Historical Naval Engravings

A collection of vintage lithographs depicting naval battles, warships, and maritime events from various historical periods, showcasing dramatic sea scenes.

Engraving depicting the engagement of British Warships with Taiping Rebels at Nanking

The First Anglo-Chinese War (1839-42), known popularly as the First Opium War or simply the Opium War, was fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing Dynasty of China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice. Chinese officials wished to stop what was perceived as an outflow of silver and to control the spread of opium, and confiscated supplies of opium from British traders. The British government, although not officially denying China's right to control imports, objected to this seizure and used its newly developed military power to enforce violent redress. In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking-the first of what the Chinese later called the unequal treaties-granted an indemnity to Britain, the opening of five treaty ports, and the cession of Hong Kong Island, thereby ending the trade monopoly of the Canton System. The failure of the treaty to satisfy British goals of improved trade and diplomatic relations led to the Second Opium

View of Puerto de la Union, insurgents headquarter, El Salvador, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1177, Volume XLVI, September 16, 1865.

ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE Training naval cadets on a swinging model boat. Date: 1889

A naval battle. He took the collision three vessels, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, (1880-81).

'The Town and Harbour of Portsmouth with a View of his Majesty's Fleet at Spithead', 18th century. Creator: Unknown.

Shown here is a scene of the sea battle at Lepanto. It is from a fresco by Andrea Bicentino that was done in the Ducal (or Doges) Palace in Venice. TheBattle of Lepantowas a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of European Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras. Andrea Vicentino(c. 1542 - 1617) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Battista Maganza. Born in Vicenza, he was also kn

Brigantine ready to run low, making distress signals, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1841.

The Great Fire of London 1666. From the book Gallery of Historical Portraits published c.1880.

Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Battle of Chemulpo Bay. 9 February 1904. Coast of Korea. Japanese victory. Engraving.

Philippine Revolution (1896-1898). Uprising against the Spanish colonial government. 1st class iron-hulled cruiser "Reina Cristina" (1892), flagship of the Spanish squadron in the naval battle of Cavite, Manila Bay (1st May 1898). Photoengraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1898.

Line engraving depicting the Boats of the Boulogne Flotilla for the invasion of England as they appeared in Charente Bay. Published by J. Fairburn. Dated 1803

Several troop transport ships take on equipment, supplies, and soldiers at the docks of Fort Defiance at Cairo, Illinois. On June 19, 1862, they began their southern advance up the Tennessee River during the US Civil War (BSLOC_2018_7_6)

Two boats (mahonne) ties together for landing the English infantry, Crimean War, from a drawing by Durand-Brager, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 604, Volume XXIV, September 23, 1854.

Illustration; A Spanish Galleon of the Spanish1588 Armada is Wrecked off the Irish Coast 1588

THE VISIT OF THE FRENCH FLEET

Landing at Newfoundland ca. 1866 Robert Charles Dudley British. Landing at Newfoundland 436227

Salon of 1842 / S.A.R. The Prince of Joinville Commanding La Frégate The Chicken Chicken brings to / his edge the body of the Emperor Napoleon to bring him back to France. (IT)

Of the fire and shooting of the city of Antwerp on October 27, 1830, under the command of Z. Exc.e Luit.t Gener.l Baron D.H. Chassé; With the position of Z.M. Smal part under Kommando van den Kapit.n ter Zee, Jonkh.r J.E. Lewe van Aduard, 1830 - 1831 print The bombing of Antwerp by the Dutch warships under the command of General Chassé, from the Scheldt, 27 October 1830. Centrally between the ships the gunboat of Van Speijk, on the right the burning Entrepôt. At the bottom of the margin the names of the ships and their captains depicted. print maker: Netherlandspublisher: Rotterdam paper etching bombardment Antwerp. Scales

EAST AFRICA British naval vessels attack a slave-trading establishment in Mozambique Date: 1851

. The ship from the ship Drenthe under command of Captain Balthasar G. Smissaert at the island of Minorca during the storm from 3-4 February 1784. Part of a series of historic events at sea in the 1981-1784, second series. At the print a trickle strip of blue paper with title, originating from the original folder.

The Abyssinian Expedition: a sketch on the shore at Zulla, Annesley Bay, 1868. Engraving of a sketch by Captain F. F. Atkinson, of the 45th Regiment (British Army). '...a stirring and bustling scene meets the eye: men of various nations are hurrying to and fro, some...loading trucks with stores and provision of all sorts; others disembarking cattle, mules, camels, and elephants...Officers and men of all the services are working like slaves, dressed in every conceivable costume...In passing along the pier, one is warned by the desperate screech of an approaching engine to get out of the way...A

War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Western South america with Bolivia and Peru in front of Chile as a belligerants. Peruvian navy. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustraci≥n Espa±ola y Americana, 1879. Colored.

Naval cadets on the Royal Navy training ship HMS Worcester. Hauling on reefing tackle during sailing drill. Woodcut, London, 1888.

Battalion No. 2 embarking on the steam ship Santo Domingo to transferring Spanish army troops to Cuba from the port of Cadiz, Spain. From La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1895

View of Uraga, Yedo Bay, Japan, during American squadron in the 1850s

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, on the 12th & 13th of April, 1861. In the distance on the left and right are artillery positions firing at the fort: Fort Moultrie and Point Cummings (BSLOC_2018_6_111)

Scenes from the fishing boat disasters at Burnmouth and Eyemouth, where a large number of deep-sea fishing boats were caught in a violent gale. 174 men lost their lives. Date: 14 October 1881

SMS König Wilhelm was an armoured frigate of the Prussian and later the German Imperial Navy. The ship was laid down in 1865 at the Thames Ironworks s...

War of 1812. American privateer ship, 'General Armstrong', repulsed boatloads of British boarding parties in Fayal Harbor, Azores, Sept. 26, 1814. Ship Captain Samuel Chester Reid eventually scuttled the ship, after the British suffered 250 casualties to 'General Armstrong's 9. His crew was protected by neutral Portuguese authorities (BSLOC_2019_6_106)

Explosion of the Dutch sailboat De Dappere Patriot in combat with the English ship Kameleon, 14 August 1781. Draughtsman: Jacobus Buys. Dating: 14-Aug-1781 - 1801. Measurements: h 82 mm × w 56 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

1860s FEBRUARY 1862 GENERAL AMBROSE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION LANDING ON ROANOKE ISLAND NORTH CAROLINA USA

Engraving of a number of sketches of the Caswell Mutiny, which took place on the sailing ship 'Caswell' between Valparaiso and Queenstown, Ireland, March 1876. On the left can be seen James Carrick, who broke the mutiny, in the centre the ship 'Caswell' being towed into Queenstown by HMS 'Goshawk' and on the right, Christo Baumbo, the surviving mutineer. Date: 1876

George Bryant Campion, 1796-1870, British, Hauling in the Nets, undated. Watercolor, graphite, black chalk, and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, wove paper.

The Forge on Deck, Night of August 9th: Preparing the Iron Plating for Capstan. Artist: Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826-1909). Dimensions: Sheet: 7 in. × 10 3/8 in. (17.8 × 26.3 cm). Date: 1865-66.One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer. An initially successful attempt in 1858, led by Cyrus W. Field and financed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, failed after three weeks. Two working cables were finally laid in July and September 1866, the result of repeated efforts by the indefatigable Field, a cadre of engineers, technicians, and sailors, two groups of financial backers, and significant help from the British and United States navies. This watercolor by Dudley shows repairs being made to lifting gear on the deck of the Great Eastern. After successfully reaching Newfoundland with a

U.S Mail boat dock, Harrison's Landing, James River, Virginia--Floating houses of the contrabands erected on the freight boats, etc.. After a sketch by J.H. Schell, Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1862 Aug. 9, p. 308. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, African-Americans, Piers & wharves, Virginia, James River, 1860-1870, Military life, Union, Virginia, James River, 1860-1870.

17th Century engraving of the English naval ship 'Sovereign of the Seas'. Dated 17th Century

American ship USS Merrimac hit by a torpedo in the Bay of Santiago, June 1898, Spanish-American war, drawing by Bonquart, Cuba, 19th century.

1860s APRIL 1861 BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER

The destruction of the Nashville by the Ironclad Monitor Montauk during the American Civil War, 1863

Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 April 27, pp. 264-265. Forts & fortifications, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Cannons, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.), 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Destruction & pillage, Confederate.

