Historic Ocean Liners

Black and white images of historic ocean liners and ships, featuring scenes of passengers and vessels during the early to mid-20th century.

Men with water hoses on Tugboats in harbor in Weehawken, New Jersey after fire wiped out Pier #3
Men with water hoses on Tugboats in harbor in Weehawken, New Jersey after fire wiped out Pier #3
150 assets in this story
6145-29445952
Anefo photo collection. Fire aboard the Norwegian tanker "Artemis" on the Nieuwe Waterweg. 7 June 1958. Nieuwe Waterweg
6177-V53833727
6145-52975359
Ferry M/S Trelleborg
6145-52116344
DN-ST-87-02677. Base: Perth Country: Australia (AUS)
6177-V53833913
5513-18374710
H.M.S. Nelson, the world's largest battleship, could just squeeze through the Panama Canal recently when she paid a formal visit to the American Fleet in the Pacific. The Nelson is shown in the Pedro Miguel lock. April 11, 1931. (Photo by International News Photos Inc.).
6145-29283410
Ship fumigation using hydrogen cyanide: the outside of the ship showing portholes. Photograph by P. G. Stock, 1900/1920.
6145-52143905
Aerial port side view of the Russian research ship TRIAS carrying a cargo of 25 passenger vehicles. Country: Western Pacific
6177-V53856579
6145-52150097
Aerial port side view of the Russian Institute of Hydrometeorology Valerian Uryvayev class weather reporting ship Vyacheslav Frolov underway. Country: Northwestern Pacific Ocean
6176-66914184
La Boulogne, entering Havre, Havre, France, circa 1900
4191-V111116747
6176-66914717
Disembarking from a ship, Algiers, Algeria, 1899
6145-58925674
Transparency - Great Lakes steamer "Assiniboia", Canadian Pacific Line, ON, about 1923
6145-44047267
Travel photos. The passenger ship "Milwaukee" in a harbor. View with passers-by at a viewpoint
6145-55172910
Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Test Activities. Aerial view of ship MV ACANIA. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
6145-54420183
A starboard quarter view of HMY BRITANIA, with Queen Elizabeth II aboard, after its arrival. The queen is on a tour of the West Coast. Base: Long Beach State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
6176-61903757
Mar. 27, 2012 - THE ''EMPRES OF CANADA'' BLAZES IN LIVERPOOL DOCK. CAPSIZES AFTER BURNING FOR NINE HOURS: The 20,325 ton Canadian Pacific linet Empress Of Canada helled over after burning for nine hours in Liverpool Dock last night.. Keystone Photo Shows:- The liner lists quaywards as seen in the light of flood lamps and flames - as firemen battle with the fire last night.
4409-62746188
EEUU. Lousiana. Steamboat browsing the Mississippi river. Engraving. 19th century. Color.
6176-66918452
Harbor entrance, Charlevoix, Michigan, circa 1900
1838-63760648
War refugees lining rails of Portuguese ship Nyassa while docked, New York City, New York, USA, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, April 25, 1941
6177-V53842347
6145-29674721
Photo collection Government information service. Port of Rotterdam. Ship "Almati". undated
6177-V53569209
6177-V53852780
6145-29456885
Anefo photo collection. Liberian cargo ship Ping An stranded at Ter Heide. Crowd on the beach when looking at the stranded ship. November 24, 1965. Ter Heijde, South Holland
1899-90989
The reopening of the Suez canal: The arrival of the former royal yacht, now renamed Libertà. Suez (Egypt) 5th June 1975.
6145-54518724
Coast Guard Plane Delivers Medical Supplies. This image depicts a Coast Guard rescue plane delivering medical supplies to the vessel SS GEORGE.
1788-22060027
The shipwreck of the Varuna ship on the coast of Madeira, Portugal, photo from L'Illustration, No 3485, December 11, 1909.
6145-46689848
Seapage resorts Simpnäs-Åland.
6145-29396606
Anefo photo collection. Arrival "Johan van Oldenbarneveldt" with repatrants in Amsterdam. March 24, 1958. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
1788-21801536
Italian ship the Toscana, for transporting settlers to Libya, October 25, 1938, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.
255-41609
Vintage photograph. USS Leyte passing under Brooklyn Bridge en route to Brooklyn Navy Yard
1899-18668025
California History - Ship off the coast of California circa 1866 .
6145-52089586
An aerial port quarter view of Soviet Ob' class hospital ship underway. Country: Unknown
6177-V53991776
1788-22059918
The ship Danmark at anchor north of the Koldewey Islands, Russia, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen's expedition to Greenland, photo from L'Illustration, No 3433, December 12, 1908.
1035-13251
New York, New York: March 22, 1962 An aerial view of piers in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Port Authority Piers #2 and 6 are at the left with the Meyer Line Pier #2 at the right.
1848-49414990
The promenade deck on the steamer Maria Theresia, of Deutsche Lloyd, formerly used as a passenger ship on Lake Lake Traun, Germany, historical, photochrome print from the 1890s, Europe
1606-166649
Titanic , 1997 directed by James Cameron Twentieth Century Fox Pictures
6145-52290056
HR.MS supplies ship. Zuiderkruis (1975-), at De Werf Verolme in Alblasserdam
6145-44232079
Norway. View from a high-sea passenger steamer of the Hapag in near passing Norwegian steamboat against cliffs
6145-52291844
Water release disaster 1953.
1035-20390720
New York, New York: c. 1924 The City of New York's Department of Plant and Structures barge.
4409-19685795
BARCO EN UNA ESCLUSA DEL CANAL. Location: PANAMA CANAL. Nación. PANAMA.
6177-V53567499
255-69335633
Vintage Photograph. Bow of the American Racer at pier.
4409-21514924
Barcelona. Barcos de guerra anclados en el puerto. Año 1960.
900-106997
The Titanic
6176-66094669
Vintage Cruise ship Travel Poster. New Zealand Shipping Co showing the RMS Rangitata sailing through the Panama Canal circa 1920s