Historic Steamships

Black-and-white photographs of vintage steamships and boats from the early 20th century, highlighting maritime history.

Bringing in scabs() New Orleans, Louisiana. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Photograph of the SS Grainton. Photograph Of S. S. Grainton. November 20, 1918. Nationality: British. Tonnage 6042. Length: 415 ft. Beam 55 ft. Draft: 30' 6". Captain: J. W. Henderson. Owners: Ira Chapman & Son New Castle. Where From: Iquique Chili Chile. Destination: Not Known. Where Photographed: Charleston S. C. Sixth Naval District. By Whom J. B. Dearborn. Date: Oct. 26th. 1918. Where Camouflaged: Manchester England July 13th. 1918. By Whom: Manchester Dry Dock Co. British Admirality Admiralty. Type Of Ship: Flush Deck One Gun 4 Point 7. Four Otters. Color Numbers #1 Bluegray, #1 Graygreen, #3 Blue, #2 Gray & Black. Two Masts: Foremast #1 Graygreen, Aftmast #1 Bluegray. Two King Post Foreward #1 Graygreen With Black Marks Like Chinese Writing Two Stacks, Large & Small Together: #1 Graygreen, #1 Bluegray, #2 Gray&Blk. A Large Floating Raft Foreward Made Of Barrels.. 1918-10-26T00:00:00.

Audience on boats during the Varsity of 1893 in Haarlem, Hendrik Herman van den Berg, 1893 photograph This photo is part of an album. Haarlem baryta paper public festivities - AA - festivities on the water Saving

S/S Bråviken (delivered) in 1895 in port at Nävekvarn.

Photograph of the SS Eugene Grosos. Photograph Of S. S. Eugene Grosos.November 7 1918. Nationality: French. Tonnage: 4836. Captain: J. Hamonet. Owners: Cie Havraise Pen. De Nav. A Vap. Where From: Taltal, Chili Chile. Destination: Not Known. Photographed In Charleston S. C. Sixth Naval District. Photographed By J. B. Dearborn. Date: 10/26/18. Time 10: A. M. Where Camouflaged: France By French Government. Type Of Ship: Flush Deck, Length: 349.3', Beam: 46.2', Draft: 25.2'. Color Numbers: -#2 Blue, #3 Blue, #2 Gray, White, Black & #2 Green. Two Masts: -Foremast On Starboard Side #2 Gray, On The Port Black Aftmast #2 Blue. One Smokestack: -Black. Guns & Otters.. 1918-10-26T00:00:00.

Piston Makasser, Anonymous, 1922 photograph The piston 'Macassar', lying on the quay. Numbered: 241. Part of the group of individual photos about the construction of the port Belawan on the coast for Medan, Sumatra 1921-1922. Belawan photographic support gelatin silver print building-site. steamship, motorship Belawan

Boats arrive with invalids to the port of Haparanda.

Photograph of the Port View of the SS Kittery. Port View. Photograph Of S.S. Kittery. Nov. 1st 1918. Nationality: American. Tonnage: 1289. Captain: H. Stremmer. Owners: U. S. Navy. Where From: New York. Destination: West Indies. Where Photographed: Charleston S. C. Sixth Naval District. By Whom Photographed: J. B. Dearborn. Date: Sept. 7th 1918. Where Camouflaged: New York. Date: August 30th. 1918. By Whom Camouflaged: Naval Overseas Transportation Co. Type Of Ship: Well Deck Or Three Island. Length: 280 ft. Beam: -40 ft. 6 inches. Draft: -14' 6". Color Characteristics: #1 Bluegrey: #1 Greypink; Black & Greywhite. Two Masts: -Foremast; Greywhite, Black & #1 Bluegrey/ Aft #1 Bluegrey. Two Smokestacks, Fore: - Greywhite, Black & #1 Bluegrey Aft #1 Bluegrey & Greywhite. Four Guns 3" 50 Pounders. No Otters.. 1918-09-07T00:00:00.

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0627. 1956

The old Ship Made 1887 England. Photoetching, pl. VII from the album Wild Life on a Tidal Water The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew (1890); edition 270/500 . Peter Henry Emerson

Bringing in scabs() New Orleans, Louisiana. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Vienna XIX, Nussdorf steamship station , Verlagsanstalt Grapha Vienna, producer

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Destroyances Netherlands 1941/1945. Between Deventer and Lochem. Lock. 1945. The Netherlands

The Faithful D.A.D .. The travelers on the gangway to the boat called D.A.D., moored to a jetty, possibly on departure from Shanghai. A navy ship is in the background. Part of the foto album from Dolph Kessler with recordings he made during his stay in England and on a world trip that he undertook to Dutch-India, Japan, China and the United States as a secretary of Henri Deterding (director of Royal Oil), between 1906 and 1908.

