Maritime picture gallery

This gallery contains general maritime pictures. Pictures of Jersey harbours can be found on the pages dedicated to those ports. The images have been provided by a large number of sources, and many of them have been published as postcards. It has not been possible to identify the original photographers of many of these. However, the contribution of Kevin Le Scelleur, the leading authority on Channel Island maritime history, is gratefully acknowledged. A more substantial collection of photographs of vessels which have operated in Channel Island waters can be found on his website Channel Island Shipping. Kevin is also the author of Channel Islands Railway Steamers (1985) and Commodore Shipping, the first 50 years.

ss *Victoria* manoeuvring on to her berth after arriving in St Helier Harbour. The small boat at the bow is collecting her main mooring rope

Named vessels in alphabetical order

This collection has grown so large that we have had to divide it into separate pages in alphabetical order, accessed from this index. These pages are devoted largely to passenger carrying vessels. Jersey Harbour vessels and visiting naval vessels are in a separate page, and we also have a section devoted to Jersey lifeboats. Some vessels operating pleasure cruises and inter-island routes will also be found in the miscellaneous section below. Please note that we have separate pages for many of the vessels which were regular visitors to Jersey over a long period and those pages may contain further photographs which are not in these A-Z pages

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - R - S - T - U - V - W to Z

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2020

Miscellaneous vessels and other subjects

Jersey fishing cutters in harbour at the Isle of Man

Diamant on the New North Quay during the Occupation
Pilot boat La Rosiere in St Helier Harbour
A hand-coloured slide of a mailboat leaving St Helier
Elizabeth Taylor, 1845: Built in Jersey
Jersey Radio
Dobhran photographed by Ouless in 1877
A painting of an unknown paddle steamer in Jersey waters
A steamer departs Granville bound for Jersey
Steamships painted by Ouless
St Helier Harbour 1911
Granville 1908
Jersey boat leaves Granville in 1890
Jersey boat at Granville
St Helier Harbour
Guernsey ketch in St Helier's harbour mouth--see also below
Boat passengers in 1917
One of the original DUKWs operated between West Park and Elizabeth Castle
In heavy seas off the Casquets
Dover packet
On the quay in Granville
The ocean racing yacht Evaine arrives from New York in 1971

*A Guernsey ketch, also shown above, leaves St Helier Harbour in the mid-1870s*

Fleet Commodore
Red Commodore
Silver Commodore
White Commodore
Jersey boat at Carteret
The Jersey boat leaves Carteret
A Jersey mailboat arrives at Weymouth
Man of War and merchantman by Monamy - 1700
Man of war by Monamy - 1700
Packet mailboat in the 1900s
Submarine in St Helier Harbour in 1975
Jersey boat at Weymouth in 1907
The Channel Island boat arrives at Weymouth
Oyster boats
An early mail packet
A mailboat leaves en route for Weymouth
A mailboat's arrival
Mail cutter
A man of war, 1700, by Monamy
The Weymouth boat train awaits the arriving boat in 1930
Pilot boat
The train which met the Jersey ferry used to run through the streets of Weymouth to the pier
A South-Western steamer in 1919
The naval training school at Gorey

The first pilot cutter
Sailing boat
The Jersey boat leaves Granville in 1906
The Jersey boat arriving in Weymouth
A painting by Larbalestier of a stormy passage past the Casquets
A large passenger steamer docks in St Helier with the help of a tug
The Jersey ferry in dock at Weymouth
A 1738 drawing by Clement Lempriere showing a vessel off Elizabeth Castle
An English squadron in St Aubin's Bay
A Jersey cutter
A steam packet in 1886
A steam ship in 1904
A postcard of island mailboats
French naval vessels in St Malo
A steam packet
A ferry leaves Harbour
An Elizabeth Castle DUKW in 1973
Weymouth Harbour
The Granville to Jersey boat
Servicing the Minquiers buoy
A Jersey-bound mailboat at Weymouth

Crew and support staff

An 1870s sailor
The crew of the Royal Blue Jacket
An 1870s Jersey crew
Crew of unknown vessel in 1905
Crew of unknown vessel in 1905
The crew of a vessel in St Helier Harbour in the 1870s
The crew of ss Caesarea in 1913 pictured by Percival Dunham
London and South-West Company's Jersey station staff
Southern Railway Company's Jersey station staff
The crew of Sans Peur at Jersey in 1895
Sans Peur in 1899

2010 mail ships
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Adverts, leaflets, timetables, tickets and other documents

