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Historical Watercraft

Sepia-toned photographs of classic sailing ships and boats on serene waters. The images evoke nostalgia for past maritime journeys.

Side view of a jetty on the Suez Canal, with palm trees and buildings behind it. Taken from onboard as the ship passes down the canal. Original manuscript caption: Station on Suez Canal.
Side view of a jetty on the Suez Canal, with palm trees and buildings behind it. Taken from onboard as the ship passes down the canal. Original manuscript caption: Station on Suez Canal.
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Remains of ship Hydrabad Levin Beach black-and-white prints
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Three sailing ships, including the Encore, Yvonne and Woodcock, in Water, James Adamson (attributed to), c. 1880 - c. 1900 photograph This photo is part of an album. photographic support albumen print sailing-ship, sailing-boat. landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone)
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Portrait of Loo Ootmarsum jr. In a boat. .
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"Semper Paratus" in Practice. Two hours and 300 miles later. Coast Guard emergency flood boats are "flipped" into the Ohio at Louisville, Kentucky ready for use. These rugged, 13-foot, emergency boats, built of Marine plywood, were loaded aboard a Coast Guard Curtis commando (C-46) at St. Louis, Missouri and "flown" to Louisville, Kentucky in a practical demonstration of how the Coast Guard's flood preparation program works. The demonstration proved that any flood area within 320 miles of St. Louis can, within two hours, be supplied with boats, radio equipment, and rescue personnel. This boat is being "dumped" into the water from a Truck at the Louisville, Kentucky life boat station - the Coast Guard's only floating lifeboat station on the rivers. As one Coast Guardsman station succinctly "In case of flood we don't use trucks - we just hit the water." Semper Paratus - Always Ready.
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The picture shows the corvette Eugenie who anchors in front of Kastellholmen in Stockholm.Sail is revived, on the marrow platform on the fock mast and the stormest working crewmen.In the case of port side and aft, several rowing boats, from which rope ladder leads up on the upper deck of the ship. The picture shows the corvette Eugenie who anchor in front of Kastellholmen in Stockholm.Sail is revived, on the marrow platform on the fock mast and the stormest working crewmen.When port side and stern are several rowing boats, from which the rope ladder leads up on the upper deck of the ship.
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'The Last Boat Leaves for the Ship', c1911, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting.
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Pier with railway and cranes, presumably in South Africa, c. 1880 - c. 1910 photograph Part of photo album of a trip through the United States, Honolulu, Dutch East Indies, Aden, Zanzibar and Southern Africa. South Africa cardboard. paper. photographic support pier, quay, wharf South Africa
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Bering Sea Expedition - Tandem Method (3 of 9). In this solid field of ice in the Bering Sea, the two icebreakers try a tandem method of breaking ice. Ramming, backing and ramming again, the vessels try forcing their way side by side in a parallel line.
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Titanic Lifeboats. RMS Tititanic Lifeboats. Illustration of how the lifeboats were lowered down the steel wall of Titanic, compared with a city office building. Titanic carried a total of 20 lifeboats, not enough to hold all the passengers and crew and when the lifeboats were launched they were not filled to capacity. Of the 2,227 passengers and crew members who set sail, only 705 Titanic passengers survived. Titanic was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast Ireland during 1910 - 1911 and later sa
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Sailboat at Lac Léman (Genfersee, Lac de Geneva) with the mountain dents du Midi in the background.
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Description: Deep Sea Fishing Junk in Hong Kong Harbour. Location: Hong Kong Date: 1926 hongkong, asia, asiathroughalens
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"May 1918 - The first steel ship built south of Newport, named "Mexoil," is seen here shortly after its launch. Constructed by the Alabama-New Orleans Transportation Company for the Mexican Petroleum Corporation, this 3,000-ton vessel is a significant achievement for the region's shipbuilding industry. The successful launch demonstrates the potential for constructing even larger ships in the narrow canal with limited lock capacity."
