Vessel Collection

The bow of Sir Ernest Shackletons exploratory vessel SS Endurance
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 1914: The bow of Sir Ernest Shackletons exploratory vessel SS Endurance being prepared for her Antarctic voyage in Millwall Docks, London, England

Crew Team Rowing

Southsea Shingle
circa 1900: Holidaymakers and boats on the beach at Southsea, Portsmouth. (Photo by Edgar Ward/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

USS Thresher On Course
Nuclear-powered submarine the USS Thresher steers through the sea, early 1960s. The sub sank in April of 1963, killing the entire crew. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Getty Images)

Bridge On the River Tamar
The Royal Albert Bridge, over the River Tamar at Saltash, Cornwall, 1869. Designed by British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it was completed in 1859. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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)

Fishing boats in harbor of Marsaxlokk

Gamo Captured
The capture of the Spanish frigate El Gamo by Commander Lord Thomas Cochrane in the HMS Speedy, off Barcelona, 6th May 1801. (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Nautical Family
January 1929: Five brothers are lifeboatmen in Hythe. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Barrow Shipyard
10th June 1930: The submarine Regulus is launched at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Floating Vietnamese fishing village with rocky coastline

HMS Revenge
The remains of the British galleon HMS Revenge are dashed against the cliffs of Terceira in the Azores, to be lost evermore in the main, 1591

Cadgwith Cove, Cornwall, England

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

Broadstairs Beach
1865: The promenade at Broadstairs, Kent from the towns beach where several fishing boats are moored. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Hastings Beach
The seafront at Hastings, Sussex, circa 1900. Drawn up on the beach are wheeled bathing huts and rowing boats. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bridge Over The Avon
The Clifton suspension bridge, which spans the river Avon near Bristol, circa 1880. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it was completed in 1864. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hell Gate Bridge In Queens Under Construction
The Hell Gate Bridge over a part of the East River called Hell Gate, which separates Astoria, Queens, from Wards Island, during construction, mid 1910s. Construction began in 1914 and ended in 1916

Colossus Solis
The Colossus Of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, straddles the harbour on the Greek island of Rhodes, circa 250 BC

The Fram
circa 1895: The Fram, a polarship especially constructed to withstand the great pressure of polar ice. The ship was commisioned for the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (1861 - 1930)

A Tight Fit
9th October 1926: The lifeboat being pulled through the streets of Port Isaac, Cornwall in England. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Great Eastern
September 1865: The laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board Brunels steamship the Great Eastern

Liverpool Lifeboat
A lifeboat in Liverpool docks, circa 1890. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Newly Built Bridge
Crowds on the banks of the River Tamar at Saltash, Cornwall celebrate the opening of the Royal Albert Bridge, designed by British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1859

Tight Squeeze
The Port Isaac Cornwall lifeboat being dragged through the very narrow streets of the town at its launch. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Boating
1892: Boating at Richmond, London. (Photo by Paul Martin/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

The Upper Harbour
A view of the upper harbour in Whitby, circa 1880. (Photo by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hong Kong Harbour
Hong Kong harbour, looking towards Kowloon, circa 1910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Female heart anatomy, illustration
Female heart anatomy, computer illustration

US In Port
circa 1950: Aerial view of a United States battleship and two cruisers docked at port. Sailors crowd the port and the ships as they prepare to leave. An aircraft carrier is also docked nearby

Hauling Lifeboat
9th October 1926: Lifeboat Port Isaac, Cornwall is hauled through the streets of Port Isaac to its launching. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Heart with coronary vessels, illustration
Heart with coronary blood vessels, computer illustration

Rouen On The Seine
circa 1850: A view across the River Seine in Rouen showing the cathedral in the background. Original Artwork: Engraving by Robert Brandard after J M W Turner. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Liner Refit
The underside of Britain's largest liner, Majestic, during her refit at the world's largest graving dock at Southampton. The ship's propellers are in the centre

Sailing Ships
2nd May 1934: Another sailing ship seen from the deck of the windjammer Abraham Rydberg off Falmouth, Cornwall. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Cargo Boats
24th September 1934: Thames sailing barges and lighters at the Royal Albert Docks in London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Coastal Town
circa 1950: The sea front at a coastal town in Ayrshire

Cutty Sark
1926: Used as a training ship for boys, the Cutty Sark is seen here moored at Falmouth in Cornwall. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

St Ives Shipwreck
9th November 1936: The broken hulk of the American steamship Bessemer City is battered by the waves off the coast of Cornwall. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Mississippi Dreaming
11th November 1964: Reconstruction of a Mark Twain scene from the novel Tom Sawyer, on the Mississippi at Hannibal, as two urchins watch a sternwheel paddleboat pass down river

