Historic Sailing Ships

19th-century illustrations of majestic clipper ships and steamers, featuring intricate details and a sense of maritime history.

Baltimore Clipper Ship by unknown American artist, 19th century

Thomas Chambers, Packet Ship Passing Castle Williams, New York Harbor, mid 19th century Packet Ship Passing Castle Williams, New York Harbor

Mast of a sailing ship, Willem Anthonie van Deventer, 1834 - 1893, draughtsman: Willem Anthonie van Deventer, 1834 - 1893, paper, pen, h 960 mm × w 545 mm

(Windward Islands) - The harbour seen from the sea, with the steamer 'Bosphorus' either leaving or arriving. Date: 1851

Steamship with sailing. .

American 19th Century, Steamship Erie, probably 1837 Steamship Erie

Boston Harbor; about 1850-55 Oil on canvas Fitz Henry Lane American; 1804-1865

The German East Asia Squadron. China. The Imperial German Navy battleship, Kaiser class, SMS Deutschland (1875-1904). It was assigned to the East Asia Squadron for three years. Engraving by Matute. Later colouration. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1898.

Photo collection Government information service. East India. VOC ship. undated

Sailing Ship Frigate from 19th Century, by Joseph Links, 20th Century

The clipper ship "Metal Cross" Amsterdam 1856. The clipper called 'Metal Cross', built in Amsterdam by A. van der Hoog for bookkeepers A. Poort & Co. And from stack in September as part of the festivities around the unveiling of the monument memorial to the folk spirit of 1830 and 1831 in Amsterdam on August 27, 1856.

Towing on the Willamette RiverPortland, Oregon. Towing on the Willamette River

Naval ships - British Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Audacious, 17th century. Color illustration

Shipping on the Bosphorus. Franz Johann Wilhelm Hunten (1822-1877). Oil on canvas. Dated 1869. 60 x 90cm.

HMS 'Victory', Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1936. Artist: Unknown

"Golden Hind" "Drake's Ship & Also Model" - Merchant Shipping. August 31, 1936. (Photo by The Associated Press of Great Britain Ltd.).

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

Clipper Ship Sovereign of the Seas”. Artist: Nathaniel Currier, American, 1813-1888

Jarramas (depicted - name).Jarramas (depicted - name)

The old sailing ship. The full version and a contour

Naval ships - Chilean Navy training sailing ship Esmeralda, 1950. Color illustration

'Telegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865', watercolor painting by British Artist, Robert Charles Dudley. The image depicts the Great Eastern and her support convoy moving west in 1865, as she lays two working cables from Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island in western Ireland, destined for Heart's Content, Newfoundland (BSLOC_2019_8_152)

Shipping, yacht Cleopatra's Barge, 1816 , Marine paintings, Ships. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Photograph showing the 'Fram'; the ship used by Roald Amundsen in his expedition to the South Pole; moored near Amundsen's House, c.1912. The 'Fram' was previously used by Fridtjof Nansen in the Arctic, so held the record for a ship of both furthest North and furthest South. Date: 1912

Dutch ship at sea ,, 1840 - 1850 print Nagasaki paper color woodcut sailing-ship, sailing-boat. flag, colours (as symbol of the state, etc.)

Strela (yacht) ca. 1892.

Charcoal Boat, Venice 1877 Andrew Fisher Bunner. Charcoal Boat, Venice 10273

These three ships are, from top to bottom: a brig, an auxiliary steam ship, and a schooner. The illustration dates to the 1800s.

Shipping, ship Grand Turk at Canton 1786 , Ships, Marine paintings, Grand Turk Ship. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Modern Age. Late 16th century ship. Engraving, 19th century.

Dutch ship at sea.

Sappho passing through Livonia's lee during the fourth race for the America's Cup, October 21st, 1871.' Oil on canvas, 24' x 40', 1997 Private collection.The painting depicts the actual situation of th

The picture shows Briggen Nordenskjöld from the port side to Ankars in Karlskrona.The brig is equipped in memory of the expedition 1849 when Prince Oscar later King Oscr II was head on board .. The picture shows Briggen Nordenskjöld from the port side to Ankars in Karlskrona.The brig is equipped in memory of the expedition 1849 when Prince Oscar later King Oscr II was head on board.

Getting a Bend on, Whangarei harbour photographic postcards

Åland trip. Pomerania, the world's only four -masted freight sail ship, now museum

New York Ballance Drydock, Huge, Jurgan Frederick, 1877.

Jarramas (depicted - name).Jarramas (depicted - name)

MAQUETA DE BARCO VELERO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Naval ships - Italy's Regia Marina screw steam ship of the line RN Re Galantuomo, 1850. Color illustration

Untitled black-and-white negatives

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

Approach to Alexandria, from Egypt and Nubia, by David Roberts, (1796-1864), USA, Illinois, Chicago, Newberry Library

Vintage photograph. Training ship of Danish Navy sailing in the sea

Ships that pass -- some notes for our readers who are spending their holidays by the sea shore. The ships are: cargo steamer, liner, coasting steamer, seagoing tug, oil carrier, racing yawl, racing cutter, steam yacht, racing schooner, brig, full rigged ship, topsail schooner, four masted barque, paddle wheel excursion steamer, sailing barge, English fishing smack, Scotch fishing boat, French fishing schooner, fishery protection cruiser, steam drifter, dredger, surveying mark flag, submarine, l

A medieval ship. Engraving, 19th century. Color.

Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds better known as Linant Pasha (Lorient, France, November 23, 1799 - Cairo July 9, 1883) was an explorer of Egypt and, as the chief engineer of Egypt's public works, 1831-1869, the chief engineer of the Suez Canal.

U.S. Frigate St. Lawrence. U.S. Frigate Minnesota. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Stringham, Silas H, Military service, Dale (Ship), 1860-1870, Roanoke (Steamship), 1860-1870, Saint Lawrence (Frigate), 1860-1870, Colorado (Ship), 1860-1870, Minnesota (Steam frigate), 1860-1870, Wabash (Steamship), 1860-1870, Ships, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation, United States

Imperator Nikolai I (ironclad warship) ca. 1892.

America entering Marblehead Harbour after the combined Eastern Yacht Club / New York Yacht Club Regatta of August 11th, 1887.' Oil on canvas, 30' x 40', 1999. Private collection..

TOP, a British Royal Navy third-rate warship at anchor showing rigging and other external characteristics. BOTTOM, cross section of a British Royal Navy first-rate warship showing the internal layout

Naval ships - Dutch United Provinces warship Eendracht, 1600. Color illustration

Clipper Ship Red Jacket off Cape Horn, illustration

A Nile boat, or Canja. From Bruce's travels to discover the Source of the Nile .James Bruce was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, where he traced the origins of the Blue Nile

U.S. Transport "Peerless". Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Peerless (Steamship), 1860-1870, Ships, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation, United States

c.1935, H.B. Christian art, Illustration of 19th century sailing ship on the ocean.

The "Royal William", 1936. Creator: Unknown.

Sails And Grace -- Boxing Day treat for the people of Capetown, South Africa, was the sight of the Danish full-rigged sailing ship "Danmark" leaving on her return to Copenhagen. Manned by 117 cadets, the Danmark set sail from Copenhagen on September 10, calling at Madeira and Teneriffe and was 47 days at sea after leaving Teneriffe on October 11, before reaching Durban. Her next voyage took her to Port Elizabeth and then on to Cape Town. Surely there can be no finer sight at sea than a full-rigged sailing ship making her way gracefully form one port of call to another. January 04, 1949.

Vintage Photograph. Last of the great whaling ships. "Chas. W. Morgan" retired in 1921. Frame

Battleships by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Oil on canvas, 1886, 1817-1900, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Central Navy Museum, 131x249

The Savannah River, Savannah, Georgia, United States, 1890, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original The Savannah River, United States, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, North America

Ships in Harbor, Naples, Italy, Photochrome Print, Detroit Publishing Company, 1900

Russian torpedo boat tender Grand Duke Konstantin destroying the Turkish ships at Bosphorus on 1877 by Lagorio, Lev Felixovich (1827-1905)/ State Central Navy Museum, St. Petersburg/ 1880/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Russian Painting of 19th cen./ 56x88/ Hist

U.S. Gun Boat "Seminole". Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Seminole (Steamship), 1860-1870, Ships, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation, United States

Galleons - General Merchant Shipping. November 10, 1940.

Vintage Photograph. Historic sailing ship towering over quaint seaside village rooftops.

Infographic about the galleons, powerful ships with a large capacity for load and combat, prepared to cover transoceanic routes. They formed the main part of the European fleets in the 16th and 17th centuries. Adobe InDesign (.indd); 5000x3139.

Steam yacht Namouna, Small Yacths

The vessel pictured in this 19th-century drawing is a brigantine, or with a mizen-masy carrying fore and aft sails, commonly called a Jack Ass Barque.

Fishing boat of Trouville, on France's northwest coast. Date: circa 1880

Photography.Photography in glass and frame of wood, black with ornamentation in yellow and black.Shows the corvette Freja at sea during sail after a board by C. Törnström in 1900. The photo marked: Freja.Korvetten Freja built at Kockum's lap in 1885. Made after a blackboard by Törnström C. 1900 - 1900

REPUBLIC OF UPPER VOLTA- CIRCA 1984: A stamp printed in Republic of Upper Volta shows the ship ´Harbinger´, series is devoted to sailing vessels, circa 1984

REPUBLIC OF CHAD - CIRCA 1984: A stamp printed in Republic of Chad shows the ship ´Le Britannia´, series is devoted to sailing vessels, circa 1984

Stamp, Freimarkenserie Kaiseryacht SMS Hohenzollern was a series of stamps of the German Reichspost with the image of the 1892 built imperial yacht Hohenzollern, issued between 1900 and 1919 in the German colonies, here German Southwest Africa, 50 Pfennig, Historic, digitally restored Reproduction

Color poster or card from around 1890 promoting Cunard Line, showing ships, ports of Liverpool, New York, and Boston, and maritime elements.

USA - 1965: shows Robert Fulton 1765-1815 and Clermont, inventor of the 1st commercial steamship USA - CIRCA 1965: A stamp printed in USA shows Robert Fulton 1765-1815 and Clermont, inventor of the 1st commercial steamship, circa 1965 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 4697314

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