RMHN9899–RMS AQUITANIA Cunard Line transatlantic passenger ship (1913-1950) shown in New York harbour on her maiden voyage in May 1914
RM2ANW71G–Vintage CUNARD LINE 1907 ‘Monarchs of the Sea’ vintage travel poster produced for Cunard Line to promote transatlantic voyages with their two Steamships Lusitania and Mauretania. New York Boston Liverpool via Queenstown.. ‘Greatest wonders of the age’
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.
RMRPA3TK–propellers of a transatlantic, 1930-40
RM2B01A3M–England/UK: Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859), by the launching chains of the Great Eastern at Millwall. Photo by Robert Howlett (1831-1858), 1857. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS, was a leading British civil engineer, famed for his bridges and dockyards, and especially for the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway; a series of famous steamships, including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship; and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering.
RMA93PPB–Transatlantic aircraft with contrails flying over Wales UK
RM2KAE1Y5–FRANCE - 1936 April: An 1,50 franc blue postage stamp depicting S. S. Normandie. Maiden voyage of the transatlantic steamship, the “Normandie” held the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing
RMK6YA44–The Lone Eagle, Charles A. Lindbergh (right), stands with Henry Ford beside the 'Spirit of St. Louis,' the plane in which Col Lindbergh flew the first transatlantic solo flight in 1927. The famous flyer visited Mr. Ford in Dearborn in August 1927. Dearborn, MI, 1927.
RM2RWTPE1–Transatlantic crossing, Liner ‘United States’ at Sea, American vintage travel poster, circa 1955
RMMR6HRY–Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) receiving Transatlantic telegraph, apparatus in use at Brest, France 1877.including his mirror galvanometer
RMER8WPN–Sailors and workers coiling the transatlantic telegraph cable in the bilge tanks of the S.S. Great Eastern, 1865.
RMD7B9KF–Twenty-one year old Marianne Banneck (M) serves nibbles to the examination commission in Frankfurt am Main in August 1957. The American airline Pan American Airlines has hired German stewardesses for their transatlantic route. The women have to pass a qualification first.
RM2H6XGBN–LEVIATHAN 1923 Ocean liner Leviathan docks at South Boston During WWI THE 'LEVIATHAN'. a U.S. ocean liner renamed from the German Ocean Liner 'Vaterland used for troop transport by the US government during World War I before resuming service as one of the largest transatlantic passenger vessels of its day. Photographer: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 Date:May 18, 1923
RME0XXDR–Mar. 10, 1968 - Transatlantic Race Hop Is Launched. The 57-foot sir Thomas Lipton, the largest British yacht entered for the 1968 Singlehanded Trans-Atalntic race, was launched this weekend at Snadwich Kent. Built by her owner and helmsman, 25-year old Oxford graduate, Geoffrey Williams, and Derek Kelsall, the 12-ton yacht had the forward wheels of the mobile cranes used for the launch lifting off the ground as they eased her into the muddy waters of the River tour at Richborough quay
RMRPA3H9–marconi radiotelegraphic room of a transatlantic, 1930
RMBJ5TKY–Transatlantic sailing by Adriatic Sea. Island Lokrum in the background. Dubrovnik. Croatia.
RM2KAE25A–FRANCE - 1936 April: An 1,50 franc dark blue postage stamp depicting S. S. Normandie. Maiden voyage of the transatlantic steamship, the “Normandie” held the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing
RMT10HCW–mail, telegraphy, transatlantic communications cable, 1858, Artist's Copyright has not to be cleared
RMG15HG9–An illustration representing the transatlantic telegraph cable. This was the first cable used for telegraph communications laid across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. After 5 attempts, a two-thousand mile long copper cable was successfully laid in 1866 l
RMG8ARNT–Sailing - Single-Handed Transatlantic Yacht Race - Plymouth. Yachts leaving Plymouth at the start of The Observer Single-Handed Transatlantic Race.
