Ss ship Black & White Stock Photos
RM2ANPD22–Fitting out of SS Great Britain in the Bristol Floating Harbour, April 1844. This historic photograph by William Talbot is believed to be the first ever taken of a ship
RMC5336R–SS GREAT EASTERN layout of the iron sailing ship designed by Isambard Brunel and launched in 1858
RM2G7F185–SS Normandie French Lines Vintage Travel B&W Image in New York 1936 The SS Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat, crossing the Atlantic in a record 4.14 days, and remains the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built.
RMR70WE7–Mahatma Gandhi during the voyage to England on SS Rajputana, British passenger ship, September 1931, old vintage 1900s picture
RM2BJ030K–Some of the crew of the tramp steamer , the ' SS Eston ' eating dinner in the ship ' s mess . - 1935
RFKGXAR9–The SS Great Britain Steam-Ship. The bows of the SS Great Britain 1847. The Illustrated London News
RM2J5DT7N–1961, historical, container ships docked at Birkenhead, Liverpool, including the cargo ship, SS Clan Maclaren, one of the many ships of the Clan Line, which in this era were part of British and Commonwealth Shipping Ltd, who also owned the Union-Castle Line. As cargo shipping changed into what is now container shipping, the Clan Line ceased trading in 1981. The docks at Birkenhead closed in 1993.
RMH2PKAF–SS Great Eastern was an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch. Following conversion work she was chartered to the newly formed Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company and laid 4,200 kilometres (2,600 miles) of the 1865 transatlantic telegraph cable. Then 48,000 kilometres (30,000 miles) of submarine telegraph from Brest, France to Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off Newfoundland in 1869, and from Aden to Bombay in 1869 and 1870.
RMCCDYCM–SS Great Eastern Ocean Liner, Paddle Steamer, Steamship or Ship. Vintage Illustration or Engraving
RMFAWAE3–SS The City of London Steam Ship, 1844. Illustrated London News July 1844; Black and White Illustration;
RMG15NF2–SS Normandie was an ocean liner built in France, for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat and is still considered the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled
RM2H323GR–SS Michelangelo at sea in the late-1960s. The ship was an ocean liner built in 1965 for Italian Line in Genoa, Italy. She was one of the last ships to be built for the North Atlantic route, along with her sister ship was the SS Raffaello. Note the funnels, where an intricate trellis-like pipework allowed wind to pass through the funnel and a large smoke deflector fin on the top. The design proved to be very effective. The ship ended up in Bandar Abbas, Iran where she spent 15 years as a floating barracks. Plans to reconstruct her as the cruise ship came to nothing and in 1991 she was scrapped.
RMKFAP15–Expedition ship SS Southern Cross She was lost at sea returning from the seal hunt on March 31, 1914, killing all 174 men aboard in the same storm that killed 78 crewmen from the SS Newfoundland, a collective tragedy that became known as the '1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster'
RMG49WNR–The ship Empire Waveney, formerly the Nazi liner SS Strength Through Joy, which caught fire in Liverpool Docks.
RMG2NKXR–The SS Vega, a Swedish barque, built in Germany in 1872 was the first ship to complete a voyage through the Northeast Passage.
RM2BW8RGB–The stoker of the tramp steamer , ' SS Eston ' shovelling coal into the ship ' s boiler . 1935
RMR70WEX–Mahatma Gandhi handling a nautic instrument on the captain bridge of SS Rajputana, British passenger ship, September 1931, old vintage 1900s picture
RM2M96BC2–Brunel's iron sailing steamship, the SS Great Eastern, berthed at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, during the 1870s. The ship is so large that it runs the length of Hamilton Terrace. Around this time the ship was being used for the laying of submarine telegraph cables. She was eventually broken up in 1889-1890.
RMKN0B76–ROHILLA -A rare snapshot photograph showing people scouring the shore for salvage after the wreck of the hospital ship near Saltwick Nab, Whitby, Yorkshire, in 1914.
RM2M0W09D–A late 19th century black and white photograph showing the Steam Cruiser SS Lady Of The Lake on Loch Tay in Scotland.
