RFBE88B6–This 1910 illustration shows a 1500s Dutch warship, with new advances in ship design: more deck space and more gun space.
RF2BCH9NC–This illustration shows the United States Monitor Miantonomoh. The Miantonomoh class were a series of monitors of the U.S. Navy were constructed during the U.S. Civil War, but only one ship of the class took part in it. They were broken up in 1874–75. This illustration shows the United States Battleship Indiana. USS Indiana (BB-1) was the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time. Authorized in 1890 and commissioned five years later, she was a small battleship, though with heavy armor and ordnance. Indiana served in
RFAN7TDJ–Uncovered remains of the Viking ship Gokstad
RF2DCMFR9–Clipper Ship 'Great Republic' Currier and Ives
RF2DCMFTC–Clipper Ship 'Great Republic' Currier and Ives
RF2DCMFPK–Clipper Ship 'Three brothers' formerly Steamship 'Vanderbilt' Currier and Ives
RF2DCMFPE–Clipper Ship 'Three brothers' formerly Steamship 'Vanderbilt' Currier and Ives
RF2DCMFM3–Clipper Ship 'Sweepstakes' F F Palmer lith publisher N Currier 1855
RF2DCMFKX–Clipper Ship 'Sweepstakes' F F Palmer lith publisher N Currier 1855
RFGE82XC–This 19th-century drawing shows the fore-and-aft sails of a merchant ship.
RF2DCMFR4–Clipper Ship 'Flying Cloud' E Brown Jr publisher N Currier 1852
RF2DCMFPX–Clipper Ship 'Flying Cloud' E Brown Jr publisher N Currier 1852
RFBG71FX–This English warship belonged to the class known as ship-of-the-line, a fighting tactic used at the time (1600s-mid1800s).
RFBG7148–This English warship belonged to the class known as ship-of-the-line, a fighting tactic used at the time (1600s-mid1800s).
RFG82MWM–This illustration that dates to the 1800s shows a merchant ship. The rigging is all labeled, and the rigging is running rigging for this type of vessel.
RFG82MWE–This illustration that dates to the 1800s shows a merchant ship. The rigging is all labeled, and the rigging is standard rigging for this type of vessel.
RFBD277K–An Egyptian sailing ship laden with trade goods heads south on the Nile River to the fabled land of Punt, in present-day Somalia
RF2WC2G2D–English ship of the line from the beginning of the 17th century—The Great Charles. The vessel was an 80-gun first-rate three-decker ship of the line of the English navy.
RF2ECF5EA–This photo from world war I shows a practice torpedo being hoisted over the side of a British ship.
RFGE82X9–This 19th-century drawing shows the Squaresails and driver of a merchant ship. It also has double top-sails and sky-sails, which are the small square sails sometimes carried above the royals.
RFJP1A4G–A tenement house on Hamilton Street in New York City that was known as 'The Ship' - a narrow entrance to the rear leading to the garret rooms. Nearby was the Water Street Mission. This illustration dates to 1899.
RFJP1A1D–A tenement house on Hamilton Street in New York City that was known as 'The Ship' - a narrow entrance to the rear leading to the garret rooms. Nearby was the Water Street Mission. This illustration dates to 1899.
RF2D0XC3J–Clipper Ship 'Sovereign of the Seas' E Brown Jr del N Currier 1852. Sovereign of the Seas, a clipper ship built in 1852, was a sailing vessel notable for setting the world record for fastest sailing ship—22 knots.
RF2D0XC3E–Clipper Ship 'Sovereign of the Seas' E Brown Jr del N Currier 1852. Sovereign of the Seas, a clipper ship built in 1852, was a sailing vessel notable for setting the world record for fastest sailing ship—22 knots.