RM2RGBNXD–A Favourite Breeze, Transatlantic Yacht
RMHTMKGW–Transatlantic telegraph. William Thomson's (Lord Kelvin 1824-1907) receiving apparatus used at Brest, including his mirror galvanometer (left), an instrument for measuring small electric currents Wood engraving 1877
RM2BX55K3–The picture shows the landing of a transatlantic aircraft, a four-engined Focke Wulf 200 'Condor' (identification number: D-ACON), which landed at Berlin Tempelhof Airport exactly 20 hours after its take-off in New York at 10:03 am.
RM2C8CN1A–Map of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, the Telegraph Station of the Transatlantic Cable across the Atlantic Ocean, 1858
RMHHEDAG–Portrait of the French Transatlantic Steamship Company's 'Amerique' being towed into Plymouth after being abandoned in a storm. Dated 19th Century
RMER8WPM–Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse, 1816 – 1890. English surgeon and chief electrician of the transatlantic telegraph cable for the Atlantic Telegraph Company.
RFWB4RFH–The caption reads: Three Transatlantic Flyers. At the left is Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, who was the first to fly from New York to Paris, May 20-21, 1927. In the center is Commander Richard E. Byrd, who was first to fly to the Pole, and who, with Bert Acosta, Bernt Balchen, and George O. Noville, flew from New York to France, June 29-30, 1927. At the right is Clarence D. Chamberlain, who with Charles A Levine, flew from New York to Eisleben, Germany, June 4-6, 1927.
RFHBE47F–Playing shuffleboard on deck of a transatlantic steamer, illustration, woodcut from 1880
RM2BPE443–CUNARD LINE TRANSATLANTIC SCHEDULE 1883
RM2ET5TPJ–Vintage US-Lines travel 1930's Bremen New York poster lithograph, transatlantic Ocean Liner 4 funnel Steamer Steamship Ocean Liner Transatlantic original poster printed by Hauschild Bremen 1934 Norddeutscher Lloyd Artist A. Ritscher
RME0XTP0–Sep. 09, 1967 - Queen Mary's last transatlantic voyage scnes on board on the first half of trip of New York.: The liner Queen Mary has completed the first half of her last round trip when she arrived in New York yesterday from Southampton. It was the 1,00th time she had crossed the Atlantic. She is due to leave New York today for the return journey to Southampton before her voyage to retirement in Long Beach, California
RM2HC74Y8–Map of the Proposed Transatlantic Telephone Cable, USA 1953
RMEYPK28–The laying of the Transatlantic telegraph cable on board the Great Eastern.
RMDDRYFX–Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable, c1865 (1866). Artist: Robert Dudley
RMT10HF6–mail, telegraphy, transatlantic communications cable, sectional representation of the cable of 1865, Artist's Copyright has not to be cleared
RMT952TC–Transatlantic cables of the line of Valentia (Ireland) Newfoundland (American) Designed Templates of natural size in elevation and in section. Left to right, 1858, 1865, 1869. A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications. The first was laid across the floor of the Atlantic from Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island in western Ireland to Heart's Content in eastern Newfoundland.
RM2KE4JKR–H.M.S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the Line. After Robert Charles Dudley (1826-1909). In 1857, the British government fitted out Agamemnon to carry 1,250 tons of telegraphic cable for the Atlantic Telegraph Company's first attempt to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable. Although this initial cable attempt was unsuccessful, the project was resumed the following year and Agamemnon and her U.S. counterpart, USS Niagara, successfully joined the ends of their two sections of cable on 29th July 1858.
RMG7RG4Y–The 39 foot, 13 ton sloop Gipsy Moth III, manned solely by pioneer aviator Francis Chichester, sails from Plymouth harbour at the start of the transatlantic yacht race. A six week adventurous journey over the 3,000 miles of the Atlantic faces Gipsy Moth III and other competitors.
