Damage Collection (page 24)

Wartime bomb damage, Met Police vehicles, London
Bomb damaged vehicles belonging to the Metropolitan Police, waiting to be repaired or scrapped. Date: September 1940

Flood damage in Funchal, Madeira
The damage causes by severe flooding to the narrow streets of Funchal, Madeira in February 2010. 2010

Serbia - Bombardment of Belgrade Citadel
Serbia - The bombardment of the Belgrade Citadel during the conflict in the Balkans during World War One. Date: circa 1915

HMS Sheffield
Splinter damage to HMS Sheffield. The light cruiser had been shadowing the Bismarck at the time of the Ark Royals last air attack

Place Royale Damage
The entrance gates of the Place Royale, Paris, bear witness to the fierce street fighting - the gates thrown down, the stonework pitted with the marks of gunfire. Date: 23-26 July 1830

Men of HMS Prince Eugene at Ostend, Belgium, WW1
Men of HMS Prince Eugene clearing up HMS Vindictive, an Arrogant-class protected cruiser, after her return from the Zeebrugge Raid (23 April 1918), Belgium

Damage to HMS Tiger during the Battle of Jutland, WW1
Damage to the British battlecruiser HMS Tiger, hit during the Battle of Jutland, in the North Sea near Denmark, during the First World War. Date: 31 May - 1 June 1916

German mortar damage to fort, Liege, Belgium, WW1
Damage to a fort in Liege, Belgium, caused by a 42cm German mortar during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Results of German heavy artillery, Belgium, WW1
Results of German heavy artillery at Maubeuge, Belgium, during the First World War, showing a damaged gun dome. Date: September 1914

Damage caused by fire at Selby Abbey
The damage caused by a fire at Selby Abbey, North Yorkshire on October 20th, 1906. The conflagration was of such intensity that it melted the bells in the central tower. Date: 1906

Advertisement for Sun Fire Insurance
An advertisement for the Sun Fire Office, Threadneedle Street, London, offering insurance against fire damage and other calamities in its 204th year of operation. Date: 1913

Burnt-Out Cottage
The shell of a burnt-out old stone-built cottage in Kent, England. Date: 1950s

Quartermasters tent with shell hole in foreground, WW1
A Quartermasters tent on a transport field during the First World War, showing a hole in the foreground made by a shell which fell within twenty yards but did no damage. Date: 1916

Sailor ringing new bell of HMS Broke, WW1
A sailor rings the new bell of HMS Broke during the First World War. The ship was badly damaged during the Second Battle of Dover Strait, 21 April 1917. Date: circa 1917

Clearing up bomb damage, Salonika, Greece, WW1
British troops helping to clear up bomb damage caused by the German military airship LZ85 on Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War

Ruined bridge on Monastir railway, WW1
View of the ruined Ekshisu Railway Bridge on the Monastir railway, 20 miles south east of Monastir, near Lake Ostrovo. It was damaged during the Battle of Kajmakchalan between Bulgarian

Captured weapons in Villers-Cotterets, France, WW1
Allied soldiers looking at piles of captured German weapons in the main square of Villers-Cotterets, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 27 July 1918

Wreck of HMS Vindictive, Ostend Harbour, Belgium, WW1
View of the wreck of HMS Vindictive in Ostend Harbour, Belgium, during the First World War. HMS Vindictive, an Arrogant-class protected cruiser, was launched in 1897, served throughout the war

Aerial view of Zeebrugge Mole, Belgium, WW1
German aerial photograph the day after the Zeebrugge Raid (23 April 1918), showing the gap in the viaduct at the landward end of the mile-long Zeebrugge Mole, at the sea port of Zeebrugge, Belgium

American artillery in Fleville, France, WW1
Incoming and outgoing American artillery in Fleville, Argonne, north eastern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 5 November 1918

Defending Law and Order
Generals Cavaignac and Lamoriciere ride through the streets of Paris, surveying the damage and debating how to deal with the insurrection. Date: 22 June 1848

Hoteldeville Damage
The facade of the Hotel de Ville, Paris, bears the scars of three days of bitter street fighting. Date: 23-26 July 1830

Emden Bombards India
The German cruiser Emden cruises the Indian Ocean doing what damage she can : she shells the Anglo-Persian oil installation near Madras - seen burning here. 22nd September 1914

