Items matching ships

The Tower of London

A woodcut showing a diagram of the Tower of London and its surringings. There are boats and conttages, battlements and towers, with the keep in the middle of it all. The letters annotating various pa [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, battlements, towers, boats, ships, moats

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2009-02-11

+ S K L R N

Seamen in great distress eat one another

These sailors have only a tattered sail on their mast, and are in a small lifeboat in a raging storm, with a sea inhabited by a strange giant fish. A sailor near the stern of the boat is about to be [...]

Keywords: boats, people, storms, ships, fish, waves, food

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-04

+ S K L R N

The Tower of London

“London [...] was secured [for William] by the erection of a fortress which afterward grew into the Tower, but William desired to reign not as a conqueror but as a lawful king. At Christmas [A.D. 1066 [...]

Keywords: water, boats, ships, castles, towers, sails

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-03-27

+ S K L R N

Map of New France

Map of “New France” (Canada). From the engraving by Benjamin Wright (circa 1608). “No maps [...] were better engraved or more individual in decorative embellishment than those of Benjamin Wright, whos [...]

Keywords: maps, ships, whales

Places shown: Canada

Added: 2006-01-20

+ S K L R N

Nelson at Trafalgar.

The picture shows Lord Horatio Nelson (1758 – 1805) at the Battle of Trafalgar, where he died. “The last battle in which Nelson was engaged was fought off Cape Trafalgar, October 21, 1805. The enemy w [...]

Keywords: ships, battles, people, portraits

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-30

+ S K L R N

The Missing Screw Steamer City of Boston

“THE CITY OF BOSTON. The fate of the Inman steamer City of Boston, which left the port of Halifax for Liverpool on Jan 28 [1870], has during the last two or three weeks been a subject of the most anxi [...]

Keywords: ships, waves

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-20

+ S K L R N

Ornament: steam ship

This woodcut of a steam-ship appeared at the end of a chapter, as decoration.

Keywords: ornaments, ships, boats, water

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-08

+ S K L R N

The shore was covered with men ready for battle

Men wearing tarrered rags or perhaps animal skins, and carrying spears and shields, watch from atop white cliffs as Roman galleys near the shore. The time depicted is about the first century C.E., or [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, bare feet, ships, water, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: England

Added: 2009-05-06

+ S K L R N

Fowey: Entrance to the harbour.

“FOWEY.—This has been described as a miniature Dartmouth, and is a small seaport with a picturesque harbour at the mouth of the Fowey. This little place is 280 miles from London. In the old days it sh [...]

Keywords: water, boats, ships, views, towns, townscapes

Places shown: Fowey; Cornwall; England

Added: 2007-03-27

+ S K L R N