Disaster Collection

Titanic blueprint
SS Titanic section and plan scale original blueprint, rubber stamped by Harland and Woolf and dated 1 May 1912. It was used in the enquiry that followed the disaster

Postcard from Tom Mudd, RMS Titanic
A handwritten postcard from Tom (Thomas Charles) Mudd to his mother in Halesworth, Suffolk, to let her know that he has arrived safely at Southampton for the departure of the Titanic on her maiden

Titanic and Olympic - Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Fascinating photograph taken on 6th March 1912, showing The RMS Titanic (left) and The RMS Olympic (right), the brand new ships of the White Star Line at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast

Titanic Shipwreck Registration
Board of Trade, Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, Transcripts and Transactions, Series IV, Closed Registries, RMS Titanic.(front) Date: 25th March 1912

The brave Titanic engineers, including 14 of whom were lost
The Titanic engineers; fourteen of whom were lost in the 1912 disaster. 1. W. D Mackie junior fifth. 2. F. A Parsons, senior fifth. 3. P. Sloan, senior electrician. 4. H. Jupe, assistant electrician

Titanic Poster
A poster advertising the ill- fated Titanics departure from New York on the 20 April 1912, a voyage it was never to make since it sank on 15 April after hitting an iceberg

Titanic leaving Southampton on the 10th April 1912. 1912

First Class staircase on Titanic
One of seven builders photographs of the Titanic interior, this one of the First Class staircase

A Night to Remember, film poster
Poster advertising the 1958 film, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, based on the Titanic disaster of 1912

RMS Titanic docked
The Titanic docked before her disastrous voyage Date: 1912

TITANIC SINKING SEQUENCE
A sequence of illustrations showing the sinking of the Titanic, sketched by survivor John B Thayer Jr. (known as Jack, the son of John B Thayer, second vice-president of the Pennylvannia Railroad)

Titanic and Olympic - Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Fascinating photograph taken on 6th March 1912, showing The RMS Titanic (left) and The RMS Olympic (right), the brand new ships of the White Star Line at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast

Death of Elder Pliny
GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS In his eagerness to observe the eruption of Vesuvius, he approaches dangerously near and is killed by falling rocks, a martyr to science

The R. M.s Empress of Ireland
The R.M.S Empress of Ireland, and Oceanic Liner of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. On the 29th May, 1914, she collided with a Norwegian collier and sank in the Saint Lawrence River

Titanic / Southampton
The ill-fated White Star Line passenger liner, RMS Titanic departing from Southampton on its maiden, and only, voyage

Captain Smith / Titanic
Captain Edward John Smith, captain of the ill-fated passenger liner RMS Titanic which sank on her maiden voyage on 15 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg

Fire at Arding & Hobbs, Clapham Junction
A fire at the Arding & Hobbs Department Store, Clapham Junction on December 20th, 1909. The store was rebuilt and is still open to this day

Roger Byrnes funeral procession
Watched by a large crowd, the body of Roger Byrne, Manchester United captain who died in the Munich air disaster, being carried into St Micheals Church, Flixton

Titanic panoramic image
A panoramic image of RMS Titanic, with a tug, a sailing boat and a rowing boat alongside to show the difference in size. The luxury cruise liner sank on her maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg

Some Titanic officers lost in disaster
Photograph by AJF Bond of Bodmin of six officers of RMS Olympic taken on the bridge of the ship on the ships maiden voyage

Titanic being Built
The ill-fated passenger liner, RMS Titanic under construction in a dry dock at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast

Main Staircase Titanic
The opulent main staircase of the ill-fated Titanic showing various elegant passengers relaxing in the luxurious surroundings

White Star Line Brochure
Front cover of a White Star Line brochure featuring a picture of the ill-fated Titanic

Zulu War - Recovery of the Colours of the 24th in the Buffalo River after Battle of Isandlwana (of 22 January 1879) and honouring the graves of Lts Melville and Coghill Date: 1879

Senghenydd Universal Colliery Disaster, Wales, 1913
Keeping their painful vigil: waiting for news by the burning pit. Photographs from The Illustrated London News, at the time of the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan

Bruce Ismay, Titanic survivor
Bruce Ismay of Ismay, Imrie and Co. survivor from the RMS Titanic

Titanic - Lord Mersey, head of inquiry into the disaster
Front cover of the Illustrated London News featuring a portrait of Mr Justice Bigham, Lord Mersey who was appointed as chairman of the Court of Inquiry into the Titanic disaster. Date: 1912

Titanic - Memorial Service at St. Pauls Cathedral
Page from the Illustrated London News showing crowds gathered outside St. Pauls Cathedral in the City of London after a memorial service for the victims of the Titanic disaster. Date: 1912

Military honours for dead of R101
French homage to Britains dead in the great airship R101 disaster: the moving final scene at Beauvais - Spahis saluting the coffins, borne on French artillery wagons

Jack Roper, Lusitania survivor
Jack Roper, a surviving crew member of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by German U-Boat torpedo on 7th May 1915

Titanic lifeboat
RMS Titanic lifeboat no.6 approaches rescue ship Carpathia, 15 April 1912 Date: 1912

Titanic memorial
Sand memorial to RMS Titanic on Bournemouth beach, June 1912 Date: 26/03/1905

End of the Titanic
Artists impression of the final moment of the ill-fated White Star Line passenger liner, RMS Titanic, turning onto her end before plunging forward into the water

The Wreck of the Titanic by Lawrence Beesley - Sphere
A page from the Sphere with a full report of the sinking of the Titanic by a survivor, Mr Lawrence Beesley, a science master at Dulwich College since 1904. Date: 1912

Viktor Wladimir Rolla
Captain Viktor Wladimir Rolla (1870-90) performer in his air balloon In 1890 Captain Victor Rolla plunged to the ground and died when demonstrating his balloon at Mosebacke, Stockholm

Launch of the Titanic
Launch of the ill fated Titanic -- at the time the largest vessel in the world

Daily Mirror poster, Titanic disaster hymn
The Daily Mirror news vendor poster for 20 April 1912, depicting the hymn which was played while the ship sank: Nearer My God To Thee

Iceberg that sank the Titanic
The iceberg that sank RMS Titanic. This photograph was taken by Captain Wood of the SS Etonian on 12 April -- the Titanic struck the iceberg two days later

RMS Carpathia officers
Officers of the RMS Carpathia, with signatures. This was the ship that rescued survivors of the Titanic disaster on 15 April 1912

Sectional drawing of the Lusitania showing the German U-boat responsible for the torpedo which sunk it in 18 minutes on May 7th 1915, with the loss of 1200 lives

The cook and Mr Maynard, survivors of the Titanic disaster
Scene showing the Titanic survivors arriving in Plymouth docks. The cook, Mr. Maynard, was one of the last people to see Captain E. Smith before he died

Abbots Leigh church after the fire
Engraving of the church in Abbots Leigh near Bristol, which suffered a fire on 20th February 1848. The fire was thought to have originated from the flues of a stove becoming over-heated

Scene of the Fatal Explosion at Birmingham
Scene following an explosion that took place on the premises of Messrs. Pursall and Phillips, percussion-cap manufacturers, in Whittall Street, St. Marys Square, Birmingham

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