Historic Ocean Liners

Black and white images of grand ocean liners, capturing their majestic silhouettes and historical significance in maritime travel.

Vintage photograph. ss united states with crew surrounding

Regal Progress -- There's beauty in every line of the new Cunarder Ivernia (22,000 tons) as she moves up river to dry-dock on Clydebank, Scotland, prior to trials before leaving Liverpool on June 30 on her maiden voyage to Montreal.Ivernia, built by John Brown's on Clydebank, is the second of four new 22,000 ton liners, largest Cunard has ever had constructed for the Canadian service.May 27, 1955. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

The new United States luxury liner, the SS Constitution, scheduled to serve ports in the Mediterranean, accommodates 1,000 passengers and can be converted to carry 5,000 troops.With her sister ship, the SS Independence, she is the fastest and most modern vessel in the U.S. merchant marine.The $25,000,000 liner Constitution recently enterd New York harbor before embarking on her maiden voyage. The Statue of liberty can be seen in the background. June 14, 1951. (Photo by United States Information Service).

Vintage Photograph. S.S. Mauretania at anchor in harbor of La Guairá, Venezuela. Frame 1

A broadside photo of the steam ship Dakota, circa 1905

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The Queen Elizabeth Sets Sail -- With aircraft circling overhead, the Queen Elizabeth makes her way through the misty solent today on the start of her Atlantic voyage. The Queen Elizabeth the world's largest and most luxurious liner, set sail for America from Southampton today on her peace-time voyage as a passenger vessel. October 16, 1946. (Photo by Fox Photos).

British "Sea Playground" Will Make Americans To "Honeymoon Islands" - The luxury liner "Queen of Bermuda" dwarfs ***** shipping as she ***** the Thames to inaugrate the ***** millionaire New York to Bermuda run.The Furness Line's 22,700-ton London Liner "Queen of Bermuda" as just left the Tyne for the Thames in readiness to sail shortly for America converted ***** a - "seagoing playground" he will rake in dollars carrying Americans from New York to the famous "Honeymoon Islands" - Bermuda.***** cocst more to change her back ***** a luxury liner from a war - time ***** cruiser than it did to child-her in 1933. January 01, 1949.

High Sea Passenger Stupper "Fatherland" when leaking

Vintage photograph. ss united states with crew surrounding

The caption for this 1916 photo reads: The great liner Lusitania which was torpedoed by a German submarine not far from Old Kinsake Haed in Ireland May 7 1915

Model of the Gustaf V train ferry; Railway Museum.

"Victoria" - Formerly "Dunnottar Castle" - Merchant Shipping. July 20, 1936. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd.).

1930s THE RMS QUEEN MARY LUXURY OCEAN LINER ON MAIDEN VOYAGE MAY 27 1936 ANCHORED UPON ARRIVAL JUNE 1 1936 NEW YORK CITY USA

Egyptian views Port Said. Arrival of a Turkish transport 1900, Egypt, Port Said

Channel Trials For Royal Ship -- The S.S. Gothic is seen just before she left Southampton today, January 2.The 15,902-ton Liner, S.S. Gothic, left Southampton today, January 2, for a "Shakedown" cruise in the English Channel.Next month Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh will sail on board the "Gothic" during their Australasian tour. Vice admiral O.E. Lambe, Flag Officer of the Royal Yacht sailed on today's trials. January 02, 1952. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Arriving at Auckland From Vancouver - An aerial view of R.M.S. Niagara taken on August 10. Keep for possible future use on file. September 08, 1931. (Photo by The Auckland Weekly News).

Passenger ship "Monte Rosa

LUSITANIA, 1907-1914, New York City: arriving in NYC, maiden voyage, 13 Sept. 1907

A big ocean liner heaves to as the boarding officers clamber up the side for an examination during the early weeks of World War II. Date: 1939

Motorboat città di palermo. 1920-30.

FRANCE

The RMS Titanic, which left Southampton Harbor on 10 April 1912.

01/31/1907. Terrible Shipwreck. The steamer "Berlin" that just sank in Hock Van Holland, causing the death of more than one hundred people.

CPR Princess May Shipwreck Sentinel Island Alaska, USA August 5, 1910

c.1930 Postcard, Hawaii, Oahu, Honolulu, Lurline Steamer ship heading into port

Symonds and Co Collection German Liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse

'Arrival at New York of the Normandie', 1936. Artist: Unknown.