RF2DCMFJR–Clipper Ship 'Comet' of New York in a hurricane off Bermuda on voyage from New York to San Francisco October 2 1852 E C Gardner commander C Parsons publisher N Currier 1855
RF2DCMFJM–Clipper Ship 'Comet' of New York in a hurricane off Bermuda on voyage from New York to San Francisco October 2 1852 E C Gardner commander C Parsons publisher N Currier 1855
RF2DCMFKN–Clipper Ship 'Red Jacket' in the ice off Cape Horn on her passage from Australia to Liverpool August 1854 Drawn by J B Smith and Son Brooklyn L I on stone by C Parsons publisher N Currier 1855
RF2DCMFKW–Clipper Ship 'Red Jacket' in the ice off Cape Horn on her passage from Australia to Liverpool August 1854 Drawn by J B Smith and Son Brooklyn L I on stone by C Parsons publisher N Currier 1855
RFJP1A6F–This illustration dates to 1899. The caption reads: A room and its occupant as found in the garret of 'The Ship.' This tenement house on Hamilton Street in New York City was known as 'The Ship' - a narrow entrance to the rear leads to the garret rooms. Nearby was the Water Street Mission.
RFJP1A5E–This illustration dates to 1899. The caption reads: A room and its occupant as found in the garret of 'The Ship.' This tenement house on Hamilton Street in New York City was known as 'The Ship' - a narrow entrance to the rear leads to the garret rooms. Nearby was the Water Street Mission.
RF2GGBTRA–Seen here is a1907 illustration of a stone relief showing a Roman Warship. Roman warship – relief from the Temple of fortune in Praeneste in Italy. The boat has two sets of rowers – a so-called bireme vessel. At the prow of the ship are a variety of decorations—the image of a protector deity, the image of the head of Medusa, and a crocodile figure.
RF2B29BW0–This illustration of a Chinese junk dates to the early 1900s and is based on a model in the south Kensington Museum in England. The junk is a type of Chinese sailing boat.They were developed during the Song dynasty (960–1279) based on maritime Southeast Asian ship designs that have been trading with the Eastern Han dynasty since the 2nd century AD.
RF2B29C5R–The Gokstad ship was built around 890 AD, at the height of the Viking period. It was a fast and flexible ship that was suitable for voyages on the high seas. A large burial mound called ‘the king’s mound’ was situated at the farm of Gokstad in Sandefjord municipality of Norway. In autumn 1879 the two teenage sons on the farm were bored and started to dig into the mound. A ship was said to lie in the burial mound, and it was this that the boys found.
RF2B29C4Y–The Gokstad ship was built around 890 AD, at the height of the Viking period. It was a fast and flexible ship that was suitable for voyages on the high seas. A large burial mound called ‘the king’s mound’ was situated at the farm of Gokstad in Sandefjord municipality of Norway. In autumn 1879 the two teenage sons on the farm were bored and started to dig into the mound. A ship was said to lie in the burial mound, and it was this that the boys found.
RF2A47FJM–This illustration shows a Ship of Albuquerque’s Fleet. It is from a very fine woodcut, published about 1516, of Albuquerque’s siege and capture of Aden. It is housed in the British Museum. Afonso Albuquerque was a Portuguese general, a 'great conqueror', a statesman and an empire builder. Afonso advanced the three-fold Portuguese grand scheme of combating Islam, spreading Christianity, and securing the trade of spices by establishing a Portuguese Asian empire.
RF2FJNYR2–Long Ship with 50 oars from mosaic found near Pozzuoli. Roman warships (naves longae) derived from Greek galley designs. In the ocean-going fleets, the three main designs were trireme, quadrireme, and quinquereme. During the Republic, the quinquereme was the standard ship. After the battle of Actium at the start of the Empire, the trireme became the main ship. Pozzuoli was an ancient seaside town probably best known for its bradyseism, a raising and lowering of the Earth’s surface due to underground volcanic activity.
