The British Barquentine Alaska, trading to the Ellis and Gilbert Islands. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.

A carrack or nau, three or four-masted sailing ship from about 1470. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.

Henry Grace àDieu Henry Grace of God, aka Great Harry. English carrack or great ship of the 16th century. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.

HMS Victory, Lord Nelson's flagship, in drydock at Portsmouth, England in 1922 for restoration. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.

Ferdinand Magellan's ship The Nao Victoria, which took part in the expedition in 1519 to circumnavigate the earth. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.

Reconstruction of The Gokstad ship, a Viking ship found in a burial mound at Gokstad farm in Sandar, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.

The Lancing, which started life in 1866 as a steamship called La Pereire and finished as a full rigged four masted sailing ship. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.

The Paddle Steamer SS Sirius leaving Cork harbour on April 4 1838, with ninety four passengers, she arrived at New York on April 23 1838. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.

SS Great Western, an oak-hulled paddle-wheel steamship, the first to be purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic. She left Bristol on April 7 1838 and arrived in New York Harbour on April 23. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.

English ship of 1574. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.