Historical Maritime Scenes

Vintage images depicting busy harbors with steamships and sailing boats, capturing the essence of early 20th-century maritime transport and activity.

Feluccas and Dhows of the River Nile, Egypt. Date: circa 1920s
Feluccas and Dhows of the River Nile, Egypt. Date: circa 1920s
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Description: The photograph shows the Nantucket Light Vessel No. 85 located in the 2nd Lighthouse District, about forty miles southeast of Nantucket Island. This is a typical example of a light vessel transferred to the Navy Department by order of the President on April 11, 1917. It was later transferred to the 2nd Naval District. The vessel has a length of 135 feet 5 inches and a steel hull. It has a complement of 5 officers and 10 men. This information is for official use only.
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1906 (ca.), Wooden ship imitation of a battleship, used as a target for shooting exercises.
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in australia sidney the antique lighthouse in the sea
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Captain Thurston, Mr. Hall and the boat used, Memorial Bridge, Connecticut River, Springfield, Mass., Dec. 15, 1928 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, chemistry equipment, bridges built works
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Argentina - Madero Port, Pier No.4 - Buenos Aires 1910s
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Engraving of the Whale ships at New Bedford wharf. Dated 19th Century
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Fish BoatsAstoria, Oregon. Fish Boats
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Virginia - Newport News, Aerial Photograph.
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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
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Large houseboat barge on The Volga River (possibly with a customs or military use), Russia. circa 1910s
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Three sailing ships in the Gulf of Petalia, near Marathónas, 1898 photograph Attica baryta paper sea (seascape). ships (in general) - CC - more than one ship Petaliii gulf
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The Wreck. Col. Henry Stuart Wortley (British, 1832 - 1890)
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Boats at rest , Boats, Harbors. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection
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Image of a company on the Olga passenger ship in the Merwedekanaal in Utrecht, along the Keulsekade.
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Cruiser Hr.Ms. Sumatra (1926-1942) Trailee period during WWII in Portsrmouth, UK. All hens i.v.me birth princess marguerite
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Photo collection First World War. One of the Wrecked Zeppelins. The Center Gondola. 1914-1918}. Britain
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Historical Transportation - Alaska. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Shipyard. Shipyard. Photo briefly put on the sheath trays in the back of an album with 107 photos about the construction of the Gajoegweg on North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takenuen between 1903-1914.
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Float with ship at the Palace of the Sultan van Langkat, 1919 photograph This photo is part of an album. photographic support gelatin silver print float ~ triumph. trees Sumatra
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SS Bloodhound with a broken shaft, being towed to port by SS Diana - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: 1910
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (third from the left) among a group of figures at the stern of the 'SS Great Eastern', demonstrating the scale of the steamship. Date: 1857
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Port Said, entrance to the Suez Canal, Egypt, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated
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Description: The Eastern Car Company Limited. Loading Russian car parts at Pictou landing. Location: Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada Date: 1916 canada, americas, newbrunswickandnovascotia
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Four men on board a flat bottom on the Waterkant, c. 1903 - c. 1908 photograph Four men on board a flat bottom on the waterfront, possibly from the series of pleasure craft at a wedding or a party. Part of the photo album of Dolph Kessler with recordings he made during his stay in England and on a world trip he undertook as secretary of Henri Detding (director of Royal Oil) to the Dutch East Indies, Japan, China and the United States, between 1906 and 1908. Netherlands cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print
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Irish inventor Holland, funded by the Fenians, produces a succession of successful submarines in America ; the 'Holland' is shown at anchor in New York harbour. Date: 1900
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The caravel Half-Moon (Halve Maen) Hudson during the celebration of the Hudson-Fulton, New York, 25 September to 9 October 1909, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVI, No 42, October 17, 1909.
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Tourist boat The Maid of the Mist I (1854-1860). In the background the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge is visible. 1859, Vintage B&W Photograph by William England
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H.M.S. Vindex, Aeroplane Ship, 1914-1919, maker unknown.
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Ice Breaking On The Hudson. This image depicts the Comanche and Arundel towing the S.S. Berkshire down the Hudson River through ice. Taken in the vicinity of the Catskills.
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Havana, Cuba. Lifting on the wreck of the American warship "Maine" in front of the coast
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At Levin: The old Hydrabad battered by the surf, 23 January 1905. From the album: Family photographs 1904-1907 photographic prints, gelatin silver prints, black-and-white prints
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USA, New York City, Tugboat ""No 69""
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Hargshamn motifs from the harbor.
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Battleship versus submarine: Sir Percy Scott's views on the position of the capital ship illustrated in a series of special Sphere diagrams. Top: the fleet bottled up in a harbour by submarines. Bottom: the position of submarines outside the same harbour. Date: 1914
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S.S. Roosevelt passing through State Street Bridge, Chicago, Ill. still image. Postcards. 1907 - 1908. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Steamboats, Rivers, Drawbridges , Illinois , Chicago
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Portrait of Anthony Fokker on his plane during the Queenfeest in Haarlem, 1911, 1911 photograph Haarlem paper gelatin silver print historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life)
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On board the T.S. "Dartford" photographic postcards
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2. Royal Saxon Pioneer Battalion No. 22 Flying FerryII. K. S. Pioneer Battalion No. 22. Flying ferry
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Loading at Värtan.
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Wreck of S.S. Tyrone, Otago Heads, 27 September 1913, Otago Peninsula, by Muir & Moodie.
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The nights now became times of great anxiety. We would be awakened by the most fearsome noises of grinding ice and creaking timbers as the pressure expended its force against the sides of the ship. THe HMS Endurance during the Shackleton Expedition
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Misc - Unidentified. Unidentified Lighthouse Images.
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Historic image in sepia of a captain, crew and passengers on the deck of a steamboat, Victorian era
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At Littlehampton Pier (which is complete with windmill and lighthouse), a steam tugboat brings a large sailing ship safely into port. Date: circa 1910s
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Port, pier of Zara, today Zadar, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary, Austria-Hungary Monarchy, today Croatia, Historical, around 1900, digitally restored reproduction after an original from the 19th century.
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The Navy Yard of Pola, now Pula, Istria, Austro-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, today Croatia, Historical, around 1900, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original The Navy Yard of Pola, now Pula, Istria, Austro-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, today Croatia, Historical, around 1900, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Wreck of 'S.S. Tyrone', September, 1913, 27 September 1913, Otago Peninsula, by Muir & Moodie.
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The U.S.S. "Mapourika" Negotiating the French Pass., by Muir & Moodie, Burton Brothers.
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'East Goodwin Lightship one and a half miles east of the Goodwin Sands', 1937. Artist: Unknown.
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Quay de la Joliette, Marseilles, France, circa 1900
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Passengers on the background deck of a passenger steamer in Nordic glacier landscape
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DE - Christiana Lights. Christiana North Jetty, Delaware. Showing extent of damage and wreck of 9:15 AM, Feb. 14, 1927.
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Baross (ship, 1889), 1908, Somogy County, Siofok, Plattensee mit Dampfer Baross