View of civilians posing with the Union ironclad USS Atlanta in dry dock at the League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1865. It had been captured from the Confederate Navy during an 1863 battle in Wassaw Sound when it had been designated as the CSS Atlanta.
Two Union sailors posing with a cannon on the deck of the USS Hunchback, a steam-powered, side-wheeler gunboat during the Civil War. Attributed to Mathew Brady.
Hand-colored daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified British Royal Navy officer, c. 1847.
Ambrotype portrait of an unidentified man, possibly a whaling captain, posing with a painted whaling scene as his backdrop, c. 1850's.
View of the Washington Navy Yard taken from across the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., July 1850. By the Langenheim brothers.
Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified US Navy officer, c. 1850.
Union Navy officers posing on deck in front of the turret of the USS Monitor on the James River, Virginia, July 9, 1862. A group of Union sailors are also visible on top of the turret. By James Gibson. Animated stereoscopic photographs.
Sailors posing on the deck of an unidentified Union warship during the Civil War, early 1860's. Attributed to George Harper Houghton. Animated stereoview.
Hand-colored ambrotype portrait believed to be of Confederate Navy engineer William Ahearn.
Daguerreotype of officers posing on the deck of the French warship Triton, January 21, 1849. By Philibert Perraud.
Two views (and close-up) of crewmen on the deck of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama off Cape Town, South Africa, 1863. First Lieutenant John McIntosh Kell is posing with a cannon on the left of the second photograph. By Arthur Green.
An unidentified Royal Navy brig with its crew posing on deck and in the rigging, location unknown, c. 1850.
Ships of the British Royal Navy fleet under command of Sir Charles Napier leaving to fight in the Crimean War, near Spithead, 1854. The royal steam yacht HMS Fairy, which was carrying the British Royal Family, can be seen in the center background. By Roger Fenton.
Daguerreotype view of a group of people, probably American soldiers and/or sailors, on board and around a docked ship, location unknown, c. 1847. From a collection of photographs documenting the Mexican-American War. The image is possibly related to American military transportation involved in the conflict.