Depth Collection (page 2)

Chart of oceanic section, Tristan D Acunha to Cape of Good H
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Chart of oceanic section, Halifax, Bermuda
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Origin of Gem Minerals
A diagram showing cross sections through the earths continental crust to a depth of 40kms. Many gemstones form within the crust at different levels and at different temperatures

Mine laying submarine, WW1
An illustration showing a mine-laying submarine during the First World War, and the different stages involved -- the mine leaving the submarine, the mine rising and reaching the surface

British drifters in harbour, Taranto, Italy, WW1
British drifters which took part in the Otranto Barrage, an allied naval blockade in the Adriatic during the First World War, seen here at anchor in the harbour at Taranto, Italy

Stratification Diagrams
Two diagrams to explain stratification: the books represent the different stratas in a depth of about 5 miles; the hand indicates depth of the coal strata Date: 19th century

Patterned shapes - abstract painting by Raymond Sheppard

A Depth Charge Exploding
A ship under attack during the final conflicts of the sea war of the First World War - a depth charge explodes in the wake of a swiftly moving Royal Navy vessel

The crater of an exploded mine
A photograph showing one side of a crater left by the detonation of a buried mine by the French army as part of the Somme offensive of 1916

A Sailor Heaving the Lead, at sea, 1884
Engraving showing a seaman, on the side of an emigrant ship, heaving the lead to check the depth of the water with a plumb line, 1884

Roman pavement in Cannon Street
A Roman tesselated pavement discovered by workmen at a depth of 12 feet from the surface. The pavement, made up of tiles of red tesserae was without pattern

Southampton Docks 1940S
King George V Graving Dock at Southampton, England, 1, 200 feet long and 135 feet wide, with a depth of 50.5 feet to keel blocks

NILOMETER
The nilometer at Kihira - one of several measuring devices installed at various locations in Egypt to record the depth of the river

Unplumbable Depths
The sea off the Norwegian coast is so deep that its depth cannot be measured by our plumb-lines

Russian Depth Charge
Launching a depth charge from a Soviet Sea Hunter

Sailor / Heaving the Lead
A sailor of the British navy heaves the lead to measure the depth of water in which the ship is sailing

Costume / Photo by Watson
Man: frock coat. Woman: jacket body, gauging & buttons on the cuff, ruff at the neck, draped tunic & a skirt with pleated flounces of varying depth & a very severe hairstyle

Titanic / Iceberg Scale
An illustration showing the scale and depth of an iceberg in the region in which the Titanic sank

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