Philippines - 19th century - Battle of Manila Bay, 1st may 1898. United States victory in Spanish-American War

Equipage dune embarcation attaque par des morses. Lithographer: Unknown

Engraving depicting the final assault of the Russians under Peter the Great on a Swedish Fortress. Dated 18th Century

Battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac, Battle of Hampton Roads, USA Civil War, March 1862

The Sinking of the Cumberland by the Iron Clad Merrimac, off Newport News VA, March 8th, 1862 Sketched by F. Newman, Lithograph by Currier and Ives, 1862

Sinking of the Japanese warship 'Hatsuse', May 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.

Sunken treasure detector, 1911. Artist: Unknown

Captain Cook and his crew land at Botany Bay, Australia. Though there was a minor skirmish with the local Gweagal aborigines it was nowhere near as intense as suggested by this 19th century print by

The Nile Expedition (1884-1885). British mission commanded by Wolseley (1833-1913) to relief Major-General Charles George Gordon (1833-1885) at Khartoum, Sudan. Gordon had been sent to Sudan to help the Egyptians withdraw their garrisons after the British decided to abandon Sudan in the face of a rebellion led by Sudanese religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Fahal, the self-proclaimed Mahdi. Copeman's canoe raft, one of the crafts chosen by the Royal Navy to form part of the expedition. It was designed by E. S. Coperman, from Westminster. Drawing by Juan Comba. Engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustración Española y Americana). October 15, 1884. Author: Juan Comba García (1852-1924). Spanish illustrator.

German bombers attack the British fleet at their base at Scapa Flow, Scotland, and do enormous damage to naval vessels Date: March 1940

Battle of Sevastopol by Vasily (George Wilhelm) Timm, lithograph, 1854, 1820-1895, Russia, St Petersburg, Pushkin Memorial Museum

THE ANNEXATION OF THE FIJI ISLANDS

The Battle on the River Bank during the Homestead Strike, 1892

View of the port of Toulon, from Port-Neuf taken at the corner of Artillery Park, 1755, by Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789). Detail.

Spanish-American War 1898: US Navy warships in action. Centre left the first class cruiser armoured Brooklyn. A torpedo boat, front right. Print c1898.

In this American revolutionary war scene, General George Washington crosses the Delaware River on December 25, 1776.

Spain. Murcia. The flood of Santa Teresa (15 October 1879). Flood in the Marques de Camacho square. Engraving by Carretero. "La Ilustración Española y Americana", 1879.

Gun and Mortar boats on the Mississippi. USA Civil War

Newport, Kentucky, Oct. 1861. Schell, Francis H., 1834-1909. 1861. Sketches, Drawings, Illustrations. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Captain Nelson challenging a Midshipman to race to the masthead

The First Anglo-Chinese War (1839-42), known popularly as the First Opium War or simply the Opium War, was fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing Dynasty of China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice. Chinese officials wished to stop what was perceived as an outflow of silver and to control the spread of opium, and confiscated supplies of opium from British traders. The British government, although not officially denying China's right to control imports, objected to this seizure and used its newly developed military power to enforce violent redress. In 1842, the Treaty of Nankingthe first of what the Chinese later called the unequal treatiesgranted an indemnity to Britain, the opening of five treaty ports, and the cession of Hong Kong Island, thereby ending the trade monopoly of the Canton System. The failure of the treaty to satisfy British goals of improved trade and diplomatic relations led to the Second Opium

French military requisitioning fishing nets from fishermen, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. French Shore of the island of Newfoundland 1886 by Lieutenant Louis Koenig (1847-1920)

Bombing of Antwerp, 1830, Pieter van der Meulen, After Johannes Steyn, 1830 - 1832 print Bombing of Antwerp by Dutch warships under the command of Baron Chassé, on October 27, 1830. From the Scheldt the Dutch ships shoot on the city, the burning city on the left. Netherlands paper etching bombardment. bombardment ~ siege Antwerp

Bombardment of Port Arthur by the Japanese

The Seaforth Highlanders being towed up to Assouan(also spelt Aswan) on their way to the front. 1898

Engraving showing the skating rink that was created beside the winter quarters of HMS 'Discovery' during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876. In the summer of 1875 the British Admiralty sent Captain George Nares with two ships, HMS 'Alert' and HMS 'Discovery', to make an attempt to reach the North Pole via Smith Sound. Although the attempt was unsuccessful, a new 'furthest North' record was set, the coasts of Greenland and Ellesmere Island were charted and much scientific

The invasion fleet carries Garibaldi's 'thousand' from Quarto, Sicily, to invade the Italian mainland.

