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183 photos and 1 illustration tagged cargoship, from 14 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• shipbuilding
• shipyard
• ship
• sunderland
• maritimeheritage
• industry
• vessel
• blackandwhitephotograph
• riverwear
• industrial
• unusual
• structure
• construction
• shiplaunches
• digitalimage
• rail
• fascinating
• sky
• platform
• launch
• unitedkingdom
• deck
• interesting
• timber

Members using this tag

• North East Museums 121 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 36 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 8 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 5 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 2 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 2 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Virginia 2 photos & illustrations
• Royal Australian Historical Society 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration
• Liberas 1 photo / illustration

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Launch of the cargo ship ‘Thursobank’

from North East Museums

• Amused Sea said:

  Amazing photographer, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums... :-)

• Terry Whalebone said:

  Big thank you to the T&WA&M staff and volunteers for preserving these photographs

Work ongoing around the bow of Northbank

from North East Museums

• pierre vdm said:

  Excellent serie. Very nice perspective. That seems to be a gigantic construction. Well documented

• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:

  pierre vdm Thanks for your kind words - really glad you like the series.

Launch of the turret ship 'Gellivare'

from North East Museums

• Preston Digital Archive said:

  This design was known as a turret ship - the vast majority were built by Wm Doxford & Sons, Sunderland between 1892 and 1911. They were dry cargo ships and not tankers. In part their popularity was due to the fact that they had a low nett tonnage in relation to their deadweight (the tonnage they could carry). This lower tonnage reduced the costs of transitting the Suez Canal, which helped popularise this design. When the Suez Canal regulations were amended, this financial advantage was lost and no further vessels were bulit.