Historical Sailing Vessels

Engravings of various classic ships, including a Chinese junk and steamers, showcasing 19th-century naval design and maritime history.

Loch Fyne herring boats gathered round the steamer at dawn to sell their catch.

Engraving of a Chinese Junk, an ancient Chinese sailing ship design, with a sternpost rudder. Dated 19th Century

THE NEW SCREW STEAMER SICILIA

HMS Sultan at the Queen's Jubilee Naval Review in 1887 from Illustrated London News July 1887

Loch Fyne herring boats gathered round the steamer at dawn to sell their catch.

THE 'CAPTAIN' TURRET SHIP, 1870

An engraving depicting the Saladin a British barque that made voyages between Britain and the coast of Peru, carrying shipments of guano. Dated 19th century

Engraving showing Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steam-ship 'Great Eastern' receiving the Atlantic cable from a smaller vessel. The cable was manufactured at Messrs. Glass and Elliott in East Greenwich, loaded onto smaller cargo ships, the 'Amethyst' and the 'Iris' and then onto the 'Great Eastern' where it was stored in huge coils. The 1865 expedition to lay the transatlantic cable ended in failure due to bad weather but was successfully completed the following year. Date: February 4th 1865

Toulon, France. Vessel the "Sarthe". Evidence suggests that the cholera epidemic of 1884 in Southern Europe was imported into France by the "Sarthe", a badly disinfected ship on which there had already been cases of cholera. Engraving by Capuz (1834-1899). The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustración Española y Americana), 1884. Author: Tomás Carlos Capuz (1834-1899). Spanish engraver.

Line fishing for cod off Iceland.

Toulon, France. Vessel the ""Sarthe"". Evidence suggests that the cholera epidemic of 1884 in Southern Europe was imported into France by the ""Sarthe"", a badly disinfected ship on which there had already been cases of cholera. Engraving by Capuz (1834-1899). The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.

The Confederate Ironclad Merrimac Running down the Frigate Cumberland off Newport News, Virginia during the American Civil War

Cruise ships in the Mediterranean, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1852.

Engraving of the United States Navy Steamship 'Arctic', whilst involved in sounding the Atlantic. This project was undertaken in preparation for the laying of the first Atlantic Telegraph Cable. Date: 1856

Life on board. A warship, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, (1879-80).

THE UNION COMPANY'S NEW STEAMSHIP 'TROJAN,' FOR THE CAPE MAIL LINE, 1880

Illustration depicting a Merchantman making for the Thames, London. Dated 19th Century

The Screw-steamer Alfonso XII, 1876. 'This fine new propeller steam-ship, named after the present King of Spain, was built by Messrs. Denny Brothers, of Dumbarton, and the engines were made by Mr. David Rowan, of Glasgow. She has just left the Clyde to take up her station on the Cadiz and Havannah line. Her engines are on the compound principle, with two cylinders...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

his ship, the 'Fram'

Marina Italiana de Guerra. Los cruceros "Flavio Gioja" y "Amerigo Vesppucci". Dibujo de Cortellini y Sánchez. Grabado por Vela. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 22 de agosto de 1883.

The Marmora, screw steamer at Liverpool, 1845. 'The Marmora is a neat, light bark, with exceedingly lofty masts. She is fitted with Ericsson's propellers, on nearly the same principle as the screws of the Great Britain, and carries a low-pressure engine, a new invention, by which the consumption of coal is comparatively small...Her size is registered at 400 tons; she is 24 1/4 feet beam, 10 1/2 feet hold, and 145 feet keel: engine 155 horse-power. She presents a very neat appearance; her rigging is that of a bark, lofty, and exceedingly well trimmed, and capable of carrying her ten knots with

The Half Moon on the River Hudson. The Half Moon was a Dutch East India Company vlieboot that sailed into what is now New York Harbor in September 1609. The ship was captained by Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Dutch Republic

Engraving of the Royal Mail Packet 'La Plata'. Dated 19th Century

Tug Havre giving the trailer a merchant blog, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1842.

Steam pilot boats Scale model. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1899

Illustration depicting the wreck of the screw steamer 'The Larristory' in the China Sea. Dated 19th Century

Engraving showing Blondin (1824-1897), born Jean Franois Gravelet, the French tight-rope walker and acrobat, performing a high-wire walk on board the P&O steamship 'Poonah', 1875. Date: 4 December 1875

WRECK OF THE FORERUNNER AFRICAN MAIL-STEAMER, AT POINT ST. LORENZO, 1854

The United States frigate, Constellation, with relief stores and provisions for the relief of Irish distress, in Cork Harbour. Extreme hunger among the Irish peasantry was brought on by the potato famine in the mid 19th century and further compounded by the forced evictions of poverty-stricken peasants from their homes and farms. 1 May 1880

Sailing Vessel and Smaller Row Boat, off the Island of Corfu, Greece, "Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers", by Marshall M. Kirman, World Railway Publ. Co., Illustration, 1895

HER MAJESTY GOING ON BOARD THE 'ALBION,' AT SPITHEAD

'A Collier on the Thames', 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854".

Engraving of the screw steamship 'John Bright'. Dated 19th Century

Hercules, English ironclad ship, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1354, Volume LIII, February 6, 1869.

An engraving depicting an Archangel arriving into Rotterdam from the sea. Dated 19th century

Boston packet ship Date: 1851

Rotterdam, Groenewegen, Gerrit, Various ships series C, Two-master on water, verso - stamped, A two-master with figures, sailing to the right. This print is part of a series of twelve prints with various sailing ships., print, prints, height 128 mm, width 151 mm, 1754 - 1826-08-07, print maker, printmaker, 1789 - 1789, paper, papier, etching, etsen

Engraving of a warship and galley from the 15th Century. Dated 19th Century

Lloyd steamer on the high seas, shipping company, steamship, two-master, heavy seas, high waves, strong wind, spray, historical illustration 1880

THE 'CITY OF BOSTON' STEAMSHIP, 1870

Steam ship 'Deutschland' which was wrecked on the sandbank off the Thames Estuary known as the Kentish Knock during a storm on the night of 6th to 7th December 1875. Among those on board who were lost were five Franciscan nuns, refugees from Germany's anti-Catholic Falk Laws. The English Jesuit poet Gerard commemorated the event in his poem 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' (1876).

The Collision in Dover Bay: the Franconia backing from the Strathclyde, 1876. 'The Strathclyde, of Glasgow, an iron steam-ship bound from London to Bombay, was run into by the Franconia, a German steamer from Hamburg, going to Havre and New York. The Strathclyde sank in a few minutes...There were seventy persons on board...The captain, John Dodd Eaton, ordered the boats to be got out, but one of them was swamped, and many persons were thrown into the sea...In Captain Eaton's account of the disaster, in his evidence at the inquest...he said "She struck us stern on, between the beam and

Illustration depicting a ship on fire in the middle of the sea. Dated 19th Century

English warship from middle of 16th century. According to the 1907 caption, it was on this ship that Henry VIII met Francis I of France in Boulogne sur Mer.

Flagship of Vasco de Gama, historic discoveries by ship

The Chukchi boats docking at the Vega ship. The Chukchi are an indigenous people inhabiting the Chukchi Peninsula, the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean, Russia. The Voyage of La Vega through Asia and Europe by Adolf Erik Nordenskiold 1879-1880, Le Tour du Monde 1882

COLLISION BETWEEN H.M.S. NORTHUMBERLAND AND H.M.S. HERCULES AT MADEIRA, 1873

Engraving depicting a barque sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen(the aftmost mast) rigged fore-and-aft. Dated 19th Century

Engraving of H.M.S Gibralter, a training-ship for destitute Irish boys, Belfast Lough. Date: 1873

Engraving of a model of HMS 'Queen', displayed in the Naval Gallery of the South Kensington Museum, 1865. HMS 'Queen', launched in 1839, was a three-decker first-rate with 110 guns. Date: 1865

An engraving depicting a small paddle steamer going down the River Thames. Dated 19th century

The departure of 'Albert' and 'Discovery' from Portsmouth, 19th century. Artist: Unknown

The Great Eastern arrives at New York, USA Date: 1860

Clipper ship 'Caliph', built at Aberdeen, Scotland, for the China tea trade, under full sail on her way to Shanghai. 1869.

18th century Spanish warship with smaller vessel in tow 1790

The Great Eastern playing out the Atlantic telegraph cable, c1865, (c1880). Artist: Unknown

Journey of the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (1831-1888) to Spain. Steam corvette "SMS Prinz Adalbert" (Prince Adalbert) on which Prince Friedrich made the crossing from Genoa to Valencia. Engraving. La ilustración. Revista hispano-americana, 1883.

The Ship of the Line Ohio during the Mexican American War

OPENING OF THE YACHTING SEASON

THE BLOCKADE OF THE GREEK PORTS: IN THE GULF OF ATHENS, GREECE, 1886: PREPARING TO TAKE IN TOW A GREEK VESSEL DETAINED BY H.M.S. "SULTAN"; THE RETURN OF THE COMBINED SQUADRON TO SUDA BAY, THE SEA OUTSIDE BEING TOO HEAVY FOR THE TORPEDO BOATS; THE "TEMERAIRE" CHASING A GREEK SHIP

THE SCREW STEAMSHIP 'SYDNEY,' BUILT FOR THE AUSTRALIAN ROYAL MAIL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, 1852

GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAILWAY, GRAVESEND TERMINUS, GREAT BRITAIN

The sinking of the steamship Ville du Havre, circa 1873

Marine creature sighted from the 'British Banner' ; the Master reported that the creature 'shook the bowsprit with its mouth' and seemed about 100 metres long Date: 25 April 1860

H.M. Corvette Volage, 1870. 'This vessel, which has just been commissioned by Captain Francis Sullivan, C.B., is at present doing duty as guard-ship off Osborne, during her Majesty's stay in the Isle of Wight, and has there been visited by the Prince of Wales and Princesses Louisa and Beatrice. The Volage is an iron-built corvette, cased in an outer sheathing of wood, of 2322 tons burden and 600-horse power, nominal. Her armament consists of six 6½-ton 7-inch muzzle-loading rifled guns, two on each side of her quarterdeck, and one on each side, forward of the funnel, with a 64-pounder piv

H.M.S. IMMORTALITE SINKING THE DERELICT ZULEIKA, 1873

THE "GARTH CASTLE," NEW STEAMER OF THE CASTLE LINE OF SOUTH AFRICAN MAIL PACKETS, 1881

Illustration depicting apparatus on board the American steam ship 'Arctic'. Dated 19th Century

The yacht "Hohenzollern I", used by the German Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany (1797-1888). It was built between 1876 and 1878. On board took place the meeting with the Russian Emperor Alexander III (1845-1894). Engraving by Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). La Ilustracion Espaola y Americana, 1881.