RF2BCH9MT–This image shows the Iron Barque Macquarie that was built in 1875. 'Macquarie' was a three-masted ship-rigged vessel, built as the 'Melbourne' by R. & H. Green of Blackwall for their Blackwall line run to Australia. She was sold to Devitt & Moore in 1888 and they changed her destination port from Melbourne to Sydney and her name to 'Macquarie'. She was one of Devitt & Moore's best known ships and mainly carried passengers on the outward run. On the return journey, the second- and third-class cabins were dismantled to accommodate a cargo of wool.
RF2BCH9N6–This illustration shows the United States Battleship Indiana. USS Indiana (BB-1) was the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time. Authorized in 1890 and commissioned five years later, she was a small battleship, though with heavy armor and ordnance. Indiana served in the Spanish–American War (1898) as part of the North Atlantic Squadron. Another United States Monitor was the Miantonomoh. The Miantonomoh class were a series of monitors of the U.S. Navy were constructed during the U.S. Civil War, but only one ship of
RF2WC2FMR–Hansa Kogge around 1380 — The Hansa was a medieval association of German cities which engaged by in long distance business mainly in area of Baltic Sea. The Bremen Cog, as this vessel is best known today, dates from AD 1380 and is one of the world's largest ship finds. It is best preserved medieval ship in the world. The shipwreck was discovered in the Weser in 1962. The wooden remains turned out to be a cargo ship from the Hanseatic era. Conservation took 19 years. The reconstruction is in the German Maritime Museum. The preserved ship open to the public in the museum’s Cog’s Hall in 2017.
RF2A9R7YB–This illustration dates to 1912. John Ross’s ship Victory, with all flags flying, trapped in the Arctic ice in Felix Harbour, Christmas Day 1829. “The brilliancy of Venus [top left of image] was a spectacle which was naturally contemplated as in harmony with the rest of the day.” John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross endured four winters trapped in the Arctic ice on an expedition to find the elusive Northwest Passage. Their first winter was spent at Felix Harbour on the eastern tip of Boothia Felix (now known as the Boothia Peninsula). John Ross was knighted in 1834 following his return to
RF2A9R7WR–This illustration dates to 1912. John Ross’s ship Victory, with all flags flying, trapped in the Arctic ice in Felix Harbour, Christmas Day 1829. “The brilliancy of Venus [top left of image] was a spectacle which was naturally contemplated as in harmony with the rest of the day.” John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross endured four winters trapped in the Arctic ice on an expedition to find the elusive Northwest Passage. Their first winter was spent at Felix Harbour on the eastern tip of Boothia Felix (now known as the Boothia Peninsula). John Ross was knighted in 1834 following his return to
RF2A9R7X3–This illustration dates to 1912. John Ross’s ship Victory in the Arctic ice in Felix Harbour. John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross endured four winters trapped in the Arctic ice on an expedition to find the elusive Northwest Passage. Their first winter was spent at Felix Harbour on the eastern tip of Boothia Felix (now known as the Boothia Peninsula). John Ross was knighted in 1834 following his return to England. The caption reads: The First Communication with Eskimos at Boothia Felix, January 1830. Sir John Ross’s Expedition to the North Magnetic Pole, 1829-1833. From Drawings by Ross
RF2WC2FMB–English Ship from time of Crusades
RFB0NTEY–Jacob Locher in Fools' Ship
RF2WC2G2R–French three-decker ship of the line with 104 canon for the year 1700–called the Royal Louis
RF2WC2G1C–Dutch armed merchant ship at end of 16th century. This style is known as a fluyt—this type of sailing vessel was originally designed by shipwrights of Hoorn as a cargo vessel.
RF2R2R1H3–The 1906 caption reads: 'A page from the first edition of Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools in 1494.' The book was a medieval satire on contemporary folly and corruption.
RF2WC2FRR–Venetian galley under sail from 15th century.A galley was a low, flat ship with one or more sails and up to three banks of oars, chiefly used for warfare, trade, and piracy.
RFA38FDM–Full-rigged 19th-century ship The labels on this full-rigged ship diagram are: 1. flying jib, 2. outer jib, 3. inner jib, 4. fore topmast staysail, 5.
