Pictures of Ships


ISTG passenger Lists
This site is for the dedication of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. The goal is to find pictures of all the ships that they have transcribed.





List of Pictures Below


This is a picture site that may help people to get a look at what ship their ancestors came on! These pictures are for non-profit use hopefully others can contribute some more ships. This is a list of ships pictures I have on here and if you would like to contribute you can E-mail me:momsmf@yahoo.com Or for any mistakes from pictures on this site that are not my own and I do not claim them to be. I will do my best to give every source credit for their work and if I bypassed someone or something I will correct it. I would like to thank members of ISTG for their help and the help from other sites.
momsmf@yahoo.comPlease help find more so we can make this complete! E mail me:

, by Sharon (c)9/15/99
To see pictures of ships A to M!
To see pictures of ships N to Z !
This is a list of ships pictures I have on here and if you would like to contribute you can E-mail me. Or for any mistakes or ways to make this site better!

SS ADORIA		SS CIMBRIA		SS INDIA
SS ADRIATIC		SS CIRCASSIA		SS STATE OF INDIANA	
SS ALASKA		CITY OF NEW YORK	STEAMER IOWA  	
SHIP ALBION		SHIP CLARA		SS ITALY	
SHIP ALEXANDER		COLUMBIA		SS IVERNIA	
SHIP ALEXANDRA		CONSTITUTION		US JAMESTOWN	
SHIP ALEXANDRIA      	SS DENMARK		JENNY	
SCHOONER ALFRED		SS EAGLE		SLOOP LADY WASHINGTON
SCHOONER ALMA		BRIG ELIZA		LAPLAND
STEAMER AMERICA		SS ERIN			BRIG LEOINDA	
BARK ARABIA		ESTONIA			SCHOONER LEVITHAN	
SS ASIA			SS ETRURIA		PACKET LIVERPOOL 	
SS ATALANTA		SHIP EUROPA		SS LURLINE	
SS AUSTRALIA		SS FINLAND		LUSITANIA	
SS BALTIC		GALLIOT FLORA		SHIP MAJESTIC	
BOSTON			SS FRANCE		SHIP MANHATTAN  	
SS BREMEN		SHIP FRANKLIN		BRIG MARGARET 	
			SS FURNESSIA		MARIANNE	
SS BRITANNIC 		SS GERMANIC		MARIE	
SS CALIFORNIA		SS HALIFAX		MAURENTIA	
SS CAMINA		SHIP HAMILTON		SHIP MAYFLOWER	
SS CARONDOLET		HAVRE			SHIP MERCURY	
SS CARPATHIA		ILEFRANCE		BRIG MINERVA	  
RMS CELTIC		SS IMPERATOR		SHIP MINNESOTA	


MISSISSIPPI		SS SAN FRANCISCO
MOLLY			SHIP SAPPHIRE
SS MORRO CASTLE  	STEAMER SAXONIA
SHIP MOUNT VERNON	SCHOONER SISTERS
SCHOONER NANCY		SS SOUTH CAROLINA
SS NEWPORT 		SS SWITZERLAND
SS NORMANDY		TELEGRAPH
NORRIS			TEUTONIA
NORTH AMERICA		THINGAVILLE
SS OCEANIC		RMS TITANTIC
SS ODER	
SS OHIO			SS ULYSSES
OLINDA			SS UNITED STATES
SS OLYMPIA		SS VADERLAND
SS OLYMPIC		VANCOUVER
ORANJE  		VICTORIA
SS PENNSYLVANIA		SCHOONER VICTORY
SS PHILADELPHIA		SCHOONER VINE
SCHOONER PLANTER
POLARIS			SS VIRGINIA
SS POMMMERANIA 		SS WASHINGTON
SS PRINCESS IRENE	SS WIELAND	
SCHOONER RAMBLER	WILLIAM
SS REPUBLIC		SHIP WILMINGTON
SS ROTTERDAM		SS WISCONSIN  
SHIP SAMUEL		SS WYOMING	
			SS ZEELAND
Types of Ships.
Schooner:       Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. 
                       About 1840, longer vesels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vesels
                       with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. The first schooner ever constructed is said to have 
                       been built in Gloucester, Massachusetts, about the year 1713, by a Captain Andrew Robinson, and to have
                       received its name from the following trivial circumstance: When the vessel went off the stocks into the water, 
                        a bystander cried out,O, how she scoons!" Robinson replied, A scooner let her be;" 
                       and, from that time, vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by this name. 
    
Sloop:            A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. 
                     The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. 
                   The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. 

Bark:              A small vessel with one mast and a fore and aft rig. The mainsail is attached to a gaff at the head and a boom at the foot and
                           above it a gaff topsail can be set. Before the mast are one or more jibs.

Ship:                      large craft in which persons and goods can be conveyed on water. 
                       A  larger vessel usually thought of as being used for ocean travel. A vessel able to carry
                        a "boat" on board.

SteamShip(SS):           A  watercraft propelled by a STEAM ENGINE or a steam TURBINE.
                              A number of experimental steam-powered vessels were built in the late 18th cent., and in 1807 
                      Robert FULTON's Clermon made the 150-mi (240-km) trip from New York City to Albany in 32 hr. 

Barque:         A vessel with three or more masts with square sails on the fore mast and fore and aft sails on the after
                      mast. Generally in the range of 250 - 700 ton capacity.

Brig:            1. A two masted vessel square rigged on both masts.Generally in the 150 - 200 ton range. 2. A sailing
                  vessel's jail.

HMS:            A prefix used before a vessel's name to denote that it is owned by the crown, or in His/Her Majesty's
                   Service.

RMS:          A prefix used for Royal Merchant Ships.

GALLIOTT:      Served largely for transporting merchandise along the coast. They had fore-and-aft sails and the broad hull 
                   very typical of freighters, providing ample hold space and ease of navigation.