Illustration depicting a type of Venetian Galley used in the Battle of Lepanto. The Battle of Lepanto involved a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of European Catholic maritime states arranged by Pope Pius V, decisively defeated the fleet of the Ottoman. Dated 16th Century

Waiting for a load of exchanged prisoners at Aiken's Landing, James River, March, 1865, US, USA, America, Vintage photography

Anefo photo collection. KLM 40 years at Schiphol, with reproduction Sea Battle of 1573. March 22, 1960. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

Historical scene, US-American history, 19th century, naval battle of Boston Harbor on 1st June 1813 between the ships HMS Shannon and USS Chesapeake

Anefo photo collection. Kazenter Kattenburg of Lieutenant Meyer. July 20, 1949

Die Sturmflut bei Hamburg am 22. Dezember 1894, Deutschland, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

Engraving depicting the 'Great Eastern' used during the creation of the Atlantic Telegraph. Shows the men working by gas light. Dated 19th Century

The mutineers turning Lieut Bligh and part of the officers and crew adrift from his Majesty's ship the Bounty', 1790. Artist: Robert Dodd.

Boer War: Boer leader De Wet attempting to lead a party across a railway in face of fire from an armoured train and blockhouse (1899-1902).

Scene on the Delaware River at Philadelphia during the severe winter of 1856

Chatham Siege Operations: explosion of mines under the Medway, 1871. British Army training. 'The six or seven mines laid under water, across the river Medway, from Gillingham Hard, to be exploded in succession by electric sparks from the instruction-ship Volta, produced a great sensation. Each of these mines was charged with 50 lb. of gun-cotton, placed in an indiarubber bag sealed with glue. The submarine mines used in real warfare would probably be of 500 lb., in metal cases. Each bag of gun-cotton was furnished with a fuse, consisting of a platinum wire surrounded with fulminate of mercury.

The crew of the Hansa surviving the winter in a shelter built of coal dust briquettes floating on sea ice. Old 19th century engraved illustration. Second German North Polar Expedition in 1869 from El Mundo en La Mano 1879

U.S. History Illustrations: Destruction of the rebel ram Arkansas By the United States gunboat Essex .

Primera guerra mundial (1914-1918). Explosión de una granada turca en el acorazado inglés Inflexible. Author: Francisco Navarrete Sierra.

First-Class Cruisers, U.S. Navy - Werner

Captain John Paul Jones capturing the British ship Serapis, September 23, 1779

Devastation, French Navy, from the Naval Vessels of the World series (N226) issued by Kinney Bros. 1889 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Trade cards from the "Naval Vessels of the World" series (N226), issued in 1889 to promote Kinney Tobacco Company.. Devastation, French Navy, from the Naval Vessels of the World series (N226) issued by Kinney Bros.. 1889. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Destruction of the rebel ram "Arkansas": By the United States gunboat "Essex," on the Mississippi River, near Baton Rouge, August 4th 1862 | Library of Congress

Gun for firing dynamite projectiles. It was tested at Fort Hamilton, one of the US Army installations in New York. US cruiser equipped with this type of gun. Engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustración Española y Americana), 1884.

Engraving of a number of sketches of the Caswell Mutiny, which took place on the sailing ship 'Caswell' between Valparaiso and Queenstown, Ireland, March 1876. At top left can be seen James Carrick, who broke the mutiny; at bottom left the ship 'Caswell' being towed into Queenstown by HMS 'Goshawk' and at bottom right, Christo Baumbo, the surviving mutineer. Date: 1876

Battle of Manila Harbor, Spanish American War

US Civil War. Siege of Charleston, August 1863. Two rows of Union mortar batteries bombard Fort Wagner and Gregg Battery on Morris Island. The siege followed two Union army assaults on Fort Wagner in July, which failed with the Union suffering 10 times the casualties of the defending Confederates (BSLOC_2018_8_100)

SEPTEMBER 1813 MASTER COMMANDANT OLIVER HAZARD PERRY TRANSFERRING FROM USS LAWRENCE TO USS NIAGARA BATTLE LAKE ERIE WAR OF 1812

Print; coloured lithograph - The Great Fire Near London Bridge, Saturday June 22nd 1861. Date/Period: 1861. Paintings, Prints and Drawings. Paper. Author: Read and Company.

Sinking of the Alabama, June 11, 1864, U.S. Navy 1776 - 1899

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