RF2ECF5GP–This photo from World War I shows American submarines with their mother ship. Phot is by Robert Enrique Muller, sometimes credited as Enrique Muller, Jr. and as E. Muller, was an official photographer for the United States Navy, and an author. He took photos of military ships in action.
RF2B7H6XB–This illustration, dating to the early 1900s, shows an early 17th century galley, a type of ship that is propelled mainly by rowing. The galley is characterized by its long, slender hull, shallow draft, and low freeboard. Virtually all types of galleys had sails. It was chiefly used for warfare, trade, and piracy.
RF2WC2FRA–Caravel from the time of Christopher Columbus 15th and 16th centuries. The caravel is a small maneuverable sailing ship, especially used in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean. The lateen sails gave it speed and the capacity for sailing windward.
RFW88MFD–This photo dates to September 5, 1923. The caption reads: Seven Minutes after Noon. In 1922, the U.S. War Department classified the Virginia as a target ship for bombing tests, along with her sister ship the USS New Jersey. The New Jersey was bombed first and sunk and then the Virginia noon.
RFW88MT9–This photo dates to September 5, 1923. The caption reads An 1100-pound bomb explodes alongside. In 1922, the U.S. War Department classified the Virginia as a target ship for bombing tests, along with her sister ship the USS New Jersey. The New Jersey was bombed first and sunk and then the Virginia.
RFM8K454–This illustration dates to around 1917, the time of World War I. Its caption reads:British ship in action in the Dardanlles. The Dardanelles Campaign by the British, French, Russian, and Australian navies against the Ottomans took place between February 1915 and January 1916. The Ototmans prevailed and this campaign was followed by the Gallipoli Campaign.
RFM8K456–This illustration dates to around 1917, the time of World War I. Its caption reads:British ship in action in the Dardanlles. The Dardanelles Campaign by the British, French, Russian, and Australian navies against the Ottomans took place between February 1915 and January 1916. The Ototmans prevailed and this campaign was followed by the Gallipoli Campaign.
RF2B7H6XH–This image of the Sovereign of the Seas, which was built in 1607, dates to the early 1900s. Sovereign of the Seas was a 17th-century warship of the English Navy. She was ordered as a 90-gun first-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, but at launch was armed with 102 bronze guns at the insistence of the king, Charles I. It was later renamed Sovereign, and then Royal Sovereign.
RF2CAXWF2–This photo shows the whaler named Wanderer on the rocks on August 27, 1924. The whaler was caught in a storm on August 26, grounded off the island of Cuttyhunk, and had to be abandoned - the last voyage of the ship and the last whaler to leave the port of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a city that had once been the whaling capital of the world. The Wanderer was featured in the movie Down to the Sea in Ships.
RF2H96NJ8–Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by the English novelist Daniel Defoe and published in 1719. A fictional autobiography, it tells the tale of an English castaway named Robinson Crusoe (the ship that wrecked is seen here) who spent 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela before he was rescued. Newell Convers Wyeth, known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators.
RF2AGAWM7–Seen here is Shackleton’s Ship, the Nimrod, among the ice in McMurdo Sound, the Winter Land Quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition. The caption continues: By Sir Ernest Shackelton’s permission from his book “The Heart of the Antarctic,” publsihed by. Mr. Heinemann. Shackleton was a British polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Shackleton went into McMurdo Sound in 1908. He died in 1922.
RF2AGAWM3–Seen here is Shackleton’s Ship, the Nimrod, among the ice in McMurdo Sound, the Winter Land Quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition. The caption continues: By Sir Ernest Shackelton’s permission from his book “The Heart of the Antarctic,” publsihed by. Mr. Heinemann. Shackleton was a British polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Shackleton went into McMurdo Sound in 1908. He died in 1922.
