Skip to main content
Membership
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Royal Museums Greenwich
Main navigation
Menu
Royal Museums Greenwich
Search
Close
Plan your visit
Back
Plan your visit
Tickets and prices
Getting here
Accessibility
Family visits
Group visits
School visits
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark
Open daily 10am-6pm
Last entry 5.15pm
Adult: £18 | Child: £9
Members go free
Free
National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Free
Queen's House
Queen's House
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Royal Observatory
Royal Observatory
Open daily 10am-7pm
Last entry 6pm
Adult: £18 | Child: £9
Members go free
What's on
Back
What's on
Exhibitions
For families
Member events
Talks and tours
National Maritime Museum
Events and festivals
Matariki
Celebrate the Pacific and Māori New Year and learn about the connections between the stars and Pacific cultures
National Maritime Museum
Family fun
Astronomers Take Over
This brand-new interactive gallery gives curious minds aged 4 to 104 the space to play, learn and explore!
Cutty Sark
Experiences
Cutty Sark Rig Climb
Experience life at sea and climb the rigging of one of London's true icons
Stories
Back
Stories
Maritime history
Space and astronomy
Art and culture
The ocean
Time
Royal history
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2026 shortlist
Discover a selection of the breathtaking images shortlisted in the global astrophotography competition
250 years of the Declaration of Independence
The National Maritime Museum has put on display one of the earliest British reports of American independence, sent by a naval commander blockading New York
Making Waves: Dr Dawn Wright
Oceanographer and chief scientist Dr Dawn Wright on diving to the deepest part of the ocean – and why we need to stand up for our blue planet
Collections
Back
Collections
Conservation
Research
Donating items to our collection
Collections Online
Search our online database and explore our objects, paintings, archives and library collections from home
The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
Come behind the scenes at our state-of-the-art conservation studio
Caird Library
Visit the world's largest maritime library and archive collection at the National Maritime Museum
Learn
Back
Learn
Learning resources
School visits and sessions
SEND sessions and resources
Opportunities for teachers
Adult learning
Practitioner residencies
Schools
From astronomy to maritime history, bring your subjects to life with our school sessions and resources
Communities
Explore our groups, programmes and events developed with local and connected communities
Young people
Gain skills and hands-on experience with a range of creative activities, projects and events
Support us
Back
Support us
Become a member
Donate
Corporate partnerships
Become a patron
Leave a legacy
Commemoration and celebration
Our sites
Cutty Sark
National Maritime Museum
Queen's House
Royal Observatory
Membership
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Beta
Back to all results
Explore our Collection
Objects
Library
Archive
Search our collection
filters…
Search
Item Category
Select…
Item Category
Item Category
Apply Filter
Type
Select…
Type
Type
35mm Colour transparency
35mm negative
Colour transparency
Apply Filter
Materials
Select…
Materials
Materials
35mm slide
Plastic and glass mount
Polyester negative
polyester negative
Apply Filter
Display Location
Select…
Display Location
Display Location
Not on display
Apply Filter
Author / Maker
Select…
Author / Maker
Author / Maker
Apply Filter
Places
Select…
Places
Places
Acapulco de Juarez
Adriatic Sea
Amalfi
Belfast
Brixham
Clydebank
Dubai
Dubrovnik
Falmouth
Fremantle
Gibraltar
Isola Stromboli
Italy
Japan
London
Messina
Middle East
Naples
Port Said
Purfleet
River Bure
River Thames
Rotterdam
Serbia and Montenegro
Southampton
Southampton Water
Split
Stockholm
Stromboli
Suva
Sydney
Tilbury
Apply Filter
Vessels
Select…
Vessels
Vessels
Admiralty Floating Dock No.5 (1912)
Africa Palm (1953)
Amra (1969)
Amstel (Fl. 1955)
Arcadia (1954)
Arcturus (1947)
Ardtaraig (1969)
Aristipos (1940)
Benhiant (1943)
Britannia (1929)
British Duchess (1958)
British Lantern (1960)
Canberra (1961)
Canberra Star (1956)
Cervia (1946)
Chusan (1950)
Contest (1933)
Corfu (1931)
Dimitris (1943)
Dunera (1937)
Eagle (1971)
Empire Fowey (1935)
Galway (1959)
Gazana (1972)
Gladstone (1951)
Hector (1903)
Himalaya (1949)
Iberia (1954)
Impala (1968)
Irfon (1971)
Kazimah (1959)
Lady Cecilie (1966)
Largo (1956)
Leo (1948)
Manapouri (1968)
Mataura (1968)
Mimie (1927)
Moreton Bay (1969)
Muria (1932)
Naples Pilot Launch (Fl. 1959)
Nigaristan (1970)
Nordmeer (1954)
Norscot (1953)
Ocean Monarch (1951)
Octavia (1956)
Orcades (1948)
Oriana (1960)
Oronsay (1951)
Otaki (1953)
Patonga (1953)
Patricia (1951)
Port Auckland (1949)
Port Townsville (1951)
Princess Mary (1922)
Queen of Bermuda (1933)
Rangitata (1929)
Ruahine (1951)
Salmara (1956)
Salsette (1956)
Shahristan (1965)
Socotra (1943)
Solen (1961)
Somali (1948)
St. Eval (1930)
St. Mawes (1951)
St. Merryn (1945)
Stirling Castle (1936)
Strathaird (1932)
Strathanna (1966)
Strathassynt (1963)
Strathconon (1967)
Stratheden (1937)
Strathmore (1935)
Strathnaver (1931)
Suecia (1929)
Tasmania Star (1950)
Taupo (1966)
Thuleland (1955)
Wasa (1627)
Wild Auk (1971)
Wild Mallard (1968)
Apply Filter
People
Select…
People
People
Captain Trowsdale
Apply Filter
Century
Select…
Century
Century
20th
Apply Filter
Date Range
Select…
Date Range
Date From
Select...
