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Traditional and Abandoned Vessels

An array of boats, from historic dhows to abandoned fishing vessels, capturing maritime life and decay near shores.

USA; Georgia; Darien; Shrimp boats at dock

Aftermath - Displaced Boats - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-28-223. vessel 1257 in dry dock. Hurricane Katrina

Stranded Fishing Trawler, Patreksfjordur, West Fjords, Iceland. This image is shot using a drone.

Sailboat, Karce, Trivet, Montenegro

Fishing boat on the beach in Armacao de Pera, Algarve, Portugal, Europe

Kormorane auf einem alten Schiffswrack in der Walvis Bay, Namibia Kormorane auf einem alten Schiffswrack in der Walvis Bay, Namibia Copyright: xZoonar.com/AnkexLeifeldx 15706919

forever left lorry dump in the north, mountains of not taken out garbage Copyright: xZoonar.com/max5128x 4425824

USA, Louisiana, Atchafalaya Basin, Delcambre (Iberia Parish). shrimp boat at dock advertising fresh shrimp for sale.

Shipwreck, Port Nolloth, South Africa

Aftermath - Displaced Boats - Empire, Louisiana - 26-HK-26-104. Hurricane Katrina

Men on a boat , Boats. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Fishing boats in the harbour of Essaouira, Morocco

Ships boats stranded at beach, san antonio oeste ,rio negro, argentina San Antonio Oeste, Argentina January 14 2023: Ships commercal boats stranded at beach, san antonio oeste town, rio negro province, argentina Copyright: xZoonar.com/DanielxFerreiraxLeitesxCiccarinox 22189673

the boat on the bank of the winter ocean the boat on the bank of the winter ocean Copyright: xZoonar.com/max5128x 5120875

A traditional wooden dhow outrigger boat named after Jeremy Doku, the Manchester City footballer. Jambiani, Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Fleet of trap fishing boats hauling up the net traps at fishing grounds off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, USA.

Aftermath - Displaced Boats - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-28-253. vessel on its side surrounded by boom near dock wiith Coasties on dock. Hurricane Katrina

Siluette of a fishing boat at sunset on Zanzibar

Snowmobile

060115-N-8637R-005. Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Fischerboot am Strand Fischerboot am Strand,Usedom,Ostsee Copyright: xZoonar.com/UwexBauchx 523847

USA, USA, Alaska, North Slope, Barrow, Inupiaq subsistence whaling crew use motorboat in open lead as they look for passing bowhead whales during spring whaling season, Arctic coast of Alaska

Satkhira, Bangladesh - 21 October 2025: View of fishermen unloading their catch from a traditional wooden boat amidst the earthy tones of the riverbank and the bright sky.

USA, Alaska, Inupiaq whalers padding their umiak

BARCOS PESQUEROS ATRACADOS FRENTE A LA LONJA. Author: LUIS ALONSO ARMIÑO y VICENTE VIDAL. Location: LONJA NUEVA. Denia. Alicante. SPAIN.

Namibia, Skeleton Coast National Park, View Of Shipwreck

Fishing boat on the water and angler on a rock, Pekutatan, Bali, Indonesien, Asia

Sunny dock with boats, storage containers, and a clear blue sky, in Sinjin-do, South Korea, Asia

Auf Makafushi wird ein Frachter versenkt, damit sich ein kuenstliches Korallenriff bildet. On Makafushi-Island a vessel will be sinking to built a new coral reef as part of a Padi Awarness Project, retro, vintage, old

Turkey, Istanbul, garbage remover off the Galata bridge

Dilapidated wooden raft held afloat with Styrofoam floats in ocean seaport in Yeosu, South Korea, Asia

Fishing boat, Marken, Holland, Europe

Fish market, Pozzuoli, Campi Flegrei, Campania, Italy

Aveiro, Portugal - 08 August 2020: Aerial view of fishermen sailing with a traditional fishing boat and doing Arte Xavega in Torreira, Portugal.

Shipwreck, Skeleton Coast, Namib Desert, Namibia.

Small yellow-blue boat on the beach, calm sea in the background, tree branch in the foreground, sopot, baltic sea, poland

Vintage Photograph. Lobsterman prepares traps on a vibrant day in new harbor.

