Historic Ships in Harbors

Old photographs of ships entering harbors, featuring steamships and ferries from the late 19th and early 20th centuries against scenic backdrops.

Villefrance-sur-Mer, France, looking past the moored French fleet toward Cap Ferrat Date: circa 1920s
Villefrance-sur-Mer, France, looking past the moored French fleet toward Cap Ferrat Date: circa 1920s
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Gatun locks from water tower
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Rongotai Airport Reclaimation : Present end of concrete sea-wall and the reef, 23 January 1954, by Leslie Adkin.
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Aussig. View from the Ferdinandshöhe over the Elbe with wheel steamer and bridge
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Rongotai airport construction, 27 December 1954, by Leslie Adkin.
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Panama Canal Zone - Gamboa, Aerial Photograph.
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View of Wellington Harbour with Japanese and New Zealand troopships in harbour, October 1914, New Zealand, by John Haines.
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Särö Västerskog station.
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Sandviken
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Catskill Aqueduct construction: Hudson River Crossing, looking west from Breakneck Mountain toward Storm King, showing borings being driven from scows, 1907
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Looking up valley from second floor of Administration Building, water elevation 460, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., May 8, 1940 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, general views, boat launching ramps
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Practice mobord 5, with the cruiser Hr.Ms flagship. The seven provinces (C 802), visits the English port Plymouth in February1958 and there is an opportunity to passenger, O.A. to Torquay.
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Landing goods in whaleboat black-and-white negatives
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. Photograph of British submarine C 34.
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Kings Cup start of race L to R: Vic, Qland, N.S.W., W.A, Tas, S.A. June 25, 1934.
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Small boat, 1930-1933, Stewart Island, maker unknown.
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Illustration showing an artist's impression of how Rosyth Naval Base, in the Firth of Forth, would look when complete. This image was created when the work on the base had only just begun in 1908. Date: 04/04/1909
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Cluster of people and horse-drawn carriages gathered by water , Carriages & coaches, Horses. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection
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China, Hong Kong, Aberdeen Harbor, Chinese Junks or fishing boat
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Floods - Ohio River Flood, Aerial Photograph.
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Chile (1844). Valparaso. The harbour and the city from the unloading dock. Etching.
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Panama Canal Zone - Pedro Miguel Locks, Aerial Photograph.
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Diesbar. Elbe with steamer Schandau
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Thursday Island, showing pearling fleet in Harbor. March 19, 1942.
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Day Line Steamer on the Hudson, West Point N. Y. still image. Postcards. 1898 - 1931. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. A dozen yachts of the freedom class are meager in the new harbor of the sailing club "Hollandia" in Hollandia. December 1954. Humboldt Bay, New Guinea
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12/31/1929. General view of the port of Pasajes.
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V 1998. Three crown construction of the cruiser three kronor,
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Inland Sea. Inland Sea
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Operation Highjump, Antarctica. This item consists of a photograph of the Wellington howard tug pulling the stern, as the Mt. Olympus pilot boat Mashburn stands by to guide out to sea the Coast Guard Cutter NORTHWIND and USS Burton Island stand by to follow Olympus.
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Cruises of the Hamburg-America line, around 1910. Flag with coastal presentation and label "Dover. England" in anchor symbol (pressure; World postcard)
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Turbulent Sailing, circa 1910, by Fred Brockett.
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Skioptic image with motifs of steamboat on the rhine. The image has been stored in cardboard labeled: the journey in 1904. Oberwesel IX.
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The fire at Värtan July 24, 1921.
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Diesbar. View from the evil brother to this bar
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Adkin collection : Untitled, 06 March 1940, by Leslie Adkin.
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Peaceful Dili, capital of the Island of Timor.Dili, capital of Portuguese Timor, is now a regular of call for flying-boats the Qantas-Empire ***** Here is the first ship ***** regular service coming ***** to the coral-ringed lag *****. March 09, 1955.
