Historic Ocean Liners

Vintage photographs featuring majestic ocean liners from the early to mid-20th century, showcasing their grandeur and the maritime industry of the time.

1930S 1936 Maiden Voyage Of Queen Mary Dwarfing Small Tugboat Moving Alongside It
1930S 1936 Maiden Voyage Of Queen Mary Dwarfing Small Tugboat Moving Alongside It
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DN-SN-88-09554. Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Medan, Pematang Siantar, Goenong, Bajoe, Belawan, Sumatra's east coast. A passenger ship. December 19, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra
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Anefo photo collection. Transfer "Leopoldo Feres" at Gebr. Of the yard dee. July 27, 1954
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Birds' Eye-View Of Departure - Gulls watch the departure from Southampton today. (Tuesday) of the Shaw Savill luxury liner 'Southern Cross' on her maiden round-the-world voyage to Australia and New Zealand. With her funnel and engine placed aft, she is of revolutionary design, and is of 20,200 tons. March 29, 1955. (Photo by Reuterphoto).
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"Tahitien" - French Liner - Merchant Shipping. June 25, 1953.
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Ship 'Almdijk', Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1940 photograph Part of album with photos of railways in the Dutch East Indies and postcards. paper. cardboard gelatin silver print steamship, motorship
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The steamship S/S Eagle arrives at Malmö harbor.
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Italian ship the Conte di Savoia, December 5, 1939, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.
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RMS Mauretania, Cunard Line, built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend, Tyne and Wear. Left Liverpool 16 November 1907 for maiden voyage to New York, scrapped 1935. Served as a troop ship in World War I. Tugs, Postcard, Colour
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Pedro Miguel Locks, Approach from Lake, Panama Canal, circa 1915
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'Q.S.T.S. Queen Mary, 1937. Artist: Unknown.
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Anefo photo collection. Aerial recording. SS. "New Amsterdam". "before 1940"}. Netherlands
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M/S Skåne
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Untitled black-and-white negatives
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T.S.S. Neptunia, General Steam Navigation Co. Ltd of Greece, Greek line , Passenger ships. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection
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LUSITANIA
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Vientiane, formerly Sri Sattanak, was razed to the ground and looted by Siamese armies in 1827. The city was left in grave disrepair and became overgrown and nearly unpopulated until the French colonists arrived and took over the region in 1893. Vientiane became the capital of the French protectorate of Laos in 1899 and was rebuilt with renovated Buddhist temples surrounded by French architecture. Vientiane remained the 'chef-lieu'- the district capital - of French Laos until 1949.
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Cunard R.M.S. Mauretania.
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Life boats launched, Holland America line
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Vintage photograph. Cunard White Star Line RMS Queen Elizabeth in New York Harbor
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Poll photo collection. Repatriation service India. Repatrants go in the port of Tandjong Priz on board the SS Bosch fountain. March 29, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, Tandjong Priok
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The Titanic being built. This photo has been represented as the Titanic, and clearly says as much, but quite probably it is its sister ship, RMS Olympic. The ships were often mistaken for each other, but this photo would have had to have been altered before it was published one hundred years ago.
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Southampton (United Kingdom), 04/10/1912. The RMS Titanic leaving Southampton Harbor.
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Sydney ***** -- "Showboat" formerly the "Thalang" undergoing harbor trials at Newcastle after her conversion from a ***** and won supply boat. The work was caused out at the State Dockyard. October 2, 1948.
