Historic Ships and Vessels

Photographs capturing historic ships from various periods, showcasing their structure and maritime significance.

Hampton Roads, Virginia (vicinity). U.S.S. MALVERN. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Florida - Key West Depot. Key West Depot, Florida. Am. Schooner Fanny Palmer, shifting from Pier B to Pier A.

Majestic Class Battleships- Hms Prince George H. M. S. PRINCE ALBERT, 1889.

Nueva Esmeralda"". Warship built in England for the Chilean Navy. Drawing by Cortellini Sanchez. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.

Ships of the great powers bombarding Akrotiri, Cretan Revolt, Greece, drawing by Achille Beltrame (1871-1945), from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIV, No 11, March 14, 1897.

'The Quest, in which Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail in September 1921, on what was to prove his last Artist: Unknown.

Photograph of the Port View of the SS Architect. Port View. Date: - July 29, 1918. Photograph Of; - S. S. Architect. Nationality: - British. Tonnage: -6736. Captain: - W. N. Rushforth. Owners: - T. & J. Harrison. Where From: - Plymouth, Eng. Destination: - Liverpool, Eng. Bordeux Bordeaux, France. Where Photographed: - Savannah, GA. Sixth Naval District. By Whom Photographed: - J. B. Dearborn. Date Photographed: - July 12th., 1918. Where Camouflaged: - West Hartlepool, Eng. Date: - June 7th., 1918. By Whom: - Gray Shipbuilding Co. Type Of Ship: - Well Deck. Beam: 52 ft., Length: -410 ft., Draft: - 26 ft. 10 Inches In Salt Water Fresh Water: -27 ft., 5 Inches. Two Masts Painted #1 Grey & #1 Olive. One Smokestack Painted Black, #1 Grey & Olive; One 4.7 Inch Gun 45# Prominent Platforf Aft; Four Otters.. 1918-07-12T00:00:00.

Unloading Supplies at Port Royal, Virginia 1861-65 Andrew Joseph Russell American. Unloading Supplies at Port Royal, Virginia 268061

Sleepboot 'Sunda' van de Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Ltd. in Singapore, G.R. Lambert & Co. (attributed to), c. 1890 - in or before 1905 photograph Part of photo album of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Ltd. In Singapore. Singapore photographic support albumen print tug, pusher tug Singapore

'The boat deck of the Lusitania, showing lifeboats', 1915. Artist: Unknown.

Arrival of the Negus to Haifa. the family of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I arriving at Haifa on the British ship, the H.M.S. Enterprise, May 8, 1936. 1936, Israel, Haifa

Photograph of the Starboard View of the SS Leersum. Starboard View. Date: - August 19, 1918. Photograph Of S. S. Leersum. Nationality: - American (formally Dutch). Tonnage: - 3381. Captain: - S. N. Lyons. Owners: - U. S. S. B. From: - St. Thomas. Island. Destination: - Philadelphia, Penn. Where Photographed: - Charleston, S. C/. By Whom Photographed: - J. B. Dearborn. Date Photographed: - July 27th., 1918.. 1918-07-27T00:00:00.

Ferry "Kosciusko" & Navy lighter in Collision. May 31, 1955.

MONTANA, 5/10/14

Pull ship in the port of Den Helder. .

LAFAYETTE

Skiopticone image with motifs of full steamers. Possibly the SS City of Buffalo in Buffalo.

Two ships moored, possibly on one of the Wadden Islands.

Royal Navy armored cruiser arriving in New York, probably at the time of the Portsmouth Peace Conference. Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Peace, cruisers, warships, New York (State), New York.

The steam yacht 'Harbinger', 1912. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes.

Theodore Roosevelt on Deck of Boat Arriving in New York Harbor, New York City, New York, USA, 1910

Passenger steamer Victoria Luise Backbords on a drive in Nordic countryside

12/31/1906. The Du Petit Thouars cruise -Approximate date.

La Armada Española. Acorazado de primera clase "Carlos V". Año 1898. Author: Francisco Hernández Monjo.

Description: Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Company Limited. Montreal discharging plant Location: Montreal, Canada Date: 1916 canada, americas, newbrunswickandnovascotia

111-SC-13542: Photograph of the U.S.S. Vigilant taken by C.P.I. photographer Rico on July 17, 1916. This image is a part of a collection documenting American military activities during World War One. Official use only.

Steam yachts and ferry boats, New York Harbor. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.)

Spanish Navy. The auxiliary cruiser "Rápido", a former German ocean liner. It was acquired to reinforce the Navy before the imminent war against the United States in 1898. Photoengraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1898.

GADFLY

Ulrica, Maritime Photography

U.S.S. California After Being Bombed and Torpedoed

Four low boats are moored against a grassy bank in a harbour. Handwritten caption reads: George's first change in the Marine, R.I.M.S. Irrawaddy.

