SEARCH OLD MERCHANT SHIPS NAVAL VESSELS HISTORIC MARITME PICTURES

This site contains pictures jpg images black and white postcards photographs of old ships. Besides the old ship pictures there are pictures of ports docks harbours canals rivers maritime scenes onboard pictures and other old historical nautical memorabilia and collectable postcards. There are pictures of merchant and naval steamships SS motorships MS motor tankers MT motor vessels MV and many other types of ships.

I am just a shipping enthusiast and do not commercially deal in ship pictures or postcards. Please do not ask me about details of ships. If a ship is not in the gallery then I haven’t got a picture of it. While I take every effort to reduce mistakes, there are probably still a few spelling mistakes in the ship names and occasionally the images may get labeled incorrectly. Please inform me if you see any mistakes.

Please send me any pictures of Old Ships, Ports or Maritime bits and pieces you have, so I can include them in the galleries.

You need to enter the exact spelling as it appears on the site. However you can enter whole words that form parts of name for example, entering ‘Star’ will direct you to areas of the site with ‘Star’ as part of the name. You can also search for naval ship pennant numbers and fishing boat registration numbers. There may be more than one picture of a ship in which case I suggest you use the yellow navigation arrows above the picture. Because I am always updating the site, sometimes the search results will not reflect exactly what is on the site due to Google having not updated all the latest pages and sometimes the results may temporarily return ‘page not available’ if I have recently changed the page numbers. You may find it easier if you set your browser preferences to open results in a new window.