Two adverts for London services ...
... in Chronique de Jersey in 1850
1907
1857
1857
Advert for Commerce, offering an early steamship weekly sailing to St Brieuc and Plymouth
Little is known about the Esk, which operated between London and the Channel Islands in 1862, other than what is contained in this advertisement
London Southwest postcard
Great Western Railway poster
1843 advertisement
Condor leaflet
1966 Sealink advertisement
1966 advertisement
Hovercraft trial in 1971
Landing on the beach at Grouville as part of the 1971 trial
Advertisement for the hovercraft service which never started
British Rail booklet
A booklet for passengers on the Caesarea and Sarnia
Advert for St Malo service
Condor leaflet
Duchesse brochure
Sealink brochure
A poster advertising holidays on the St Julian
Travel to St Malo on the Bristol
Advert for Weymouth service
British Railways excursions to St Malo
1967 British Rail brochure
Southern Railways 1932 brochure
Southern Region 1960 brochure
Southern Region 1963 brochure
Brittany timetable
Brittany timetable
Brittany timetable
Brittany timetable
Brittany timetable
Jersey Lines publicity leaflet
Jersey Lines advert - courtesy of Jersey Temps Passe
1857 advert
GBJ sticker for Continental travel
An 1850 shipping advert
GWR poster
Caesarea poster
Advert for the Jersey Lines services between Jersey and France with the Duchesse de Normandie - 'Sooty' - and Duchesse de Bretagne
Commodore Shipping advert
Emeraude Lines timetable for 1997
1857
1857
1857
1858
1859
1859
1859
1862 Granville excursion
1862
1862
1862
BCIF advertisement
Passenger and cargo services to the West Country in 1935
1955
1955
British Rail, 1961
Great Western Railway boat tickets
Condor advert from 1973
Southern Railway poster
Condor leaflet, 1965
British Rail tickets
British Rail tickets
1952 British Rail timetable
1957 boat ticket
1927 advert
1897 advert for the Theory
1859
1859
1859
1859
1859
1859
1859
1859
1945 post-Liberation advert
1866
1866
1980 Condor advert
The paddle steamer Sir Francis Drake provided one of the earliest scheduled services between Jersey and England as advertised in L'Impartial in 1831
Smith and Co advertised a wagon service between Southampton and London in this 1831 advert in L'Impartial
Edinburgh Castle, not previously mentioned in our pages, was announced in 1850 in a La Patrie advert as the new vessel on the Jersey to St Malo run
John Benest was agent in 1850 for the New South Western Steam Navigation Company's Royal Mail packet service linking the Channel Islands and Southampton ...
... and also the Sir Francis Drake on the Plymouth and Falmouth route
Edinburgh Castle started a weekly return service to St Malo in 1850, as advertised in Chronique de Jersey
The 42-ton cutter Dart was advertised for sale by auctioneer Philippe de Ste Croix in Chronique de Jersey in 1850
The steamer Collier operated three return voyages a month betwen the Channel Islands and London, as advertised in Chronique de Jersey in 1850
The sailing schedule of the steamer Lady de Saumarez was advertised in Chronique de Jersey in October 1840
The brig, Virginia was sold at auction in January 1840
The steamewr Camilla operated weekly services to both St Malo and Granville in 1840
Flamer, under the command of Capt Binet, sailed to and from Liverpool
Advert in Chronique de Jersey in 1860
In 1860 Courier, Dispatch and Wonder provided three departures a week tp Southampton, with onward connection to Waterloo Bridge in London. Atalanta provided a fourth option
The new steam clipper Sir Walter Raleigh operated the Plymouth-Torquay-Guernsey-Jersey route twice a week in 1860
1860
Twice-weekly Granville service in 1860
St Malo service timetable in 1860
Jersey to Paris, via Granville, in 1860
Granville, Comete 1860
Granville and St Malo, Venus, Rose and Dumfries 1860
Great Western Railway, Aquila and Cygnus 1860
Services to Weymouth in 1870
The departure of the 138-ton brigantine Sultana for Quebec and Montreal on 15 April 1870 was advertised in Chronique de Jersey
The barques Augia and Eliza were advertised for sale in Chronique de Jersey in 1870
G and F de Ste Croix advertised in Chronique de Jersey in 1870 that they had put their schooler Sea Bird under the command of Capt F G Renouf to operate between Jersey and London
Jersey to St Malo timetable advertised in Chronique de Jersey in 1924
1874 advert in Chronique de Jersey for the Weymouth service
In 1874 there was a weekly service between Jersey and Guernsey, Plymouth and St Brieuc
London-Jersey-France, January 874
St Malo and Granville services in October 1874
Voyages to New York advertised in Chronique de Jersey in 1874
Six vessels were sold by auction in 1880 by Philip Barbier
1880 advertin Chronique de Jersey directed at potato growers
1880
1880
1880
Humber Steam Shipping potato exports, 1880
In 1890 the new steamer Scott Harley ran a weekly service to take Jersey potatoes direct to the London markets
1890 Plymouth service
1890 Portbail winter service
1890
1890
1890
1890
1890
1910
Jersey to Granville, 1920
1920 advert in the Chronique de Jersey
1930 advert in Chronique de Jersey
Jersey to Portsmouth in 1939
1870 services to London and France
The steamer Granville operated between Jersey and the French port of the same name in 1870
1870 advert for the daily postal packet
1830
1830
1830
1830
1830
Services to London advertised in 1830
Services to London advertised in 1830
The forthcoming voyage of a ship from St Malo to Haiti was advertised in Chronique de Jersey in 1825
Day trips to Sark and St Malo on Lord Beresford in 1825
Lord Beresford operated to Cherbourg in 1832
The cutter Cornubia started a service from Jersey to Plymouth in 1832