THE STEAM SHIP GREAT BRITAIN, AT SOUTH STREET AFTER HER MAIDEN VOYAGE TO NEW YORK IN 1845
The SS Great Britain, designed by Brunel and built in 1843, now lies almost fully restored in the dock where she was constructed at B...
PORTS, HARBOURS & HAVENS S. Francis Smitheman - Marine Artist
THE SS GREAT BRITAIN ARRIVING AT LIVERPOOL
The SS Great Britain is depicted arriving at Liverpool from Australia in December 1861. The ship carried 691 persons includ...
A NEWFOUNDLER DEPARTS FROM FECAMP, FRANCE C1910
One of the staple foods of France at this time was salted cod. This was fished by such three-masted vessels as this which would sail across to Newfo...
DUNKERQUE HARBOUR FRANCE 1909
The barque being towed out towards the sea is one of Antoine Borde's fleet which sailed to Chile to collect nitrate to fertilize the fields of F...
THE TEA SHIP FALCON PASSING PORTSMOUTH
Launched in 1826, she was designed as a private yacht but with her full rig and general appearance she resembled a '20 gun ship of war'. For...
DUNKERQUE HARBOUR, THE MINI SUBMARINE
My Dunkerque Harbour picture was illustrated in the American magazine "Sea History". In the text I mentioned that the port was used for th...
CIRCULAR QUAY, SYDNEY
Sydney cove was the site of the initial landing of the First Fleet in Port Jackson. Circular Quay was originally used for shipping and became a very...
THE QUEVILLY IN DIEPPE, FRANCE ARRIVING FROM THE USA AROUND 1905
The Quevilly was the late nineteenth century equivalent of the modern giant oil tanker. A steel-hulled four master, she carried some 3,400 tonnes of...
HMS TRINCOMALEE VISITING HARTLEPOOL 1862
Trincomalee is making a courtesy visit for recruitment, showing a pilot jack at the bowsprit and sailors trimming the sails to perfection. The oldes...
MOONLIGHT DUNKERQUE
A heavily loaded barque is being slowly towed into the harbor. She belongs to Antoine Borde's fleet which had recently moved its main operation ...
BROOKLYN BRIDGE AND THE EAST RIVER, NEW YEAR c1883
In mid-stream, a tug is easing out a full rigged ship to start its voyage. Just to the right is one of the Starin line excursion boats which did su...
THE BRIDGETOWN AND OTHER CRAFT HOVE-TO OFF THE SEVEN SISTERS
The wind having fallen away completely, the Bridgetown and other craft lie becalmed and hove-to close to the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs in Sussex, E...
THE TUG TIPPER TOWING THE BRIDGETOWN
In almost windless conditions, the Tipper tows the Bridgetown across Seaford Bay near Newhaven. The Bridgetown was built in 1857 by John Gray whose ...
THE PASSAT AT HAMBURG
In 1872, the world's sailing fleet was greater than it had ever been; by 1945 it had virtually disappeared. Many of the great square riggers ha...
COLLIER ON BRIGHTON BEACH
Many colliers were almost flat bottomed to allow them to run up on a beach at high tide. They stayed there during low tide for horse drawn carts to...
BRIGHTON FORESHORE BETWEEN WEST STREETAND THE WEST PIER-1885
Though not a port, Brighton was busy with craft along the shore and going to and from the pier. In the painting the conditions are so calm that the...