Historical Maritime Illustrations

Vintage engravings depicting various maritime scenes, including shipwrecks and harbor activity, showcasing historical contexts.

Sloop Santa Marta ship grounding in Limoeiro bay, Brazil. South America. Journey through South America, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean by Paul Marcoy 1848-1860 from Le Tour du Monde 1867
Sloop Santa Marta ship grounding in Limoeiro bay, Brazil. South America. Journey through South America, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean by Paul Marcoy 1848-1860 from Le Tour du Monde 1867
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Illustration showing Lattice girder bridge designed by J.S. Crossley to carry the Mangotsfield branch, of the Midland Railway, over the Avon
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The Ark Royal (1587), by Claes Janszoon Visscher (Claes Jansz Visscher), (1587-1652) The galleon 'Ark Raleigh' was built at Deptford for Sir Walter Raleigh in 1587. The following year she was commissioned into the Royal Navy and re-named the 'Ark Royal'. She was the Lord High Admiral's flagship against the Spanish Armada in 1588. The vessel was 100 feet long on the keel, had a beam of 37 feet and carried 44 guns.
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The Bessemer ship, correcting the ship's listing, section of the main dining hall, illustration by Smeeton Tilly from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1662, Volume LXV, January 2, 1875.
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The Abyssinian Expedition: pier and landing-place at Zulla, Annesley Bay, 1868. Engraving from a photograph by Captain Pottinger, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General. 'This pier...is about 300 yards long. It has been constructed with great labour; every stone being carried across by the boats from the opposite shore of Annesley Bay. Rails have been laid down to the end of the pier, and trucks are now running to and fro, busily working to convey the vast supplies of commissariat stores and ammunition which are continually being landed here, and several piles of which may be seen on the land,
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Illustration of the 'Soleil Royal', the finest ship of the navy of King Louis XIV. Dated 18th Century
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Wreck of a rowing boat lies on the shore, three children have discovered it as a playground and are rowing on dry land, Historic, digitally restored r...
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Illustration depicting John MacGregor's canoe. John MacGregor (1825-1892) a Scottish explorer, travel writer and philanthropist, who is credited for developing the first sailing canoe. Dated 19th century
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Transport of hay, Selenogradsk or Cranz, Samland, Curonian Spit, Curonian Lagoon, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, harbour, loading, transport, one-master, shipping, wagon, historical illustration 1880, Europe
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STOPPAGE OF THE MAIL-TRAIN IN THE BLISWORTH CUTTING, LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
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The Burning of the Vauxhall Railway Station, seen from Battersea-Bridge, 1856. '...a sudden alarm of fire arose, and the same instant it was discovered that a small ante-room adjoining the booking-office, and occupied by the clerk in charge, was in flames. In a very few moments the fire had extended to the booking office itself; and so remarkably rapid was its progress that the officials present, so far from being able to stay its ravages, were compelled to make a hasty retreat...the fire travelled with the rapidity ot electricity, seizing upon the whole of the offices, then extending to the t
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WRECK IN SWANSEA BAY, 1870
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Steam pump boat used for the construction of the Aswan Dam on the Nile River, Egypt. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886
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The landing platform that Thomas Alva Edison envisaged for his flying machines Date: 1880
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A diagram showing the advance in ship-building from the foundation of the Cunard Company from the 1840 Cunarder 'Britannia', at the time a wonder ship but with meagre accommondation for only 115 passengers, followed by the Russia in 1867, the Etruria and Umbria in 1884, Campania and Lucania in 1893, Carmania in 1905, Mauretania in 1907, Aquitania in 1914, Berengaria in 1919 and finally, the enormous 'Queen Mary', which operated mainly in the North Atlantic. Launched in September 1934, her maiden
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Early Germanic Saxon boat is the Nydam boat. Nydam was once a bog in southern Denmark. The 23 meter long oak boat known as the Nydam boat has been dated to around 310 A.D.
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Stern of a warship, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.
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Caravan of the Fair through a series of narrow past, vintage engraving. Caravan of the Fair through a series of narrow past, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Cesar Cascabel, 1890. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10659740
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Engraving depicting a train halted by debris on the track during a rain storm. Dated 19th century
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Regents Canal, London: Horse-drawn barge passing through Kensal Green. Engraving, London, 1885.
