Transatlantic Collection (#2)

Section of Turbine for VATERLAND, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Section of Turbine for VATERLAND, between c1910 and c1915.

IMPERATOR, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
IMPERATOR, between c1910 and c1915. Shows the S.S. Imperator being built, an ocean liner of the Hamburg America Line.

Athletes on FINLAND, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Athletes on FINLAND, 1912. Shows the Red Star Line ship Finland, which transported the US Olympic team to the 1912 Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.

Olympic Athletes, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Olympic Athletes, 1912. Shows American Olympic athletes aboard the Red Star Line ship Finland, which transported the US Olympic team to the 1912 Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.

FRANCE, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
FRANCE, between c1910 and c1915.

LUSITANIA, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
LUSITANIA, between c1910 and c1915.

Olympic, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Olympic, 1911. Shows the arrival of the White Star ocean liner Olympic in New York, June 21, 1911 after her maiden transatlantic voyage.

Capt. and crew of MACKAY-BENNETT, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Capt. and crew of MACKAY-BENNETT, between c1910 and c1915.

Life boat drill, Holland America Line - putting boats over the side, between c1910 and c1915.

Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Sir Robert Peel addressing bystanders...at Valencia, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Sir Robert Peel addressing the bystanders after the taking of the shore end of the cable to the Telegraph House at Valencia, 1865

Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: watching the Caroline going out to sea..., 1865. Creator: Unknown
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: watching the Caroline going out to sea with the shore end of the cable, 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Robert Dudley

Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: landing the shore end of the cable...Valencia, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: landing the shore end of the cable from the Caroline at Foilhommerum, Valencia, 1865

Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: receiving messages from the Great Eastern...Valencia, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: receiving messages from the Great Eastern in the instrument-room of the Telegraph House at Foilhommerum, Valencia, 1865

Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable:...workmen on the road between Killarney and Valencia, 1865 Creator: Unknown
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: encampment of workmen on the road between Killarney and Valencia, 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Robert Dudley

The midships saloon of the City of New York, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The midships saloon of the City of New York, 1864. 'The steam-ship City of New York, one of the ships belonging to the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steam-ship Company

The French Transatlantic Company's steam-packet Washington, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The French Transatlantic Company's steam-packet Washington, 1864. 'This large and beautiful paddle-wheel steamer, the first of a line of mail-packets

The City of New York steam-ship on Daunt's Rock, at the entrance of Queenstown Harbour, 1864. Creator: Smyth
The City of New York steam-ship on Daunt's Rock, at the entrance of Queenstown Harbour, [Ireland], 1864. 'The steam-ship City of New York, one of the ships belonging to the Liverpool

Captain Lott of the Persia, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Captain Lott of the Persia, 1864. 'The Portrait which we give of the well-known commander of the Cunard mail steamship Persia will be acceptable to all those who

Poster advertising The Royal Mail Line (colour litho)
PER253378 Poster advertising The Royal Mail Line (colour litho) by Sebille, Albert (1874-1953); Private Collection; (add.info.: paquebot; transatlantique; croisiere; Bresil, Uruguay, argentine)

The loading of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph
5308160 The loading of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph.; (add.info.: Print depicting the loading of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph)

The loading of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph
5308159 The loading of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph.; (add.info.: Print depicting the loading of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph)

The transportation of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph
5308157 The transportation of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph.; (add.info.: Print depicting the transportation of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph)

France, Haute-Normandie, Seine-Maritime (76), Le Havre: three-mats transatlantic liner at Le Havre, 1890
LUX4780505 France, Haute-Normandie, Seine-Maritime (76), Le Havre: three-mats transatlantic liner at Le Havre, 1890; (add.info.: France, Haute-Normandie, Seine-Maritime (76)

The French Transatlantic Steamship Company's Amerique, 1850
3330449 The French Transatlantic Steamship Company's Amerique, 1850; (add.info.: Portrait of the French Transatlantic Steamship Company's Amerique being towed into Plymouth after being)

RMS Majestic White Star ocean liner (litho)
3252813 RMS Majestic White Star ocean liner (litho); Private Collection; (add.info.: RMS Majestic White Star ocean liner. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship)

Boat trip around 1900, crossing Barcelona/Rio de Janeiro (photo)
PCT4256494 Boat trip around 1900, crossing Barcelona/Rio de Janeiro (photo); 4 x 4 cm; © Patrice Cartier. All rights reserved 2023

The transportation of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph
5308161 The transportation of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph.; (add.info.: Print depicting the transportation of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph)

Lord Kelvin receiving Transatlantic telegraph, apparatus in use
5311729 Lord Kelvin receiving Transatlantic telegraph, apparatus in use; (add.info.: Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) receiving Transatlantic telegraph, apparatus in use at Brest, France 1877

A Transatlantic Liner
5616520 A Transatlantic Liner; (add.info.: Illustration depicting a Transatlantic Liner, equipped to communicate via telegraph. Dated 19th Century. 01/01/1890); Universal History Archive/UIG

The S.S. Great Britain leaving Liverpool, England in 1853, from The Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts
5242665 The S.S. Great Britain leaving Liverpool, England in 1853, from The Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures by Charles Tomlinson (print) by English School

