Ocean Liners and Passenger Liners of
the Cunard, White Star and P&O lines by leading marine artists Ivan
Berryman, Robert Barbour, Gordon Bauwens and Adrian Rigby.Maritime art prints of Ocean Liners by
leading naval artists. Ocean liners include RMS Queen Mary 2, RMS Canberra, QE2, Queen
Elizabeth, Queen Mary, RMS Titanic and Lusitania. Maritime prints of ocean
liners available from Cranston Fine Arts.
On 13 January 2008, a unique event in maritime history took place when Cunard's three magnificent <i>Queens</i> met in New York Harbor for the first and last time. The legendary <i>Queen Elizabeth 2</i> led the regal procession under the Verraz......
DHM1306. Queen Mary at Southampton by Ivan Berryman. ......
2 print editions available from £50.00 1 canvas print edition available from £300.00 Original available : £1400.00 1 ex-display print available from £60.00
The P&O Cruise Liner SS Uganda is shown anchored off the Greek Island of Santorini. Although part of the P&O fleet, SS Uganda kept the livery of the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd (B.I.) which was taken over by P&O in 1971.......
4 print editions available from £75.00 1 canvas print edition available from £370.00 Original Sold.
Friday 28th May 1982, the P&O liner Canberra survives repeated attacks by Argentinian Skyhawk and Mirage fighter bombers in San Carlos water during Operation Corporate. ......
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The American Clipper Flying Cloud arrives at Hong Kong in May 1860, 97 days out of London. En-route to Foochow, she will load tea for the return voyage. Of all the famous American Clippers Flying Cloud had by far the best record. ......
Cunard's most recent liner to bear the name, <i>Caronia (lll)</i>, was for many people one of the finest cruise ships afloat. Coupled with her popularity with passengers and crew as an extremely well-appointed vessel, <i>Caronia</i> was admired......
December 1909 saw Cunards directors authorise a new liner to operate in union with Mauretania and Lusitania, offering a three-ship weekly transatlantic express service - a long held Company dream. Among the details, they specified that the new vessel......
When completed in 1905, TSS <i>Caronia</i>, at nearly 20,000 gross tons, was the largest Cunarder to date. She was an important liner for Cunard in that she and her sister ship, <i>Carmania</i>, were built by John Brown on the Clyde to directly com......
The elegant but ill-fated jewel in the White Star crown Titanic was a technical marvel of engineering in its day. At 882 ft long, her perfect proportions and magnificent profile were the envy of other shipping companies. Her tragic loss on her maiden......
2 print editions available from £65.00 1 canvas print edition available from £370.00 1 ex-display print available from £50.00
Constructing Yard Number 534 at the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank was truly one of the outstanding achievements in the history of shipbuilding. Unprecedented media interest followed progress on the vast hull taking shape on the banks of the Rive......
Featuring Queen Elizabeth 2 on her first homecoming to the river where she began her illustrious career, this painting captures the supreme elegance of the liner in the beautiful Firth of Clyde. As a backdrop, Hunters Quay and Dunoon nestle beneath t......
At about 9.30 am on Sunday February 28th 1915 while the collier Thordis, commanded by Captain John William Bell, was steaming down the Channel, the periscope of a submarine was sighted to starboard. Captain Bell at once came on deck, stopped his shi......
A ship of superlatives!. The worlds widest, longest, tallest, heaviest and most expensive ship ever built. At 150,000 tons she is three times heavier than the Titanic. As long as 41 double decker buses, her power plant room could light the whole o......
The elegant but ill-fated jewel in the White Star crown Titanic was a technical marvel of engineering in its day. At 882 ft long, her perfect proportions and magnificent profile were the envy of other shipping companies. Her tragic loss on her maiden......
Passengers aboard the Isle of Wight ferry gaze in wonder as RMS Titanic steams majestically down the Solent at the outset of her maiden voyage, April 15, 1912.......
The handsome steamship, Sir Walter Scott, which sails Loch Katrine in the Trossachs, is named after the author who highlighted the area in his poem of 1810, The Lady of the Lake. Since then, this tranquil wooded loch mirroring the majestic mountain B......
The elegant but ill-fated jewel in the White Star crown Titanic was a technical marvel of engineering in its day. At 882 ft long, her perfect proportions and magnificent profile were the envy of other shipping companies. Her tragic loss on her maiden......
Cutty Sark and Thermopylae racing each other home in 1872. Cutty Sark is nearest with her sails backlit against the low sun and her great rival Thermopylae in the distance. ......
4 print editions available from £48.00 2 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original available : £1900.00
The four-masted barque Glenogil passes Liverpool pierhead as she is towed up the Mersey. Paddle steamers in the foreground are seen embarking passengers for the river crossing in this busy harbour scene. ......
Cunard liner Aquitania arrives at New York in her heyday in the 1920s, with the Empire State Building and the cityscape of New York in the background. Aquitania survived military service in both world wars, and was the longest serving passenger line......
4 print editions available from £48.00 1 canvas print edition available from £400.00
Cunard Liner QE II (Queen Elizabeth II) in the late 1980s. The longest serving passenger liner in history, this iconic ship completed her final voyage in November 2008, becoming a permanently moored hotel in Dubai. ......
4 print editions available from £48.00 1 canvas print edition available from £400.00
Throughout her later years on the North Atlantic, Cunard's <i>Queen Elizabeth 2</i> cut a lonely swathe across the waters she was designed to traverse. Thanks to her foresighted dual-purpose design, clever marketing and iconic appeal as the ......