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Ship with smoking chimneys sailing at Fire Island near New York, 1906 photograph Part of a travel album of a Dutch family with sights in Europe, Egypt and New York. Long Island cardboard. paper. photographic support gelatin silver print freight vessel. steamship, motorship Long Island
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Captain Sauernman of the SS America standing on deck next to a steering column, 1906 photograph Part of a travel album of a Dutch family with sights in Europe, Egypt and New York. Atlantic Ocean cardboard. paper. photographic support gelatin silver print passenger liner. crew ~ ship Atlantic Ocean
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Elsevier photo collection. Aerial recording. Flood Maas Cuyk. January 1926. Cuijk, Maas
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Sailing Reefen "from the folder" from Schleswig-Holstein ".,
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Julian Fałat, The train has passed. L.J. (fl. ca 1903), photographer, Tygodnik Ilustrowany (Warszawa ; czasopismo ; 1859-1939), publisher
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An icebreaker in the Canadian seas, photo from L'illustrazione Italiana, year LX, n 42, October 15, 1933.
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Ships on the Maas in Rotterdam, Willem Adrianus Grondhout, 1888 - 1934 print paper etching river. ships (in general) Mesh. Rotterdam
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The dangers of sailing. To the rescue , Sailboats, Rescues
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Photographic print of a wrecked Japanese ship at Kiska, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands and of Alaska. Dated 20th Century
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Face over the deck of the boat between Ryde and Portsmouth.
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Along the wharf of Savannan River, Savannah, Ga , Rivers, Piers & wharves
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Sailing boats at a pier in Granville, 1897 photograph Part of photo album of a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first cars and car races. Granville paper. photographic support pier, quay, wharf. sailing-ship, sailing-boat Granville
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Elsevier photo collection. Launch of the S.S. "Lingedijk". April 1921
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Elsevier photo collection. Boulevard Zandvoort rain. June 21, 1955. Noord-Holland, Zandvoort
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Northwest Passage. The black hull of the U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender Spar stands out in sharp contrast to the white Arctic ice compressed around her during the tense hours she was beset in ice in Amundsen Gulf. She waited patiently for a break to proceed onward to Dolphin and Union Straits (July 31 to August 3). Beset with the Spar were her two companion Coast Guard Ships, the Storis and Bramble. While making the Northwest Passage run the three ships were faced with the worst Arctic ice and weather conditions recorded in many years. The 180-ft. Spart with the Storis and Bramble made history when they completed the first deep-draft transit of 17-mile Bellot Strait from west to east on September 6, 1957. Added to this feat was another for the Spar. When she returned to her homeport at Bristol, Rhode Island on September 24th, the Spar became the first American ship to circumnavigate the North American content in one season. The Spar was commanded by Lieutenant C.V. Cowing, USCG.
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USCGC Northwind Exploring the East Siberian Sea. Far from her Seattle homeport, the 269-ft. U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Northwind is seen here moored to hummocked ice in the East Siberian Sea during her extensive 1963 oceanographic exploration. Marine tests were taken from the icebreaker at fifty-three stations in the Siberian Sea, and others in the likewise remote Chukchi and Laptev seas which adjoin the U.S.S.R.'s North Siberian coast. Information was gathered on currents, water water composition, marine plants and animal life, and bottom composition.
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Photo production of a drawing of a face on a river with a few ships, Anonymous, 1850 - 1900 Photograph. visit card cardboard. photographic support albumen print river. sailing-ship, sailing-boat
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Description: Island. Ferry at Cowan Pier. Location: China Description: Island. R.N. Anchorage. Location: China china, asia, asiathroughalens
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Fishing boat in the HA Long Bay, Frans-Indochina, 1902 photograph This photo is part of an album. Vietnam cardboard. baryta paper gelatin silver print sea (seascape). island. sea and coastal fishery Ha longbaai
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Description: Greetings From the Mercantile Fleet. Great Liners Pass Under the Bridge in Stately Array Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Date: 23 March 1932 Description: Greetings From the Mercantile Fleet. The Manunda off Kirribilli with a Myriad of Small Craft Between Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Date: 23 March 1932 australia, australasia, oceania, australasiathroughalens
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Ships in Saxony, Riesa Hafen, Schloss Gröba (Riesa), Steamships of Germany, Elbe in Riesa, Barges of Germany, 1912, Landkreis Meißen, Gröba, Hafen mit Schleppern
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Reproduction of a painting: Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, Anna (1857-1893), Maritime view; excerpt from a magazine. unknown, publisher
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Wreck of Bermuda Sky Queen. Being destroyed as hazard to navigation by gunfire from BIBB.