U.S. Naval Battleship, U.S.S. Virginia, circa 1910

HMS Kingfisher. Mombassa.. Unknown, photographer negative January 1890, print February 1894 View of the H.M.S. Kingfisher on the water off the coast of Mombasa. City buildings line the shore in the background. (Recto, mount) lower left, handwritten in black ink: "HMS Kingfisher. Mombassa. Janysuperscript 90" / 89.90.91" Lower right, handwritten in black ink: "Enlargement. Feby. 94."

'The Nimrod Passing H.M.S. Powerful,...in Lyttelton Harbour', 1 January 1908, (1909). Artist: Unknown.

'Jules Michelet', 1920s to 1930s, New Zealand, by Roland Searle.

German submarine mothership, Vulcan, taken in the Kiel Canal. On either side are seven German submarines and in a front is a craft entering the dock ship, World War I

Untitled black-and-white negatives

Launching in the port of Cadiz of the armored cruise ship Carlos V that belonged to the Admiral Rafael Rodríguez Arias naval program. From La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1895

Massachusetts - Cape Cod. Cape Cod Canal Approach. Ice Condition, February 14, 1918.

Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a quay on the East River near the hospital, with a steamship. Photograph.

The Women of the Red Cross Auxillary going down San Francisco Bay to take leave of troop ships for Manila - Spanish American War 1898

Imperial Russian minelaiyer Amur. Ships of the Pacific squadron on the inner roads of Port Arthur, on the right is the minelayer Amur, 1902-1903.

SUFFOLK (Brit.)

Cruiser Aurora, 1916, Anonymous

Revenue Cutter Seneca, Derelict destroyer and ice-patrol ship in North Atlantic. Photographs of Revenue Cutter Service Cadets, Ships and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Rügen / Germany: Stamper Sassnitz-Binz. Passengers on deck of the excursor Sassnitz-Binz

Photograph of the Royal Yacht 'Alberta', with King Edward VII on board, leading SS 'Ophir', with the Duke of Cornwall and York, out of Portsmouth harbour, March 1901. The Duke (the future King George V) and his wife were embarking on a world tour of the Dominions aboard the 'Ophir'. Date: 1901

U.S. hospital boat Red Rover - Mississippi River Fleet. No. 3125, Title from item, Caption continues: Mississippi River fleet, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Mississippi River.

Image of the steamship R. van Hasselt van Rederij Koppe for the Bootdienst Enkhuizen-Stavoren in the Haven in Stavoren.n.b. The ship is said to have been painted in camouflage colors due to the war.

The Brockville, with many people on board. This photograph was taken on 9 July 1908, possibly at Massassauga Point, Prince Edward County, Ontario.

Anefo photo collection. Dutch merchant fleet. SS "Plancius". 1924

River Boat, Mississippi River, USA, circa 1906

Passenger steamers in the Cascade Locks, Columbia River, Oregon, USA, circa 1906

Steam "Pennsylvania" at sea. Quantity passengers on the eighth ship. Look to the superstructures

The Steamer, Island Belle, Morristown, New York Date: 1900s

Freighter in Davis Lock. ca. 1948, Sault Saint Marie, Michigan, USA, Freighter Entering Davis Lock, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.

President Wilson aboard S.S. Geo. Washington as it enters Boston Harbor. (Photo: SC-43468)

A photograph of the lighthouse tender, AU CYPRESS, which was attached to the 6th Lighthouse District covering the coast of the South Atlantic States. This tender was transferred to the Navy Department in 1917 by order of the President. It is a twin screw stemmer with a steel hull, measuring 190' in length and displacing 1080 tons. It has a speed of 1000 horsepower and can accommodate 6 officers and 27 men.

España. Tarjeta postal. Marina de guerra. El crucero Cataluña en el puerto de Barcelona. Año 1910.

Eskilstuna II in Mälarbaden harbor.

A seaplane flying over the battleships at Golfo Aranci, Sardinia, Italy, Italian navy maneuvers, photograph by G Genta, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XL, No 37, September 14, 1913.

08/01/1914. The battleship Erherzog Friedrich, of the Imperial Austrian Navy, which was destroyed in the battle of Pola in Istria by the Allied squadrons.

Cruiser Hr.Ms. Sumatra (1926-1942) Trailee period during WWII in Portsrmouth, UK.

ROON

The Liberty Boat, circa 1890

Anefo photo collection. 50-year anniversary Koningin Wilhelmina. National fleet inspection on the inside and outside IJ in Amsterdam. September 3, 1948. Amsterdam, IJ

The Imperial Yacht, Teşrifiye, designated for the imperial riding / Abdullah Frères, Constantinople

Passenger ship at sea, seen from the air, 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

Cadiz, June 1898. Pelayo Bridge.

