Liner Collection (page 7)

Ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 20th century.The Aquitania was built by John Brown and Company on the Clyde for the Cunard Line

Admiral Francois Darlan, Commander of the French Navy, 1940. Artist: Pierre Falke
Admiral Francois Darlan, Commander of the French Navy, 1940. Jean Louis Xavier Francois Darlan (1881-1942) commanded the French naval forces early in World War II

Releasing French army homing pigeons on board the transatlantic liner La Bretagne, 1898. The birds were released on the voyage between Le Havre and New York. From Le Petit Journal

PSS Great Eastern on the ocean, 1858. Colour print after a painting by Edwin Weedon. This steamship, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with John Scott Russell

Grand saloon of the steamship Atlantic, 1850

The Grand Saloon on board the Great Eastern, 1859. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with John Scott Russell, the Great Eastern was lauched in 1858

Punch cartoon on the sinking of the Lusitania, 1915. Artist: Bernard Partridge
Punch cartoon on the sinking of the Lusitania, 1915. A German submarine torpedoed the Lusitania off the Irish coast on 7 May 1915. Although unarmed, she was carrying munitions

On the sinking of the Lusitania, 1915. Britannia to America: In silence you have looked on felon blows, On butchers work of which the waste lands reek; Now, in Gods name

Toll of the Sea, the sinking of the Titanic, 1912. Cartoon showing Britannia and America supporting each other in grief. The SS Titanic, operated by the White Star Line

White Star Lines steamer Oceanic, 1871. Built in 1870 by Harland and Wolff at Belfast, the Oceanic was the first liner built for the White Star Line

Dinner time in the first class dining saloon of an Atlantic steamer on a stormy day, c1890. From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril & Heroism by F Whymper

Cunard Lines first transatlantic liner Britannia leaving Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1847. Artist: Smyth
Cunard Lines first transatlantic liner Britannia leaving Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1847. The Britannia made her first transatlantic voyage in 1840, travelling from Halifax, Nova Scotia

Passengers joining a P&O liner in the Thames, c1890. Artist: P&O Pencillings
Passengers joining a P&O liner in the Thames, c1890. Embarking for a voyage through the Suez Canal to India, Australia or Japan

The lesson of SS Titanic: Lifeboat drill on a passenger liner, 1912. Operated by the White Star Line, on 14 April 1912 SS Titanic struck an iceberg in thick fog off Newfoundland

Prayers at the scene of the sinking of the Titanic, 1912. The White Star Line chartered the cable-laying vessel Mackay-Brown to recover bodies

Lifeboats from the SS Titanic, 1912. All that was left of the greatest ship in the world - the lifeboats that carried most of the 705 survivors

Members of the crew of the Titanic in their life jackets, 1912. Operated by the White Star Line, SS Titanic struck an iceberg in thick fog off Newfoundland on 14 April 1912

The arrest of Dr Crippen and Ethel le Neve, 1910. Murderer Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen and his lover, Ethel le Neve, being arrested on board the Atlantic liner Montrose

The Aquitania on the Stocks, c1930. Creator: John Brown & Company
The " Aquitania" on the Stocks, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne]

The Iceberg Above and Below the Water, April 20, 1912. Creator: Unknown
The Iceberg Above and Below the Water, April 20, 1912. Illustration showing the relative proportions - normally about a tenth of the volume of an iceberg is above water - with a ship for scale

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