Passenger Ship Collection (page 4)

Maurtania: Great Britains Fastest Greyhound of the Atlantic, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume I, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

One of the Worlds Great Ships. The French liner Normandie, 1937
One of the Worlds Great Ships. The French liner Normandie is a vessel of 86, 496 tons gross, 1937. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. II, edited by Clarence Winchester

One of the Most Popular Transatlantic Liners, the Mauretania at Southampton, 1937
One of the Most Popular Transatlantic Liners was the Mauretania, shown above being painted at Southampton in preparation for one of the cruises on which she was sometimes employed, 1937

Modern liners for Far Eastern Services of the German Lloyd Line built in 1935, 1937
For the Far Eastern Services of the German Lloyd Line, three modern liners were built in 1935, the Scharnhorst, the Gneisenau and the Posdam, 1937. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol

Merchant Ship Types. No. 19 - A River Amazon Trade Cargo-Passenger Ship, 1937. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. II, edited by Clarence Winchester. [The Fleetway House, London]

The Thrust of the Modern Liners Mighty Engines, 1936. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. 1, edited by Clarence Winchester. [The Amalgamated Press Ltd. London]

The Majesty of a Great Liner - The Orion at anchor, 1937. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. II, edited by Clarence Winchester. [The Fleetway House, London]

Former Queen of the Ocean, R, M. S. Mauretania of the Cunard White Star Line, 1936
Former Queen of the Ocean, R, M.S. Mauretania of the Cunard White Star Line, 1936. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. 1, edited by Clarence Winchester. [The Amalgamated Press Ltd. London]

Triumphant for Twenty Years. The Mauretania, built in 1907, c1927, (1936). From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. 1, edited by Clarence Winchester. [The Amalgamated Press Ltd. London]

Arrival at New York of the Normandie, 1936. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. 1, edited by Clarence Winchester. [The Amalgamated Press Ltd. London]

An unusual angle of the Normandies deck, 1936
An unusual angle of the Normandies deck was obtained by the photographer of the illustration on the opposite page, 1936. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. 1, edited by Clarence Winchester

Universal admiration was accorded to the fine performance of the Bremen, 1936. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. 1, edited by Clarence Winchester. [The Amalgamated Press Ltd. London]

Sinking of the Princess Alice on the River Thames, 1878. Scene showing the paddle steamer sinking, surrounded by drowning figures

Hauling one of the Lusitanias lifeboats onto the beach, Ireland, 8 May 1915. Lusitania was sunk off the Old Head of Kinsdale by a German u-boat on 7 May 1915

View from the Carpathia of a lifeboat from the Titanic brought alongside, 15 April, 1912. Operated by the White Star Line, RMS Titanic was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner of her time

Isambard Kingdom Brunel beside the Great Eastern, c1857. Artist: Robert Howlett
Isambard Kingdom Brunel beside the Great Eastern, c1857. Brunel (1806-1859) proposed to the Eastern Steam Navigation Company the construction of a steamship five or six times the size of any then in

Venetian lighthouse and the ferry to Piraeus, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece. Much of the town of Rethymnon was built by the Venetians, who ruled Crete from 1204 until the mid 17th century

The Ill-Fated R101, 1927. From The Wonder Book of Aircraft, edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co, Limited, London & Melbourne, 1927]

Launch of the Cunard ocean liner `Queen Mary`, 1934 (1935). The British giant liner, Cunarder No. 534, was launched on September 26th by Her Majesty, who christened the boat Queen Mary, 1909

The sinking of the Lusitania, 7 May 1915. A German submarine sank the Lusitania off the Irish coast. Although unarmed, she was carrying munitions

Bringing the Body on Deck, c1900, (1910). The funeral on board a passenger liner of a steerage passenger who died from tuberculosis (consumption). From The Strand Magazine. [George Newnes Ltd

The sinking of SS Titanic, 14 April 1912. An artists impression of the ship going down. Operated by the White Star Line, on 14 April 1912 SS Titanic struck an iceberg in thick fog off Newfoundland