RMG3BT68–SS Timgad, transatlantic cruise liner
RM2A5YX2P–RMS Carpathia; a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship, famous for rescuing the survivors of RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg and sank with a loss of 1,512 lives on 15 April 1912. Carpathia herself was sunk in the Atlantic on 17 July 1918 during World War I
RM2H92GBR–Gdynia, 1947-05-04. Powitanie statku pasa¿erskiego Batory. Wyprodukowany w 1936 r., osobowy transatlantyk Batory w czasie II wojny œwiatowej u¿ywany by³ jako wojskowy transportowiec. W 1947 r. sprowadzony do Gdyni w celu remontu. Nz. zaparkowane samochody osobowe przy nabrze¿u, w g³êbi kapitanat portu i statek Batory. bb/gr PAP Gdynia, May 4, 1947. The Polish transatlantic Batory in Gdynia Harbour. Built in 1936 as a passenger cruiser, the Batory served as a military transport vessel in world war two. In 1947 the ship was brought to Gdynia for repairs. Pictured: cars on the quay, in back
RM2C8CMY4–Bacon's vintage infographic chart and map of the Transatlantic Telegraph route across the Atlantic Ocean, 1865
RMHHEDD6–Portrait of the French Transatlantic Packet Company's paddle steamer 'Washington'. Built by Scott & Co. of Greenock, and was the first of a line of mail packets subsidised by the French Government. Dated 19th Century
RMCPMYPW–The transatlantic aircraft Bremen at the International Aerospace Exhibition in Berlin, 1928
RMER8WPE–The HMS Agamemnon laying the transatlantic telegraph cable, 2 August, 1858.
RMHHW2N4–Switchboard operator of the first transatlantic telephone call, between London and New York, 1926
RM2C4BKDM–MV BRITANNIC White Star transatlantic ocean liner about 1934
RM2G5KCR2–Arrival RMS OLYMPIC 1911 mooring crowds tug boats New York Harbour USA Bain News Service, publisher 1911 Steam Ship sister ship to RMS Titanic White Star Line Four Funnel Transatlantic luxury steam ship Ocean liner 1900’s
RME0Y2P2–Jun. 06, 1968 - Briton wins the Single-handed Transatlantic yacht race: British yachtsman, Geoffrey Williams was declared the winner of the single-handed Transatlantic yacht race after twelve hours of indecision. Williams, a 25 year old Cornish school teacher, was the first ocean racer to cross the finishing line. He sailed his ketch ''Sir Thomas Lipton'' into Newport, Rhode Island, in a record time of 25 days, 20 hours and 30 minutes, but an extra 12 hours was added to his time by race officials for failing to report properly at the start
RM2C0PAEA–Plan of the slave ship Brookes designed to show the suffering of African slaves transported in the Middle Passage during the transatlantic slave trade. This famous illustration first published in 1787 was widely disseminated and did much to advance the abolitionist cause by showing the inhumanity of the slave trade.
RMENHJBB–The inaugural flight of the new transatlantic Skytrain service from Gatwick airport, London to JFK, New York, launched by Laker Airways chief Freddie Laker. The flight can seat 345 passengers and cost £59 for a ticket. The 345-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-10
RMEN8NW9–The Atlantic Cable - Transatlantic Cable - Linking the Old World to the New. July 27, 1866
RFFF0589–IRELAND Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Valentia 1858. Illustrated London News
RM2R9P5TR–mail, telegraphy, transatlantic communications cable, sectional representation of the cable of 1851, ADDITIONAL-RIGHTS-CLEARANCE-INFO-NOT-AVAILABLE
RMT952ND–Transatlantic cables of the line of Valentia (Ireland) Newfoundland (American) Designed Templates of natural size in elevation and in section. Left to right, 1858, 1865, 1869. A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications. The first was laid across the floor of the Atlantic from Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island in western Ireland to Heart's Content in eastern Newfoundland.