RFW88NFT–This photo dates to September 5, 1923. The caption reads: What a Bomber from the air can do to a battleship: The doomed battleship Virginia - Seven Minutes Before Noon. This was just before an 1100-pound bomb exploded alongside. She sunk within 20 minutes. In 1922, the U.S. War Department classified the Virginia as a target ship for bombing tests, along with her sister ship the USS New Jersey. The New Jersey was bombed first and sunk and then the Virginia.
RFW88NMG–These photos date to September 5, 1923. The caption reads: What a Bomber from the air can do to a battleship. Top: The doomed battleship Virginia - Seven Minutes Before Noon; Middle: An 1100-pound bomb explodes alongside; Bottom: Seven Minues after Noon. In 1922, the U.S. War Department classified the Virginia as a target ship for bombing tests, along with her sister ship the USS New Jersey. The New Jersey was bombed first and sunk and then the Virginia.
RF2F31PBT–This illustration shows Hoseason turning on another. It is from Kidnapped, a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The captain of the ship Covenant. Hoseason abducts the main character, David Balfour, onto his ship on the orders of David's uncle Ebenezer, and later tries to kill David and Alan Breck Stewart. He is shipwrecked after the Covenant founders on the Torran Rocks.
RF2F9F2D9–The caption for this 1895 illustration reads: Little Trevor replied by reeling off the list of all the house-flags in sight at the moorings - from An Unqualified Pilot by Rudyard Kipling that was published in 1895. This tale is founded on something that happened a good many years ago in the Port of Calcutta, before wireless telegraphy was used on ships, and men and boys were less easy to catch when once they were in a ship. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children.
RF2D92FY2–The Landing of the Cable by the 'Great Eastern' Friday July 27 1866. On Friday, 13 July 1866, the Great Eastern, by far the largest ship afloat, left Valentia, Ireland , with 2730 nautical miles of cable in her hold. Fourteen days later 1852 miles of this cable lay at the bottom of the ocean, the ship was at anchor in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, and the old and new worlds were in permanent telegraphic communication. Cyrus West Field (1819 – 1892) was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cab
RF2B7H6TX–The Elizabethan man of war was a British Royal Navy expression for a powerful warship or frigate from the 16th to the 19th century. This image dates to the early 1900s.
RF2B29C62–The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 230 feet long and 20 inches tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England between William, Duke of Normandy and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England. At the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William defeated Harold. It tells the story from the point of view of the conquering Normans, but is now agreed to have been made in England. Worked on coarse linen, it measures 230 feet by 20 inches. Its date is disputed. It is housed in the Bayeux Museum in Bayeux, France. Shown here in this illustration of a section from t
RFBD277F–This vessel, taken from a Greek vase painting, dates to around 500 B.C. Note the steering oar at the stern.
RFB67F72–Swift Roman Vessel
RF2RH3NTE–Norse or Viking ships were built by the Scandinavians during the Viking Age (c. 790 - c. 1100 AD) and were used both within Scandinavia and beyond for purposes ranging from being the most important means of transport to trade and warfare
RFG82MTR–Pictured here is a brig. The illustration dates to the 1800s.
RF2B7H6TJ–Lading Arms and wine from Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered cloth nearly 230 feet long and 20 inches tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England between William, Duke of Normandy and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England. At the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William defeated Harold. It tells the story from the point of view of the conquering Normans, but is now agreed to have been made in England. Worked on coarse linen, it measures 230 feet by 20 inches. Its date is disputed. It is housed in the Bayeux Museum in Bayeux, France. Shown here in this illustration
RF2FJNYR3–Bireme bas relief of Villa Albani. Furnished with two banks of oars, which is the more common use of the term “bireme”, this ancient Roman vessel of war had two lines of oars on each side, placed in a diagonal position one above the other, as in the example form the marble bas-relief from the Villa Albani, each oar being worked by a single rower. Albani (later Villa Albani-Torlonia) is a villa in Rome, built on the Via Salaria for Cardinal Alessandro Albani. It was built between 1747 and 1767.
