Skip to main content

Home > Images Dated > 2015 > May > 26 May 2015

Images Dated 26th May 2015 (page 2)

91 items

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Landfall

Landfall
Passengers on the QE2 line the rails as the ship arrives in New York. (Photo by Stroud/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Metal Ship

Metal Ship
The forbidding stern of the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth towers above the dry dock in Southampton, the worlds largest liner in the worlds largest dry dock

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Greatest Liners

Greatest Liners
Three of the worlds greatest liners, the Cunard vessel Aquitania (left), the White Star vessel Olympic (right) and the USS Leviathan ( former Hamburg America Line vessel Vaterland)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: SS Mauretania

SS Mauretania
Crowds on a ferry watching the Cunard liner SS Mauretania draw into Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage
American passengers in a tender take a last look at the Cunard liner Mauretania after she drops them in Plymouth and sails on to Cherbourg and Southampton. (Photo by Gill/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: SS Mauretania

SS Mauretania
The stern of the Cunard liner SS Mauretania as she nears the coast at Fishguard in Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Shore Leave

Shore Leave
Passengers are transferred from the Cunard liner SS Mauretania to her tender before being transported to shore at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Lone Seamen

Lone Seamen
Two seamen are drawn behind the stern of the Cunard liner SS Mauretania at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Filling The Dock

Filling The Dock
Water pours into the dry dock at Southampton prior to the relaunch of Cunards Berengaria, formerly the Hamburg America liner Imperator. (Photo by A R Coster/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Aquitania Arrival

Aquitania Arrival
Crowds on a ferry watching the arrival of the Cunard liner Aquitania at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Boat Tug

Boat Tug
Passengers on board the Cunard cruise liner Franconia engage in a friendly tug-of-war. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: The Franconia

The Franconia
Third class passengers of the forward deck of the Cunard cruise liner Franconia, which was destroyed by a U-boat in 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth
The Cunard superliner Queen Elizabeth in dry dock at Southampton, to be fitted with Denny-Brown stabilisers to counteract her roll. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Scottish Shipbuilding

Scottish Shipbuilding
An inspection of the midship framing forming the hull of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania, under construction at the Clydebank shipyard owned by John Brown & Company

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: The Campania

The Campania
The Cunard liner RMS Campania, built in Glasgow in 1892. She served at the Battle of Jutland, and sank in 1918 after a collision with the HMS Revenge whilst serving as an aircraft carrier

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Speedy Royal

Speedy Royal
29th November 1968: The newly launched liner, Queen Elizabeth II undergoing speed trials off the Isle of Arran before being handed over to the Cunard Line on 19th December

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Lancastria

Lancastria
20th October 1936: Crowds gather to see the 16, 243 ton Cunard cruise liner Lancastria, grounded in the River Mersey off Egremont

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: SS Mauretania

SS Mauretania
20th September 1909: Workmen on the gangplank of the Cunard liner SS Mauretania at Fishguard Docks, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Aquitania Launch

Aquitania Launch
1914: The launch of the massive liner Aquitania, the last of Cunards Big Three. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Abandoning Ship

Abandoning Ship
30th August 1909: Passengers transfer from the Cunard liner SS Mauretania to the ships tender, before reaching the shore at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Sharp Prow

Sharp Prow
circa 1935: The sharp angled prow of the Cunard liner SS Aquitania against a cloudy sky. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Lusitania Sunk

Lusitania Sunk
7th May 1915: The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner Lusitania by a German submarine off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. 128 US citizens lost their lives

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Cunard Liner Chains

Cunard Liner Chains
27th April 1936: The lengthy chains of the Cunard Liner Aquitania are laid out in the bottom of the dry dock at Southampton while the liner is overhauled. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: The Caronia

The Caronia
14th May 1947: The new Cunard liner Caronia, under construction at Clydebank. The Caronia weighed 34, 183 gross tons and was capable of carrying her 930 passengers at a speed of 22 knots.The Caronia

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Queen Mary

Queen Mary
3rd March 1936: The giant Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary in her fitting-out basin at Clydebank, Glasgow, where she is nearing completion

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: The Lusitania

The Lusitania
14th September 1909: The Cunard liner the Lusitania arrives at Fishguard. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: The Aquitania

The Aquitania
16th June 1920: The Cunard liner, the Aquitainia, in her pre-war paint, after being transformed from a coal to an oil-burning vessel. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Scottish Shipbuilding

Scottish Shipbuilding
29th May 1913: The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania under construction at John Brown & Companys Clydebank yard. The Aquitania took three years to build and was launched in 1914 weighing 45

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Building Aquitania

Building Aquitania
21st December 1911: The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania under construction at John Brown & Companys shipyard at Clydebank near Glasgow

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Riveting Work during the construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania

Riveting Work during the construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania
circa 1911: Construction workers using hydraulic riveting machinery during the construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania at the Clydebank shipyard owned by John Brown & Company

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Shipbuilding Yard

Shipbuilding Yard
circa 1911: Construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania at John Brown & Companys Clydebank shipyard. The Aquitania took three years to build and was launched in 1914 weighing 45

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Walking On Gangway

Walking On Gangway
December 1911: Passengers on British Cunard liner Lusitanias gangway on arrival. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Rough Seas

Rough Seas
1st June 1912: Rough seas seen from the deck of the Cunard liner Lusitania, which was sunk by a German torpedo in 1915 with great loss of life. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Building A Liner

Building A Liner
circa 1911: The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania under construction at John Brown & Companys Clydebank shipyard. The Aquitania took three years to build and was launched in 1914 weighing 45

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: SS Mauretania

SS Mauretania
circa 1925: Cunards first sailing ship Mauretania (the second Mauretania had her maiden voyage in 1939) which held the Blue Riband for 22 years and was painted white in the early thirties

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: SS Olympic

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

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: SS Olympic

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

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: Scottish Shipyard

Scottish Shipyard
circa 1911: The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania surrounded by scaffolding while under construction at the Clydebank shipyard owned by John Brown & Company

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: After The Launch

After The Launch
27th September 1938: The Cunard White Star liner Queen Elizabeth approaching the fitting out basin after being launched at the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, Glasgow

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: New Dock

New Dock
19th October 1932: The Cunard liner Mauretania being towed into the West Dock, Southampton for her annual overhaul after the summer season. She is the first liner to use this facility

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: High And Dry

High And Dry
19th August 1948: Cunard White Star liner Queen Elizabeth in dock for refitting prior to its return to commercial use after being used as a troopship during WW II

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: SS Andania

SS Andania
12th August 1913: The SS Andania which was built for Cunards London-Canada service in the Surrey commercial docks. She was later sunk by mines off the Sussex coast

Background imageImages Dated 26th May 2015: SS Andania

SS Andania
12th August 1913: The SS Andania which was built for Cunards London-Canada service in the Surrey commercial docks. She was later sunk by mines off the Sussex coast



All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping