Vessels and Ferries

Images of various boats and ferries, including houseboats and tugboats. The photos depict maritime activities and picturesque harbor scenes.

Barges at the Wilson Lock on the Tennessee River.

England, Dorset, Poole. The Sandbanks Ferry leaving Shell Bay to cross the mouth of Poole Harbour on its way to Studland.

England, West Sussex, Shoreham-By-Sea, Houseboat Moored Along The Banks Of The River Adur.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the turn basin at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a tug boat keeps the barge in place for the offloading of the girder for the new mobile launcher. The new mobile launcher will be the base for the Ares rockets to launch the Orion crew exploration vehicle and the cargo vehicle. The base is being made lighter than space shuttle mobile launcher platforms so the crawler-transporter can pick up the added load of the 345-foot tower and taller rocket. When the structural portion of the new mobile launcher is complete, umbilicals, access arms, communications equipment and command/control equipment will be installed.

Aftermath - Displaced Boats - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-28-184. SEA COMMANDER and another vessel angled up on a dock and other vessels on the docks. Hurricane Katrina

River oil tankers in Volga river, Russia, Europe

Cargo ship in the Volkeraksluizen tidal basin, Willemstad, Noord Brabant, Netherlands

Submarine Museum, St. Pauli Fischmarkt, Hamburg, Germany, Europe

Cargo ship on the Wesel-Datteln Channel, Muensterland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Barges at the Wilson Lock on the Tennessee River.

Oortkaten ferry operated by HADAG Verkehrsbetriebe and Köhlbrandbrücke in the port of Hamburg, Germany

Fish boat sails in the fish village

Esens, port in spa Bensersiel in Ostfriesland, Lower Saxony, Germany

Merchant Ship Going Through A Lock, St. Catharines Ontario Canada

Netherlands, Kinderdijk, Traditional Dutch windmills and tourboat on canal

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A tugboat pulls the Pegasus Barge carrying the Space Shuttle Program's last external fuel tank, ET-122, toward NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The tank traveled 900 miles by sea from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. After reaching the Turn Basin at Kennedy, the tank will be offloaded and moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building where it eventually will be attached to space shuttle Endeavour for the STS-134 mission to the International Space Station. STS-134, targeted to launch in Feb. 2011, currently is scheduled to be the last mission in the Space Shuttle Program. The tank, which is the largest element of the space shuttle stack, was damaged during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and restored to flight configuration by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company employees.

USA, New York City, Red Hook, Brooklyn water taxi boarding dock

Frachchiff on the Rhine cargo ship on the Rhine

Cargo ship arriving from Frankfurt am Main, entering the Offenbach barrage, lock, Main, Offenbach, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Romania, Danube River Delta, Tulcea, elevated view of river ferry to Tudor Vladimirescu on the Danube River, dawn

France, Paris, 10th arrondissement, Canal Saint-Martin, cruise ship passing through the Recollets lock, February 2025.

Tug beneath Saint Nazaire bridge, France

Fährschiffe auf dem Nord-Ostsee-Kanal von Nobiskrug nach Schacht-Audorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland Ferry boats Memel and Kustrin crossing Kiel Canal from Nobiskrug to Schacht-Audorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/cxJeannettexTasx 23174527

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holyhead port terminal 1 wide angle view of ferry docking onto access ramps

Mobile Area of Responsibility (AOR) Assessment - 26-HK-404-2. Hurricane Katrina

Africa, Egypt, Esna. Cruise boat traveling in between Aswan and Luxor entering the locks at Esna

A white ship in the harbour in front of modern buildings, cloudy sky in the background, bremerhaven, bremen, germany

Leadership and staff from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division and Kansas City District speak with partners during the annual Missouri River Barge Tour from Franklin Island to Searcy Bend, ending at Katfish Katy's near Colombia, Missouri, on Aug. 17, 2022. (Photo by Eileen Williamson, Northwestern Division Public Affairs)

The MV Mick, a multipurpose cargo vessel carrying windmill blades, sits docked on the far side of a pier the Oswego Harbor, while the former U.S. Army Transport LT-5, a large tugboat, sits docked on the near side at the H. Lee White Marine Museum in Oswego, New York, May 12, 2022. The breakwater which surrounds Oswegos harbor, and federal navigation channel within it, are maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District.