Second in the trio of superliners planned to eclipse their competition on the lucrative north Atlantic route, Titanic was launched from Harland & Wolffs Belfast shipyard on 31st My 1911. Timed to coincide with her sister ship Olympics departure, Whit......
At noon on Wednesday, 10th April 1912, the White Star liner R.M.S. Titanic cast her lines from the White Star dock, Southampton and began what was to become the most famous maiden voyage in history. With Captain Edward J. Smith on the bridge and to......
Celebrating her first five years in service, Cunard's stately flagship, <i>Queen Mary 2</i>, embarked on her maiden round-Britain cruise in October 2009. During this special voyage, <i>QM2</i> entered Clyde waters for the first time on October ......
Cunard liner RMS Lusitania leaves New York outward bound for Liverpool just before the First World War. Sadly on 7th May 1915 she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 and sank within 20 minutes with the loss of 1,198 lives. ......
2 print editions available from £41.00 Original available : £800.00
Twelve chapters of highly readable text in this first complete history of P&Os most famous passenger ship tell the story of Canberra from the laying of the first keel plates in 1957, to her withdrawal from service and her final voyage and arrival at......
The P & O cruise liner Canberra lies in San Carlos Water, Falkland Islands, in May 1982, looking very weather-beaten after her punishing journey south during the conflict with Argentina, whilst HMS Argonaut keeps a watching vigil by her side. Both ......
4 print editions available from £48.00 2 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original available : £2900.00
DHM1693. RMS Titanic at Cherbourg by Ivan Berryman. ......
3 print editions available from £55.00 3 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original available : £2400.00 1 ex-display print available from £40.00
The elegant but ill-fated jewel in the White Star crown Titanic was a technical marvel of engineering in its day. At 882 ft long, her perfect proportions and magnificent profile were the envy of other shipping companies. Her tragic loss on her maiden......
Few waterfronts in the world are as instantly recognisable and admired as New York. Cunard first used the port in 1847 and its vast liners became almost as much a part of the Citys image as its famous skyline thereafter. Transatlantic legends bearing......
The Royal Yacht Britannia is show in the Thames at her traditional mooring off Castle Point against the dramatic backdrop of Tower Bridge and the Tower of London. ......
The windjammer Loch Etive departs Glasgow on October 15, 1892, bound for Sydney, Australia. After a round-trip lasting six and a half months, she will return to London with a cargo of wool. Looking across the Firth towards Glasgow the waters are bus......
The Cutty Sark sailed the worlds great trading routes under the Red Ensign between 1870 and 1895, when she was sold to a Portuguese company. In 1922 she was bought by a Captain Dowman and rigged as a sail training ship. She is now preserved in dry-d......
The order to build a Royal Yacht as replacement for the obsolete Victoria and Albert was placed in February 1952 with John Brown & Co Ltd. The Clydebank yard won this contract largely because of its experience in building the prestigious Cunard Queen......
Tea carried down the Min River from the plantations on Chinese junks, is loaded aboard the American clipper Spitfire in Pagoda Anchorage, Foochow, October 1857. In this busy port scene a steam tug approaches, indicating the Clipper is almost ready to......
At Waverleys launch on a misty October morning in 1946, few could have conceived that she was destined to proudly bear the title of the worlds last sea-going paddle steamer. Even in 1974, when sold to the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society for the n......
The elegant lines of the famous Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth II contrast against the ragged rocks of the Needles soon after departing Southampton in the late 1980s. ......
4 print editions available from £45.00 1 canvas print edition available from £370.00
Having been towed up the Avon Gorge to Bristol, one of the great ports in British history, the Strathearn is seen arriving at Hoywells. The Strathearn was an iron clipper ship, built in 1871 by Barclay, Curle & Co. These big ships found employment ......
The elegant but ill-fated jewel in the White Star crown Titanic was a technical marvel of engineering in its day. At 882 ft long, her perfect proportions and magnificent profile were the envy of other shipping companies. Her tragic loss on her maiden......
The venerable old paddle steamer <i>Ryde</i> has just backed away from Ryde pier, Isle of Wight, and is about to begin her journey across the Solent to Portsmouth in the summer of 1968. Just one year later the <i>Ryde</i> was withdrawn from service......
1 print edition available from £65.00 1 canvas print edition available from £220.00
In 1946 the daunting task of restoring Queen Elizabeth from grey troop carrier into the stateliest of liners was shared between the Clyde and Southampton. Cunard allowed John Brown & Co, the Elizabeths builders, just 10 weeks to transform the vessels......
The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain preparing for transatlantic departure from Greenock, 1960. Empress of Britain was built in 1956 for Canadian Pacific by Fairfields shipyard, Glasgow. Slightly larger than Sylvania, she too, with her sist......
Cunard added four new liners to their passenger fleet during the 1950s. All were built by John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank, for the St Lawrence route to Quebec City and Montreal, Canada. Fourth in this quartet of sisterships, which included Saxonia, Iv......
The elegant but ill-fated jewel in the White Star crown Titanic was a technical marvel of engineering in its day. At 882 ft long, her perfect proportions and magnificent profile were the envy of other shipping companies. her tragic loss on her maide......
2 print editions available from £90.00 2 canvas print editions available from £480.00 Original available : £2750.00