The transportation of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph
5308156 The transportation of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph.; (add.info.: Print depicting the transportation of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph)

Passengers enjoying the large lounge (restaurant) of a luxury liner of the Inman Line transatlantic shipping company
NWI4962439 Passengers enjoying the large lounge (restaurant) of a luxury liner of the Inman Line transatlantic shipping company, circa 1890

Luxury cruise leaving New York port, the ship goes off the Statue of Liberty. 19th century (chromolithograph)
ELD4846315 Luxury cruise leaving New York port, the ship goes off the Statue of Liberty. 19th century (chromolithograph); Private Collection; Photo © The Holbarn Archive

Edward VII watching the loading of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph
5308158 Edward VII watching the loading of the cables used in the Atlantic Telegraph.; (add.info.: Print depicting Edward VII (1841-1910)

The transatlantic La Gascogne. Poster for the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, France, c.1890-1900 (print)
3433722 The transatlantic La Gascogne. Poster for the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, France, c.1890-1900 (print); (add.info.: Le transatlantique La Gascogne. Coll. Part)

Drama of the wreck of the transatlantic liner La Russie, 1901
545242 Drama of the wreck of the transatlantic liner La Russie, 1901; (add.info.: Passengers being lowered into a lifeboat)

Science. Marine. The Compagnie Generale Transatlantique at the Exposition Universelle of Paris, World's Fair, 1889
3433729 Science. Marine. The Compagnie Generale Transatlantique at the Exposition Universelle of Paris, World's Fair, 1889. Poster, France, 1889. (poster); (add.info.: Sciences. Marine. Coll)

Maiden Voyage of the SS Normandie from Le Havre, 29 May, 1935 (colour lithograph)
488568 Maiden Voyage of the SS Normandie from Le Havre, 29 May, 1935 (colour lithograph) by Sebille, Albert (1874-1953); Private Collection; (add.info)

Bremen - New York, poster advertising the North German Lloyd Line, 1930 (colour litho)
SFP409451 Bremen - New York, poster advertising the North German Lloyd Line, 1930 (colour litho) by Hanke, Willy (1866-1953); Cauer Collection, Germany; (add.info.: Bremen)

The new screw steam-ship Cuba, of the Cunard Liverpool and New York Line, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The new screw steam-ship Cuba, of the Cunard Liverpool and New York Line, 1864. Engraving from a drawing by Mr. Hugh Aird

On LA LORRAINE, 8/5/14, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
On LA LORRAINE, 8/5/14, 1914. Shows group on the deck of the French ship La Lorraine, which left New York City in August 1914 for its last transatlantic crossing before World War I

Celebration of the Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable at New York - the Illumination... 1858. Creator: Unknown
Celebration of the Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable at New York - the Illumination of the City Hall, 1858. Firework display, with inscription: All Honour to Cyrus [?] Field'

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia: Catamaran for Under-running the Shore-end... 1858. Creator: Unknown
Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia: Catamaran for Under-running the Shore-end of the Cable, 1858. View of Valentia

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, from the North, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, from the North, 1858. View of Valentia, to which island considerable interest attaches in connection with the Atlantic Telegraph

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, the Landing-Place of the Atlantic Cable, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, the Landing-Place of the Atlantic Cable, 1858. View of Valentia, to which island considerable interest attaches in connection with the Atlantic

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, 1858. View of Valentia, to which island considerable interest attaches in connection with the Atlantic Telegraph

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - the "Agamemnon" in a Storm, 1858. Creator: Smyth
Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - the "Agamemnon" in a Storm, 1858. Ship struggling in...the great storm on the 20th of June...the Agamemnon rolled so heavily

The Atlantic Telegraph Paying-Out Machine, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Atlantic Telegraph Paying-Out Machine, 1858. In the Engraving, which is taken from a photograph by Maull and Polyblank, the paying-out machine is shown in perspective nearest to the observer

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"Journeying Across the Atlantic: A Glimpse into Transatlantic Travel" Step back in time and embark on a voyage across the vast Atlantic Ocean. From the luxurious RMS Caronia of Cunard Line to the magnificent S. S Etruria, this caption takes you on a visual tour history. Immerse yourself in the opulence of the RMS Windsor Castle, as it majestically docks at Capetown. Feel the rhythm and energy as a jazz orchestra entertains passengers by the pool on board the iconic Mauretania. Marvel at a cutaway view of the legendary Pan-American Clipper, Boeing 314, soaring through skies during its heyday in 1940. Admire G. H. Davis' artistic portrayal of ocean liner Normandie, capturing its grandeur and elegance. Experience White Star Line's RMS Megantic and indulge in luxury within First Class Lounge aboard RMS Mauretania. Dive into relaxation at Berengaria's inviting swimming pool while sailing across waves. Witness history unfold with RMS Olympic, transformed from cruise ship to serve during World War I. Celebrate alongside New York as Queen Mary triumphantly arrives after her maiden voyage. Finally, explore groundbreaking transatlantic communications with telephoning London to New York - bridging distances like never before. These captivating images encapsulate an era when crossing oceans was an adventure filled with glamour and excitement. Let your imagination sail away as you delve into these remarkable moments from transatlantic travel's golden age.