RMH2PKAH–SS London was a British steamship which sank in the Bay of Biscay on 11 January 1866. The ship was travelling from Gravesend in England to Melbourne, Australia, when she began taking in water. The ship was overloaded with cargo and unseaworthy. Only 19 survivors were able to escape the foundering ship by lifeboat, leaving a death toll of 220. Its loss increased attention in Britain to the dangerous condition of ships overloaded by unscrupulous ship owners and had a major role in Samuel Plimsoll's campaign to reform shipping
RMERT9AY–Survivors of SS Athenia in Galway. SS Athenia was the first British ship to be sunk by Nazi Germany in World War II, sinking on 3rd September 1939 about 250 miles northwest of Inishtrahull, Ireland after being sighted by German submarine U-30 commanded b
RFKGXAMN–SS Great Britain aground. Removing the ship's stores. Northern Ireland 1846. The Illustrated London News
RMKWC3GJ–SS Patrick Henry was the first Liberty Ship launched on Sept. 27, 1941. During World War 2 she made 12 voyages to ports including Murmansk, Trinidad, Cape Town, Naples, and Dakar. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland. (BSLOC 2015 13 98)
RM2WRBY8W–Survivors of ATHINAI, Photograph shows survivors of the SS Athinai, a trans-Atlantic ship that caught fire in 1915., 1915, Glass negatives, 1 negative: glass
RM2B707WG–The SS Great Britain, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's iron ship, in dry dock in Chris Hills Shipyard in Bristol. She was towed from the Falkland Islands to Bristol, where she was built 127 years ago. The SS Great Britain was the world's first ocean-going screw-driven iron steamship.
RMKCEMFT–Crowds wave farewell to Mahatma Gandhi and his ship the SS Rajputna as he sails to join the Second Round Table Conference on India 1931; with him are Sarojini Naidu, Prabhashankar Pattani, A. Rangaswami Iyengar and Mahadev Desai. Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India
RM2BW8REG–Viewing the merchant ship the Silver Pine from the deck of the steamer the ' SS Eston ' . 1935
RM2C739TE–SS PARIS (French merchant passenger ship, 1921-1939) The French liner PARIS, lying at her builder's yard at St. Nazaire, France, incomplete, about 1917. PARIS was laid down in 1913 and launched 1916, but not completed due to World War I. Entered service 1921 and was destroyed by fire at Le Havre, 18 April 1939.
RMR70WE3–Mahatma Gandhi bidding farewell with folded hands to his countrymen on SS Rajputana, British passenger ship, Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, August 29, 1931, old vintage 1900s picture
RM2M97TP3–SS Ivernia was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Launched in 1899 by the Cunard Line Company to act as an intermediate ship catering for the vast immigration trade from Liverpool to Boston, USA. Torpedoed and sunk New Years day 1917 by a German U-Boat 58 miles south east off the cape Matapan, Greece.
RM2M5TDP5–Jews, largely Holocaust survivors, on their way from France to Mandatory Palestine, aboard the SS Exodus
RMTA4EYA–Adolf Hitler (left with his hand raised) arrives at the site of Howaldtswerke Hamburg for the launch of the ship. He is accompanied by the Reichsorganisationsleiter and the name giver of the ship, Robert Ley, as well as SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Josef 'Sepp' Dietrich (both at right in the picture). In the background, a decorated tribune, in front of it a crowd greets the Fuehrer.
RM2GMK3KD–The SS Bonito stranded on the Strickland River in Papua New Guinea during the G.S.A. (Geographical Society of Australasia) New Guinea Exploring Expedition 1885. The ship was refloated after two months.
RM2PA4XGT–Canadian soldiers boarding SS Great Eastern in 1861, prior to embarkation from her home port of Liverpool. The ship was an iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
RMERT98W–Survivors of SS Athenia in Galway. SS Athenia was the first British ship to be sunk by Nazi Germany in World War II, sinking on 3rd September 1939 about 250 miles northwest of Inishtrahull, Ireland after being sighted by German submarine U-30 commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp. 8th September 1938.
RM2GED961–GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, UK - 1937 - Glasgow, Scotland. Painting the stern of the S.S. Athenia. This liner was the first ship sunk in the Second World War b
RF2C5W81N–The SS Great Britain ship sits in dry dock surrounded by warehouses and apartment buildings on Bristol's partly regenerated Harbourside.
RMFA30T1–S.S. Morro Castle and Laborers at the Cramp Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, circa 1900
RM2WRC5MK–MONGOLIA, Photograph shows the SS Mongolia which was later the Navy ship the USS Mongolia (ID-1615)., between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920, Glass negatives, 1 negative: glass
RMM62E0M–On the bridge of SS 'Vaterland' c. 1914. The ship was built in1913 for the Hamburg America Line by Blohm and Voss at Hamburg, Germany for the trans-Atlantic passenger route. She was the largest passenger ship in the world on completion
RMD997TY–SS 'Great Eastern', Isambard Kingdom Brunel's iron ship built in J Scott Russell's Yard on the Thames at Milwall. Launched 31 January 1858, she was propelled by screw, paddle and sail. British, Transport, Marine
RM2BW8RCN–The Captain of the tramp steamer the ' SS Eston ' reads the compass on the ship ' s bridge . 1935
RM2C739TB–SS City of Paris Description: (British Passenger Liner, 1889) At anchor, circa the late 1880s or the early 1890s. This ship, a trans-Atlantic Blue Ribband winner when new, was transferred to American registry and renamed Paris in 1893. She served as USS Yale in 1898. Rebuilt and renamed Philadelphia in 1901, she again had Navy service in 1918-1919, as USS Harrisburg
RMR70WE6–Mahatma Gandhi on deck of S.S. Rajputana British passenger ship with people before his departure to England, Bombay, Mumbai, India, August 29, 1931, old vintage 1900s picture
RM2M97TR5–SS Ivernia was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Launched in 1899 by the Cunard Line company to act as an intermediate ship catering for the vast immigration trade from Liverpool to Boston, USA. Torpedoed and sunk New Years day 1917 by a German U-Boat 58 miles south east off the cape Matapan, Greece.
RM2H3CXC5–British cargo ship SS Maplewood under attack by German submarine SM U-35 on April 7, 1917 87 km southwest of Sardinia.
RM2R3620M–Passengers on RMS Tahiti take to the lifeboats as the ship sinks in August 1930 due to flooding caused by a broken propeller shaft. The well known and popular steamer RMS Tahiti sank 400 nautical miles west of Raratonga during a voyage from Sydney to San Francisco. The SS Ventura and SS Penbryn were on hand to assist with a mid-ocean rescue, and no lives were lost.
RM2PJWT83–Preparing an attempt to recover a lost cable from the Great Eastern during the 1865 Atlantic Telegraph Expedition. The iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was the largest ship ever built in 1858.
RMERTBCR–Survivors of SS Athenia in Glasgow. SS Athenia was the first British ship to be sunk by Nazi Germany in World War II, sinking on 3rd September 1939 about 250 miles northwest of Inishtrahull, Ireland after being sighted by German submarine U-30 commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp. 5th September 1938.
RMRM709H–The SS megantic ocean liner built by harland and wolff in Belfast and operated by the white star line
RMDDYFAM–Construction of the SS 'Torild', first ship built at the Landskrona Shipyard, Sweden, 1918. Artist: Unknown
RM2WRCD5F–MONGOLIA, Photograph shows the SS Mongolia which was later the Navy ship the USS Mongolia (ID-1615)., between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920, Glass negatives, 1 negative: glass
RM2HDBDR9–SS Andrea Doria at sea in the early 1950s. The ship was an ocean liner for the Italian Line (Società di Navigazione Italia) and its home port was Genoa, Italy. She made her maiden voyage in 1953. On 25 July 1956 while Andrea Doria was near the coast of Massachusetts, USA, the liner ‘Stockholm’ collided with her. Andrea Doria started to list severely to starboard. The ship stayed afloat for 11 hours. 1,660 passengers and crew survived. However, 46 people on the ship died as a direct result of the collision. The evacuated liner capsized and sank the following morning – a vintage 1950s photograph
RMGCD0JD–The SS Great Britain, Brunel's first iron passenger ship, seen from the air as the 127 year old vessel as she was towed on her wooden pontoon up the Bristol Channel. Financial aid was given by Jack Hayward to help salvage the ship.
RMD96GKR–The loss of SS Titanic, 14 April 1912: The lifeboats. All that was left of the greatest ship in the world - the lifeboats that carried most of the 705 survivors. Operated by the White Star Line, SS Titanic struck an iceberg in thick fog off Newfoundland.
RM2BW8RE7–Some of the crew of the tramp steamer , the ' SS Eston ' eating dinner in the ship ' s mess . 1935
RMA2FP12–Mahatma Gandhi steering ship SS Pilsna, photograph shows signature of commander of SS Pilsna, December 1931
RMHD1DH1–Group of Nurses aboard the SS Red Cross bound for Europe at start of World War I, New York City, New York, USA, Bain News Service, September 1914
RM2PJWT8J–Coiling the Atlantic telegraph cable in one of the tanks on the Great Eastern during the 1865 Atlantic Telegraph Expedition. The iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was the largest ship ever built in 1858.
RMEX07TC–The Atlantic Conveyor, a British merchant navy ship, which was requisitioned during the Falklands War. She was hit on 25 May 1982 by two Argentine air-launched AM39 Exocet missiles, killing 12 sailors. Circa 1980.
RMDDYF9X–Launching of the SS 'Torild', first ship built at the Landskrona Shipyard, Sweden, 1918. Artist: Unknown
RM2WRCD4D–MONGOLIA, Photograph shows the SS Mongolia which was later the Navy ship the USS Mongolia (ID-1615)., between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920, Glass negatives, 1 negative: glass
RMKH3X4R–Survivors in one of SS Athenia's lifeboats alongside American cargo steamship City of Flint
RMG4M112–A private car is swung into the hold of the SS Dinard. The ship was formally a floating hospital after serving at Dunkirk and off the Normandy beaches during World War Two. She has now been converted to service as a car ferry between Dover and Boulogne, France, accommodating 80 cars and 300 passengers
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