Car Ferry Vegesack-Lemwerder on the River Weser, Bremen-Vegesack, Bremen, Germany, Europe

Two amphibious vehicles, used to carry passengers and/or tourists over the Jokulsarlon Glacier lake in Iceland

River oil tankers in Volga river, Russia, Europe

Sail boats anchored in the river near an arch bridge, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Port in the evening light, Elbe 1 lightship, Cuxhaven, a spa town on the North Sea, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe, PublicGround, Europe

Tug on the dock Dutch shipyard. Netherlands

Suction dredger Alexander von Humboldt on the Weser near Bremerhaven, MS Oceana at the Seebaederkaje, Germany, Europe

View over Elbe river to container port, Hamburg, Germany

Barge on the Missouri River near Sioux City Iowa

Franklin Renauer tugboat crossing upper New York bay, New York, USA

Dry Dock Blohm Voss Hamburg Hamburg Germany

Riverboat, Viking Prestige, entering a lock, Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, Regensburg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Stockholm, Sweden MAy 2, 2025 The Candela electric ferry passes in the Riddarfjsrden bay at dawn.

container ship in the Netherlands Container ship at the river in Holland Copyright: xZoonar.com/IvonnexWierinkx 6974308

Passenger ship in a river, Talmadge Bridge, Savannah River, Savannah, Georgia, USA

Canada, Quebec. Baie-Ste-Catherine. Whale watching boat on the St. Lawrence River.

WA, Seattle, Salmon Bay, Salmon Bay bridge with Sounder train

Wards Island Ferry docking arriving at Toronto terminal with ducks on open water on frozen Lake Ontario in winter

Cargo ship, oil port, harbour, Rhine-Herne Canal, Gelsenkirchen, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

The Rendsburg suspension ferry, ferry, over the Kiel Canal, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Tugboats maneuver NASA's Pegasus barge into to the Turn Basin dock at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The barge contains the external fuel tank, designated ET-133, that will be used for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 mission. The tank will be offloaded and moved into a high bay in the Vehicle Assembly Building for checkout. The tank was shipped aboard the Pegasus from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans. Pegasus was towed to Port Canaveral by the Freedom Star Retrieval Ship. Launch of Atlantis is targeted for November.

Aerial recording of the new Haventrein in Den Helder, April 1991, with the S-Fregat Hr.Ms. Pieter Florisz (F 826) and on the right the submarine scaffolding with two Walrus class submarines (front) and further away the submarines Hr.Ms. Swordfish (S 806) and Hr.Ms. Tiger shark (S 807).

Large bulk carrier ship entering Lock 3 of the Welland Canals System at the St Catharines Museum, Welland Canals Centre

Barge Arrives that will take the Shuttle Mockup to JSC

Cargo ships on the Rhine, Duesseldorf, Germany, Europe

Ireland, County Wexford, Ballyhack, Waterford Harbor Ferry, to Ballyhack to Passage East (County Waterford)

Pusher tug on the Rhine River, industrial scenery at the back, Hochfeld district, Duisburg, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Freedom Star is berthed at the Turn Basin near the Vehicle Assembly Building. The ship has recently returned to KSC after refurbishment at Fort George Island, Fla., including new paint. Freedom Star is one of the solid rocket booster (SRB) retrieval ships built to recover the SRB casings released over the Atlantic Ocean after launch of a Space Shuttle. In addition to the SRBs, the ship recovers the drogue and main parachutes that slow the boosters speed before splashdown. Some of the retrieval equipment can be seen on the rear deck. The ships also tow the external tanks built at the Michoud Space Systems Assembly Facility near New Orleans to Port Canaveral, Fla. Freedom Star was brought to KSC today for a visit by NATO Parliamentarians.

Tilbury, Essex, England, UK. Powerful tug giving assistance to a small cruise ship in departing the London Cruise Terminal at Tilbury. On the Thames Estuary.

Motorboot im Hafen und Fabriken und Lagertanks des Chemieclusters Delfzijl entlang des Seehafenkanals, Eemsdelta, Groningen, Niederlande Motorboat in the harbor and factories and storage tanks of the Chemical Cluster Delfzijl along the Sea Harbor Canal, Eemsdelta, Groningen, Netherlands LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/cxJeannettexTasx 23220280

Wisconsin, Manitowoc. Manitowoc River. Tugboat and barge sailing up the Manitowoc River through downtown, lift bridges raised.

Salvage Engineering Response Team - New Orleans - Early October - 26-HK-351-183. Hurricane Katrina

A starboard beam view of the ocean minesweeper USS AFFRAY (MSO 511) as it passes the National War College en route to the Washington Navy Yard for a port visit. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel - near, Ship in Brunsbuttel Lock

Sweden, Faro Island, Broa, Gotland-Faro island ferry

Boats, Riddarfjaerden, Norr Maelarstrand, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe

Rügen Bridge Stralsund

Tug boat and river barge on the Mississippi River at Helena, Arkansas.

Malaysia, State of Selangor, Port Klang. One of the major port cities in Malaysia, gateway to Kuala Lumpur. Waterfront views of port area.

Germany, East Frisia, passenger ferry to Jiust near the port of Norddeich.

USA, Maine, Portland, Portland waterfront, Casco Bay ferries

Rescue team members in an inflatable boat approach the Boeing CST-100 Starliner training capsule, known as Boiler Plate 3, at the Army Wharf at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on April 16, 2019. NASA and the Department of Defense Human Space Flight Support Office Rescue Division are conducting a search and rescue training exercise over the next several days at the Wharf and in the Atlantic Ocean simulating a rescue in the unlikely event of an emergency. It is the first at-sea exercise with the Starliner training capsule ahead of Boeings Crew Flight Test with astronauts targeted for later this year. During normal return scenarios, Boeing's Starliner will land on land in a safe zone of about 15 square miles in the Western United States. Throughout the commercial crew development phases with NASA, Boeing has performed dozens of qualification tests on its parachute and airbag systems simulating conditions on land and in the water.

A small fishing boat, in the harbour at Izmir

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The high-fidelity space shuttle model approaches the lock at Port Canaveral as it departs NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida by barge for Space Center Houston, NASA Johnson Space Centers official visitor center. The model was built in Apopka, Fla., by Guard-Lee and installed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in 1993. The model is expected to arrive June 1 in Houston and to be transported June 3 to Space Center Houston, its final destination, where it will become part of a unique display telling the story of the space shuttles achievements and the nationwide team that made them possible.

Minnesota, Duluth, Canal Park, Herbert C. Jackson, Lift Bridge

Dragging Barge along the Mohawk River in New York, USA.

Spain, Basque Country Region, Vizcaya Province, Bilbao, Museo Maritimo Ria de Bilbao, maritime museum, ships

A large blue and white ship moored in the harbour next to modern buildings on a sunny day, Helsinki, Finland, Europe

Vintage Photograph. Step back in time with the historic ss klondike in whitehorse, yukon.

Canada, New Brunswick, Saint John River Valley. Evandale Ferry on the St. John River.

England, London, Victoria Embankment. Water being pumped from HMS President, an events venue permanently moored on Victoria Embankment in central London with Blackfriars Bridge in the background.

Australia, New South Wales, Hibbard Ferry, Hastings River, Port Macquarie

Germany, the North Sea, rescue lifeboat, Ship's boat, water landing, on deck,

Fort Myers Beach, FL, USA-November 17, 2022--Boats damaged by Hurricane Ian are taken out of the water.Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA

Sweden, Bergs Slussar, small steamer a the locks of the Gota Canal with passengers

Netherlands, Amsterdam, December 2020. Illustration of daily life in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, Decembre 2020. Illustration de vie quotidienne a Amsterdam au Pays-Bas. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Wisconsin, Manitowoc. Wisconsin Maritime Museum at Manitowoc. World War II submarine USS Cobia. National Historic Landmark.

Bow of new red ship at the port

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, tows a spent booster from space shuttle Atlantis' final launch, to Port Canaveral in Florida. The shuttle's two solid rocket booster casings and associated flight hardware are recovered in the Atlantic Ocean after every launch by Freedom Star and Liberty Star. The boosters impact the Atlantic about seven minutes after liftoff and the retrieval ships are stationed about 10 miles from the impact area at the time of splashdown. After the spent segments are processed, they will be transported to Utah, where they will be deserviced and stored, if needed.Atlantis began its final flight at 11:29 a.m. EDT on July 8 to deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts for the International Space Station. Atlantis also delivers the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment that will investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing satellites in orbit to th

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The Ojibway freight ship passing under bridge 5, also known as the Glendale Bridge, a vertical lift bridge the Welland Canal in St. Catharines, Ontari

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the early morning light at the Turn Basin in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a tugboat begins to position the Pegasus Barge for towing. The 266 ft long and 50 ft wide barge will be towed by NASA's Freedom Star ship to deliver space shuttle main engine (SSME) ground support equipment to Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss. Since being delivered to NASA in 1999, Pegasus sailed 41 times and transported 31 shuttle external fuel tanks from Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans to Kennedy.The barge will leave Kennedy, perhaps for the final time. Both the barge and shuttle equipment will remain in storage until their specific future uses are determined. The SSMEs themselves will be transported to Stennis separately for use with the agencys new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System. The work is part of the Space Shuttle Programs transition and retirement processing.

Paddle steamer "Schlei Princess", approaching an open drawbridge, Kappeln, Ostseefjord Schlei, a narrow inlet of the Baltic Sea, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, tows the right spent booster from space shuttle Atlantis' final launch, as it is taken to Port Canaveral in Florida. The shuttle's two solid rocket booster casings and associated flight hardware are recovered in the Atlantic Ocean after every launch by Freedom Star and Liberty Star. The boosters impact the Atlantic about seven minutes after liftoff and the retrieval ships are stationed about 10 miles from the impact area at the time of splashdown. After the spent segments are processed, they will be transported to Utah, where they will be deserviced and stored, if needed. Atlantis began its final flight at 11:29 a.m. EDT on July 8 to deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts for the International Space Station. Atlantis also delivers the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment that will investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing satell

Boat crane working with boats in Mediterranean

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