Photograph of the Fore Side of the Bridge of the SS Olinda. Photograph Of Fore Side Of Bridge. Date: - June 13 1918. Photograph of S. S. Olinda. Nationality: - Cuban. Tonnage: -2376. Captain: - T. Hagestad. Owners: - Munson S. S. Co. Where from: - Nuevitas, Cuba. Destination: - New York, N. Y. Where Photographed: - Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. By Whom Photographed: - J. B. Dearborn. Date Photographed: - June 7th., 1918.. 1918-06-07T00:00:00.

Company on decorated boats, Hendrik Herman van den Berg, in or after 1890 - in or before 1894 photograph This photo is part of an album. Amsterdam baryta paper historical persons. ships (in general) Amsterdam

Elsevier photo collection. dry dock Schiedam arrived. 1920. Schiedam, South Holland

Turkish cannon boat in the Bosphorus before anchor.

Photograph of the Port View of the SS Munrio. Photo of Port View. May 31st. 1918. S. S. Munrio: - Nationality: - American. Tonnage: - 3868. Captain: - Asa Haley. Owners: - Munson S. S. Co. Where from: - Calita, Junin, Chili Caleta Junin, Chile. Dest. Antafagasta, Chili Antofagasta, Chile. via. Norfolk, Va. Where photographed: - Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. By whom: - J. B. Dearborn. Date photographed: - May 20th., 1918.. 1918-05-20T00:00:00.

South Carolina - Fort Sumter. Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Fort Sumter.

Florida - Wards Bank. Wards Bank Range Front, St. Johns River, Florida.

Florida - Key West Depot. Key West Depot, Florida. Br. Oil Tanker "San Nazario", 500 ft. long lapping L.H. pier. U.S.S. "Ivy" hanging over the North end of L.H. pier. 100' to 300', 33 degrees to 140 degrees true.

Virginia - Thimble Shoal. Thimble Shoal Light Station, Virginia. From SE and on old Station Deck.

Florida - Key West Depot. Key West Depot, Florida. American-Hawaiian S.S. Pennsylvanian, taking on fuel oil, Pier B, SE, 130'.

Two masts on the waves. Two masts on the waves ". Anonymous photography. Gélatino-Chloride Draw.

Boat number 5 from the harbor steamboat service on the Amsterdam-Marken line. Part of family album including photos of Wijnhandel Kraaij & Co. Bordeaux-Amsterdam.

Maryland - Point No Point. Point No Point Light Station, Maryland.

The harbor Nynäshamn with the ship Drotten at the quay.

Elsevier photo collection. Tugboats fourth island Scheveningen Pier. island restaurant island. fueled. counts floors. August 5, 1964. Scheveningen, South Holland

'Steamers Passing in the Suez Canal', c1930. Creator: ENA.

Water Watched Wreckage - Depth Charge. This image depicts the view from the bow of a ship.

Two ships moored, possibly on one of the Wadden Islands.

Photograph of the Fore Side of the Bridge of the SS Katahdin. Photograph Of Fore Side Of Bridge. Date: November 1918. Photograph Of S. S. Katahdin. Nationality: American. Tonnage: 2696. Captain: B. Macbeth. Owners: Clyde Line S. S. Co. Where From: Boston Mass. Destination: Jacksonville Fla. Where Photographed: Charleston S: C. Sixth Naval District. By Whom Photographed: J. B. Dearborn: Date: November 4th. 1918. Where Camouflaged: Boston Mass. Date: October 30th. 1918. By Whom Camouflaged: Orders Of The U. S. Navy By A Man At #44 Bluefield St. Boston Mass.. 1918-11-04T00:00:00.