Bomb damage to a house next to Reims Cathedral
A photograph of a family, along with their pet dogs, as they survey the damage caused by a heavy German artillery shell which has blown out the walls of their house

Damaged by the Emden
The German cruiser Emden cruises the Indian Ocean doing what damage she can : she shells the Anglo-Persian oil installation near Madras - seen burning here. 22nd September 1914

Amiens Cathedral - Sandbags
Sandbags almost completely filling one of the old entrances to Amiens Cathdral in anticipation of German attack during World War One. Date: 1915

Belgium - Zeebrugge - Damaged church
Damage to the Church at Zeebrugge, Belgium, following the devastation of the First World War. Date: circa 1919

First Balkan War - result of Montenegrin bombardment
The First Balkan War 1912-13 - Effects on the Turkish Ottoman positions at Sutari following bombardment by Montenegrin artillery of the Balkan League

Woodworm and Dry Rot
Examples of damage caused by woodworm and dry rot, to timber taken from St. Marys Church, Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1950s

Penrhyn Flood 1945
Sea damage at Penrhyn Bay, Caernarvonshire, Wales, along part of the tramway from Colwyn Bay and Llandudno. Date: October 1945

World War Two Bomb Damage
A couple survey the damage caused by a bomb dropped on the UK during World War Two. Date: circa 1942

Shell craters at Liege, Belgium, WW1
Three shell craters after bombardment at Liege, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Hole in HMS Kent, Battle of Falkland Islands, WW1
A hole in the British Monmouth-class armoured cruiser HMS Kent, caused by a 4.1 inch German shell during the Battle of the Falkland Islands, First World War. Date: 8 December 1914

Damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise, France, WW1
A damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: October 1918

German cruiser Blucher, Battle of Dogger Bank, WW1
The disabled German armoured cruiser SMS Blucher which later sank, during the Battle of Dogger Bank, in the North Sea, First World War. Date: 24 January 1915

Four men with upturned biplane in field, WW1
Four young men sitting in front of an upturned biplane in a field during the First World War. The plane has either crashed (there seems to be some minor damage) or overbalanced. Date: 1914-1918

Dugouts on the Western Front, WW1
Dugouts on the Western Front, probably used by Austrian troops, during the First World War. Date: 1915

Damaged bridge in north eastern France, WW1
A damaged bridge in north eastern France during the First World War. The French adopted the tactic of blowing up bridges to halt the German advance. Date: 1914

Sailors repairing a boat on a ship, WW1
Men of the British Royal Navy undertaking repairs on a boat on board a ship during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Damaged mast, HMS Kent, Battle of Falkland Islands, WW1
The foretop gallant mast of the British Monmouth-class armoured cruiser HMS Kent, shot away by a shell from the German light cruiser Nurnberg during the Battle of the Falkland Islands

Wreck of HMS Vindictive at Ostend, Belgium, WW1
View of the wreck of HMS Vindictive, an Arrogant-class protected cruiser, after the Second Ostend Raid (10 May 1918), during the First World War

Damage to fort, Liege, Belgium, WW1
Damage to a fort in Liege, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Aerial view of damaged Zeebrugge Mole, Belgium, WW1
German aerial photograph of the gap in the viaduct at the landward end of the mile-long Zeebrugge Mole, at the sea port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, after the Zeebrugge Raid (23 April 1918)

Men on HMS Tiger during the Battle of Jutland, WW1
Men on the Q turret of British battlecruiser HMS Tiger, after being hit during the Battle of Jutland, in the North Sea near Denmark, during the First World War. Date: 31 May - 1 June 1916

HMS Vindictive at Ostend, Belgium, WW1
View of HMS Vindictive, an Arrogant-class protected cruiser, after the Zeebrugge Raid (23 April 1918), Belgium, when her upperworks were badly damaged by gunfire

Damaged bridge at Dun sur Meuse, France, WW1
A damaged bridge at Dun sur Meuse (Dun an der Ms) between Verdun and Sedan in north eastern France during the First World War. Date: 22 November 1914

Damaged fort after Battle of Tutrakan, Romania, WW1
A damaged fort, captured by the Bulgarians during the Battle of Tutrakan during the First World War. Tutrakan is on the border between Bulgaria and Romania, and is now part of Bulgaria

German bomb damage, Salonika, Greece, WW1
Damage caused by bombs dropped from the German military airship LZ85 on Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Three people were killed and three injured

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