Skip to main content

Water Transport Collection (page 2)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Train Ferry

Train Ferry
circa 1950: A train ferry in port at Harwich loaded with goods wagons. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Old Harbour

Old Harbour
circa 1950: Boats in the old harbour, Singapore. (Photo by Siegfried Sammer/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Pinta Replica

Pinta Replica
circa 1950: Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Italian-born explorer. A photograph of a replica of one of Columbus three ships, the three-masted caravel, Pinta

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Gate Lighthouse

Gate Lighthouse
circa 1950: The Mile Rocks Lighthouse, completed in 1906 and located half a mile off Landsend in the Golden Gate area of San Francisco. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Christiansen Canal

Christiansen Canal
circa 1930: The Christiansen Canal, Copenhagen. (Photo by Fatens/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Speed Boat

Speed Boat
A motorboat with a group of people speeds across the water. The boat is a Gar Wood 19 Custom Roundabout, Series 910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Empress At Sea

Empress At Sea
The Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Australia off shore at Southampton. She was built as the Hamburg America liner Tirpitz, planned as the Kaisers personal vessel

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Lunch At Sea

Lunch At Sea
Passengers aboard a yacht sit in the shade under an awning and eat lunch. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Barcelona Quay

Barcelona Quay
The Muralla Quay in Barcelona, circa 1930. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires
A tugboat towing an ocean liner in Buenos Aires harbour, circa 1930. (Photo by Sigwart Blum/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Canal Barge

Canal Barge
10th October 1874: A canal barge carrying powder and petroleum. Original Publication: Illustrated London News (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Regents Canal

Regents Canal
1827: The Double Lock and East Entrance to the Islington Tunnel on Regents Canal, London. Original Artwork: Drawn by Thomas H Shepherd and engraved by Frederick James Havell

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Balloon Torpedo

Balloon Torpedo
1878: The Balloon Torpedo, or Aerial Battery, a British invention of 1878; consisting of a balloon carrying explosives suspended from its underside which could be released when above target at

Background imageWater Transport Collection: The Royal George

The Royal George
1757: The British naval vessel Royal George lying off Deptford. She sank at Spithead in 1782 with the loss of around 800 lives. Original Artist: By John Cleveley the Elder

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Endurance Leaves

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)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Battleship Hood

Battleship Hood
1930: HMS Hood during a dockyard refit at Portsmouth. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Underwater Threat

Underwater Threat
circa 1860: A recently invented submarine boat lurks under the water. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Mersey Ferry

Mersey Ferry
5th May 1877: People on a ferry crossing the Mersey. Original Publication: From the Graphic Magazine. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Custom House

Custom House
circa 1810: The Custom House, Dublin. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: River Medway

River Medway
circa 1850: Rochester in Kent, as seen from the north bank of the River Medway. In the background, Rochester Bridge stretches off to the right of Rochester Castle

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Hydro-Track

Hydro-Track
An early French, hydraulically-powered railway. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: The Oceanic

The Oceanic
1849: White Star liner HMS Oceanic at her mooring. A print by F G O Stuart. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Loading The Magnolia

Loading The Magnolia
1861: Cottonbales being thrown into the riverboat Magnolia. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Great Western

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

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Ferry Boat

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

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Cutty Sark

Cutty Sark
circa 1890: The nineteenth century tea clipper Cutty Sark. The ship, built at Scott and Lintons Dumbarton shipyards in 1869

Background imageWater Transport Collection: SS Endurance At Millwall Docks

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)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Illuminated Ships

Illuminated Ships
1957: Vessels of the Fleet are illuminated as seen from beneath the wing of a Ganet aircraft from HMS Ark Royal in Cromarty Firth

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Cannes Yachts

Cannes Yachts
circa 1960: Luxury yachts moored in the harbour of the French seaside resort at Cannes. (Photo by Leonard G. Alsford/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Near Queenstown

Near Queenstown
22nd July 1895: Passengers and crew on board the immigrant ship SS Gallia, near Queenstown on the coast of Ireland. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Sailing Away

Sailing Away
1909: A boat with its sails set in the goose winged position sails into the setting sun during the Cowes Regatta on the Isle of Wight. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Phillips/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Venetian Street

Venetian Street
circa 1930: Gondolas on a side canal in Venice. (Photo by Herbert Felton/Herbert Felton/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Ship Canal

Ship Canal
1948: SS Pacific Importer in the Manchester Ship Canal. Cars waiting for transport line the quay. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Barges

Barges
circa 1923: Narrow boats carrying cargo on the River Aire. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: USS Brooklyn

USS Brooklyn
circa 1930: The United States Ship (USS) Brooklyn in dry dock. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Mississippi Riverboat

Mississippi Riverboat
circa 1930: A riverboat on the Mississippi. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Night Fishermen

Night Fishermen
circa 1930: Fisherman in their boat silhouetted against a darkening sky. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Constantinople

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

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Merchant Ship

Merchant Ship
circa 1915: A merchant ship, the Star of Alaska in sail. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Down The Watter

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

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Whaling Vessel

Whaling Vessel
circa 1930: A whaling ship plunges through the waves during an Antarctic trip, dragging the carcasses of several whales behind it. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Canal Workers

Canal Workers
circa 1868: Construction workers who operate the dredging equipment on the Suez Canal at Port Said. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Amundsens Ship

Amundsens Ship
circa 1910: The ship Fram, used for the expedition to the South Pole led by Norwegian explorer Roald Engelbrecht Gravning Amundsen. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Manhattan Skyline

Manhattan Skyline
circa 1930: A view over the Hudson River of the Lower Manhattan skyline, New York. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: U-Boats In Kiel

U-Boats In Kiel
1917: U-Boats in Kiel Harbour during the First World War. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: Ship Explodes

Ship Explodes
circa 1916: A ship explodes in the middle of the sea during the First World War. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWater Transport Collection: New York Harbour

New York Harbour
1859: Ships moored in New York Harbour, seen from Trinity Church looking towards New Jersey. Built in 1846, Trinity Church was until the turn of the century the tallest structure in Manhattan

Background imageWater Transport Collection: St Lawrence Shipyard

St Lawrence Shipyard
1859: Several sailing ships and at least one vessel under construction on the St Lawrence River at Quebec. (Photo by William England/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)



All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping