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Vessel Collection (page 7)

Background imageVessel Collection: Hong Kong Harbour

Hong Kong Harbour
Hong Kong harbour as seen from the Peak, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Hong Kong Harbour

Hong Kong Harbour
Hong Kong harbour, with the Peak rising in the background, circa 1910. (Photo by Wood/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Hong Kong

Hong Kong
A view of Victoria in Hong Kong, circa 1860. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Port Arthur After A Japanese Attack

Port Arthur After A Japanese Attack
View of damaged Russian warships, following a Japanese attack in Part Arthur, China, early February, 1904. The Japanese attack, on February 9, was the opening battle of the Russo-Japanese War

Background imageVessel Collection: Ojibwe Repairing A Canoe

Ojibwe Repairing A Canoe
Engraving depicts an Ojibwe (Chippewa) camp on the bank of a river, circa 1800s. The tribe members use bark to repair their damaged canoe. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Evil Brood

Evil Brood
E en in like manner Adams evil brood cast themselves, one by one, down from the shore. Charon the ferryman beats the stragglers on the shores of Acheron

Background imageVessel Collection: Bridge Of Boats

Bridge Of Boats
1858: The Bridge of Boats over the River Gomti (Gumti) at Lucknow, crossed by Sir James Outram on the 6th March 1858, to relieve the Seige of Lucknow

Background imageVessel Collection: Calcutta

Calcutta
Grand buildings on the banks of the Hooghly River in Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal in India, circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Antwerp Docks

Antwerp Docks
A view of the docks in the Belgian port of Antwerp, circa 1890. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Antwerp Harbour

Antwerp Harbour
A view of the Belgian port of Antwerp, circa 1890. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Gathering Lilies

Gathering Lilies
Two people gathering waterlilies from a small boat, 1887. A platinotype by Emerson from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads by Emerson & Goodall

Background imageVessel Collection: Fort William

Fort William
A view across the Hoogli (or Hooghly) River to Fort William, Kolkata (Calcutta), circa 1760. Built by the British East India Company

Background imageVessel Collection: Conspirators House

Conspirators House
1841: The house at Lambeth used by the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. (Photo by Spencer Arnold/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Tilbury Fort

Tilbury Fort, on the north bank of the Thames at Tilbury, Essex, circa 1760. Built from 1672, the fort was equipped with artillery to prevent warships getting up the river to London

Background imageVessel Collection: Lusitania Deck

Lusitania Deck
A view on the deck of the Cunard liner Lusitania, circa 1915. The ship was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on 7th May 1915. Original Publication: The Graphic, pub. 15th May 1915

Background imageVessel Collection: Battle Of Sluys

Battle Of Sluys
French ships at Sluys (Sluis) in the Netherlands, where King Edward III won a naval victory against the French during the Hundred Years War, 1340

Background imageVessel Collection: Whitby Harbour

Whitby Harbour
Fishing boats moored in Whitby harbour, circa 1880. (Photo by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Battle Of Marathon

Battle Of Marathon
The Greek soldiers pursue the routed Persians back to their ships, having won a decisive victory at the Battle of Marathon, September 490 BC. By Pinelli. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Conquerors Of Salamis

Conquerors Of Salamis
The Greeks celebrate their victory over the Persian navy in the Battle of Salamis, which took place in the Gulf of Aegina near Athens, September 480 BC. By F. Cormon

Background imageVessel Collection: Battle Of Salamis

Battle Of Salamis
The Battle of Salamis in the Gulf of Aegina near Athens, where the Greeks won a decisive naval victory over the Persians, September 480 BC. By Wilhelm von Kaulbach

Background imageVessel Collection: Etna Erupts

Etna Erupts
The eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily in March and April of 1669. A number of villages are consumed by the lava flow which reaches all the way to the coastal city of Catania

Background imageVessel Collection: The First Fleet

The First Fleet
Some of the First Fleet - eleven British Navy ships under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip, which took 750 British convicts to Botany Bay

Background imageVessel Collection: Greek Fire

Greek Fire
A galley of the Byzantine navy envelops an enemy vessel in Greek Fire, a process of spraying burning fluid through a tube, circa 900 AD

Background imageVessel Collection: Horse On Deck

Horse On Deck
A horse is lowered onto the Calcutta at Woolwich by a hydraulic crane, circa 1863. It is being shipped to Canada during the US Civil War. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Revenge And Rosario

Revenge And Rosario
The Nuestra Senora del Rosario, flagship of the Andalusian squadron, is towed into Torbay in Devon by the HMS Revenge, having been captured by Sir Francis Drake, 1588. A painting by Charles J

Background imageVessel Collection: Revenge And Rosario

Revenge And Rosario
The Nuestra Senora del Rosario, flagship of the Andalusian squadron, is towed into Torbay in Devon by the HMS Revenge, having been captured by Sir Francis Drake, 1588

Background imageVessel Collection: Sailing ship passes the Royal Naval College in Greenwic

Sailing ship passes the Royal Naval College in Greenwic
A sailing ship passes the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, circa 1860. In 1873 the Naval College in Portsmouth acquired the buildings of the old Royal Hospital for Seamen in Greenwich

Background imageVessel Collection: The Hague

The Hague
Three men standing next to a canal in the Hague, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Warehouses And Cathedral

Warehouses And Cathedral
A view over the warehouses on the north bank of the Thames, to St. Pauls Cathedral, circa 1870. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: K-19

K-19
The Russian Hotel class nuclear submarine K-19 pictured in the Atlantic during its journey back to Russia, 1st March 1972

Background imageVessel Collection: Palace Of Westminster

Palace Of Westminster
Tugs and barges on the Thames by the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben, London, circa 1935. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: The Embankment

The Embankment
People strolling along Londons Embankment on the River Thames, with St Pauls Cathedral in the background, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Ancient Battle

Ancient Battle
A chain stretched across the mouth of a harbour prevents a warship from entering, circa 1400. Meanwhile soldiers in eastern dress fire arrows at the vessel. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Troops At Suvla

Troops At Suvla
British troops of the IX Corps scattered over a coastal hillside after landing at Suvla on the Aegean coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey

Background imageVessel Collection: Place De La Concorde

Place De La Concorde
The Place de la Concorde in Paris, looking toward the Hotel de Crillon (left) and the French Naval Ministry (right) on either side of the Rue Royale, circa 1850

Background imageVessel Collection: Venetian Fete

Venetian Fete
The Venetian Fete takes place on the Seine during the Paris Exhibition of 1889. The newly-built Eiffel Tower is illuminated for the occasion. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Ile De La Cite

Ile De La Cite
The Ile de la Cite on the River Seine in Paris, location of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, circa 1870. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageVessel Collection: Diagram Of The H. L. Hunley

Diagram Of The H. L. Hunley
Drawing shows a portion of the interior of the H. L. Hunley, a Confederate submersible that became the first submarine to sink an an enemy ship, 1860s. The illustration, probably by William A

Background imageVessel Collection: Coming To America

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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