RM2KE4JP3–'Searching Fault (scene on 'Great Eastern' during laying of the first Atlantic cable 1865-1867). Searching for a fault after recovery of the cable from the bed of the Atlantic July 31st. After Robert Charles Dudley (1826-1909). In May 1865, Great Eastern steamed to Sheerness to take on wire for the laying of the Transatlantic telegraph cable. The cable end was lost mid-Atlantic in an accident, forcing the ship to return in 1866 with a new line. The ship's first officer, Robert Halpin, managed to locate the lost cable end and the unbroken cable made it to shore in Heart's Content, Newfoundland
RMG7RG5D–Francis Chichester, 63 year old map publisher of St. Jame's Place, London, with his wife at Plymouth where he sails in his 13 ton cutter Gipsy Moth III for the second singlehanded transatlantic race, an event that has been called the loneliest race in the world. Destination of competitors for The Observer trophy is Newport, Rhode Island. Francis Chichester wad the winner of the first race in 1960. In 1962 he made a lone East-West passage in the record time of 33 days, 15 hours and 7 minutes.
RMG3BT67–SS Aquitaine, transatlantic cruise liner
RM2BW3F75–The internal fuselage of a Short Transatlantic plane .
RM2A2YHM0–1st transatlantic telephone call 1927. The American company America's Bell Labs, now known as AT&T made the first successful radio telephone call between New York and London on January 7, 1927. President of AT&T, Walter S Gifford is sitting at a table during the conversation with Sir Evelyn Murray, the Secretary of the General Post Office, which managed the British telephone system at the time. The telephone call is overheard by a group of men at the table listening in on the conversation. In England, the transatlantic radio telephone service was being operated from Rugby Radio Station, th
RM2JTHX39–Force feeding African male slaves on board a Transatlantic Slave Ship, print, 1900
RMD96R0Y–Transatlantic telegraph. William Thomson's (Lord Kelvin 1824-1907) receiving apparatus used at Brest, including his mirror galvanometer (left), an instrument for measuring small electric currents Wood engraving 1877
RMFWTWTE–The transatlantic Casaregis, Italy
RMER8WPR–The transatlantic telegraph cable unwinding unit aboard the S.S. Great Eastern, 1865.
RM2J7TCN7–Vintage front cover of Transatlantic magazine from October 1943.
RM2AT9625–TRANSATLANTIC PASSENGERS arrive in New York in 1937
RMPK06RF–TITANIC 1912 RMS TITANIC newspaper advertisement in New York Times for the first maiden voyage eastbound transatlantic sailing of Titanic from New York to Europe departing noon April 20th 1912. This scheduled sailing sadly did not take place. Titanic was tragically lost on April 15th 1912
RME0Y2P0–Jun. 06, 1968 - Briton wins the Single-handed Transatlantic yacht race: British yachtsman, Geoffrey Williams was declared the winner of the single-handed Transatlantic yacht race after twelve hours of indecision. Williams, a 25 year old Cornish school teacher, was the first ocean racer to cross the finishing line. He sailed his ketch ''Sir Thomas Lipton'' into Newport, Rhode Island, in a record time of 25 days, 20 hours and 30 minutes, but an extra 12 hours was added to his time by race officials for failing to report properly at the start
RM2C0PAE1–Section of the slave ship Brookes designed to show the suffering of African slaves transported in the Middle Passage during the transatlantic slave trade. This famous illustration first published in 1787 was widely disseminated and did much to advance the abolitionist cause by showing the inhumanity of the slave trade.
RMENHJYK–The inaugural flight of the new transatlantic Skytrain service from Gatwick airport, London to JFK, New York, launched by Laker Airways chief Freddie Laker. The flight can seat 345 passengers and cost £59 for a ticket. The 345-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-10
RM2AMW4R0–Photo of the Hindenburg entering the airship hangar at Santa Cruz, Rio De Janiero, Brazil, following its first transatlantic crossing in April of 1936. Note the temporary tail fin repair after the fin was damaged during a propaganda flight in Germany on March 26, 1936.