Engraving depicting the slaver 'The Sunny South' and the H.M.S. 'Brisk'. Dated 1860

ISLAND OF MOGADORE

Laying the Submarine Telegraph between Malta and Gibraltar, off the Isle of Pantellaria, 1870. 'The laying of this section of the Anglo-Indian Submarine Telegraph, which is to be carried across the Bay of Biscay from Portugal to Cornwall, was successfully accomplished two or three weeks ago. The screw-steamers charged with this service, the Scanderia and the Edinburgh,...met H.M.S. Newport...off the small isle of Pantellaria, half way between Sicily and Tunis, which meeting is the subject of our Illustration. The Newport, an Admiralty surveying-vessel, then showed them the way through the na

The Sovereign of the Seas, English vessel, 1650, vintage engraved illustration. Colorful History of England, 1837.

The 'Great Eastern' leaving Sheerness with the Atlantic telegraph cable on board Date: July 1866

Illustration depicting the wreck of the steamer 'Tasmania'. Dated 19th Century

Tank gunboat Brummer of the German Imperial Navy, historical illustration, 1880, Germany, Europe

U.S.S. Constitution towing the H.B.M. ship Cyane captured February 28th 1815

Port of Mahón (Port of Maó), Minorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Ships anchored in front of the lazaretto, suffering quarantine due to the cholera epidemic that originated in France. Engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustración Española y Americana), 1884.

Slave ships on the ocean. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1858.

Die Dampfjacht des Großherzog von Oldenburg begegnet dem Segelschiff Großherzogin Elisabeth des Deutschen Schulschiffvereins, Historisch, digitale Rep...

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB MATCH

The City of London Aberdeen Steam-Ship, 1844. 'This magnificent iron steamer has just been constructed in the Clyde, by Mr. Robert Napier, at the expense of £40,000, for the Aberdeen and London Steam Navigation Company, for steaming regularly between Aberdeen and the metropolis London. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.

Egipto. Canal de Suez. Estación de los vapores de la compañía de navegación "Post-Oriental". Dibujo de Cortellini-Sánchez. Grabado. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 8 de agosto de 1883.

Ewer on the Elbe, flat-bottomed ship, shallow water, two-master, harbour, raft, Germany, historical illustration 1880, Europe

Engraving depicting a laid aback sail, which is positioned so that the wind presses against the forward side. Dated 19th Century

Frigate, Elector Prince, Brandenburg, high sea, sailing ship, flag, masts, waves, horizon, historical illustration 1885

Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). The Turkish gun-boat ""Lutffi-Djelil"", sunk by the Russian batteries near Braila (Romania). Engraving by A. Brun. ""La Guerra de Oriente"" (The Russo-Turkish War). Volume I. 1877.

THE NEWFOUNDLAND SEAL FISHERIES, THE DUNDEE FLEET FORCING ITS WAY THROUGH THE ICE INTO ST. JOHN'S HARBOUR

THE WRECK OF H.M.S. 'PHOENIX' OFF PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND, SEPTEMBER 12, 1882

A ship of Henry Hudson's fleet. From his voyages, 1612.

Sailing ship with three masts, 1860-1865, drawing, 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches, America, US

A Galley 'Le Sphinx' involved in the Battle of Lepanto on 7 October 1571. Date: 16th century

New York Harbour, vintage engraved illustration.

THE CRISIS IN EGYPT

French warship around 1650 after a drawing by Pierre Puget, 17th century painter and sculptor

LAIRD'S PATENT SECTIONAL BOAT, BUILT FOR HER MAJESTY'S CONSUL AT FERNANDO PO

Marine creature sighted from HMS 'Daedalus' in the south Atlantic between the Cape and St Helena : the creature passes under the stern of the ship (picture 2 of 3) Date: 4 October 1848

THE SCHOONER 'PROVIDENCE,' AND THE BRIG 'HERO,' AT PLYMOUTH, UK, 1846

The 'Great eastern' steamship used to lift the Atlantic telegraph cable, to continue and complete the laying of the cable in the 1866 season

Engraving showing the Arctic exploration ship, 'Pandora', in Peel's Strait, 29th August 1875. The 'Pandora' was used by Sir Allen Young in two attempts between 1875 and 1876 to find the Northwest Passage, around the northern coast of Canada and Alaska, and any traces of the missing Franklin expedition of 1845. Date: 1875

Engraving depicting the Royal Mail Company's steamer 'Boyne'. Dated 19th century

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