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Ferries

Type of ship travelling over short to medium distances between two places transporting people, cars or trains and acting like a replacement for a bridge

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Images referencing Ferries

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  • The Last Judgment: sinners in hell are tortured by monstrous devils as a ferry carries new arrivals to the same fate. Line engraving by Petrus de Jode the elder, 1615, after Jean Cousin the younger.
  • Panorama of the river Thames and the buildings of the City, looking northwards beside London Bridge. Engraving by S. and N. Buck, 1749.
  • A steamer designed to carry a train across the English Channel. Wood engraving.
  • Two men in a ferry on a stormy crossing: a passenger and the ferryman discuss at cross purposes the danger of drowning. Etching, 1803.
  • London: the river Thames and the buildings of the City, looking northwards beside London Bridge. Coloured engraving, 1730, after J. Kip.
  • Designs by John Fowler for a steam ship carrying rail traffic across the English Channel. Wood engraving, 1870.
  • The fugitive holy family board a barge across a river. Etching by J.B. Corneille after Annibale Carracci or D. Zampiere, il Domenichino.
  • Civil engineering: the Mersey Ferry landing stage (top), and the pier at Lytham (below). Wood engraving after [H.R.].

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