Historical Maritime Scenes

Vintage photographs depicting various harbors with ships and boats from the early 20th century, showcasing scenes of maritime activity with a nostalgic tone.

Shipping in the harbour at Constantinople, Turkey, showing H.M.S. Centurion and Benbow (in the distance) circa 1930

Face over a river, with ships in the background, the Netherlands, c. 1900 photograph Netherlands photographic support. paper gelatin silver print steamship, motorship. harbour Netherlands

Shipping in the harbour at Constantinople, Turkey, showing H.M.S. Centurion and Benbow (in the distance) circa 1930

Photograph of the Port View of the SS Holden Evans. Photograph Of Port View. May 17th., 1918. Photograph of S. S. Holden Evans: Nationality) American. Tonnage- 3253. Captain T. Knight. Owners-Continental Transportation & Oil Co. Where from- Tampa, Fla. Destination- Tampico, Mexico. Where photographed- Jacksonville, Fla. Sixth Naval District. By whom photographed- J. Boyd Dearborn. Date photographed- May 8th., 1918.. 1918-05-08T00:00:00.

Sailing Ships. This image depicts sailing ships and other activities.

University rowing competition. Photo 3 on Albumblad 28 from Album "Amsterdam 1890-1894".

Photograph of the Port View of the SS Matilda Weems. Port View. Date: - August 23, 1918. Photograph Of SS. Matilda Weems. Nationality: - American. Tonnage: - 1322. Captain: - J. R. Tatterson. Owners: - Mason L. Weems Williams Baltimore & Carolina S. S. Co. Where From: - Georgetown, S.C. Destination: - Baltimore, Md. Where Photographed: - Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. Photographed By J. B. Dearborn. Date: - July 23rd., 1918. Where Camouflaged: - Georgetown, S. C. Date: - June 17th., 1918. By Whom Camouflaged: - "Evans" Under Orders Of M. L. Freedman Camoufluer Camoufleur Of The Fourth District. It Was Done By Orders Of The U. S. Goverment Government Certificate Serial Number B - 100-1. Type Of Ship: - Merchant Coastwise, Flush Deck. Lenth 205.8 Feet. Beam: - 29.9 Feet, Draft: - 18'6". Colors On Hull: - White & Black Paralell Parallel Stripes And No's. 1 & 2 Grey, No. 3. Blue. Foremost Mast, White, Mainmast No. 3 Blue, One Smokestack.. 1918-07-23T00:00:00.

Sailing ship and steamboats on the water. Part of family album including photos of Wijnhandel Kraaij & Co. Bordeaux-Amsterdam.

View of harbor at The Thames at Greenwich; Ludwig Schultz (British, active Greenwich, England 1860s); about 1870; Albumen silver print

Ship, houseboat and dredger in the Suezkanaal, C. & G. Zangaki, c. 1870 - c. 1890 photograph Part of album with 191 photos from a trip to and through South Africa. Suez Canal paper. photographic support albumen print canal. sailing-ship, sailing-boat Suez Canal

Boat named the "Gazelle". Unknown

Photograph of the Port View of the SS Bayway. Port View. August 15th 1918. Photographs Of S. S. Bayway. Nationality: - American. Tonnage: - 5080. Captain: - W. J. Healey. Owners: - Std. Oil Co. Where From: - Baton Rouge, LA. Destination: - Wilmington, N.C. Where Photographed: - Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. By Whom Photographed: - J. B. Dearborn. Date: - July 20th., 1918. Where Camouflaged: Baton Rouge, LA. Date: - June 24th., 1918. By Whom Camouflaged: - Orders Of U. S. Gov't. Type: Oil Tanker. Length: -420'; Beam: - 52'4"; Draft: - 28' 5": Two Masts: -Foremost White Mainmast No. 1 Grey; One Smokestack; No Guns. The Most Prominent Parts Are The Bulkheads; & Fore & Aft Bridge.. 1918-07-20T00:00:00.

S.S. Waimana, Wellington, by John Dickie.

Dispatch boat, Monitor, and James Gordon Bennett's yacht, Rebecca, off Port Royal. "149" inscribed on photograph, Title from item, Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. VI, p. 181", Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, South Carolina, Port Royal.

Fishing vessels off the coast of (presumably) arcachone. 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.

Sailboat and warship off the coast of southern France. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of a family, Distillery Delizy & Doakau Fils, the army and sights in France.

Trelleborg harbor.

Sailors row into rowing boats to their ship. .

Cuba - Puerto Tarafa Harbour Date: circa 1925

Photo collection Government information service. Shipping, canals. undated

España. Tarjeta postal. Marina de guerra. El cañonero Temerario en el puerto de Barcelona. Años 1905.

Photograph of the SS Dalagoa. Photograph Of S. S. Dalagoa. date; November 25 1918. Nationality: Danish. Tonnage: 3541. Captain: E. Juelhausen. Owners: S. S. Co. of Oriental. Where From: Antofagasta Chili Chile. Destination: Sidney B. C. Where Photographed: Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. By Whom Photographed: J. B: Dearborn. Date Photographed: November 11th: 1918.. 1918-11-11T00:00:00.

Cattle being boarded at the port in Naples, Italy, provisioning for the army in Libya, Italian-Turkish war, photograph by T Bozza, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVIII, No 52, December 24, 1911.

Water View, Boston, Massachusetts. 1939 - 1947.

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. With the British navy in war time. Trawler with bows blown off - regret of striking a mine. 1914-1918}

Tugboat towing sailing ship at a harbour pier, Part of French artist's album., photograph, photo, photos, height 119 mm, width 166 mm, photographer, 1880 - 1900, first quarter 20th century, paper, papier, photographic paper, fotopapier, cardboard, kaart, albumen print, albuminedruk

Loading cosmos steamer. Collection of Juhl

Description: Barbados. 'The Careenage'. Boats alongside the harbour. Photograph No TOP 33865 H Official Barbados photograph compiled by the Central Office of Information. Copyright hand stamp of Paul Popper on reverse. Location: Barbados Date: 1949 Jun 29 barbados, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Sloop with a sculpture of a winged lion on the bow cabin on the back, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Europe cardboard. photographic support albumen print rowing-boat, canoe, etc.. Mark (Marcus) the evangelist, and bishop of Alexandria; possible attributes: book, (winged) lion, pen and inkhorn, scroll Europe

View in turn ships on the Damrak in Amsterdam, Anonymous, c. 1880 - c. 1900 cabinet photograph Amsterdam photographic support. cardboard ships (in general). harbour. canals, waters (in city) Damra

The Spit - Napier black-and-white prints, vintage prints, albumen prints, cityscapes, landscapes

Florida - Key West Depot. Key West Depot, Florida. U.S. Destroyers, SE, 130'.

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

Local population at mail boats and corjals on the Suriname River, Julius Muller (Possible), c. 1890 - c. 1900 photograph Part of photo album with recordings of sights in Europe, Trinidad, Haiti, Martinique and Suriname. Suriname photographic support albumen print steamship, motorship. rowing-boat, canoe, etc. Suriname River

Mammoth Log Raft on Columbia RiverOregon. Mammoth Log Raft on Columbia River

River Scene, Rangoon Description: River scene, Rangoon. Location: Rangoon, Burma Date: 1907 burma, philipklier

España. Tarjeta postal. Marina de guerra. Acorazado Carlos V. Año 1910.

Virginia - Thimble Shoal. Thimble Shoal Light Station, Virginia. Tender "Chester" alongside caisson and diver going down to examine bottom around edge of caisson. Camera station 70 ft. SE'ly.

Amsterdam, Jager, Andries, Amsterdam. The Oosterdok., Ships at anchor in the Oosterdok in Amsterdam, Part of Photo album with shots of cities in North and South Holland and Utrecht., photograph, photo, album sheet, photos, height 50 mm, width 80 mm, 1825 - 1905, photographer, 1860 - 1900, cardboard, photographic paper, photo paper, albumen print, albumine print

Port of the sea (current route Georges-Pompidou), Peniche, the Seine, Arcole Bridge, 4th arrondissement, Paris Port of the sea (current way Georges-Pompidou), barge, the Seine, Arcole Bridge. Paris (IVEme arr.), 1898. Photography of Eug�ne Atget (1857-1927).

Photograph of the Port View of the SS San Valerio. Port View. Date: - June 20 1918. Photograph of S. S. San Valerio. Nationality: - British. Tonnafe Tonnage: - 6433. Captain: - A. J. Akers. Owners: - Eagle Oil Transport Co. Where from: - Port arthur, Texas. Destination: - New York, N. Y. Where photographed: - Charleston, S/ C. Sixth Naval District. By whom: - J. B. Dearborn. Date Photographed: - June 8th., 1918. Where camouflaged: - New Castle, England. On The Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne. Date Camouflaged: - Feb. 1918. By Whom Camouflaged: - By Orders Of The British Goverment Government. Type: -Oil Tanker. Length: - 430'. Beam: -54' 6". Draft: - 26'. One Gun 4".. 1918-06-20T00:00:00.

