THE QUEEN MAB BEING TURNED BY THE TUG TIPPER IN NEWHAVEN HARBOUR
Newhaven is an English South Coast port landing freighters from many countries and ferries running between England and France. In the nineteenth cen...
WORKING PORTS S. Francis Smitheman - Marine Artist
BROOKLYN BRIDGE AND THE EAST RIVER N.Y. C1883
We look down Pier 27 and across the East River to Brooklyn. On the right is a three masted barque unloading baulks of timber from her bows and bales...
DUNKERQUE HARBOUR FRANCE C1909: THE DEPARTURE OF ONE OF BORDE'S FLEET FOR CHILE
Antoine Borde's ships made the epic voyage across the South Atlantic, round Cape Horn and on to Chile to collect nitrate to fertilize the fields...
SUNDAY, A TERRE NEUVIER (NEWFOUNDLER) DEPARTS FROM THE HARBOUR AT FECAMP, FRANCE C1910
At the beginning of this century Fécamp was the premier port in France for the importation of cod. Three masted vessels known as Terre Neuvie...
THE SUSSEX MAID LEAVING NEWHAVEN
The well-known Sussex Maid was launched in 1856. She was built by John Gray of Newhaven whose yard lay on the West bank of the River Ouse ...
BRIGHTON FORESHORE BETWEEN WEST STREET AND THE CHAIN PIER C1885
Though not a port, Brighton at this time was busy with craft along the shore and going to and fro from the pier. The fishing vessel, catching the mo...
THE QUEVILLY ARRIVING IN DIEPPE, FRANCE FROM THE USA C1905
The Quevilly was the late nineteenth century equivalent of the modern giant oil tanker. As one of the great steel hulled four-masters she ...
MOONLIGHT DUNKERQUE C1900
A French windjammer is given welcome assistance by two tugs in the calm waters of Dunkerque harbour. She probably belongs to Antoine Borde's fle...
THE QUEEN MAB BEING TURNED BY THE TUG TIPPER (DETAIL)