RFMXN1EH–The French Transatlantic Company's steam-packet Washington. France 1864. The Illustrated London News
RM2R9WD5X–mail, telegraphy, transatlantic communications cable, sectional representation of the cable of 1857, ADDITIONAL-RIGHTS-CLEARANCE-INFO-NOT-AVAILABLE
RMT95151–Awaiting a transatlantic telegraph reply, 1866. Ilustration by Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826-1909). One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer. An initially successful attempt in 1858, led by Cyrus W. Field and financed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, failed after three weeks.
RMM8YDGC–Jean Emile LABOUREUR 1877 - 1943 Le roulis transatlantique 1907 - The transatlantic roll 1907, France, French,
RMG7RG5J–Francis Chichester, 63 year old map publisher of St. Jame's Place, London, in his 13 ton cutter Gipsy Moth III at Plymouth as he starts the second singlehanded transatlantic race, an event that has been called the loneliest race in the world. Destination of competitors for The Observer trophy is Newport, Rhode Island. Francis Chichester wad the winner of the first race in 1960. In 1962 he made a lone East-West passage in the record time of 33 days, 15 hours and 7 minutes.
RMG3BT61–SS Rex, transatlantic cruise liner
RM2BTPCN4–Transatlantic attempt . Costes posed in plane . 1928 .
RM2BJ0717–Cunard Yankees Cunard Yankees or Cunard Yanks. This is the nick-name given to youths who served on the big Transatlantic passenger liners in the catering branch. They may be kitchen hands, pantry or cabin boys, or waiters. They have been given this name because of their clothes, their accent and their financial open-handedness. Southampton 1956 - Off duty in a Southampton pub. -
RM2C8CMY1–Western Union Transatlantic Cables map showing routes of undersea Telegraph Cables, by Western Union Telegraph Company, 1900
RMD95NG7–The Air-Liner of the Future, 1914. Idea for a transatlantic air liner which would fly at 10,000 but in an emergency could descend to sea level and skim the surface. It was expected that the flight between London and New York would take less than 24 hours. Illustration by C Dudley Tennant (active 1898-1918).
RFW4YHKA–These photos date to the early 1920s. The caption reads: Transatlantic Fliers. Top: American Navy Seaplane NC-4 which crossed the ocean with one stop at the Azores, reaching Portugal, May 27, 1919. Center: The British Vickers-Vimy bombing plane, which made the first non-stop flight across the atlantic, June 16, 1919. Bottom: The British Dirigible R-34 which flew across the Atlantic, July 6, 1919.
RMC3JYFA–The converted warships HMS Agamemnon and USS Niagara taking aboard cable to lay for the transatlantic telegraph.
RMAR959M–Agamemnon Meets Whale an incident as the ship lays the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858
RM2BXWT04–GREAT EASTERN The transatlantic cable snaps on 2 August 1865
RM2ACE8G0–RED STAR LINE Vintage Cruise Ship Poster 1920's Red Star Line 'BELGENLAND' Antwerpen America Ocean Transatlantic Steamer Steamboat Boat Ship Cruise Liner Travel poster 1900's Vintage cruise ship liner travel poster Europe American Red Star White Star The Belgenland was built in 1914 and originally served as a freighter and World War I troopship for the White Star Line
RME0XTP1–Sep. 09, 1967 - Queen Mary's last transatlantic voyage scnes on board on the first half of trip of New York.: The liner Queen Mary has completed the first half of her last round trip when she arrived in New York yesterday from Southampton. It was the 1,00th time she had crossed the Atlantic. She is due to leave New York today for the return journey to Southampton before her voyage to retirement in Long Beach, California. Photo shows seen on board the Queen Mary are these nine members of her crew who sailed with her on her maiden voyage. They are (L. to R
RMK9AG33–Guglielmo Marconi, photographed a few days after the first transatlantic radio signal had been received by him on 12 December 1901
RMENHM3D–The inaugural flight of the new transatlantic Skytrain service from Gatwick airport, London to JFK, New York, launched by Laker Airways chief Freddie Laker. The flight can seat 345 passengers and cost £59 for a ticket. The 345-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-10
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