Photograph of the Port View of the SS Bedeburn. Photograph Of Port View. Date: - Oct. 11th., 1918. Photograph Of S. S. Bedeburn. Nationality: - British. Tonnage: - 3449. Capt.: - A. J. Brewer. Owners: - Watts Watts & Co. of Eng. Where From: - Havana, Cuba. Destination: - Queenstown Ireland. Where Photographed: - Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. By Whome Whom: -. J. B. Dearborn. Date: - Sept. 17th., 1918. Where Camouflaged: - Hull England. Date: - Feb. 12th., 1918. By Whom Camouflaged: - British Admirality Admiralty. Type Of Ship: - Well Deck. Length: - , 350 ft. Beam: -46 ft. Draft: -22 ft. Colors On Hull: - Greywhite; #2 Grey; #3 Blue; Black. Two Masts Bluegrey: One Smokestack: - Greywhite; Black & #3 Blue. One Gun Four Inch; Four Otters.. 1918-09-17T00:00:00.

East River: Foot of East Ninth Street, Man. Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991). , March 4, 1937. Gelatin silver photograph, sheet: 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (20 x 25.1 cm). Photography March 4, 1937

Elsevier photo collection. Infailing skippers. 1917

Description: Draggers or trawlers drag a large net over the bottom to catch groundfish such as halibut. Location: Canada Date: 1963 canada, americas

Photo collection Government information service. New Guinea, Indonesia. undated. New Guinea

Openable railway bridge in Vänersborg.

Rotterdam harbour. The port of Rotterdam, a number of cranes in the distance, on the day of the bombing. Rear photo: Rotterdam Hafen, 14-5-40.

"Go Below the Bridges in One of the Port of London Authority's Launches and Visit Dockland" Shipping in the Royal Albert Dock', 1937. Ships and barges on the River Thames in London. From "The Said Noble River", by Alan Bell. The Port of London Authority, London, 1937

Photograph of the SS Rayo. Photograph of S. S. Rayo. Date June 17 1918. Nationality: - American. Tonnage: - 3633. Captain: - F. Sandberg. Owners: - Std. oil Co. Where from: - Beaumont, texas., Destination: - New York, N. Y. Where photographed: - Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. By whom photographed: - J. B. Dearborn. Date photograped: - June 8th., 1918.. 1918-06-08T00:00:00.

Ship with smoking chimneys sailing at Dieppe. Part of a French amateur album with photos of France, Algeria, Palmyra, the 1900 World Exhibition and of Famous Fransen.

Passenger with a smoking chimney at sea, Anonymous, 1920 - 1930,Dutch Indies, Indonesia.

Flying bridge over the Styr.

A train unloaded from SS Harmonides. A locomotive boiler and tender have been lowered onto a bogie on the dockside railway at Kilindini harbour by cranes onboard SS Harmonides. A railway steam crane stands by the train. Mombasa, Kenya, circa 1926. Mombasa, Coast, Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa.

View of moored boats in Schoonhoven, Anonymous, 1850 - 1900 photograph. cabinet photograph Schoonhoven baryta paper. cardboard steamsailer Schoonhoven

Malmo loading port in Luleå.

Ships on the quay. Two ships (the ... Hicwell and the Haliotis) located on the quay. Photo in the photo album on oil extraction on Borneo by the Royal Dutch Petroleum Maatschappij (KNPM) in the 1903-1907.

The Pilot coming Aboard at Sandy Hook from Pilot Boat "New Yorker, " New York Harbor. The 'Perfec-Stereograph', 7700.. Photographs. 1904. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Jamaica, New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.), Rowboats, Pilot boats

The Holland, First Submarine in the Navy of the United States. Launched in 1898. Pictured here with the Russian Battleship Retvizan entering dry dock. The Retvizan was afterward sunk in the Russo-Japanese War

Ships on the quay of Tandjong Priok, Anonymous, c. 1870 - c. 1910 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of sights in Marseille, Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. Tandjong Priok cardboard. paper. photographic support harbour (+ view ~ vehicle, ship, etc.) Tandjong Priok

Breaking Mississippi's Grip. This image depicts a plow attached to a Coast Guard craft smashing the thick ice of the Mississippi to free newly-built invasion craft on their way to scenes of action.

Photograph of the SS Apache. Photograph Odf Of S: S. Apache. Date: November 25 1918. Nationality: American. Tonnage: 4145. Captain: Frank Mackinnon. Owners: Clyde Line S. S. Co. Where From: Jacksonville, Fla. Destination: New York. Where Photographed: Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. By Whom Photographed: J. B Dearborn. Date Photographed: November 7th/, 1918. Where Camouflaged: Hoboken N J. Date Sept. 29th. And May 5, 1918. By Whom Camouflaged: Fletcher Dry Dock Co.. 1918-11-07T00:00:00.