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Vintage Photograph. Air view of Mothball Fleet of ships in storage from WWII
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Description: The shark safely "landed" on the tanker's deck. Description: The Quoins Islands (Salamah wa Binat-ha)at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. Location: Quoins Islands, Salamah wa Binat-ha, Persian Gulf, Persia
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Air photo over the Oljehamnen in Nynäshamn.
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Wreckage at Hotel Nantasket after storm of 1898. Wreckage at Hotel Nantasket after storm of 1898
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Broad Bay, Regatta time 1906., Dunedin, by Muir & Moodie.
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Poll photo collection. Rijnvaart, report from Tugboat Duvo 9: West Germany. Drachenfels with Ruin Burg Drachenfels seen about the stranger brakes on the Damco 9. April 1, 1955. Drachenfels, Germany, West Germany
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Riverboats and passengers, 1920s to 1930s, Whanganui River, by Roland Searle.
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The "Royal Iris" ready to run her trial: The new luxury ferry-boat, built to carry 2,500 passengers at a time between Liverpool and Wallasey, has just been completed at William Denny and Brothers yard at Dumbarton, and she has been undergoing her trials in the Gareloch. It was arranged that the Royal Iris should leave the Clyde or the Mersey on April 27, but much depended upon her having fair weather for her trip on the Irish Sea. One of the great features of the ferry-boat is her spacious centrally-placed dance floor (inset on left), which covers an area of 60 ft. by 45 ft. and has no obstructing pillars. May 05, 1951. (Photo by The Sphere).
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British Warships Cancel Black Sea Trip -- Picture just receiving, showing the British warships in the ***** Istanbul.British warships visiting 1st. ***** are canceling their proposed black sea trip and are returning to Alexandria on Sunday to participate in Eastern Mediterranean maneuvers. This news was announced in Ankara last night as Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief, British Mediterranean Fleet, flew back to Istanbul from Ankara after seeing General Inonu, Turkey's President. August 3, 1939. (Photo by Keystone).
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Collotype - Le port en hiver, Gaspé, QC, about 1910
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Air views of Palestine. Aircrafts etc. of the Imperial Airways Ltd., on the Sea of Galilee and at Semakh. Flying boat awaited at Tiberias. Crowds expecting the first sea plane to alight on the Lake of Galilee. 1931, Israel, Tiberias
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The size of the steam ferry at Dartmouth is an indication of the number of people who need to cross the Dart from this bank to that, or that bank to this, as the case may be. Date: 1919
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Alaska - Petersburg, Aerial Photograph.
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Poll photo collection. Rijnvaart, report from Tugboat Duvo 9: West Germany. Drachenfels with Ruin Burg Drachenfels seen over the flag and strand brakes of the Damco 9. April 1, 1955. Drachenfels, Germany, West Germany
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River ferry gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives
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Barcelona, Spain - Cable car from Miramar Date: circa 1930s
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Description: A record 110-boat fleet moored in Hamilton Harbour at the end of the 1958 Newport-to-Bermuda Ocean Yacht Race. Location: Hamilton, Bermuda Date: 1958 caribbean, bermuda, caribbeanthroughalens
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Port Chalmers, Railway Station, Wharves and Otago Heads photographic postcards
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Shipping, Wellington, 1905, Wellington, by Muir & Moodie.
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High angle view of boats docked at a port, Port de Limpia, Nice, France, C.1895
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1960s PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CABLE CAR ABOUT TO DESCEND HILL WITH VIEW TO ALCATRAZ ISLAND AND PRISON IN BAY SAN FRANCISCO CA USA
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Západní přístav (Ústí nad Labem), Barges of the Czech Republic, Elbe in Ústí nad Labem, Steamships on the Elbe in Bohemia, Railway line 090 (Czech Republic), 1911, Ústí nad Labem Region, Aussig, Blick vom Marienberg ins Elbtal und auf den Hafen
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Lyttelton Regatta Time, 1906, Lyttelton, by Muir & Moodie.