Salvage Engineering Response Team - New Orleans - Boats - 26-HK-349-55. Sea King. Hurricane Katrina

Boats at low tide

A gillnet full of sockeye is towed on the Johnson Hill line, as other boats fish in the background. Bristol Bay, Alaska. Summer./n

LIGHTING A FOR FORT HARSSENS (new port of Den Helder) in January 1987 Harbor Vishing (M.A.D. Boot) of the small vessel service.

ship_wreck_06.jpg ship_wreck_06.jpg Copyright: xZoonar.com/IvoxGoetzx 6413627

France, Saint-Nazaire, The Harbour.

Broken-down boat

Salvage Engineering Response Team - Various Operations - 26-HK-359-70. Port Fouchon Compiled - Bayou Lafourche Sunken Vessels. Hurricane Katrina

Shipwreck, Dassen Island, off Cape Town

Aftermath - Displaced Boats - Port Security Unit (PSU) 309 - 26-HK-27-3. ASHLEY W vessel on embankment--Chris Tramp photo. Hurricane Katrina

England, Cornwall, St. Ives. A small fishing boat in St Ives harbour.

Photographers on an expedition in Svalbard, obtain drinking water by scooping flowing freshwater into a zodiac, which will be transferred into the chartered steel-hull sailboat, Norway.

Canada, Manitoba, Churchill harbour on Hudson bay

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - CGC Harry Claiborne - Mississippi River - 26-HK-313-34. Coast Guard Cutter Harry Claiborne Upbound in the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana, September 10 through 11, 2005. Hurricane Katrina

View of the pontoon ferry crossing the Luangwa River into South Luangwa National Park in eastern Zambia.

Fishing boats, trawlers and boat lift in shipyard at Port-en-Bessin-Huppain along the English Channel, Calvados, Normandy, France, Europe

Aftermath - Displaced Boats - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-28-31. boat on its side on waterfront embankment. Hurricane Katrina

Boats at the edge of the coast, surrounded by trees and rocks in front of the sea, sopot, baltic sea, poland

Wheelhouse and mast with rigging at old wooden sailing ship in harbor of Urk. Wheelhouse and mast with rigging at old wooden sailing ship

Fishing boat on the beach in summer

and seagull near ocean in oman boat in the coastline

Car ferry, Parapat, Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Delta turn basin at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United Space Alliance (USA) workers help orient an Orion test article to enable a ship's crane to rotate it. The uprighting tests are part of USA's research and development program to help develop ground operations support equipment that could be used to reorient and recover an uncrewed Orion flight test capsule after splashdown. USA is a major subcontractor to Lockheed Martin for the Orion spacecraft. The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle is NASA's next-generation spacecraft designed for deep space missions to asteroids, moons and other interplanetary destinations throughout the solar system. Orion's first uncrewed orbital flight test is slated for 2013.

Truck-trailer with precast concrete Truck-trailer with precast concrete for prefabricated houses. Copyright: xZoonar.com/JFsPic Thielemannx 7483550

Ships in dry dock with view of Hagia Sophia Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, Asia

Salvage Engineering Response Team - New Orleans - Early October - 26-HK-350-39. Pogey Boats. Hurricane Katrina

Portugal, Azores, Terceira Island, Sao Mateus da Calheta, fishing boats

Full size replicas of Christopher Columbus' ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta or the Niña at Muelle de las Carabelas, Palos de la Frontera - La Rábida, the Huelva Provence of Andalucia and Southern Spain, the site where Columbus departed from the Old World to the New World in August 3 of 1492

A seaplane and crew at Teshekpuk Lake; North Slope, Alaska, United States of America

Fishing boat with outrigger on Agonda Beach, Goa, India

MARTINIQUE. French Antilles. West Indies. Detail of fishing boat with nets on beach at Anse Dufour. (Editorial Usage Only)

Aftermath - Displaced Boats - Port Security Unit (PSU) 309 - 26-HK-27-95. two tug-type boats on embankment near waterfront--Chris Tramp photo. Hurricane Katrina

Navigation along the Paraguay river onboard of M/N Aquidaban, which makes regular passengers and freight service between the cities of Concepcion and Bahia Negra.