Brooklyn Fire. This image depicts several boats fighting a fire.

Schepen in de haven van Great Yarmouth; Great Yarmouth Harbour.

Stewart Island from the steamer, circa 1903, Dunedin, by Muir & Moodie.

12/31/1949. Boats docked in the port of Ayamonte.

Photograph of the SS Sabine. Photograph Of S. S. Sabine. Date: - Nov. 5. Nationality: American. Tonnage: 3328. Captain: Frank L. Kinney. Owners: Mallory S. S. Co. Where From: New York. Destination: Jacksonville, Fla. Where Camouflaged: New York. Date: Oct. 18th 1918/ By Whom Camouflaged: By Orders Of The U. S. Navy. Type Of Ship: Flush Deck. Length 317 ft. Beam 46' 6", Draft 17 ft. Colors Numbers: #3 Blue: Black: White: & #1 Green. Two Masts: Formast Foremast: White. Aftmast #1 Green & #3 Blue. No Guns & No Otters. The Most Prominent Parts Are The Housing Above The Hull.. 1918-10-21T00:00:00.

Fishing boats in the port of Douarnenez. 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.

Two fishing vessels on the coast near Scheveningen, 1904 photograph Scheveningen baryta paper ships (in general) - CC - more than one ship Scheveningen

Ship 'Prince of the Netherlands' in Port Said. Part of travel album with photographs of activity and sights on Sumatra and Java and from the trip to and from the Dutch East Indies.

The national border track, with both ore loading bridges. the two smaller boats to the left "Ingrid" and "Victoria

Rader drill with steaming chimney, presumably in the port of Sydney, Charles Bayliss, c. 1890 - c. 1910 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of sights in Sydney. Sydney cardboard. paper. photographic support albumen print harbour (+ view ~ vehicle, ship, etc.). paddle-wheel boat Sydney

Sailing boats at sea, in the background probably Arcachon, 1897 photograph Part of photo album of a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first cars and car races. Arcachon paper. photographic support sailing-ship, sailing-boat. prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city Arcachon

The ship Izgled SS at the Malm load quay

Four steam ships in a water, presumably in the Netherlands, c. 1900 photograph Netherlands baryta paper steamship, motorship Netherlands

Sailing ships on a water at Sneek; At Sneek (top). Part of topographic album of Dutch villages and cities 1905.

The harbour in Hamburg, Germany, postcard text, view around ca 1910, historical, digital reproduction of a historical postcard, public domain, from that time, exact date unknown, Europe

Francia. Barco La Bourgogne.

Crowded river barge. Unknown

The steamers S/S Frans and S/S Trelleborg on the rescue. Ångfartygen S/S Frans och S/S Trelleborg på redden.

The Peaceful Harbour Made 1887 England. Photoetching, pl. XXIV 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

Fishing boats II , Piers & wharves, Boats, Harbors. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Elsevier photo collection. North Sea Canal. Construction 2nd lock Middle lock. 1896. Ijmuiden, North Sea Canal

Naval Aviation Officer's School in Baku. On the left is the hangar on the Stone Quay, on the right - on the Old Customs. Sailboat Ali-Abat is moored to the Stone Quay ca. 1915-1916

Plymouth Tercentenary Pageant, episode I, section I: the Norse galley arrives in Plymouth Harbor , Anniversaries, Historical pageants, Scandinavians. Plymouth Tercentenary Photographs

Sailing ships in the Suez channel, c. 1890 - c. 1910 photograph NetherlandsEgypte paper. cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print

Sailing ships in a port, the Netherlands.

Oamaru, NZ. From the album: N. Z. Scenery, 1876-1878, Oamaru, by Frank Coxhead.

View of Västervik's harbor with the vessels "Scania" and "Kalmarsund IX". Slottsholmen in the middle of the picture.

Louksor, Petit Bras du Nil - Barque de Voyageurs Félix Teynard French Printer Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie 1851-52, printed 1853-54 View more. Louksor, Petit Bras du Nil - Barque de Voyageurs. Félix Teynard (French, 1817-1892). 1851-52, printed 1853-54. Salted paper print from paper negative. Photographs

S.S. Manuka at Dunedin Wharf, 1904, Dunedin, by Muir & Moodie.

Florida - Key West Depot. Key West Depot, Florida. U.S. Monitor Tonnopah, NE, 120'.

'Fra Kristianiafjorden', 1914. Creator: Unknown.

Apia, Samoa from the sea, 1884, Dunedin, by Burton Brothers, Alfred Burton.

Misc - Other. Lighthouse Tender Lilac.

The steamboat "Lövholmen" in the Rännkanalen at the State Railway Slipersfabrik in Piteå.

The company goes on board per gangway. The company goes on board per gangway, with a wedding or a party. 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.

Man and two women on a ship on a quay in the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, 1904 photograph Netherlands baryta paper ships (in general) Noordhollandsch Kanaal

Arab dhow boats crowded in the Kurasini harbor.

View out to sea with African men standing in wooden rowing boats and rafts. There are large blocks of mahogany floating in the sea nearby them, some with men swimming next to them, and a steamship further out to sea.

Docked Ship. Louis Fleckenstein, photographer (American, 1866 - 1943) 1907-1943

Distracted ships in the port of Zaandam; Zaandam 1904..

120. Japanese Ship.. .

View of the port of Amsterdam, Johan Conrad Greive, 1847 - 1891 print Sailing ship on the water, with Amsterdam in the background Amsterdam paper etching Amsterdam

Zeilschepen voor de Kust van Chioggia, new photographic society, c. 1900 cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print

Boston Lighthouse- 1716.

Moored sailing ships at the Oranjesluizen in Amsterdam, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1910 photograph Part of Family Album with photos of Wijnhandel Kraaij & Co. Bordeaux-Amsterdam. photographic support sluice, weir. sailing-ship, sailing-boat. landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Orange locks

Single sailing ships, draughtsman: Hendrik Abraham Klinkhamer, 1820 - 1872, paper, brush, h 121 mm × w 192 mm

Towing the vessel to the outfitting dock - Robert Fulton steamship being put together, circa 1908

Port of Hamburg, Germany, Architecture and Landscape, published by Ernst Wasmuth A. G. Berlin 1924, Europe

Plymouth Tercentenary Pageant, episode I, section I: the Norse galley arrives in Plymouth Harbor , Anniversaries, Historical pageants, Scandinavians. Plymouth Tercentenary Photographs

Alma's bridge. The Alma Bridge, 8th arrondissement, Paris. The Alma Bridge, Paris (VIIIth ARR.). Photograph of Jules Deplanque.

Transportation on the Potomac. Cars loaded at Alexandria can be carried on barges or arks to Aquia Creek, and sent to stations where the Army of the Potomac is supplied, without break of bulk. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department . Barges, Virginia, Alexandria, 1860-1870, Railroad cars, Virginia, Alexandria, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation.

Schepen in de haven van Perim.Part of travel album with photographs of activity and sights on Sumatra and Java and from the trip to and from the Dutch East Indies.

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

China merchant wharf in Shanghai.. Postcards. 1901 - 1907. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Shanghai (China), Piers & wharves, Lifeboats, Ocean liners, Sampans, Gangplanks

On the Wharf, Wanganui, 1880s, Dunedin, by Burton Brothers.

Photo collection First World War. Ship in a dry dock. undated

View from Tomehamn. The tugboat "Lajla" on Torneträsk during the construction of the national border track. Building railways in wasteland and in particular as isolated areas as these north of Kiruna demanded extensive efforts for transporting staff, supplies, equipment and materials. Up to Kiruna, transport was passed by quickly building a runable track from Gällivare. When the railing in the autumn of 1900 reached Torneträsk, it began to pass most of the necessary goods that road and further with the motorboat Laila along the line or winter time with sleds.

Whistling and waving, 1908 photograph The departure from The Empress of India off the coast of Vancouver. 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. Vancouver (Canada) cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print

Part of the shipyard of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Ltd. in Singapore; View Shewing Section of Wharf. Part of photo album from the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Ltd. in Singapore.

Boats near the harbor with wines with the dock / henri IV in the background. Boats near the harbor with the wines and the Henry IV quay, 4th arrondissement, Paris Boats near the harbor with the wines and Quai Henry IV, Paris (IVE) ". Photograph of Hippolyte Blancard (1843-1924), around 1890.

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