View of a bay with a ship and buildings on Ambon, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of Ambon. Ambon paper. cardboard. photographic support gulf, bay (+ landscape with figures, staffage). steamship, motorship Dutch East Indies, The. Ambon

Two ships moored, possibly on one of the islands, Anonymous, c. 1900.

MI - Poe Reef. Poe Reef Light Station, Michigan. Camp for Poe Reef working party at Cheboygan, Michigan.

Virginia - Thimble Shoal. Thimble Shoal Light Station, Virginia.

Belawan, GG Idenburg, The GG Idenburg on the water. Part of the group of loose photos about the construction of the Belawan harbour on the coast of Medan, Sumatra 1921-1922., photograph, photo, Indische albums, height 239 mm, width 292 mm, photographer, 1921 - 1922, first quarter 20st century, photographic paper, photo paper, daylight gelatin silver print

The British High Commissioner's Yacht on the River Tigris, Iraq. Date: circa 1930

The steamer Tärnan at Långbron Sluss, Dalsland.

The choice (depicted name).The choices (depicted name)

Our visit to Wellington to see the H.M.S. 'New Zealand'. April 18, 1913: The 'New Zealand' and the 'Tutanekai'. From the album: Family photographs 1913, 1913, Wellington, by Leslie Adkin.

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0283. 1956

Elsevier photo collection. 1st port of tandjong priok. It is moored. K.P.m. Ship S.S. "Van Lansberge". undated. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Tanjong Priok

Elsevier photo collection. bus Nieuwendam ferry takes .. October 1924. Nieuwendam, Noord-Holland

Dordrecht, Tollens, Henricus Jacobus, Baggermolen Port Said, verso - manuscript, Emmerbaggermolen Port Said. Photo pasted on cardboard, without texts. Part of the folder with 44 photos of dredging vessels of the firm A. Bos & JP Heijblom in Dordrecht., photograph, photo, photos, HJ Tollens C. Hzn. Dordrecht, bottom right - blind stamp, Bakkenzuiger 'Sliedrecht III' by L. Volker Az. 1906., height 160 mm, width 220 mm, height 284 mm, width 348 mm, Dutch, 1864-06-13 - 1936-07-29, photographer, 1907-02-24 - 1907-02-24, photographic paper, photo paper, cardboard, gelatin silver print, developing gelatin silver print

Misc - Other. Lighthouse Tender Lilac.

Bacooven boat. A Dutch bacooven or banana boat, for anchor in a river or at the Surinamese coast. Part of the photo album souvenir de Voyage (part 2), about the life of the DOIER family in and around the plantation ma retreat in Suriname in the years 1906-1913.

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Boat number 5 of the port steamboat service on the Amsterdam-Marken line, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1910 photograph Part of Family Album with photos of Wijnhandel Kraaij & Co. Bordeaux-Amsterdam. photographic support sea. passenger liner (+ view ~ vehicle, ship, etc.). passengers ~ ship

Port and Saltwater Canal Van Totness, 1903 - 1910 photograph Boats lying in the harbor near the Zoutwaterkanaal van Totness. Part of the photo album Souvenir de Voyage (part 1), about the life of the Doijer family in and around the MA retreat plantation in Suriname in the years 1903-1910. Suriname photographic support cyanotype Suriname. Totness

Photo collection First World War. Boats Full of Passengers Leaving the "Arabia" .. 1914-1918}

Barcelona, August 1929. Deep sea fishing. In the image, the ice, once crushed and in powder form, is transported by a belt to the ship's hold refrigerator. This photograph is part of a report on deep-sea fishing, participating in the Black and White photographic information contest in 1929.

The picture represents a view of the harbor in Sevastopol with ships from the Russian Wolle fleet .. The picture represents a view of the harbor in Sevastopol with boats from the Russian war fleet.

Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden armoredship. .

Side View of "The Great Eastern". Robert Howlett (British, 1831 - 1858)

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0623. 1956

The company goes on board per gangboard, c. 1903 photograph The company goes on board per gangboard, at a wedding or a party. Part of the photo album of Dolph Kessler with recordings he made during his stay in England and on a world trip he undertook as secretary of Henri Detding (director of Royal Oil) to the Dutch East Indies, Japan, China and the United States, between 1906 and 1908. Netherlands cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print

Sölvesborg harbor.