The Burning of the Ocean Monarch, c1848. Artist: Francois d Orleans, Prince de Joinville
The Burning of the Ocean Monarch, c1848. The Ocean Monarch set sail from Liverpool bound for Boston on 24 August 1848, carrying passengers

Collision of the Bywell Castle with the Princess Alice, 1878 (1906). Artist: J Nash
Collision of the Bywell Castle with the Princess Alice, 1878 (1906). The paddle steamer Princess Alice was rammed by the collier Bywell Castle off Tripcock Point in the Thames Estuary on 3 September

Cabin-De-Luxe on the North German Lloyd SS. Kronprinzessin Cecilie, c1907. From The Studio Volume 42 [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1907-8]

The Queen Mary at Southampton, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

Playing quoits on board the SS Arandora Star, 1936. SS Arandora Star was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line. Built in 1927 as an ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship

Tourists on an excursion from a cruise, possibly in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, 1936. A photograph from a private album of a passenger who undertook a cruise on the S.S

British passenger ship SS Arandora Star of the Blue Star Line, 1936
The British passenger ship SS Arandora Star of the Blue Star Line, 1936. SS Arandora Star was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line

SS Drummond Castle, late 19th century. The Drummond Castle was a steamship built by John Elder & Co of Govan in 1881. Operated by the Castle Mail Packets Co

Cunard Line steamship RMS Franconia, c1923-c1939. Artist: Kenneth Denton Shoesmith
Cunard Line steamship RMS Franconia, c1923-c1939. Postcard posted in 1971. The Franconia was built by John Brown & Co at Clydebank, Scotland, making her maiden voyage in 1923

Steamship SS Celtic at the quayside, Liverpool, Lancashire, c1904. Artist: Valentine & Sons Ltd
Steamship SS Celtic at the quayside, Liverpool, Lancashire, c1904. Postcard posted in 1904. The Celtic was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Lines transatlantic trade

Playing shuffleboard on a Cunard Line cruise to the West Indies, January-March 1931. A woman passenger playing shuffleboard on the boat deck

Passengers on a Cunard Line cruise to the West Indies, January-March 1931

Passengers sunbathing on a Cunard Line cruise to the West Indies, January-March 1931

The North Cape Stakes, entertainment on board the Blue Star Lines SS Arandora Star, 1929. The Arandora Star was a cruise liner. Norway was a frequent destination for the ship

Passenger ship bethed at Molde, Norway, 1929

Steamship Atlantis off Bathurst, Gambia, 20th century. Bathurst is now known as Banjul. Previously a liner named Andes, the Atlantis was converted into a cruise ship

Aerial view of Bremen harbour, Germany, and the liner Europa, from a Zeppelin, c1931 (1933). A photograph from Zeppelin-Weltfahrten

First class smoking room on board the P&O steamship SS India, 1901. A photograph from The Magazine of Art, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1901

Salon of the P&O steamship SS India, 1901. A photograph from The Magazine of Art, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1901

The RMS Mauretania, 20th century. RMS Mauretania, sister ship of the Lusitania, was an ocean liner built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend, Tyne and Wear

Coaling the Pacific mail SS Siberia, at the fortified naval station of Nagasaki, Japan, 1904. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Greetings for newcomers on the pier alongside the Pacific Mail SS China, at Yokohama, Japan, 1904. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Advert for winter tours of South Africa, 1928. A print from the Illustrated London News, Christmas number 1928

The landing stage at Liverpool docks, Merseyside, early 20th century

The ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, Clydebank, Glasgow, 1934 (1935). Artist: John Brown & Company
The ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, Clydebank, Glasgow, 1934 (1935). Built by John Brown & Co on Clydeside for the Cunard White Star Line, the 81

The ocean liner RMS Berengaria, 20th century. The SS Imperator, later renamed RMS Berengaria, was the first of a trio of successively larger ocean liners that included the Vaterland

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