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-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Adult: £22 | Child: £11
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-5pm
Last entry 4pm
Adult: £24 | Child: £12
Members go free
What's on
Back
What's on
Exhibitions
For families
Member events
Talks and tours
National Maritime Museum
Talks and tours
In conversation with Luke Jerram
Join internationally acclaimed artist Luke Jerram for an evening exploring the stories behind his sculptures
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!
Queen's House
Events and festivals
TIDES: (Intertidal) – Migration Festival
A day of workshops and performances exploring how migration shapes our world
Stories
Back
Stories
Maritime history
Space and astronomy
Art and culture
The ocean
Time
Royal history
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2026 winners
Take a look at the winning images in the world's biggest space photography competition
What is the Merchant Navy?
Discover the role and history of the commercial shipping fleet – and its connections with Royal Museums Greenwich
Dog that dived to the bottom of the ocean surfaces at the National Maritime Museum
A toy that journeyed to the very bottom of the ocean has been donated to the National Maritime Museum.
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
Type
Select…
Type
Type
Colour transparency
Materials
Select…
Materials
Materials
plastic (mount)
plastic (safety film)
plastic (safety glass)
Polyester negative
polyester negative
Display Location
Select…
Display Location
Display Location
Not on display
Creator
Select…
Creator
Creator
Bird, Henry P.
Places
Select…
Places
Places
City of Southampton, England, United Kingdom
East Meon
Gillingham
Hampshire
Harwich
Jamaica
Kingston
Maldon
Maldon, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Mistley
Mistley, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Montego Bay
Port Antonio
Port Klang
River Medway
River Meon
River Orwell
River Orwell, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Rochester
Rochester, Medway, England, United Kingdom
Royal Albert Dock
Royal Docks
Royal Victoria Dock
Sembawang
Sheerness Dockyard
Shotley
Shotley, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Southampton
Thames Estuary
The Solent
The Solent, England, United Kingdom
Vessels
Select…
Vessels
Vessels
Acadia Forest (1969)
Ardwina (1909)
Arno (1973)
Burmah Endeavour (1977)
Bustler (1981)
Centaur (1895)
Chusan (1950)
Dawn (1896)
Edme (1898)
Felix (1893)
George Smeed (1882)
Glenorchy (1941)
Hope (1943)
Jamaica Planter (1959)
Jeremiah O'Brien (1943)
Kenya Jacaranda (1923)
London Explorer (1959)
Montreal (1902)
Norsea (1979)
Oak (1881)
Orchid Ace (1983)
Pudge (1922)
Red falcon (1994)
Reminder (1929)
Repertor (1924)
Sand Weaver (1975)
St. Nicholas (1982)
Starward (1968)
Trilby (1896)
Vigilant (1904)
Wheelsman (1967)
Wyvenhoe (1898)
People
Select…
People
People
Wells, Bob
Century
Select…
Century
Century
20th
21st
Date Range
Select…
Date Range
Date From
Select...
1960
1967
1971
1972
1979
1980
1981
1984
1989
1990
Date To
Select...
1700
1971
1972
1973
1977
1984
1989
1990
1991
1999
2000
Show only:
With images
Applied Filters
plastic (mount)
Clear all
showing 112 objects results
Sort by
Relevance
Object title/name
Object title/name (desc)
Finding reference
Finding reference (desc)
A portrait of a young female Jamaican passenger named Shirley on board the refrigerated fruit carrier Jamaica Planter (1959) (Colour transparency)
A group of Jamaican women and a Jamaican man taking a break from loading boxes onto the refrigerated fruit carrier Jamaica Planter (1959) at Kingston harbour. (Colour transparency)
A view of the harbour of Port Antonio, Jamaica with the cruise ship Starward (1968) sailing between Titchfield Peninsula and Navy Island taken from the refrigerated fruit carrier Jamaica Planter (1959) (Colour transparency)
A quarter view of the stern of the refrigerated fruit carrier Jamaica Planter (1959) at moorings in Kingston harbour (Colour transparency)
A group view of five Thames spritsail barges (Colour transparency)
A port quarter view of the Raptor class ro-ro passenger ferry Red Falcon (1994) underway in the Solent (Colour transparency)
A port beam view of the spritsail barge Repertor (1924) underway (Colour transparency)
A starboard side near beam view of the spritsail barge Vigilant (1904) taken from the spritsail barge Reminder (1929) (Colour transparency)
A view looking forward of the spritisail barge Reminder (1929) under sail (Colour transparency)
A group of swans taken from the spritsail barge Reminder (1929) at Mistley, Essex (Colour transparency)
A view of Shotley Spit taken from the spritsail barge Reminder (1929) (Colour transparency)
A port side near beam view of the spritsail barge Montreal (1902) underway (Colour transparency)
Starboard near beam views of the spritsail barge Wyvenhoe (1898) and the swim headed Montreal (1902) under sail (Colour transparency)
A view of five spritsail barges berthed at the quayside in Maldon, Essex (Colour transparency)
A port bow view of a Ton class minesweeper and various small craft underway off Shotley, Essex (Colour transparency)
A starboard near beam view of the EC2-S-C1 dry cargo liberty ship Jeremiah O' Brien (1943) underway in the Solent for the D-Day June 1944 Commemoration (Colour transparency)
A starboard near beam view of a unidentified sailing vessel at mooring taken from the spritsail barge on the River Orwell (Colour transparency)
A starboard quarter view of the vehicle carrier Orchid Ace (1983) underway (Colour transparency)
A view of the River Orwell taken at sunset (Colour transparency)
A starboard just off bow view of the tanker Burmah Endeavour (1977) at Berth 47 in Southampton Harbour (Colour transparency)
A group portrait of Bob Wells, the captain of the spritsail barge Reminder (1929) one male and three female passengers at Mistley, Essex (Colour transparency)
A port near stern view of the spritsail barge Centaur (1895) underway (Colour transparency)
A view of the quayside and waterfront of Maldon, Essex (Colour transparency)
A view of the Jolly Sailor pub in Maldon, Essex (Colour transparency)
First
Prev
Current page
1
Page
2
Page
3
Page
4
Page
5
Next
Last
Loading filters
Royal Museums Greenwich
Close
Search
Want to search our collection? Search here.
Back to top