Historic Shipbuilding Moments

Black and white images of large vessels in shipyards, depicting the construction and launching of ships, with cranes and workers visibly engaged.

Ship docked in harbor at Todd Shipyard, Weehawken, New Jersey
Ship docked in harbor at Todd Shipyard, Weehawken, New Jersey
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(15) Trawlers. (j) The launch. The trawler heels over with immense force as it enters the water. September 13, 1951.
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Arrival - from the United States - at the terminal of the United States Lines from Avengers in the port of Rotterdam. Part of object series AVDKM 530117 to 530121.
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Travel photos Brazil. Airship "Count Zeppelin" (LZ 127) above the passenger ship Monte Rosa. Partial view with ship mast and ship's bell
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U.S. Jeep Hauls Freight Car In Africa -- At the port of Dakar in French West Africa, one of the U.S. Army's small but powerful Scout cars -- A "Jeep" hauls a railroad freight car many times its size. August 29, 1943.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Karlskrona (depicted - name).Karlskrona (pictured - name)
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Motorised fishing boat in dry dock, February 8, 1941, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.
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Anefo photo collection. Old "mallet" steam locomotive Indonesian State Railways Government Railway Museum (Utrecht); The locomotive almost on the ground. July 23, 1981. Rotterdam, Utrecht
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Anefo photo collection. Launch "Every Danielsen" Zaanlandse Scheepsbouw Maatschappij. March 10, 1956
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SS Stockholm in Drydock at Pier 97, New York, After Collision with Andrea Doria. One of nine 9 pics copied for Merchant Marine Technical borrowed by MMT from files of Merchant Marine Fisheries Committee (Photos taken by A. Miller of Bethlehem Steel Corp.).
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Vintage Photograph. Launch pad of 17-A lunar probe missile in position.
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Anefo photo collection. Stranded ship c.a. Banck is loosened. March 17, 1949
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Anefo photo collection. Hiswa in Rai, largest ship on RAI. March 17, 1966. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Anefo photo collection. Ship fire on board Karmiata in Vlothaven Amsterdam Smoke above Vloothaven. April 22, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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HR.MS torpedo ship ship Mercuur (A 856, ex-fearless) in the dock with ice floes at the Rijkswerf (RW) in Den Helder at the beginning of 1980.
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Two big "camels" each capable of lifting 250 tons which will be used in the effort to raise the ship Kakariki. They will be lowered to the ship & filed with compressed air. May 14, 1940.
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Whaling in the Ross Sea, 1924, Southern Ocean, by Captain George Samuel Hooper.
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Anefo photo collection. Old "mallet" steam locomotive by Indonesian state railways offered to railway museum (Utrecht); "Mallet" locomotive during ship from ship. July 23, 1981. Utrecht
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Motorised fishing boat in dry dock, February 8, 1941, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.
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State Railways, SJ. Transport of sulfite cooker
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International attention to Shanghai grew in the 19th century due to its economic and trade potential at the Yangtze River. During the First Opium War (1839-1842), British forces temporarily held the city. The war ended with the 1842 Treaty of Nanjing, opening Shanghai and other ports to international trade. In 1863, the British settlement, located to the south of Suzhou creek (Huangpu district), and the American settlement, to the north of Suzhou creek (Hongkou district), joined in order to form the International Settlement. The French opted out of the Shanghai Municipal Council, and maintained its own French Concession. Citizens of many countries and all continents came to Shanghai to live and work during the ensuing decades; those who stayed for long periods called themselves 'Shanghailanders'. In the 1920s and 30s, some 20,000 so-called White Russians and Russian Jews fled the newly established Soviet Union and took up residence in Shanghai. By 1932, Shanghai had become the world's
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A quarter section of thee "Iberia's" funnel leaving the fitting shop. November 2, 1954. (Photo by Harland & Wolff Limited.).
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Launching of the U.S.S. Mississippi at Newport News Virginia circa 1917.
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Flying Clipper.Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Sälen (depicted name).Sälen (depicted name)
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Salone nautico di genova. 1963.
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March 1910. A new Italian cruise. Launching of the Cruise Ship "Giorgio Averof" at the Orlando Shipyards, Livorno.
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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. She was renamed 'Lafayette' by the US government and was intended to be refitted for war service. The estimated cost of the refit was 24,500,000 dollars. Date: 1943
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Anefo photo collection. Assignment Zaanlandse NieuweLating Terschelling. September 23, 1963
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