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The Esso Northumbria supertanker being built at Swan Hunter shipyard in Wallsend. Circa April 1969
The Breaksea Lightship in the Bristol Channel. 22nd December 1954
Radio Caroline 1967
Gousse Arsene, 27, deck swabber on the Pierre Guillaumat, a 555, 000 ton Cargo Ship. OPS Him riding a bicycle on the huge deck of the super-tanker. 24th January 1980
Norwegian Windjammer Christian Radich in a Tall Ships Race, leading the way out of Plymouth, Devon. 30th July 1970
Big ships of the British Royal Navy fleet at exercise on the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Picture shows aircraft carrier HMS Formidable exercising with destroyers off Gibraltar
HMS Birmingham a type 42 destroyer on route along the Bristol Channel
The Dart paddle steamer Compton Castle. 1980s
Th British S-class submarine HMS Storm has returned to the United Kingdom after an eventful and highly successful commission in the Far East
HMS Mersey, Minesweeper of the Mersey Division of the RNR comes alongside headquarters ship HMS Eaglet Salthouse Dock at the end of her fourth cruise of the year. September 1968
Ship Queen Mary May 1936 - RMS Queen Mary steams across the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage to North America
Blyth, Northumberland Lifeboat crew (left to right) Charlie Hatcher (coxswain), Tommy Moss (2nd coxswain), John Scott (motor mechanic)
SS Orduna was an ocean liner built in 1913-14 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. After two voyages she was chartered to Cunard Line. Circa 1914
Aerial view showing London docks in the East, 1951
SS Canberra leaves on her first voyage after Falklands Service. August 1982
Early lifeboat at Cresswell, Northumberland. There were three lifeboats at Cresswell, Northumberland, and it is not clear which boat is pictured here
The Tynemouth lifeboat Tynesider is lifted into position from where it will make its journey from The Tyne at Newcastle Quayside to the Town Moor, Newcastle
HMS Rodney shows her formidable "teeth". An unusualHMS Rodney shows her formidable " teeth". An unusual and impressive view of HMS Rodneys great 16in. guns. 15th May 1931
The giant size of the dry dock at Brigham and Cowans, South Shields is seen here with the ship that is now in for inspection & repairs. Circa 1960
Cunard line steamship SS Ascania. 11th August 1958
The Tynemouth Lifeboat Dinghy. Trevor Fryer, Paul Henderson and David Thompson put an inshore boat through its paces. Picture taken 23rd July 1984
The South Shields lifeboat Bedford. Bedford, had been in operation since 1886, (86 years old in 1968) but is being pictured here being hoisted onto a lorry and taken 340 miles away to rest in Exeter
A colourised version of a version of classic photograph from the Chronicle archive, summer holidays. A child plays in the shadow of one of the supertankers, Tyne Pride, built at Swan Hunter, 1975
HMS Fury leads the 8th destroyer flotilla during a fleet exercise close to Scapa Flow. Circa 1942
British Royal Navy warship HMS Warspite, flagship of Admiral Sir James Somerville, commanding the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean during the Second World War. September 1942
The latest type of motor torpedo boat in use by the Royal Navy, discharging her weapons during exercises in the English Channel during the Second World War. July 1940
Suez Crisis 1956, The aircraft carriers HMS Theseus (nearest camera) and HMS Bulwark docked at Portsmouth, In the background can be seen the cruiser HMS Glasgow July 1956
Two men talking as they stand in princes Dock in Central Liverpool. Behind them is the famous Royal Liver Building. Circa 1966
The Somerset Maughan seen here returning St Andrews Dock, Hull after a her voyage to the Icelandic fishing grounds. 16th June 1966
The Flower class corvette HMS Camellia (K31) getting up steam before escorting a convoy across the North Atlantic. December 1941
Ship Queen Elizabeth - November 1968, leaves Southampton for the last time. Crowds gather to watch and wave goodbye
The ship Oxfordshire later renamed the Fairstar, the (Fun Ship) was a popular Australian cruise ship operating out of Sydney during a career lasting almost 25 years
Rescue operation of Mini Sub. Mother ship Vickers Voyager with mini sub Pisces V after an attempt to locate the sub. Life line white nylon rope from the stern of the ship. 31st August 1973
The 36, 000-ton tanker, Esso Durham after her launch at the Walker Naval shipyard on the River Tyne, Newcastle
The tanker Esso Durham stands on a slipway in a North East Shipyear
The Teesmouth lifeboat returning to harbour yesterday with the coxswain safe after he was washed overboard. Picture taken 17th November 1968
The James Knott lifeboat sails from Cullercoats on her final voyage. Four maroons were fired as she started her three-day trip to an Essex yard for repairs
Blyths new lifeboat Shoreline. Northumberland, North East England. Boat number 37-36 Sir Alec Rose, lone round-the-world yachtsman and founder member of the Shoreline membership scheme
View of the 8000 ton Royal Navy Mauritius class cruiser HMS Nigeria, during the Second World War. January 1942
The fifteen inch guns of British Royal Navy warship HMS Warspite, shelling German invasion coast positions on the Normandy coast during the Allied landings on D-Day during the Second World War
The Dunkirk evacuation, the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France between 26th May and 4th June 1940, during World War II
A submarine crew line the decks as they await the Britannia and the Queen for the Silver Jubilee Royal Navy Review. Lined up at Spithead for the Jubilee Review of the Fleet. 28th June 1977