Wilhelm Tham passes Motala Workshop in the Göta Canal.

Log Transportation: Rafts/ Rafting. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection Government information service own, photo number 156-0326. 1956

Misc - Unidentified. Unidentified/Unnumbered Lighthouse Images.

Four men repair the lower half of a docked boat. Arnold Eagle (American, 1909 - 1992)

5-Ton Oshkosh with Snow Plow. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Photograph of the Fore Side of the Bridge of the SS Kralingen. Photograph Of Fore Side Of Bridge. Date: - Sept. 28 1918. Photograph Of S. S. Kralingen. Nationality: - American. Tonnage: - 1378. Captain: - H. A. Smith. Owners: - U. S. Shipping-Board. Where From: - Santiago, Cuba. Destination: - New York. Where Photographed: - Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. By Whom Photographed: - J. B. Dearborn. Date: - Sept. 3rd., 1918. Where Camouflaged: - New York. Date: - July 1918. By Whom Camouflaged: - Erie Basin Co. Type Of Ship: - Well-Deck. Length: -237 ft., Beam: -36 ft., Draft: -16 ft. 6 inches. Color Numbers: - Black; White; Grey-White; #3. Blue; & Blue-Grey. Two Masts: - Foreward Grey-White; Aftmast Blue-Grey. One Smokestack: - White & Blue -#3. No Guns; No Otters. The Most Distinguishing Feature Is The Unusually High Bridge.. 1918-09-03T00:00:00.

New Jersey - Barnegat. What happens to transports crossing Bars. Barnegat.

Photograph of the Port View of the SS Onondaga. Port View. Date July 25th., 1918. Photograph of, S. S. Onondaga: ) Nationality: - American. Tonnage: - 2696. Captain: W. H. Googins. Owners: - Clyde S. S. Co. Where From: - Boston, Mass. Destination: - Jacksonville, Fla. Where photographed: - Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. By whom: - J. B. Dearborn. Date Photographed: - May 24th., 1918.. 1918-05-24T00:00:00.

Photograph of the Fore Side of the Bridge of the SS J. W. Van Dyke. Photograph Of Fore Side Of Bridge. Date: - June 17 1918. Photograph of S. S. J. W. Van Dyke. Tonnage: - 7197. Captain: - E/ V. Pray. Owners: - Std. Oil Co/ Where from: - Sabine, Texas. Destination: - Philadelphia, Penn. Where photographed: - Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. By whom Photographed: - J. B. Dearborn. Date photographed: - June 8th., 19/8 1918.. 1918-06-08T00:00:00.

Maryland - Hooper Island. Hooper Island Light Station, Maryland.

Köping Djuphamnen. Vpert "Granö and Teresia

James River, Va. Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor | Library of Congress

Fishing vessels on the Zuiderzee. Part of photo album with recordings from Volendam, Dordrecht, Gorinchem and Woudrichem.

Vessels in Ronneby harbor with ongoing loading.

Photograph of the Fore Side of the Bridge of the SS San Marcos. Photograph Of Fore Side Of Bridge. July 26 1918. Photograph of S. S. San Marcos. Nationality: - American. Tonnage: -2839. Captain: - J. K. Chadwick. Owners: -Mallory S. S. Co. Where From: - New York, N. Y. Destination: -Galveston, texas. Where Photographed: - Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. By whom photographed: - J. B. Dearborn. Date photographed: - July 17th., 1918.. 1918-07-17T00:00:00.

The picture shows the two English blockade ship HMS Billiant and HMS Sirius who went due to the first-rice to ostende .. The picture shows the two English blockade ship HMS Billiant and HMS Sirius that went because of the first-rane to Ostende.

U.S. Sub Watching the Nautilus in Two Hour Test Dive -- Only the radio masts of the ***** submarine Nautilus are visible to the navy officers ***** of the submarine B-11, (foreground) as the ***** vessel passed a two hour diving test ***** of 43 feet.***** tests are being given the craft which ***** the Wilkins expedition under the arctic ***** Spitzbergen to Alaska by way of the north pole.He bought the submarine Nautilus (submerged) for a dollar and, while friends gave him away as a fool, used it to travel 2000 miles under the Actic ice-cap, sometimes up to 15ft thick. August 29, 1951. (Photo by International News Photo).

Fishing boats and fishermen in the port of Concarneau. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first automobiles and autoraces.

3 boats for anchoring..

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