RFJP19YE–Entrance to a Tenement House and Alley The door at the left leads directly into a tenement. The archway at the right is a dark passage was leading to filthy yards and tenements in the year.
RFJP1A83–This illustration dates to 1899 and shows an everyday scene in a Tenement House alley in New York City. Nearby was the Water Street Mission.
RFJP19X2–Entrance to a Tenement House and Alley The door at the left leads directly into a tenement. The archway at the right is a dark passage was leading to filthy yards and tenements in the year.
RFJP1A9D–This illustration dates to 1899 and shows an everyday scene in a Tenement House alley in New York City. Nearby was the Water Street Mission.
RFJP19T1–Coffee Night at the Water Street Mission - a weekly feast for tramps, outcasts, and bums. The day is Saturday and they begin filing in by three o'clock. The rooms fills quickly and many have to be turned away. At seven, Mission workers bring in the coffee pots and then sandwiches.
RF2HCD5M9–The caption for this image by NC Wyeth that accompanies the tale of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe reads: 'I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it away in a great basket which I had made.” Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by the English novelist Daniel Defoe and published in 1719. A fictional autobiography, it tells the tale of an English castaway named Robinson Crusoe (seen here reaping the stalks – with bird companionat) who spent 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela before he was rescued. Newell Convers Wyeth, known as N. C. Wyeth, was an
RF2HCD5RG–The caption for this image by NC Wyeth that accompanies the tale of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe reads: ' and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head.” Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by the English novelist Daniel Defoe and published in 1719. A fictional autobiography, it tells the tale of an English castaway named Robinson Crusoe (seen here with Friday) who spent 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela before he was rescued. Newell Convers Wyeth, known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He w
RF2HCAF8T–The caption for this image by NC Wyeth that accompanies the tale of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe reads: 'All this while I sat upon the ground very much terrified and dejected.” Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by the English novelist Daniel Defoe and published in 1719. A fictional autobiography, it tells the tale of an English castaway named Robinson Crusoe (seen here sitting dejected) who spent 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela before he was rescued. Newell Convers Wyeth, known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard
RF2HCAF8A–The caption for this image by NC Wyeth that accompanies the tale of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe reads: 'and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed.' The captionRobinson Crusoe is a novel written by the English novelist Daniel Defoe and published in 1719. A fictional autobiography, it tells the tale of an English castaway named Robinson Crusoe (seen here with his father) who spent 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela before he was rescued. Newell Convers Wyeth, known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pup
RF2GBEK66–The caption on this 1903 image reads: “A Typical Nile Pilot.” It appeared in the book History of Egypt by French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero.
RF2GTKKWB–Shown here are the arms granted to Sebastian del Cano, Captain of the Victoria, the first vessel that circumnavigated the globe. Juan Sebastián Elcano (also misspelled del Cano) (sometimes misspelled del Cano (1486/1487 1526) was a Castilian navigator of Basque origin. He is best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the nao Victoria on the Spanish expedition to the Spice Islands. He received recognition for his achievement by the emperor Charles V with the coat of arms reading 'primus circumdedisti me' (You first encircled me).
RF2F9F2FK–The caption for this 1895 image reads: A man all eyes and stern resolve. It illustrated The Grey Lady by Henry Seton Merriman. Hugh Stowell Scott (1862-1903) was an English novelist (under the pseudonym of Henry Seton Merriman). He was an underwriter in Lloyd's, but having a strong literary bent, latterly devoted himself to writing novels, many of which had great popularity. He worked with great care, and his best books hold a high place in modern fiction.
RF2GBMNYT–The 1912 caption reads: “Canal that Nero Dreamed of - This is one of the wonderful canals which helped to shorten the journey around the world. It is the Corinth Canal, cut through the Isthmus of Corinth, and it enables ships to go to Athens and then on through the blue Aegean Sea to Constantinople without having to sail round the rocky coast of Morea, in the south of Greece. When the Roman emperor Nero was young and energetic, he caused this canal to be be begun, but the work was put off and never resumed until our own time. It is 3.2 miles long, and was cut through limestone rock in one part
RF2BWC7Y1–This photo that dates to the time of World War I shows a wireless telegraph station on a U.S. battleship.