Pleasure Launch
June 1927: A crowded pleasure launch, the Crested Eagle, starting its trip from the Old Swan Pier. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Suburban Floods
January 1926: Two women crossing a flooded road near Staines, Middlesex, by means of a makeshift raft and a pole. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Herring Boats
19th July 1927: Steam herring drifters massed at North Shields fish quay where they are discharging a good catch. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Car Boat
October 1926: The Peugeot motor-boat car, on a river bank. The front end is shaped like the bow of a boat, the middle part like a car and it has wheels. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Ferry Train
March 1929: Norwegian ferry train on which the Duke and Duchess of York travelled. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Boat Practice
March 1929: Rowers carrying their boat to the waters edge during practice for the Oxford versus Cambridge race. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Dover Harbour
July 1928: A ferry sails close to port in Dover Harbour. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Boat Practice
March 1929: Rowers carrying their boat out of the water during practice for the Oxford versus Cambridge race. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Propeller Overhaul
May 1929: Overhauling propeller of the Ranpura in King George V dock. Built in 1925 for P&O Lines London-Bombay service. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Ice Yachting
1929: Ice yachting on the Norfolk Broads. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Cooling Drink
July 1929: A couple of bathers perched on a rowing boat enjoying a cool drink, at Herne Bay. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

River Party
May 1929: Friends picnic by the river at Harwell in Oxfordshire. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Barkentine
July 1929: An old barque in dock. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Liver Building
June 1929: The SS Bailey at Liverpool Dock. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

French Navy
May 1927: The Lamotte Piquet a vessel of the French Naval Squadron on a visit to Portsmouth. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Bow Of SS Olympic
circa 1929: The Cunard White Star liner Olympic, built in 1911. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Cargo Barges
circa 1929: Barges at St Catherines dock in London with cargo. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Herring Catch
22nd October 1929: Herring fishermen with their catch on the quayside at Inverness, Scotland

Fishing Trawlers
22nd October 1929: North sea trawlers tied up at the quayside, Inverness, Scotland

Boat On A Rope
December 1929: A boat, with passengers already on board, is lowered into the Thames at Westminster to begin the first river taxi trials. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Lowestoft Port
13th January 1936: Fishing boats moored in the harbour at Lowestoft, Suffolk, a major British port and fishing community. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Empress Liner
December 1934: The Empress of Britain, a British luxury liner in dock at Southampton, Hampshire. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Cadgwith
1959: The village of Cadgwith near to the Lizard in Cornwall. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Copenhagen
circa 1930: Danish capital city Copenhagen. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

French Port
15th February 1936: A couple of men standing on the quayside at Dieppe in northern France. (Photo by Arthur Tanner/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

French Marina
circa 1965: The marina at St Tropez in southern France. (Photo by Leonard G. Alsford/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

American Ferry
1893: New York ferry the Robert Garrett decked in flags during a trip. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Sailing Ship
18th September 1960: A square-rigged sailing ship. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Oyster Fishing
August 1929: Three girls help the fishermen bring in a haul of oysters off the Whitstable coast. Whitstable is renowned for its oyster fishing, and the season has just opened

SS Mauretania
19th June 1929: The North Atlantic passenger liner SS Mauretania in dock. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Racing Seaplane
August 1929: A Super Napier plane, the British entry, taking part in the Schneider Trophy competition for the fastest seaplane. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Lucille Ball
circa 1939: US comedienne Lucille Desiree Ball (1910-1989) standing on the front of a small boat on a lake. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Adrift
circa 1925: Jackie Coogan (1914 - 1984) the American child actor is adrift in the sea in a scene from Little Robinson Crusoe'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Stork Club
1945: Betty Hutton rescues Barry Fitzgerald from drowning in the film The Stork Club, a light comedy with music, directed by Hal Walker for Paramount. (Photo by Hulton Archive/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

Henley Regatta
1888: People messing about in boats during the Henley Regatta on the River Thames. (Photo by Otto Herschan Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Shipping Village
circa 1930: Boats on the beach of an island in the Outer Hebrides. Fishing is an important part of the islands economy and the locals export cod, herring and shellfish

Eoligarry Jetty
September 1960: Boats at Eoligarry Jetty on North Bay on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides

Grimsby Boats
1965: A line of fishing boats moored in Grimsby docks. (Photo by George Freston/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Fishing Tackle
1965: Various pieces of nautical equipment on the decks of fishing boats moored at Grimsby docks. (Photo by George Freston/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Viking Vessel
March 1962: An example of a Viking longboat on display at the Viking museum in Oslo. (Photo by George Freston/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Torpedo Trial
December 1947: The former German minelaying submarine U-234 is blown up by experimental torpedoes fired from the United States Atlantic Fleet, forty miles northeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Atomic Submarine
21st January 1955: The Nautilus, the worlds first atomic submarine beginning her trials at Groton, Connecticut. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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