The Museum is guardian of the country's finest collection of historical maritime photographs, with images dating back to the beginnings of photography in the 1840s.
The Brixham trawler
'Provident'
(Britain, 1924),
William Pillar, 5 Berry
Head Road, Brixham
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| | Isambard Kingdom Brunel
at Millwall during the
building of the
'Great Eastern'
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| | Passenger liner
'Titanic' (Br,
1912) Oceanic Steam Nav
Co Ltd, (Ismay Imrie &
Co Ltd, managers)
(White Star Line):
under way at Queenstown
(now Cobh), Ireland
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| | The Raffles Hotel,
Singapore, about 1937
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Liverpool, England,
about 1930 Photo Mugs |
| | A view of trawlers in
the basin at Lowestoft
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| | Sailors moving Poon
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| | Passenger cargo liner
'Arandora Star'
(Br, 1927) Photo Mugs |
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Endurance' frozen
in and forced out of
the ice, during Ernest
Shackleton's
Imperial
Trans-Antarctic
Expedition of 1914-17
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| | The clipper ship
'Cutty Sark'
(1873) being towed from
the East India Dock to
Greenwich by the tug
'Gondia' (1927)
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| | Tanker 'Ohio'
(Br, 1940) under tow in
Grand Harbour, Malta,
with heavy damage
received during
Operation Pedestal
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| | 3-masted barque
'Penang' in dry
dock at Millwall 1932
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