The restored Mousa flitboat, flit boat in the Sandsayre Interpretative Centre at Sandwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK

Old fishing boat standing on the sandy beach. India, Goa.

Boat stranded on the banks of the Rhine, near Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Buoy lies in the mud, Elbe, Wischafen, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Aftermath - Displaced Boats - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-28-244. vessel grounded on waterfront embankment. Hurricane Katrina

Fishers on boat

Old abandoned and broken boat fishing

shipwreck in small harbour in greece shipwreck in small harbour in greece Copyright: xZoonar.com/IvoxGoetzx 6593283

Boom boats at Beaver Cove, British Columbia, a small coastal village on the east coast of northern Vancouver Island, located at the mouth of the Kokis...

Man on boat with raincoat , Boats, Raincoats. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Aftermath - Displaced Boats - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-28-72. Coastie with boat being pulled out of water (empire). Hurricane Katrina

Fishermen setting off in a boat, St. Louis, Senegal, west Africa

Stripped down ships in the harbor of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Earthquake Tsunami - Pago Pago, American Samoa, October 1, 2009 Pago Pago, American Samoa, October 1, 2009 - A boat sits on its side as it was moved during the tsunami that hit American Samoa.. American Samoa Earthquake, Tsunami, and Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

France, South-Western France, La Rochelle, decorative boat

Yacht being rigged, Harbor, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, Central America

Coast Guard Cutter Issac Mayo's crew alerted Sector Key West watchstanders of this migrant vessel about 25 miles southwest of Key West, Florida, Oct. 6, 2022. The people were repatriated to Cuba on Oct. 8, 2022.

Fishermen landing fishing boat on beach, Weybourne, Norfolk, England, may

Gemeine Miesmuschel, Essbare Miesmuschel Mytilus edulis, Amphibienfahrzeug an einer Muschelzucht an der Kueste bei Ebbe, Frankreich, Bretagne, Plevenon blue mussel, bay mussel, common mussel, common blue mussel Mytilus edulis, Amphibious vehicle at a mussel farm on the coast at low tide, France, Brittany, Plevenon BLWS711792 *** Common Blue mussel, edible Blue Mussel Mytilus edulis , Amphibious vehicle to a Mussel farming to the Coast at Low tide, France, Brittany, Plevenon Blue mussel, Bay mussel, Common mussel, Common Blue Mussel Mytilus edulis , Amphibious Vehicle AT a Mussel Farm ON The Coast AT Low tide, France, Brittany, Plevenon BLWS711792 Copyright: xblickwinkel/D.xMaehrmannx

Hr.ms. Noord-Brabant (1955-1974) in the dock at the NV Royal Society De Schelde (KMS). The damage to Hr.Ms. North Brabant. On January 9, 1974 on the Westerschelde Hr.Ms. Noord-Brabant attracted by the British bulk carrier Tacoma City. At the collision, Corporal Machinist G.G. van de Erf and Machinist of the 1st class P. Diederich died. Hr.ms. Noord-Brabant was emerged early and no longer came to the speed.

Kayak tour in Mecklenburg, crossing a boat by means of a lorry, Mueritz National Park, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe

Fishing boat, installation of a fisherman behind the dune, Heringsdorf, Usedom, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, Europe

Goats stroll over rusted old Soviet T-34 tank near the coast, Socotra Island, Yemen, Middle East

Boat in a boat shed, Cala Benirras, beach, Sant Joan de Labritja, San Juan Bautista, Ibiza, Pityuses, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe

Fishing boat in Carvoeiro,Algarve Coast,Portugal,South Europa,Europa

Handline caught Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus), on a small fishing boat with fisherman holding the tiller behind, Cornwall, England, UK, April 2011 Model released

Flooding on the Terrassenufer in Dresden

Moored barges and flooded quays, Seine River flood. Paris, France 02/23/2026.

Aftermath - Displaced Boats - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-28-144. LADY MARIJA vessel 1241 in dry dock. Hurricane Katrina

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