Steamship Collection

SS Endurance leaving Millwall Docks
August 01, 1914: Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackletons ship SS Endurance after leaving Millwall Docks, bound for the Antarctic. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Twin Steam-Ship
August 1875: The twin steamship Castalia a catamaran type passenger ship carrying passengers from Dover to Calais, seen from the bows. Original Publication: The Graphic - The Channel Passage - pub

Tugboat Along The Chicago River
A tugboat at work pulls a larger boat along the Chicago River waterfront, Illinois, circa1905 (Photo by Hulton River/Getty Images)

China Squadron
March 1857: Naval ships both steam and sail joining the China Squadron during the Second Opium War. The ships are the Furious, Nonpareil, Transit, Retribution, Shannon and Himalaya

Canal Transport
18th March 1938: RAF planes fly over a ship on the Suez canal. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Boarding At Liverpool
6th July 1861: Troops boarding the Great Eastern steamship in Liverpool on their way to reinforce Canadian garrisons. (Photo by HultonArchive/Illustrated London News/Getty Images)

Giant Arrives
USS Leviathan (the former Hamburg America liner Vaterland) bow to stern with the White Star ship Olympic at Southampton. Crowds are present to greet the arrival of the American ship

Ice Giant
circa 1950: US Coast Guard cutter Acushnet dwarfed by a crescent shaped iceberg which rises more than 200 ft above the sea

Spanish Steamers
1939: Three Spanish steamers at the East India Docks, London. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)

Endurance Leaves
1st August 1914: A crowd at Millwall Docks watches the departure of Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackletons Antarctic expedition in SS Endurance. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Coming To America; Immigrants pack the upper deck of the liner SS Patricia as it
Immigrants pack the upper deck of the liner SS Patricia as it travels from Hamburg to New York, December 10, 1906. The Patricia was built by A.G

Great Western
1838: The Great Western Steamship, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with a gross tonnage of 703 tons, passing Portishead on her 1st voyage from Bristol to New York

Ferry Boat
circa 1860: The arrival of the Channel Steamer at Boulogne. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

SS Endurance At Millwall Docks
July 1914: The bows of SS Endurance during preparations for Ernest Shackletons Antarctic expedition at Millwall Docks. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Constantinople
circa 1930: Looking towards Stamboul along Galata Bridge the main thoroughfare in Constantinople (Istanbul). Trams run along the centre of the bridge and ships are moored alongside

Down The Watter
1885: Moored at Broomielaw, Glasgow in the foreground the steamer Chancellor (1880) behind which is Buchanans Vivid and then Eagle both dating from 1864

To Khartoum
circa 1885: British troops embarking for Khartoum during Sudanese revolt against Anglo-Egyptian rule. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Crowd in harbor waiting for steamship

Coming To America
Image shows passengers and immigrants on the B and C decks towards the aft of the White Star liner RMS Olympic (sister of Titanic) as she sits in port and they await processing, New York, late 1920s

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