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Maritime Distress and Naval Operations

Diverse maritime scenes showing naval vessels, including a burning tanker, replenishment oiler, and research ship, all depicted in black and white.

Vintage Photograph. Cargo ship in New York Harbor with small tugboat, New York City,
Vintage Photograph. Cargo ship in New York Harbor with small tugboat, New York City,
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Aerial port side view of a Russian Navy Northern Fleet Yankee Notch class nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine underway on the surface. Country: Baltic Sea
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Fifth Night Alone on Drifting Freighter - The "Flying Enterprise" as she appeared to our cameraman flying 100ft. Above here in a Lancaster Aircraft.Captain Kurt Carlsen, the 36-year-old Danish Skipper of the United States freighter "Flying Enterprise", spent a fifth night alone on board his ship last night.Lightning had silenced her radio and she drifted helpless in heavy seas 240 she has a 60 degree list so that her port rails and deck were awash.The 1,136 Tug "Turmoil", one of the largest in the world, expects to make contact with the "Flying Enterprise" to-night. January 03, 1952. (Photo by Paul Popper Photo).
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Speeding After Dollars-Caronia's Maiden Trip - Steaming tugs escort the Caronia as she pass as the Cunard White Star Queen Elizabeth, seen in background, which is undergoing annual overhaul in the dry dock at Southampton.The Cunard White Star luxury vessel, the 34, 183-ton Caronia, left Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York today (Tuesday). First Post War British liner designed primarily as a dollar-earner, she is the largest built in the world since the war at a cost approaching four million pounds. January 04, 1949.
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AGS-25 Kellar , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy
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Anefo photo collection. Arrival American diving boats. Parkkade Rotterdam / affected. 28 May 1957. Rotterdam, South Holland
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Seaplane Mario Calderara flying in La Spezia near the port, 1912
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63' ARB , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy
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Marblehead, 'The Missouri' anchored for Race Week , Warships. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection
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U. S. S. Independence , Aircraft carriers, Independence Aircraft carrier : CV-62, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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RESCUE OF YUKON DISASTER SURVIVORS-Elmendorf Field, Alaska--Close-up shows battered remains of the Yukon after the stern half had broken off and sunk. Survivors, clad in life vests, crowded about the decks. One may be seen being transferred to the
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Queen Victoria (depicted - name).Queen Victoria (depicted - name)
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Vintage Photograph. People on shore watching Annual Boat Races on Lake Michigan, Chicago, Illinois
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The submarine Hr.Ms. Sea lion (1990).
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Travel photos. Mediterranean ride. Probably place at the Adriatic coast. View from deck of the "Milwaukee
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Dedication ceremonies, Dulles International Airport, 11:12AM. View of a United States Army helicopter at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia; President John F. Kennedy traveled to Chantilly to attend dedication ceremonies for the airport named after the late Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles. Blemishes on image are original to the negative.
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A collage of the new Soviet Pomornik class air-cushion landing craft. Country: Unknown
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Anefo photo collection. Konvoo ships ice breakers IJsselmeer Lelystad. January 13, 1987. Lelystad
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Ice-breaker in the frozen sea, Canada
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The iceberg that sank the White Star Line's Olympic-class RMS Titanic which struck it on 12 April 1912 on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York with loss of over 1,500 lives. View from SS Carpathia which picked up survivors.
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U.S.S. America , Aircraft carriers, America Aircraft carrier, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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BARCO DESTRUIDO POR UN TEMPORAL EN SAN FELIU DE GUIXOLS - FOTOGRAFIA EN BLANCO Y NEGRO - AÑOS 30. Location: EXTERIOR. SAN FELIU DE GUIXOLS. SPAIN.
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A starboard view of the Brazilian aircraft carrier MINAS GERAIS (A-11) anchored in the harbor. Base: Rio De Janeiro Country: Brazil (BRA)
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Idled By Maritime Strike.Ships lie Idle in New York City's Upper Bay, September 11, as the Maritime Strike continues. A Tug (Foreground) Hauls Barges. Tugboat men, out since Sept. 7 in a Sympathy Strike Becan Sept. 11 to move essential supplies for the city, Mostly coal and fuel oil for Utility companies. The Wage Stabilization board has refused to back down on its Veto of seamen's pay increases despite the AFL maritime strike and a CIO Walkout threatened for Friday, Sept.13. November 9, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
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12/31/1959. View of the port of Vigo, where you can see the Fisheries area, the Maritime station and in the background the Transanlantic dock.
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Aerial view, barge, Elbe, transport, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
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M/S Trelleborg. Lifeboat exercise
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West Palm Beach, Florida April, 1965Owner and builder Don Aronow of Miami pilots his 28 foot Donzi in which he won the 184 mile Miami-Nassau ocean race this year. It runs at 70 mph with twin 427 cubic-inch Holman-Moody Ford engines, each rated at 500 horsepower.
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Attempts To Remove Sick Keeper -- From Eddystone Lighthouse: Attempts are being made by boats from the Trinity House vessel Satellite to remove in a heavy swell the principal, keeper, who is seriously ill. Our photograph shows men in a boat from the rescue boat signaling to the Lighthouse, men. January 9, 1939.
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Transport of tank with pontoon ferry.
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A Sikorsky S-58 helicopter takes up a person in the port of Den Helder.
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Anefo photo collection. His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard makes a test trip with the new "Sidewall" air cushion vehicle HM2 on the Nieuwe Waterweg Bernhard steps into the. March 25, 1969
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Anefo photo collection. Finland, timber transport on the water. March 24, 1966. Finland
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Poll photo collection. Rijnvaart, report from Tugboat Duvo 9: West Germany. Drachenfels with Ruin Burg Drachenfels, seen from the Damco 9. April 1, 1955. Drachenfels, Germany, West Germany
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Mijnenbestrijding vessel Hr.Ms. Delfzijl.