Ocean Monarch 1848 byWalters
The Ocean Monarch was one of nine large packet ships built by the famous shipbuilder Donald McKay in Boston for Enoch Train’s White Diamond Line of Boston-Liverpool vessels. The Monarch measured 179 feet in len... More
The Paddle Steamer 'Ariel' RMG BHC3204
The Paddle Steamer 'Ariel' A scene showing shipping on the Wirral, now known as New Brighton, Liverpool. In the background is the Perch Rock Fort and Lighthouse. Other shipping is also depicted, including anot... More
The barque J P Smith RMG BHC3432
The barque J P Smith J. P. Smith (ship, fl.1838) formerly the Manoah. The J. P. Smith, a barque of 776 tons, measuring I 56 x 34 x 20ft., was built as the Manoah.[1] A ship’s portrait of the barque ‘J.P.Smith’... More
The Paddle Steamer 'Ariel' RMG BHC3204
The Paddle Steamer 'Ariel' A scene showing shipping on the Wirral, now known as New Brighton, Liverpool. In the background is the Perch Rock Fort and Lighthouse. Other shipping is also depicted, including anot... More
'The Ship Frankfield off Table Bay', oil on canvas painting by Samuel ...
The Ship Frankfield off Table Bay Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Blucher (brig) - A painting of a tall ship in the ocean
"The merchant brig Blucher outward bound". Oil-on-canvas painting. Though the identity of the vessel has not been confirmed, it may have been the 224-ton brig Blucher built in "Hr'gtn" (England?) in 1814 and l... More
Ocean Monarch - A painting of two ships in a body of water
Burning of Ocean Monarch off the Great Orme, 24 August 1848
Samuel Walters - American Packet VICTORIA off Holyhead
The 601 gross ton VICTORIA was a full-rigged ship built in New York in 1834. She was owned by Captain and Company and for most of her career sailed from the port of Charleston, South Carolina on the Liverpool R... More
Samuel Walters - Confederate Raider ALABAMA
On July 29, 1862, Hull “No. 290” steamed out of the Mersey from the Laird’s Birkenhead Yard and into Civil War history. Soon taking her given name, ALABAMA, the Commerce Raider set out on a tour with devastatin... More
Samuel Walters - merchantman Duke of Lancaster
The merchantman „Duke of Lancaster“ flying her recognition flags as she arrives in Table Bay, Cape Town, with another merchantman „Royal Saxon“ outward-bound off her starboard bow
Samuel Walters - The three-masted merchantman „Thames“ under tow off G...
The Thames of 454 tons was built in London in 1829 for the West India trade. Originally owned by Hibberts of London, she later passed into the ownership of Thompson of London and was in service for over thirty years.
John Stuart (1851 clipper)
Oil-on-canvas painting by Samuel Walters entitled "The New York clipper John Stuart hove-to off the Great Orme, North Wales, with a pilot punt approaching." John Stuart was built in New York in 1851.
Jamestown (1847 ship)
Oil-on-canvas painting of the merchant sailing ship Jamestown. The original title of the painting is "American packet ship 'Jamestown,' off Egremont". Sometimes described as a pre-clipper, Jamestown was built ... More
Daniel Webster (ship)
The ship Daniel Webster, built by Donald McKay in 1850. This is a cropped version of the original painting, which is entitled The Boston packet ship "Daniel Webster" rescuing the passengers from the wreck of t... More
The North Atlantic Packet Ship Ocean Monarch, Sinking off the Coast of...
Burning of Ocean Monarch off the Great Orme, 24 August 1848. Exhibit in the Peabody Essex Museum - Salem, Massachusetts, USA.