The 45, 000 ton liner Aquitania leaves Southampton dock on her final voyage, bound for her birthplace The Clyde to be broken up after 36 years service. 20th February 1950. RMS Aquitania
The crew of a Yarmouth Herring boat pull in their catch on a storm tossed North Sea Circa 1935
Ships: Canberra September 1982 - First cruise after Falklands services
Ketch ship Everyman III. 26th September 1962
The 18, 000-ton tanker ship Horomya leaving the River Tyne after completion at Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn
The 18, 000-ton tanker ship Horomya built at Hawthorn Leslies Hebburn
The band headed the procession of strikers from Swan Hunter shipbuilders in Wallsend
The P&O ocean liner Canberra. 23rd May 1961
The Holly Island lifeboat Milburn being launched from Holy Island, Northumberland, on its way to Berwick. She is 45 feet long by 12.5 feet, and has an 80 h.p. engine. Picture taken 13th June 1930
Geoff Nugent (pictured but not id d. Possibly the man on the right as he looks like the team leader) and his crew aboard the Guide Friendship (serial number B - 514) inshore lifeboat
The Tynemouth lifeboat Henry Frederick Swan. The Henry Frederick Swan lifeboat was built in 1918. and was 41.80 feet (12.75 m) long
Royal Navy destroyer HMS Faulknor at sea during the Second World War. Circa 1942
General scenes showing workers gathered at Gladstone Docks in Liverpool. 31st October 1967
Scenes at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside. 8th February 1949
The Reina Del Pacifico returns to Liverpool. 24th July 1957
Winston Churchill as first Lord of the Admiralty with Lord Fisher of Kelverstone for the launch of HMS Centurion at Devonport dockyard. 20th November 1911
The Kometa a Russian built Hydrfoil ferry boat August 1968. Seen here sailing down the River Thames in London past a moored ship unloading outside riverside warehouses The boat The KOMETA is in
The ship Berengaria at a Jarrow shipyard where she will be broken up
Monas Isle Steamer Launch, Birkenhead, MerseysideMonas Isle, the Isle of Man Steam Packet Companys fifth postwar passenger steamer, was launched from Cammell Lairds yard at Birkenhead, Thursday 12th October 1950
The ship Berengaria enter the River Tyne
The Cunard White Star Liner the RMS Queen Mary makes her way down the River Clyde to commence her sea trials. Circa 1936
Cheering sailors and Wrens of the Royal Navy line the entrance to Gladstone dock in Bootle, Liverpool to celebrate the arrival of the U-boat destroyer Captain Frederick John Walker on board HMS Stork
Capetown Castle at Port Said, Egypt. c. 1950. The Capetown CastleCapetown Castle at Port Said, Egypt. c.1950. The Capetown Castle, built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, was launched on 23 September 1937 and was the largest Union-Castle motor liner at the time
The United States Ocean Liner entering service at speed between Capla Hague and Alderney. 3rd July 1952
Royal Navy fleet anchored in Torbay and floodlit in July 1969
The Tyne commissioners Lauch Sir William Stephenson ship off on its journey along the River Tyne, carrying members of the Commission and the Baltic International Conference
The first lifeboat, The Original built by Henry Greathead of South Shields in 1789. The history of the first ever LifeBoat from https
HMS White Bear is one the Hydrographic survey vessels serving with the East Indies Fleet. She acts as headquarters for smaller vessels which penetrate small creeks
The Tall Ships Race, Plymouth, England, 1970. Picture shows the Norwegian wind jammer, its huge sails billowing in the wind, as it leads the way out of Plymouth, Devon
German airship Graf Zeppelin flies over Bristol docks and the destroyer HMS Warwick (D25) July 7 1932
Blyth shipbreaking firm Hughes Bolckow Ltd. working on the HMS Jutland, a 2, 480-ton destroyer which was launched in 1946 by the late Ellen Wilkinson who was at that time MP for Jarrow
The tanker Esso Hibernia, built by Swan Hunter in Wallsend and was launched in April 1970. With her sister-ship, the Esso Northumbria launched 11 months earlier, at 253, 000 tons
The Cunard Liner RMS Queen Mary, seen here steaming along the Solent following her Saturday departure from Southampton. January 3rd 1953
The ship SS Asturias which transported many immigrants from Britain to Australia 15th September 1953
The British Bombardier Cargo ship towering over the surrounding warehouses at Clyde Dockyard, Glasgow, with dockers playing football underneath her bow, 5th April 1962
The Thames Class Dover Lifeboat coming to the assistance of the fishing vessel Opportunity which caught fire off of Folkestone. 23rd September 1994
The Cullercoats lifeboat Sir James Knott arrives at North Shields with a damaged bow. SIR JAMES KNOTT was built as an Oakley twin screw motor lifeboat by Groves
The new lifeboat City of Leeds arrives at Redcar, North Yorkshire. The official launch ceremony for the Royal National Lifeboat " City of Leeds" at Redcar was in August 1951
The Cullercoats Zociac lifeboat and crew (left to right) Dave Ankers, Angus Fergusson, Ean Nash, Les Sneddon, Robert Oliver and Daniel Smiles
The rescuers of the Teesmouth lifeboat (left to right) Peter Race, Bob Easton, Roy Copeman, Chris Jones, Tony Jameson and John Race. Picture taken 26th January 1986
The new Wick, Scotland, life-boat Princess Marina which is a 48 foot 6-inch Oakley Mk. IIThe new Wick, Scotland, life-boat Princess Marina which is a 48 foot 6-inch Oakley Mk.II. boat number 48-13 On 30th September 1970 H.R.H
The old South Shields lifeboat Tyne built in 1833. The Tyne Lifeboat, the worlds second oldest lifeboat in existence and one of the North Easts most important examples of maritime heritage