Monowai's Last Farewell Ton Sydney -- Monowai is fare welled by friends and relative as she pulls out from 5 Darling Harbour.The Union Steamship Company's passenger liner Monowai left Sydney for the last time today when it sailed for New Zealand from Darling Harbour.The Monowai will make it's final voyage next Thursday when it will leave on a two weeks Pacific Island cruise to Fiji etc returning to New Zealand. The Monowai, launched in 1925 is skippered by Capt. F.W. Young of Vaucluse. Capt. Young who has been a captain for the Union Steamship Co for the last 20 years, has skippers the Monowai for the last 10 years. May 30, 1950. (Photo by George Lipman/Fairfax Media).

1920s THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE A BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA COAST STEAMER

The S S Titanic leaving Bairds Works, Belfast. Date: 1912

New P & O liver Stratheden. February 08, 1938.

Steamer ARMANDALE CASTLE at Paul's wharf, Durban, Natal, South Africa. South Africa, Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection .

Anefo photo collection. M.S. "Oranje" Steamvaart Maatschappij Nederland employed hospital ship Australian navy. "before 1940"}. Netherlands

View of the Patria

High angle view of a cruise ship in the sea

Ship. Fédèle Azari (Italian, 1895 - 1930)

Boat-Train/Luggage Loading, etc.. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Train Ferry S/S Queen Viktoria (1909 - 1968) out at sea

Arrival of the German ship Potsdam, August 17, 1937, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.

RYNDHAM

The Good Neighbor liners Argentina and Brazil, operated by Moore-McCormack Lines, sailing from New York to the East Coast of South America. , Ships, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Floating coal elevator. Designed and constructed by James Rigg, a British engineer from Chester. It consists of a wide platform on two floating cylinders, which supports a steam engine that generates the necessary movement to the chains and pulleys. In the center, a tower serves as a regulator and mechanical balance. The elevator extends from the deck of the ship to the pontoon by means of the aforementioned tower. Moving buckets, driven by the steam engine, pick up the cargo from the pontoon and throw it, after being automatically weighed, into the ship's coal compartments or warehouses. Engraving by Tomas Carlos Capuz (1834-1899). La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 15 January 1883.

Travel Photos Italy. Venice. Passenger ship "Milwaukee" on the Grand Canal

The Good Neighbor liners Argentina and Brazil, operated by Moore-McCormack Lines, sailing from New York to the East Coast of South America. , Ships, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Passenger liner of the Cunard line, the largest in the world at the time of her launch ; she will be torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915, with the lost of 1198 lives. Date: Launched 1906, sunk 1915

Passengership "General Osorio

Anefo photo collection. Reduction from the "Rotterdam" at the RDM in Rotterdam. October 24, 1958. Rotterdam, South Holland

The cruiser visited at Spithead by the King as representing the new units in the Navy: the recently commissioned Southampton, a vessel of novel features, including 6-inch guns in triple turrets, athwartship catapult and multiple AA guns. Date: 1937

VATERLAND

The steamship S/S Eagle arrives at Malmö harbor.

Steamship City of South Haven, Chicago, circa 1908

The Royal Yacht 'HMY Victoria and Albert' (1899). Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes.

AO-51 Ashtabula , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Travel Photos Italy. Venice. Passenger ship "Milwaukee" on the Grand Canal. View with gondola and sailor

A starboard view of the Soviet space event support ship AKADEMIK SERGEY KOROLEV. Country: Unknown

AS-11 Fulton , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Need for Searchlights. Searchlights On Ocean Liners. Illustration to show how a powerful head light could be fitted in a liner's bows, with an extra light fitted to the mast, to be used in the danger zone. The collision and loss of the Titanic seems to have been due more than anything to the invisibility of an iceberg at night. Titanic was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast Ireland during 1910 - 1911 and later sank on April 15th, 1912 after striking an iceberg off the coast of New Foundland dur

la duilio attracca al porto di rio de janeiro, 1930

Imperial postal steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II, was built for the Imperial postal steamer service to Australia, around 1890, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century model.

Passenger steamer Victoria Luise

The Lusitania's last photograph - a snapshot of the doomed liner on her last voyage, taken at sea from another ship. November 27, 1935.

Vintage Photograph. Looking down on the Main Deck of the Queen Mary as it steams down the Hudson on the way to sea.