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1959
1960
1961
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1975
1976
1977
Date To
Select...
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
Apply Filter
Show only:
With images
Applied Filters
Plastic and glass mount
Clear all
showing 235 objects results
Sort by
Relevance
Object title/name
Object title/name (desc)
Finding reference
Finding reference (desc)
An engineer sitting at a bench top electric coil winding machine in a workshop of ship repairers Silley, Cox & Co. Ltd. at Falmouth. (Colour transparency)
A starboard broadside view of the BP Tanker Co. Ltd. tanker British Lantern (1960) in Falmouth harbour, Cornwall. (Colour transparency)
A close view of the bow and badge of an unidentified Shell Company tanker. (Colour transparency)
Shipping in the docks at Falmouth, Cornwall. (Colour transparency)
A general view of the outer harbour, looking towards the Eastern Breakwater, at Falmouth, Cornwall. (Colour transparency)
A Bakker 400 ton capacity machine inside an R & H Green & Silley Weir workshop, presumably in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
Two connectors for electric cables with armour protection, fitted to a ribbed iron structure. (Colour transparency)
A general scene inside an R & H Green & Silley Weir fitters workshop in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
Two men on a suspended wooden platform cleaning the flag logo on the funnel of a Federal Steam Navigation Company cargo liner in Falmouth Docks. (Colour transparency)
The R. & H. Green & Silley Weir Ltd tank cleaning jetty at Purfleet, Essex. (Colour transparency)
The interior of the R & H Green & Silley Weir heavy machine or fitters shop in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
The interior of an R & H Green & Silley Weir machine or fitters shop in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
The R. & H. Green & Silley Weir Ltd tank cleaning jetty at Purfleet, Essex. (Colour transparency)
A Victor oily water separator in a workshop of Silley, Cox & Co Ltd. in Falmouth docks, Cornwall. (Colour transparency)
Shipping in the docks at Falmouth, Cornwall. (Colour transparency)
A port side view, taken from ahead of the beam, of the passenger liner Queen of Bermuda (1933) undergoing refit at the Harland & Wolff shipyard, Belfast. (Colour transparency)
The Ben Line cargo liner Benhiant (1943) under tow in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
Shipping in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
A port side view, taken from ahead of the beam, of the Port Line cargo liner Port Townsville (1951) alongside Berth 21 or 23 in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
A slightly distant starboard bow view of the Orient Line passenger/cargo liner Orcades (1948) alongside Berth 30-31 in Tilbury Docks, Essex. (Colour transparency)
Passengers on the sun deck on the poop of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954) while under way in Italian waters. (Colour transparency)
A distant starboard quarter view of the motor cargo ship Africa Palm (1953) undergoing repair with other vessels in Eemhaven at Rotterdam. (Colour transparency)
Starboard broadside waterline pen and ink illustrations of the P & O cargo liners Amra (1969) and Shahristan (1965). (Colour transparency)
A starboard midships side view of the cargo liner Nigaristan (1970) loading a Rolba 5 Mk II tracked trenching machine in the South West India Dock, London (Colour transparency)
First
Prev
…
Page
2
Page
3
Current page
4
Page
5
Page
6
…
Next
Last
Loading filters
Royal Museums Greenwich
Close
Search
Want to search our collection? Search here.
Back to top