This series features maritime or nautical posters from between the 1880s to the 1950s, many published by the famous shipping lines of the day like Canadian Pacific, Cunard White Star, and the Orient line, many illustrated by well-known graphic artists of the day. Perhaps the most well-known is Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, whose posters from the 1930s have become collectable classics. If the name is not familiar, the posters will be.
This is part 3 of a 5 - part series on maritime posters:
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1930 Unsere Mittelmeerfahrten
poster by Albert Füss |
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1930 White Star Line Tours to U.S.A. & Canada
poster by Edwin Byatt |
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| 1930c Cunard to Boston |
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1930s Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line England to Australia
poster by A. E. Ager |
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1930s Blue Star Line to South America
poster by Norman Wilkinson |
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1930s Bremen-New York
poster by Willy Hanke |
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1930s "Golden Prospects"
Cunard Canadian Services |
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| 1930s Hamburg-Amerika Linie |
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| 1930s L. & N.W.R. to Ireland via Holyhead |
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| 1930s Nelson-Line to South America |
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1930s New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd, New Zealand Line
"R.M.S. Rangitata in Gaillard Cut - Panama Canal" |
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1930s Orient Line to Australia
poster by Ellis Silas |
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1930s Royal Mail Lines
poster by Percy Padden (1886-1965) |
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1930s United States Lines Washington Manhattan
poster by R. Dévignes |
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1931 L'Atlantique
poster by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre |
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| 1931 SS. "Côte d'Azur" poster by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre |
The “RMS Empress of Britain” was an ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931 by John Brown shipyard in Scotland and owned by Canadian Pacific Steamship Company.
In her time, she was the largest, fastest, and most luxurious ship between England and Canada. She was torpedoed on 28 October 1940 by a U-32 German U-Boat and sank. At 42,348 gross tons, she was the largest liner lost during the Second World War and the largest ship sunk by a U-boat:
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1930s Empress of Britain
poster by Clement Dane |
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1932 Canadian Pacific Empress of Britain
poster by Robert Schroder |
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1933 Canadian Pacific To Canada & U.S.A.
poster by Kenneth D. Shoesmith
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| 1932 Orient Line Cruises |
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1932 Victoria London Dunkerque. Southern Railway
poster by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre |
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| 1933 Canadian Pacific to the Orient via Honolulu |
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1933 Norway. Orient Line Cruises
brochure |
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| 1933 White Star Line. The "Big Ship" Route |
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| 1934 Blue Star Line Mediterranean Cruises |
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| 1935 Blue Star. Winter Cruise |
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1935 Hamburg-Amerika Linie
poster by Albert Fuss |
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1935 Normandie French Line
poster by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre |
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1935 Palestine Line
poster by Tadeusz Trepkowski |
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| 1935c Oesterr-LLoyd |
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1935c Swedish American Line
poster by Ake Rittmark |
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1936 Canadian Pacific Alaska
poster by Charles Greenwood |
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| 1936 Canadian Pacific Tours and Cruises |
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1936 Canadian Pacific Happy Cruises
poster by Tom Purvis |
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1936 Sun Tan West Indies Cruises Canadian Pacific
poster by Norman Fraser |
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| 1937 Cunard White Star Winter Cruises "Laconia" 1937 |
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1938 Canadian Pacific 9-Day Cruises
poster by Tom Purvis |
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1938 Canadian Pacific Chateau Lake Louise
poster by Alfred Crocker Leighton |
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1938 Empress of Britain 127 - Day World Cruise
poster by Norman Fraser |
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1938 Hambrug-Amerika Linie
poster by Albert Fuss |
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1939 4 ½ Days Across the Ocean
poster by Wilhelm Jontzen |
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1939 French Line "Normandie"
poster by Hubert Herkomer |
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| 1940c Grace Line. Caribbean - South American Cruises |
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| 1940s French Line "Normandie" New York |
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| 1942 Canadian Pacific Steamships |
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| 1946 Travel Canadian Pacific |
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| 1947 Cunard White Star |
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1950 Sail White Empress to Europe Canadian Pacific
poster by Roger Couillard |
