Steamship Socks
Description: Passengers in vintage caps and patterned coats lean over the railing of a grand ocean liner, watching the blue sea and foaming wake stretch toward the horizon. An elegant cream-and-navy “The Voyagers” title curls across a cloud-filled sky, while the ship’s sweeping white balustrade leads the eye toward the water. Muted maritime blues, delicate linework and nostalgic early twentieth-century poster styling evoke the romance of transatlantic travel and classic ocean voyages.
Description: The United East India Company was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock company in the world, granting it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia. Shares in the company could be bought by any resident of the United Provinces and then subsequently bought and sold in open-air secondary markets. It is sometimes considered to have been the first multinational corporation. It was a powerful company, possessing quasi-governmental powers, including the ability to wage war, imprison and execute convicts, negotiate treaties, strike its own coins, and establish colonies.
Description: Created from original vintage artwork, and available only from Matchbook Graphics, this high resolution RMS Queen Elizabeth Ocean Liner poster image is sure to please the Cunard White Star Line ship collector and enthusiast. She was the largest passenger liner built when launched in 1938, and held that title for 56 years. But due to WWII, the ship did not actually enter civilian passenger service until after the war in 1947. But if it had...
Description: The Kerberos is a steamship that is commissioned to carry diverse travelers of different cultures and backgrounds from London to New York with the prospect of a better life. However, the voyage goes awry when they discover another migrant ship, the Prometheus, adrift on open sea.
Description: Celebrate Queenstown, New Zealand, with a vintage travel illustration of the TSS Earnslaw cruising across Lake Wakatipu beneath dramatic alpine peaks. Rich lake blues, a red funnel and nostalgic lettering make this design a memorable souvenir for South Island travelers and steamship enthusiasts.
Description: Vintage Travel Poster of the Cunard Line Cruiseliners Here at Culturio we strive to make designs and find posters that we personally love so that you the customer can buy in good faith knowing we would be happy to own it ourselves. All the designs and posters have been cleaned up and colours enhanced to further make your purchase exceptional. If you like a product but want something altered or the background colour changed, please don’t hesitate to contact us and we will make it especially for you.
Description: MV Abosso was a passenger, mail, and cargo liner, the flagship of Elder Dempster Lines. In peacetime she ran scheduled services between Liverpool and West Africa. In the Second World War she was a troop ship, running between the United Kingdom, West Africa, and South Africa. Abosso was built in 1935 and sunk by German submarine U-575 in 1942, killing 362 of the 393 people aboard. She carried the same name as an earlier Elder Dempster ship, SS Abosso, which had been built in 1912 and sunk by the submarine U-43 in 1917.[8]
Description: The main bow section of the RMS Titanic shipwreck lies in the North Atlantic Ocean at the coordinates 41.7325° N, -49.9469° W (or 41° 43′ 57″ N, 49° 56′ 49″ W). It rests approximately 370 miles (600 km) south-southeast of Newfoundland, Canada, at a depth of about 12,500 feet (3,800 meters).
Description: Maritime History - RMS Empress of France was a Canadian Pacific passenger liner and cargo ship, initially named SS Duchess of Bedford when she was launched in 1928. The Duchess served as a troop ship during the Second World War. The name of this ship was changed to Empress of France during her post-war refit in 1947. She was taken out of service in 1960.
Description: Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime icon and mascot of The Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves. Inspired by such silent film personalities as Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, Mickey is traditionally characterized as a sympathetic underdog who gets by on pluck and ingenuity in the face of challenges bigger than himself.
Description: Maritime History - Turbinia is the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894, and easily the fastest ship in the world at that time, Turbinia was demonstrated dramatically at the Spithead Navy Review in 1897 and set the standard for the next generation of steamships, the majority of which would be turbine powered.
Description: The Prometheus is a large migrant ship that got lost at sea, presumably claiming the lives of 1,400 passengers and 550 crew members. However, when the ship suddenly reappears during the Kerberos' voyage to America, even more questions arise. The Prometheus is also a station in space. When Maura wakes up from the simulation, she finds herself onboard this station, which is where she first has contact with her brother .
Description: A retro-style circular emblem featuring a large steamship sailing on choppy waves. An anchor rests in the foreground of the water. Text above reads 'BALAMURUGAN MATCH WORKS, PERIAGOLLAPATTI' in English, and there is Tamil text at the very top. Text on the left states '50'S PRIIICE 115 RS.' and on the right 'SAFETY MATCHES'. The style is bold with black outlines and a yellow background within the circle.