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View of the Boot Lacaze-Duthiers of the Laboratoire Arago, M. Prouho, c. 1890 - in or before 1900 photomechanical print France paper ships (in general)
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Halibut boat. Alaska Task Force Photographs
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WI - Sturgeon Bay. Sturgeon Bay Canal Pierhead, Wisconsin. Prior to 1912. Light and fog signal, East 75 ft.
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Sailing vessels on the water, United States of America, USA, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920, Cyanotype, a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print.
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A portrait of Sultan Mehmet Reshad V and an element of the Ottoman Empire Fleet, the 'Avnoullah'. Originally a German ship, this vessel ran aground on the mud escaping the Greek Fleet. 1914
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undefined. 1913 - 1921. NARA's Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle, WA). Negative. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Fisheries. Division of Alaska Fisheries. 1913-7/1/1939. Pribilof Islands Glass Plate Negatives
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Ship portrait showing armored boat Göta to Ankars.The ship is visible from the port side where a shipboat is moored.On the store, a larger group of the crew is set up or employed.At the stern is another two smaller ships that seem to support the armor boat.In the background, the coast is visible. Shipping portrait that shows the armored boat Göta to Ankars.The ship is visible from the port side where a shipboat is moored.On the store, a larger group of the crew is set up or employed.At the stern is another two smaller ships that seem to support the armor boat.The background shows the coast.
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Fishing boats on the beach in Zandvoort, 1900 - 1905 photograph Fishing boats on the beach. M.O. Inscription 'Spiegelbild'. Zandvoort photographic support beach (as place of recreation) Zandvoort
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Revenue Cutter Apache, Cruises in Chesapeake Bay. Photographs of Revenue Cutter Service Cadets, Ships and Activities. Department of the Treasury
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Philadelphia International Exposition, 1876: the hospital steamboat J.K. Barnes: a model showing the interior in cross-section. Photograph, 1876.
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The launch of a torpedo from the deck of a German warship during World War One. Date: circa 1916
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Fishing boats - Russian Baltic Sea Coast Date: circa 1910s
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USCGC Eastwind - Antarctic Operation Deep Freeze. McMurdo Sound Base, Antarctic, Jan. 26, 1960Hoses leading to large round fuel tanks on Hut Point carry 170,000 gals. of Diesel fuel pumped from the U. S. Coast Guard icebreaker Eastwind (foreground). Taken aboard the icebreaker during her stop to Port Lyttelton, New Zealand, enroute to the Antarctic, the fuel is for the Naval Air Facility seen between Hut Point and Observation Hill 760 ft. high in the background. The lines pass over a Navy YOG fuel barge close to shore which holds a capacity of 250,000 gals. of gasoline. This YOG was one of two fuel barges which the Eastwind helped tow from New Zealand to McMurdo Sound for permanent freezing-in while working with Navy Task Force 43 during the First Operation Deep Freeze of 1955-1956.
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Recording of the captain of a passenger steamer, probably on the command bridge
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Paris, France displays the national loan of 1920, maritime bank , (French - Paris , France Affiche de l' emprunt national de 1920 , Banque Maritime). Loan, boat, bank , finances, poster, maritime transport, war effort , war work, drawing, Economic activity, registration , information, transport, First World War, Art, France, Paris, borrowing nal 1920, posters, maritime bank
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Balaton, Rowboats, 1908, Somogy County, Siofok, Plattensee
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Painting.Plate inside glass and frame.The frame of oak, black.Consists of five photographs of ships from the 1st company and the laving of shipsgose.AF Chapman under sail.Text.1st.Skeppsgoske Company 1929-1932.Lavering performed by flag art.Erik Pettersson (= the bullet).1929 - 1932.
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A color illustration by Johan Braakensiek from summer 1896 showing the timetable for the route Vlissingen-Queenboro-London, depicting trains and stations.