Ships Collection (#25)

Pleasure Steamer at Westminster Pier with Belgian tourists starting a two week tour of The British Isles. 30th July 1934

Yachts Shamrock V, Velsheda, Astra, Candida and Endeavour sailing on the Solent. 28th May 1934

The ship Somersby passes under the Monkwearmouth Bridge on the River Wear at Sunderland

The River Wear built ship Adjutant

The Enugu Palm ship after her launch at the Neptune Yard of Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson shipyard in Walker on the River Tyne

The 8, 000-ton ship Gloucester City was launched at John Readhead and Sons Limited shipyard, River Tyne, South Shields

The cargo ship King City seen leaving South Dock, River Wear, Sunderland

The Former Crack liner ship Olympic proceeding up the River Tyne to Jarrow, where she is to broken up, Circa 1935

The Ship British Merchant, a tanker built at Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend passes down the River Tyne at North Shields

The giant crane at the Walker Naval shipyard on the River Tyne

Ford Prefects and Fordson tractors seen here on a Dagenham quayside, awaiting loading on to the MV Cape Rodney. November 1949

Asian immigrants arriving in Britain by ship, with the famous ocean liner QE2 behind. Janaury 1969

The motor vessel Atlantic Coast belonging to Coast Lines Ltd. 28th November 1953

Lifeboats on board the passenger liner France 7th January 1962

The new liner Empress of England ship (now called Ocean Monarch 1970) lying at Walker Naval shipyard on the River Tyne

The super liner Mauretania in 1935

The Ship Hoegh Eagle leaving the River Wear

The Queenmoor a 4, 862 tons Moor Line ship on the River Tyne to undergo repairs for fire damage

The passenger ship Fair Sea of the famous Sitmar line, the first non-British ship to carry immigrants from Britain to Australia. 16th September 1960

Job no 709 takes shape on the stocks, at a shipyard on the River Tyne, soon she ll be an 80, 000 ton tanker

The African Queen at anchor on the River Tyne

The ship Holmur leaves Blyth Harbour

Cable and Wireless Ltd company repair ship CS Cable Enterprise in the Thames at Tower Pier. 5th August 1964

The Ship Jedmoor moves along the River Tyne

Launch of the 30, 000-ton tanker Busirus at Thompsons North Sands Shipyard, River Wear, Sunderland

The SS Camellia in 1953

The 9, 200-ton ship Needles moves down the slipway at Austin and Pickersgill shipyard on the River Wear

The ship MS Batory. February 1969

The Ship Athenia - Sunk a by German U Boat

The Tyne collier Mitcham in 1957

The ship La Laguna at a North East shipyard

Sailors B Houghton on board the Atlantic yacht. 10th August 1921

The ship Berengaria - The lounge on board the liner

The 18, 200-ton tanker ship Laurelwood launched from St James Laing & Sons Ltd Shipyard on the River Wear at Sunderland

The 18, 000-ton tanker ship Haustrum built Hawthorn Leslie and Co Ltd of Hebburn for Shell Tankers (Bermuda) Ltd, seen leaving the River Tyne

The ship Silverweir docked in the River Wear at Sunderland

The launch of the City of Auckland from the Walker Naval Yard in 1956

The ship SS Pattersonian in the River Thames. It was involved in a rescue by lifeboat H F Bailey in Cromer on 2nd November 1938

Spectators watch from the banks of the River Tyne as the hull of the Former Crack liner ship Olympic leaves Jarrow bound for Inverkeithing, where her breaking up will be completed

The cruise liner "Canberra"returning to Southampton from her mission as a
The cruise liner " Canberra" returning to Southampton from her mission as a troop ship in the South Atlantic during the Falklands War. 11th July 1982

The United Baltic Corporation cargo / passenger ship Baltavia tied up alongside a Pool of
The United Baltic Corporation cargo/passenger ship Baltavia tied up alongside a Pool of London warehouse off loading her cargo 22 May 1950

The 500 ton Quarterman tanker ship slips down the slipway at her launch

The ship Georgic arrives at the River Tyne for reconversion at a North East shipyard

Under her own steam the new liner Empress of England ship (now called Ocean Monarch 1970) makes her way up the River Tyne

Port of London Authority Dredger Number 10 with barges alongside it at work in high water on the lower reaches of the River Thames

The tanker Esso Exeter stands waiting to be launched in a North East shipyard

Ship Framlington Court travels up the River Wear in Sunderland

Beer, cigarettes, sweets and other necessaries for the Christmas fare of the troops in the Suez Canal Zone, are being loaded on the 6, 000-ton ship Empire Nene, scheduled to leave Newcastle Quayside

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