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Streamlined Dreams of the Past: Travel to the North Pole by Hot Air Balloons, 1877 Artist Unknown
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Life on board. The dining room, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, (1879-80).
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An amusing illustration of the latest sensational railway design, the 'Leap Frog' railway. The railway consists of a track about five hundred feet long. Two cars were intended to rush towards each other from opposite ends. By means of a series of guides leading up to a set of rails passing over the roof of each car, one vehicle was intended to override the other. At the point that the carriages looked like they would collide one car passed over the roof of the other while continuing safely on.
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Taxi-ing behind a motor boat: a new thrill for bathers. Water planing on a plank towed at 35 mph. Date: 1913
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Engraving depicting the 'Great Eastern' used during the creation of the Atlantic Telegraph. Dated 19th Century
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1870s 1880s STAGECOACH ON CURVE ON THE PERILOUS DEADWOOD ROAD THROUGH THE BLACK HILLS OF DAKOTA TERRITORY USA
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Between Staplehurst and Rochester, U.K., 1887, Mail Cart in a snow drift
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Engraving depicting Falmer Tunnel. Dated 19th century
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Roman galley 1st century AD
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Engraving of the Berthon Folding Canoe designed by The Rev. E. L. Berthon. Dated 19th Century
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An artist in 1905 shows what the London of 1955 will be like - that is, provided there aren't any wars to get in the way of peaceful progress... Date: 1905
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Fahrradfahrt über die Niagarafälle, eine Velocipede-Fahrt über die Niagarafälle ist ein kühnes Unterfangen, das im 19. Jahrhundert von einigen Wagemutigen unternommen wurde, Amerika, Historisch, Reproduktion von einer Vorlage mit einer Szene aus dem 19. Jahrhundert 1f-4999502
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Scene near saint Katherine's Dock - the bowsprit of a sailing vessel overarches the street. Date: 1892
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transport transportation railway accidents Austria Brenner Railway near Blumau Etsch Valley wood engraving late 19th century,
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A railway accident. Lithograph by Paul Van Rijssel (Paul-Ferdinand Gachet), 1879.
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The high bridge at Levensau near Kiel over the Kiel Canal, being passed by a steamship, c. 1900, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century original
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On the deck of a steamboat, Lake Constance, historic wood engraving, about 1897
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Long Island was a low yellow line on the left / W.T. Smedley. | Library of Congress
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Göschenen on the Gotthard Railway, Railway Bridge over the Göschener Reuss, 1895, Switzerland, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date not Stated 1f-4898375
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Views of the Gotthard railway, development of the railway at the Biaschina gorge in the Valle Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland, 1898, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Engraving depicting the Vitznau-Rigi Klum Cogwheel Railway: Locomotive and car crossing viaduct from tunnel, Lake Luzern in the background. Dated 19th century
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'Palling Boat: Throwing the life-line', c1900. Creator: Unknown.
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Norman Vessel, 12th Century, Illustration from John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Vol. I from the earliest period to the reign of Edward the Fourth, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1857
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The dramas of India. This should be enough to raft two people, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, (1879-80).
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Conversation in a railway carriage, in 1870, England, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown
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Archival miniature print of fishermen at sea in multiple boats, Japan, c 1930. (Photo by Allan Seiden, Legacy Archive/Getty Images)
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Engraving of the Crimean Tartar Saloon on Czar Alexander II's steam yacht 'Livadia', built at John Elder's shipyard, Govan, in 1880. Extremely lavishly fitted out, this yacht was given a radical design, supposedly based on the shape of a turbot. This flat fish design, 235 foot long, 153 foot wide at it's beamiest and with only 6 foot draught, was very unsuccessful, with passengers complaining of extreme seasickness. The 'Livadia' was broken up in 1927. Date: 1880
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Alphonse Pénaud's helicopter, driven by twisted rubber bands. Alphonse Pénaud (1850-1880) a French aviation designer and engineer. Dated 19th Century
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Vorrichtung zur Veranschaulichung des Vogelfluges, Flugsimulator, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahr...
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Thomas Alva Edison's flying ship, the larger of his two projected flying machines Date: 1880
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Sherlock Holmes, disguised as an old Italian priest, waits for the train to pull out of Victoria Station, London From "Adventure of the Final Problem" By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Published in Strand Magazine in 1893 Sidney Paget (1860-1908 English)