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Photograph of the liner 'Normandie' at St. Nazaire, February 1935. Launched in 1932, it took three years to fit her out. When she made her maiden voyage to New York in June 1935, she captured the Blue Riband quite easily, with a crossing of 4 days and three hours. Date: 1935

transport transportation navigation steam ships passenger ship ""Koenigin Luise"" 1899 photo by W. Sander & Sohn Geestemuende after a contemporary painting,

Ship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a photochrome print from the 1890s, Europe

Loss of the Titanic. Photograph of the Titanic under the headline 'The Greatest Wreck in the World's History - The Loss of the White Star Liner, Titanic'. Titanic was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast Ireland during 1910 - 1911, and sank on 15ht April, 1912, after striking an iceberg off the coast of New Foundland during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York, USA, with the loss of 1,522 passengers and crew. (Photo by Titanic Images/Universal Images Group)

Passenger ship "Cap Norte

The Andrea Doria battleship run aground near Gallipoli. Illustrator Achille Beltrame (1871-1945), from La Domenica del Corriere, 14th July 1901.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Arrival of the ship Volendam with the Prince Bernhard Chapel on board. The ship is moored. November 12, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, Tandjong Priok

High angle view of a cruise ship in the sea, Queen Elizabeth II

Illustration of the Union-Castle Line Royal Mail Motorship 'Carnarvon Castle' passing the Needles, Isle of Wight, on its way to South Africa. 'Carnarvon Castle' gave service in World War II as a troop ship, before being returned to the Union-Castle line to resume carrying passengers and mail. She was retired from this service in 1962. Date: 1927

Photograph of the SS 'Norman' arriving at Ocean Quay, Southampton, 14th March 1903. Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary, was on board the 'Norman' arriving back from a foreign tour. Date: 1903

S.S. Florida , Ships, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

01/31/1911. The progress of the English Navy launching the (Battleship) Super-Dreadnought "Thunderer", in Canning-Town, where it has been built in a year.

M/S Queen Trelleborg

DD-ST-88-09489. Base: Unknown

Sailing ship "Maori" at Wellington wharf, July 1938, Wellington, by Eric Lee-Johnson.

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Transparency - C. N. R. coastal steamer, YK, ca. 1927

Cruise ship "Milwaukee

Departure of the Italian ship the Augustus, September 16, 1937, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.

S. S. Queen Mary , Ocean liners, Cunard White Star, ltd., Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Cruiseliner SS Normandie. ca. 1936, 86. S.S. NORMANDIE. Length1,029 ft.: Breadth117.8: Depth91.3: Tonnage.83,422 tons: Power160,000 H.P.: PropulsionQuadruple Screws: EnginesTurbo Electric: Speedover 30 knots p.h.: Crew Numbers1,350 men: Passenger capacity about1,900.

'An Aerial Photograph of the "Leviathan" Being Towed By Small Tugs Into Her Dock At New York', c1930 Creator: Unknown.

Spitzbergen. Hochsee passenger steamer "Viktoria Luise" against snowy mountains

New British Liner Ready For Maiden Voyage - The new Shaw Savill liner "Southern Cross" during her trials. The new 20,000 ton Shaw Savill liner "Southern Cross" will leave Southampton on her maiden voyage on 29th March. Her sailings for 1955 include three world cruises. The vessel is of revolutionary design with the stream-lined funnel well aft. Passenger accommodation is arranged for ***** Class only and is of a very high standard providing for a total of 1,160 persons. Anti-roll stabiliser equipment adds much to the comfort of passengers when passing through heavy seas. March 1, 1955.

Vintage Photograph. North German Lloyn "Bremen" entering New York Harbor.

S. S. Queen Mary , Ships, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Ship - VICTORIA LUISE ca. 1910-1915 .

Launch Of The "Queen Mary" -- The King saluting as the "Queen Mary" went down the slip way. September 26, 1934. (Photo by Keystone).

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RMS Titanic moored in harbor

One of 50 made over to Britain during the Second World War: an American flush decker destroyer in cross section. In the inset (bottom right) it is compared with a standard British destroyer. Date: 1940

S. S. Queen Mary , Ocean liners, Cunard White Star, ltd., Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

The boilers are craned into a steamship : this is done after launching, when the vessel is afloat Date: 1914-1918

Illustration of the launch of the 'Oceanic', from the 'Illustrated London News', 21st January 1899. The 'Oceanic' was built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast for the White Star Line to operate on the Liverpool to New York passenger service. At 704 feet long the 'Oceanic' became the longest vessel of the time. She was wrecked off the Shetland Isles in 1914 while serving as an armed merchant cruiser. Date: 1899

S.S. Independence, American Export Lines , Ships, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Anefo photo collection. Arrival "Johan van Oldenbarneveldt" with repatrants in Amsterdam. March 24, 1958. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

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