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Harry Mitcheson, general manager and director at Blyth shipyard, Gregson and Company Ltd. 12/12/70
The 20, 000 ton BP tanker British Sportsman, built on the Tyne in 1951 by Swan Hunter, awaits her fate at Newcastle quayside. It was 99% certain at the time that she would be sold for scrap. 05/01/72
The Vistafjord passenger cruise liner having her keel laid on the first day being built for Den Norske Amerikaline a/s Oslo, by Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd. Wallsend
RAF Sea Rescue Launch, 4th July 1943. Our Picture Shows, new RAF sea rescue launch, roaring along making nearly as much noise as a Spitfire, lashing the water into billowing clouds of spray
A Royal Air Force Air Sea Rescue launch on trials in the Thames Estuary during WW2 - 1943
Crew of USAF B29 Super Fortress is rescued by submarine 800 miles out in the Indian Ocean after having been shot down by a Japanese fighter plane during WW2 - 1945
Winston Churchill Prime Minister with wife Clementine Churchill In Jarrow Circa 1908
A captured German U Boat in a Gladstone Dock after being escorted there by the Royal Navy frigate HMS Grindall. WW2 1945 1940s
Merchant supply ship Confield out of Newcastle sinking after being torpedoed by a German U boat submarine during WW2. A British war ship pulls along side to help rescue the crew of the wood carrying
American troops drive an amphibious vehicle aboard an invasion landing craft in preparation for the Normandy invasion
The United States army troop ship "Meigs"blazing after being hit during aThe United States army troop ship " Meigs" blazing after being hit during a Japanese air raid on Port Darwin 1942 WW2
A Royal Navy ship drops depth charges on a German U Boat during WW2 1942 1940s
A Royal Air Force Coastal Command Sunderland flying boat flying over a transport ship while on a convoy protection patrol over the Atlantic during WW2. 1941 1940s
Landing craft prepare to land Allied troops on French beach. WW2 1944
RAF Coastal Command Beaufighters attack German shipping off the Friesian Islands during WW2 1944
A Royal Air Force Air Sea Rescue launch on patrol during WW2 1943
Coastal Command Bristol Beaufighters attack enemy convoy off the Dutch coast during WW2 - 1942
Aerial view of London June 1961
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives the V for Victory sign to a passing ship from the deck of HMS Prince Of Wales as she leaves Reykjavik, Iceland
World War II Invasion of France Part of the British invasion fleet bound for the Gold Juno and Sword Normandy beaches seen here on the morning of D-day from the cliffs overlooking Folkestone
Sir Winston Churchill aboard the Prince of Wales during the Atlantic crossing in 1941 for his meeting with American president Franklin D Roosevelt. August 1941
WW2 American battleship firing on May 1945 Okinawa largest of the Ryukyu Islands. Okinawa is less than 400 miles from the Japanese home islands and its capture gives the Allies sea
Prefabricated Ports 1944 Two prefabricated ports the size of Gibraltar which were manufactured in Britain and towed across the Channel and set down off the coast of Normandy
Navy Submarines HMS Sea lion, Snappet, Sunfish
British Expeditionary Force returning from Dunkirk After a long retreat the bulk of the British Expeitionary Force reached the Dunkirk Bridgehead
WW2 II: German battleship Bismarck sinks the Royal Navys largest warship HMS Hood off Greenland with the loss of more than 1, 400 lives
On the 4th May 1950 the new HMS Ark Royal was launched at Birkenhead by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (now Queen Mother). The ship weighed 36, 800 tons and was the fourth to bear the name Ark Royal
Convoy being bombed in the straits of Dover In 1940 the German Luftwaffe started to concentrate on aerial attacks on shipping in the English Channel.The plan of the man in charge, Hermann Goering
A convoy being bombed in the straits of Dover during WW2 In 1940 the German Luftwaffe started to concentrate on aerial attacks on shipping in the English Channel.The plan of the man in charge
Soldiers crowded on board a ship returning from Dunkirk 4th June 1940
Un-named ship No 39 is on the stocks at Swan Hunters Neptune Yard, she is the first liner to be built at the yard for 10 years, for Norwegian Armerica Limited 28 October 1971
Models of Viking longships are burnt on the beach at Cullercoats Bay in July 1980
The cruise ship Vistafjord leaving the Tyne in April 1973 after her sea trials
A Viking longboat on the river Tyne for the Newcastle Regatta in July 1980
Queen Elizabeth II visits the North- East meeting crew members aboard the Sailing ship the Sir Winston Churchill
Queen Elizabeth II visits the North-East meeting crew members of a sailing ship
Queen Elizabeth II visits the North- East meeting Dutch officers
Yachts tied up in the inner basin of Ramsgate Harbour. In the background can been seen hotels, bed and breakfast guest houses on Harbour Parade. Circa August 1935
About 63 ships remain idle on London docks because the dockers are out in an unofficial strike over the employment of part time labour in the port in 1961
Tees Dock Yard in Middlesbrough in 1994
Thames Sailing barge seen here near Wapping on the Thames. August 1930
Radio Caroline pirate radio ship off the coast of Ramsey on the Isle of Man. 15th August 1967
The ship Balaena leaves the River Tyne
Replica of The Golden Hind at Southend Pier. 27th May 1949
The Ship Gothic carrying the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, entering Padro Migual Locks, Panama. The ship is towed onto the lock by electric tractors known as mules
The ship Bamburgh Castle lies in the River Tyne
The cargo ship Essex Trader after her launch at Austin and Pickersgills shipyard on the River Wear at Sunderland