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Ocean liner RMS Queen Elizabeth, Cunard White Star Line. Built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Scotland. Maiden voyage 3 March 1940 as a troop ship in World War II. Colour, Postcard
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Passenger ship "Germany
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R.M.S. "Queen Mary" Cunard Line, Ltd.. 1937. Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. Menus. Rare Book Division
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Hendrick Hudson Steamer boat on the Hudson River, New York, America Date: C.1905
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Photograph of the 'Normandie' in New York Harbour, November 1943. The 'Normandie' had just been refloated and was being towed to dry dock for repairs, after catching fire and capsizing in the harbour during 1942. Date: 1943
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Anefo photo collection. Norwegian ship ss. Franeggen on Hondsbosche Seabling Petten. January 2, 1952. Hondsbossche Seabling, Caps
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c.1925 Hawaii, H. B. Christian art, Cruise ship, sailing boat and outrigger canoe off Hawaii
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PRINZESS IRENE ashore
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Vintage photograph. Cunard-White Star Line RMS Caronia on her maiden voyage in New York Harbor from Southampton showing tugs helping to dock
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Anefo photo collection. Swedish ship ss c.a. Banck on the Bloemendaal Beach. March 1, 1949. Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland
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Historical drawing of the SS Lapland, passenger ship built by Harland & Wolff for the Red Star Line and launched June 27, 1908
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The 83,673-ton Queen Elizabeth as a passenger ship: diagrammatic details of the world's largest liner. Date: 1946
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Famous Titanic ship floating among icebergs on the water by cloudy day, vintage style - 3D render. Titanic ship - 3D render
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Anefo photo collection. Official test run from the S.S. Rotterdam in the presence of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, the Rotterdam on the way to Hoek van Holland. August 20, 1959
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R.M.S. "Queen Mary" Cunard Line, Ltd.. 1937. Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. Menus. Rare Book Division
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Melilla, April 1910. The French steamship Oranie ran aground on the beach of the racecourse as a result of the storm.
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Travel photos Madeira. Passenger ship in front of Funchal
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United States of America, the river steamer Pilgrim, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown
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Boat Landing, Hudson River, Kingston Point, New York, USA, circa 1900
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Super Liner Sails On Maiden Voyage -- The United States, America's newest and largest passenger liner, moves past lower Manhattan sailing outbound today on her maiden voyage to Southampton and LeHavre. The new liner carried 1,660 passengers, including Margaret Truman, daughter of the president. July 3, 1952. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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The R.M.S Empress of Ireland, and Oceanic Liner of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. On the 29th May, 1914, she collided with a Norwegian collier and sank in the Saint Lawrence River. 1012 people (840 passengers and 172 crew) died. It is the greatest maritime disaster in Canadian history. 1910
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City of Flint. U.S. Freighter. March 5, 1940. (Photo by Wide World Photos Inc.).
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The shape of ships to come: a warship armed with guided missiles and protected against radioactivity. An artist's impression of a battleship of the future: a vessel equipped with rocket-launching batteries, anti-atomic bomb devices, telescopic masts and special anti-torpedo protection. Date: 1946
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Whaleback leaving Poe Lock, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, circa 1899
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An aerial starboard side view of the Russian Pacific Fleet OB class hospital ship IRTYSH. Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
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Deck of the Paris.
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1950s OCEAN LINER SS CONSTITUTION FOLLOWED BY SS UNITED STATES LEAVING MANHATTAN VIA HUDSON RIVER PAST SKYLINE OF NYC USA
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ITALIA EL MAYOR ACORAZADO DEL MUNDO DE LA ARMADA ITALIANA EN 1888 - ACUARELA SIGLO XIX. Author: RAFAEL MONLEON. Location: MUSEO NAVAL / MINISTERIO DE MARINA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Ocean liner, illustration.
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1950s PASSENGER LINER THE SS UNITED STATES HEADS OUT TO SEA FROM NEW YORK HARBOR NYC USA
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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
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R.M.S. "Queen Mary" Cunard Line, Ltd.. 1936. Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. Menus. Rare Book Division
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White Star - Dominion Line Liner RMS Megantic arriving at Montreal, Canada. Held the record for he Canadian Atlantic run. Date: 1921
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Advertisement for the Blue Star Line and its luxury passenger service to London and South America, 'the last word in ocean travel.' Date: 1928
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American Export Lines , Ocean liners, American Export Lines, Inc., Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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The 'Nautilus' of Commander Wilkins, which by sailing beneath the ice reaches the North Pole. Date: 26 December 1931
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Infographic of the RMS Titanic, the largest ocean liner in the world in that time. It sank on its inaugural trip, in the early morning of the 14th and 15th of April, 1912, after colliding against an iceberg. Adobe InDesign (.indd); 5000x3214.