Historical Ships at Anchor

A collection of vintage ships, including merchant cruisers and hospital ships, depicted at anchor in various waters. The images capture historical maritime design and somber themes.

Hospital ship at anchor. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes.

Mine sweep Hr.Ms. Boar (1946-1961) (ex-rans toowoomba) in Surabaya.

Steamship Swan at sea, 1902 photograph Photo from album "Photographies". England (possibly)Netherlands (possibly) cardboard. paper

España. Tarjeta postal. Marina de guerra. Crucero Reina Regente. Año 1910.

The schooner 'Allah Karim' at anchor, 1912. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes.

Screw steam ship from Speyk in the port of Den Helder. .

"Foremost." 17 Salvage Vessel - Merchant Shipping. March 10, 1952.

Minsk destroyer, 1935, Russia, drawing.

The ship "West Coast".

The steamer "Saint Nicholas", that took exile Lenin from Krasnoyarsk to Minusinks,

Hochsee passenger steamer "Emperor" of Hapag Hamburg. Angular view of aft with bugsierchlepp steamers alongside the starboard side

Helenita - ship, owned by F.J. Gould

HMS Maine, an Auxiliary Hospital ship of the Royal Navy. 1912

Ss Queen Elizabeth Underway at sea

Transparency - T. V. N. Co. steamer Esturion, ON, about 1900

NEPTUNE U.S.N.

American transatlantic steamship, 'Arago', 1856. Artist: Unknown

The sailing yacht 'Sea Belle' under way, 1911. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes.

Yacht Zarya in the Norwegian dock.

Reproduction image in 1905. of the port of Ystad 1864. Picture from the magazine home's image material.

Anefo photo collection. Amerigo Vespucci (Italian Training ship) in Rotterdam. September 18, 1961. Rotterdam, South Holland

07/31/1912. The Steamers "Sister" and Lázaro". Docked for the first time at the Florentina dock in Melilla, Embarking Soldiers Licensed for the Peninsula - photo Fustero - Approximate date.

ALFONSO XIII

Director Karl Wilhelm Hagelin's father's "Zat". The image is included in two large photo albums by Director Karl Wilhelm Hagelin who worked long at Nobel's oil facilities in Baku.

Light ship

Travel photos Denmark. Copenhagen. Large sailing ship and little steamer in the harbor basin

German ship Kron Prinz Wilhelm in tow circa 1916.

Vintage Photograph. US Coast Guard training ship known as "Eagle"

"Mauretania" - Cunard Liner Launched 1936 - Merchant Shipping. May 13, 1940. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Hamburg-America Line "Fatherland" Hamburg (Second steamer of the Emperor class of Hapag) at a quay

Schooner Arlington. Four-masted schooner being pounded to pieces on the rocky Massachusetts coast, after being blown ashore in a storm. Schooner Arlington wrecked on Long Beach, L.I. The Ship's crew may be seen clinging to the bowsprit of the doomed vessel. 060526.

Shipping, ship 'Saint Paul,' Charles H. Allen, Master , Marines Visual works, Ships, St. Paul Ship : 1835-1851. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

The Russian Imperial Yacht 'Standart' at Cowes, 1909. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes.

Whaling in the Ross sea Nitrate negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

transport transportation navigation steam ships British barque ""Edwin Fox"" New Zealand circa 1900,

Suez Canal, ship entering from the Red Sea, Egypt, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, Africa

German Ships, Hoboken, 12/11/14

Passenger liner of the Hamburg-Amerika line, on the day of its launch, 10th January 1900. (note : there were many vessels with this name) Date: 10th January 1900

Schooner 'Fantome' under way, 1913. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes.

