steamer "Cleveland
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03/31/1924. Cadiz. Launch of a lifesaving buoy. Cardinal Benlloch (1) and Mayor D. Agustin Márquez (2), in the ceremony of Blessing of the "Cádiz" Buoy, of which the engineer Mr. López Sainz is the inventor, raises the buoy as it is launched. (photo clover and Forge).
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The armored ship Hr.Ms. Tromp (1906-1927) On winter trip at the end of 1925. Nice seen from the stern.
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Black and white photo of the War in Ethiopia after the Italian invasion of 1935; Exiled Negus (emperor) Haile Selassie I (1892-1975) arrives in England, disembarking at Portsmouth to a joyous reception from the people.
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The passenger ship "Johan van Oldenbarnevelt" is located on the quay in Amsterdam. The ship was used as a troop transport ship for the transport of soldiers during the conflict in the Dutch East Indies.
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08/31/1909. The Camels of the Melilla army. Disembarkation of the Camels at the military dock by means of the Titan crane.
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DN-ST-87-01276. Base: New York Harbor State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Queen Beatrix on the Hr.MS collection vessel bridge. Buyskes during her working visit to the hydrographic service in Scheveningen. Standing next to the queen's chief of hydrography, SBN L.H. Van Opstal. Left in the foreground The Commander Ltz1 L. ter Haar.
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Nagasaki. Coarters aboard the high-sea passenger steamer "ClevelandNagasaki. Coal bires aboard the high-sea passenger steamer "Cleveland
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Geraldine Farrar, on ship
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On board train ferry.
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Japan: An extended family of Jewish refugees fleeing from Nazi persecution in Europe aboard the Japanese ocean liner Hikawa Maru (1940). In 1940-41, before Japan's entry into the Second World War, hundreds of Jewish refugees fled from Nazi persecution to Canada and the USA via Japan, and many of them sailed on Hikawa Maru. In August 1940 a party of 82 German and Lithuanian Jews who had travelled via the USSR and Vladivostok reached Seattle on Hikawa Maru.
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