THE CUTTY SARK BEING TOWED UP TO TOWER BRIDGE 1895
The Cutty Sark is seen being towed up to Tower Bridge which had recently been opened in 1894. The ship is rigged pretty much as she was in her gl...
LONDON'S RIVER S. Francis Smitheman - Marine Artist
THE LOWER POOL OF THE THAMES CIRCA 1904
A wooden barque, having made an occasional visit to the Upper Pool, is being towed down river by two tugs having passed through Tower Bridge. To the...
THE CUTTY SARK TOWING PAST GREENWICH
The Cutty Sark is being towed down river, assisted on her starboard side by a second tug, passing her future resting place - Greenwich. The ne...
A SQUARE RIGGER BEING EASED BY A TUG INTO A MOORING NEAR THE OLD LONDON BRIDGE AROUND 1900.
THAMES BARGES AND AN AUXILIARY UNDER TOW
THE BURY ST EDMUNDS BEING TOWED UP TO TOWER BRIDGE
Tower Bridge has been opened to allow the barque Bury St Edmunds to proceed into the upper pool. Another square sail rigged vessel is moored to the ...
THE WINDJAMMER PASSAT NEAR TOWER BRIDGE CIRCA 1930.
The subject of the painting is, in one sense the last days of sail, in another, it is the luminosity that can pervade a river scene at evening. T...
SAIL AND STEAM, EVENING
The nineteenth century saw steam gradually overtake sail as the means of driving vessels. This painting tries to evoke the 'sunset' of comme...
THE 'NIGHT WATCHMAN', DOWNSTREAM OF THE LOWER POOL
It would seem that in either the vessel or the warehouse there is some cargo of value since a night watchman has been employed to look after things....
DISCOVERY TOWING UP TO LONDON BRIDGE
Discovery was built in 1901 for the Antarctic expedition of the British Royal Geographical Society. She was given a massively reinforced hull for s...
THE CUTTY SARK IN THE LOWER POOL c.1895
The Cutty Sark is being towed down river from the recently opened Tower Bridge. I think I took some liberty with showing so many sails set, though ...
HMY BRITANNIA LEAVING TOWER BRIDGE FOR THE LAST TIME
Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia was decommissioned on December 11th 1997 at Portsmouth having been in the service of Her Majesty for ne...