Shipping, ship 'Saint Paul,' Charles H. Allen, Master , Marines Visual works, Ships, St. Paul Ship : 1835-1851. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Photograph of the Port View of the SS Thamesmede. Photograph Of Port View. May 17th., 1918. Photograph of S. S. Thamesmede:- Nationality- British. Tonnage- 3618.9. Captain- A. Hemsley. Owners- Adams & Co. New Castle, Eng. (on the Tyne) Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.. Where from- Straight of Gibralter Strait of Gibraltar, Dest. Bordeux Bordeaux, France. Where photographed- Savannah, Ga. Sixth Naval District. By whom photographed- J. Boyd Dearborn. Date photographed- May 11th., 1918.. 1918-05-11T00:00:00.

Untitled black-and-white negatives

Engraving depicting the 'Great Eastern' used during the creation of the Atlantic Telegraph. The converted frigate 'Amethyst' is delivering the cable to the 'Great Eastern'. Dated 19th Century

MAYFLOWER, 5/10/14

DINNER held by COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE at PAQUEBOT WASHINGTON (STEAMSHIP). Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. Menus. 1886. Rare Book Division. Ocean liners

HMS Nemesis Moored with a ship alongside.

HMS Centurion (1892). Centurion-class battleship. It was built for the Royal Navy, assigned to the China Station as its flagship. Engraving by Sampietro. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1898. Author: Sampietro. 19th century Spanish artist.

Anefo photo collection. Arrival of the "New Amsterdam". April 11, 1946

Arching canvas straining at sheet and every sail bellying ***** a fresh nor -nor Easter the Pamir romping past Tiritiri, inbounding for Auckland. March 11, 1938.

Suva and Niuafo'ou, May 1923, Aitutaki Atoll, by William Saunderson Cooper. Gift of Andrew Cooper, 2001.

The Waiwera arrives at Nelson, N.Z., circa 1910, Nelson, by Frederick Nelson Jones.

Sailing Ships (See Also: Merchant Shipping - Files For Barques, Brigantines, Clippers Early Ships & Shipping Galloons Schooners) - Merchant Shipping. August 25, 1934. (Photo by International News Photos Inc.).

Photograph showing the White Star Liner SS 'Olympic', leaving Southampton for New York in April 1913. This was her first voyage since safety modifications (larger watertight bulkheads and a double-skinned hull) had been carried out, following the disaster on the 'Titanic'. 'Olympic' was launched by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, in 1910 and at 882 foot long and weighing 45,000 tons, became the largest vessel then afloat. She was operated on the Atlantic service, between Britain and North America

Historical picture, cargo ship crosses the Suez Canal in 1908, Egypt, Africa

"Santa Clara" -- Famous old clipper chip "Santa Clara" used as a floating movie studio to film Cosmopolitan's new sea romance "Captain Salvation" which John Robertson directed with Lars Hanson, Pauline Starke, Marceline Day, Ernest Torrence and ***** table case. February 4, 1927. (Photo by International Newsreel Photo).

Photograph of the R.M.S. 'Queen Mary' on sea trials, prior to her maiden voyage from Southampton on 27 May 1936, across the Atlantic to New York. Date: May 1936

The Imperial Ironclad Frigate Asar-i Tevfik / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères

USS Cruiser Columbia, launched in 1892, built as cmmerce raider and conveyed troops in Spanish American War in 1898.

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

VATERLAND

Ship moored in Wellington harbour, 1920s-1930s, Wellington, by Roland Searle.

Capsizing Refugee Steamer Off Haifa -- Refugees are seen crowding to one side of the sinking steamer "San Dimitrio" to save her from capsizing as she lists at an angle of thirty-five degrees off Haifa, under tug control seen in right background. "San Dimitrio" which was intercepted by British off Northern Palestine Coast, October 31, and escorted towards Palestine by vessels of the Royal Navy, had more than twelve hundred illegal. Jewish immigrants aboard. January 31, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

High sea passenger steamer "Viktoria Luise" on Reede

SYGNA

Golden Fleece, Satanella (Steam yacht), Steam yachts, 1891

The armored cruiser Jeanne d'Arc, built in 1895. France, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1899

Postcard, S.M.S. Emden, circa 1914, Germany, maker unknown. Gift of Page-Howard, 1922.

