MPX5073595: Container ship Atlantic Causeway, at the Southampton container berth prior to sailing on maiden voyage. She is inaugerating a weekly roll-on/roll-off container ship service between the U.K. and North America. Container ship Atlantic Causeway at Southampton. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4872240: Tue 03, 1953 - Barge loads of stones used to repair the Dykes of Holland: The scene as a barge - loaded high - with large stones arrives at a flooded dyke in the Coarse-overflakkes area of Holland.These stones are dropped over the side of the barge at low tide - in order to build up the height of the sea bed at the strategic positions.. It is all part of the Netherlands battle against the floods. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4875199: Tue 03, 1953 - Poland Holds Danish Ships: Poland has seized Danish fishing boats with 30 Danes aboard, in Hela Bay, near Danzig. The fishing boat Thailand, which was seized with the others, broke away, and arrived back at Bornholm, the Danish island, today. No official statement on either side has linked the seizure with the detention of the Russian-built jet fighter whose Polish pilot asked for political asylum in Denmark, but Bornhelm fishermen said it was a reprisal / Bridgeman Images