RF2FJNYPB–The caption for this 1884 illustration reads; Vessels of War - paintings in Temple of Isis at Pompeii. The image is based on Nicolini’s drawing. The Temple of Isis, or Iseum, served the Isis cult and was not a public civil space. Isis herself must have held special meaning and value for the city of Pompeii.
RF2FJNYPY–The caption for this 1884 illustration reads; Vessel of War - painting in Temple of Isis at Pompeii. The image is based on Nicolini’s drawing. The Temple of Isis, or Iseum, served the Isis cult and was not a public civil space. Isis herself must have held special meaning and value for the city of Pompeii.
RF2HBB5E7–This 1890 illustration shows the 'exploit of Major Stobo.' Major Stobo was a Scotch-Virginia soldier in the French and Indian War (1754-1759). He was known for his exploit as a colonial prisoner of war in Canada during the war. Convicted as a spy, Stobo was sentenced to death, although his sentence was commuted to closed confinement. With the help of friends, he escaped twice. Both times, he was recaptured. However, the third time he tried, he got away safely. In disguise, he and eight other people set out in a canoe. It took them ten days to paddled two hundred miles down the St. Lawrence R
RF2B7H6XT–This late 1800s illustration shows the HMS Royal George. The caption notes that it had 100 guns, weighted 2047 tons and foundered in 1782, sinking while undergoing routine maintenance with more than 800 lives lost. HMS Royal George was launched in 1756, the largest warship in the world. Served in the Seven Years War.
RF2B29C2N–Shown here in this early 1900s illustration are Roman merchant ships. Note that by the upper left sail on the left are figures of the twins Romulus and Remus suckling the wolf.
RF2B29C6N–The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 230 feet long and 20 inches tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England between William, Duke of Normandy and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England. At the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William defeated Harold. It tells the story from the point of view of the conquering Normans, but is now agreed to have been made in England. Worked on coarse linen, it measures 230 feet by 20 inches. Its date is disputed. It is housed in the Bayeux Museum in Bayeux, France. Shown here in this
RF2GMGF2H–This 1910 illustration shows Roman ships from a wall painting uncovered in Pompeii.
RFTT1BJB–The photo dates to before 1922. The caption reads: A general view of the cause of the Spanish-American War, the cofferdam built to permit a thorough examination, which proved the theory that the disaster was caused by a sunken mine or torpedo. After this inspection, the wreck was cut up, floated out, and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico.
RFJAK013–This painting, titled The Shipwrecked Mariner, was done by the Dutch artist Josef Israels (1824-1911). Israels is credited as the greatest painter of the modern Dutch school and described by many as the 'Dutch Millet.' He studied in Paris with Paul Delaroche. In his masterly canvases, in which subject and atmosphere are in perfect harmony, he reveals himself as a powerful painter and a tender poet. The painting shows his charming characteristic of being a poet-painter.
RMEC2625–Ostia Antica, located at the mouth of the Tiber River, was the port city of ancient Rome. Uncovered there are mosaics that acted as 'storefront signs' for commercial businesses—mostly shipping, grain merchants—from around the Mediterranean. Here we see two ships with the symbol of a grain measure in between, signifying that the shop here was related to the sale of grain. Today, this area is called the Square of the Corporations. The photo dates to 1970 and the grass clippings were used to cover the mosaic from time to time to protect it from the sun.
RFB0PDTP–Jacob Locher at Work Desk
RF2RH3NT2–Olaf Tryggvason (960s –1000 AD) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000. He was the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, king of Viken (Vingulmark, and Ranrike), and, according to later sagas, the great-grandson of Harald Fairhair, first King of Norway. He is numbered as Olaf I.
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