Orgunal breaking up at Barrow Heads. August 18, 1941.

Engraving of the two old hulks, 'Atlas' and 'Endymion', at Deptford Creek, London, from 'The Illustrated London News', 23rd July 1881. These vessels were lent by the Admiralty to the Metropolitan Asylums Board to serve as a temporary smallpox hospital in the Thames. Date: 1881

March 1911. Ship Fire in the Thames - 5,200 Ton Merchant Steamer "North Point" Burned and Surrounded by Bomb Ships.

Anefo photo collection. Ships for "Sail Amsterdam 700" arrived at IJmuiden. The "Falken". August 14, 1975. IJmuiden, Noord-Holland

USS Constitution , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Prince Baudouin Underway at Dover, pre-war.

Viladecans (Barcelona), February 1917. A ship lost on the Catalan coast. The poor Spanish schooner Concepción Mateos, stranded on the Remarlar beach near the mouth of the Llobregat River.

Corsair, Corsair (Steam yacht), Steam yachts, 1890

The Puritan, 1891, USA

U.S. Tug "Potomac" seen in this photograph. This image was taken on July 17/18 during World War One. It is a part of the collection of photographs of American military activities. The photograph's issued number is 544 and it is marked for official use only.

Hapag steamer "Fatherland" on the Elbe and School at the Krausestraße in Hamburg-Dulsberg. .

U.S.S Lousiana in Auckland Harbour, 1900s, Auckland, by Ernest de Touret, C.B. & Co. Ltd.

Untitled black-and-white negatives

Steamers enter Port Said

The Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mahmudiye / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères

Transparency - S. S. Empress of India, Vancouver, BC, about 1900

RMS Olympic White Star Line during cruise

''The Strike of Dock Labourers at Melbourne; "Freemen" Escaping in a boat from an attack of the Union Men', 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 42. July to December, 1890.

Troops on transport, Galveston

Naval ships - British Royal Navy armored cruiser HMS Hampshire, 1903. Color illustration

FOTOGRAFIA BLANCO Y NEGRO-FRAGATA VICTORIA-Nº INV 22400. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA-FOTOGRAFIAS. MADRID. SPAIN.

R.M.S. Turakina, 12 March 1909, by David James Aldersley.

SS Gripsholm at a harbor

Transparency - Ship at anchor in Nanaimo harbour, BC, about 1930 H. H. Ragan

This photo dates to World War I. The caption reads: Sinking of the Falaba. The South African liner, Falaba, was torpedoed without warning and sank so rapidly that many passengers had no time to take to the boats. Falaba was a 5,000 ton British passenger-cargo ship. It was sunk on 28 March 1915 by the German submarine U-28, which was commanded by Baron Forstner. Falaba was off the southern Irish coast when U-28 surfaced and stopped the British ship.

Wellington from wharf gelatin dry plate negatives, black-and-white negatives

Canada Steamships Lines, Maritime Photography

Saxonia, Cunard Line, Saxonia (Steamship), Cunard line, Ships, Boat & ship companies, 1880

Anefo photo collection. Pollux 100 years. April 8, 1949

H.M.S. "Challenger" at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, by Muir & Moodie.

Concord, U.S.N., from the Famous Ships series (N50) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes 1895 Issued by Allen & Ginter American Trade cards from the "Famous Ships" series (N50), issued in 1895 by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights Cigarettes. Full series consists of 48 unnumbered cards.. Concord, U.S.N., from the Famous Ships series (N50) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes 418873

The transatlantic liner Titanic is towed out of the harbor of Southampton, United Kingdom, before sailing to New York, United States of America, photograph from the magazine L'Illustration, year 70, no 3608, April 20, 1912.

Anefo photo collection. Sail 80 Amsterdam. The Amerigo Vespucci on the IJ. August 6, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

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