Kon-Tiki-2.Seen from the side, the bamboo but on the raft comes into view. This sheltered the six young men as they proved by example that the original settlers of the Polynesian Islands could have sailed from South America, instead of from Asia as is generally believed. (NANA). November 18, 1947.

U.S.S. New York, New York (Cruiser), Cruisers (Warships), American, 1893

Halle an der Saale, Knapp, Wilhelm, New York, Hofmeister, Th. you. O., Meeresstille, Sailing ship on open water, New York (city), recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, Das Atelier des Photographen., (Aus Juhl, Internationale Kunstphotographien.), height 219 mm, width 153 mm, German, photographer, 1895 - 1900, paper, autotype, cliché maker, printer, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Colored skiolet icon with motifs of unknown steamers.

U.S.S. Vermont. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

EDITORIAL HMS Eagle, aircraft carrier of the British Royal Navy. Originally laid down in 1913 for Chile, as a battleship, purchased in 1918 and converted into an aircarft-carrier in the succeeding ye

Ship 'Almdijk'. Part of album with photos of railways in Dutch East Indies and postcards.

TEXT MESSAGE. Loreley for anchor at Lefkás, Anonymous, 1905 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of sights in Greece and Egypt. Lefkás, Nísos paper. photographic support sailing-ship, sailing-boat. steamship, motorship Lefkás, Nísos

Illustration showing the Royal Navy ship 'Benbow' an ironclad warship. 1885

Transparency - Passenger liner passing lighthouse, near Vancouver, BC, about 1925

View of the Italian Pre-dreadnought Battleship 'Vittorio Emanuele' on the Sea of Marmara by Haydar Pasa about to enter the Bosphorus. In the background is the Selimiye Barracks, famous in English History as the site of Florence Nightingale's Hospital during the Crimean War. circa 1905

HMS LEVIATHAN: 14,100 Tons, IHP 30,000

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Wound the Netherlands. Hospital ships at the Aelbrechtskade in Rotterdam. June 1940. Rotterdam

U.S.S.S. sic Texas and the Whisper, Texas (Battleship), Whisper (Steamboat), Steamboats, Battleships, American, United States, Louisiana, New Orleans, 1900

Elsevier photo collection. Series: Atmospheric images Zeeslepers. Surely sea sleeve boats waiting harbors ocean listening ear marconist catches cry help. 1935

Naval ships - Italy's Regia Marina battleship RN Vittorio Emanuele, 1904. Color illustration

Dibujo del buque "Marqués de Comillas", habilitado como hospital de la Cruz Roja. Tarjeta postal editada por Cruz Roja. Año 1936.

Colombo (Sri Lanka). Fishing boat and high-sea passenger steamer "Cleveland" in the harborColombo (Sri Lanka). Fishing boat and high-sea passenger steamer "Cleveland" in the harbor

The The Peacekeeper, American Submarine Torpedo Boat. One of the First American Submarines. Illustration by Poyet (1846 1913)

The magnificent new steamer Puritan, built of steel and iron .

RRS Discovery leaving Hobail. January 01, 1930.

Washington Irving Passing Poughkeepsie Bridge Postcard. ca. 1915-1930, Washington Irving Passing Poughkeepsie Bridge Postcard

The Duchess blowing a cloud, circa 1900, Wellington, maker unknown.

View from board a high-sea passenger steamer on the wheel steamer Durani in the harbor of Kalkutta

The U.S. Battleship Maine.

Philadelphia's 1st Fireboat, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

UK: HMT Olympic in dazzle camouflage while in service as a troopship during World War I, c. 1914-1918

JM construction concepts ship on d. Werffe in Monfalcone 8.11.17. .

Outward Bound, The Mauretania. Artist: Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864-1946 New York). Dimensions: 33.3 x 25.8 cm. (13 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.). Date: 1910, printed before 1913.As proprietor of the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession and publisher of the photographic journal Camera Work, Stieglitz was the major force in the recognition of photography as an art in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Stieglitz published this picture of a steamship off the New York waterfront in the October 1911 issue of Camera Work, which featured sixteen photogravures, described by the artist as "Snapshots," from negatives made between 1892 and 1910. In this issue, Stieglitz announced his allegiance with the new credo of "straight photography," marking his transition from soft-focus, dreamlike prints that emulated the effects of Symbolist painting to a more straightforward, yet rigorously composed, depiction of modern life. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art,

St Louis', James Buchanan Eads' earliest ironclad gunboat employed by Unionist (northern) side in American Civil War 1861-1865. Sunk by torpedo in 1863. Engraving.

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