Disasters Collection

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 - 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

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

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

The Spanish Steamer Murillo

The Louth flood of 1920 or Louth cloud-burst was the severe flash flooding in the
The Louth flood of 1920 or Louth " cloud-burst" was the severe flash flooding in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth which occurred on 29 May 1920

RMS Titanic - book, model and cutlery box
RMS Titanic - book, The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters; model of the ship in perspex box, and commemorative cutlery box in marquetry. Date: 20th century

A heroic feat! With dead men!
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). A heroic feat! With dead men! 1810 - 1820. Plate 39 of The Disasters of

The beds of death. Plate 62 of The Disasters of War
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). The beds of death. Plate 62 of The Disasters of War. Etching

Oaks Colliery 1866
The colliery at Barnsley, England, where three explosions in December 1866 left a total of 361 men and boys dead. Date: December 1866

The last of the Leviathan: the Titanic plunging beneath the waves. Mr Beesley, one of the survivors, described the final scene

Front cover of The Graphic, of the pit-mouth immediately after the explosion, killing 268 men and boys. Date: 11 September 1878

Lung Hill Colliery explosion 1857
Explosion at Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. 200 miners went down the pit that day, in which 189 men and boys aged between 10 and 59 died

Lung Hill Colliery 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, shortly after the tragedy were 189 men and boys died from a explosion. Date: February 1857

Lung Hill Colliery explosion - rushing to scene 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, relatives rushing to the scene of the explosion. Date: February 1857

Lung Hill Colliery explosion - resuing the survivors 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, resuing the survivors, were 189 men and boys died from a explosion. Date: February 1857

Inundations in France 1856
The Great Flood of 1856, Sudden and massive rise in the water levels coursed floods in Southern France, engraving showing the city of Lyon under-water

Lancashire coal-mine disaster 1932
Bickershaw Colliery in Lancashire where coal-mine disaster happened on the 10 October 1932. A mine-shaft elevator carrying 20 people fell at the mine, killing all but one person

Page Bank Colliery, fire 1858
Fire at Page Bank Colliery, Durham. Date: 1858

HIGH BROOKS MINE 1866
An explosion at the High Brooks colliery, near Wigan in Lancashire, England, results in the deaths of 30 miners. Date: 23 January 1866

Death and His Brother Sleep, Shelley. (See Major Marindins Report to the board of Trade on the Railway Collision near Eastleigh)

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Faa Pilot Meets Ships Captain a?
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Faa Pilot Meets Ships Captain after an Accident / Crash Aircraft-Carrier Hms Glory (R62) in the Far East During Korean War Date: 1951

Titanic - Survivors on board the Titanic
Survivors of the Titanic on board the Carpathia, the ship that rescued people who had escaped in lifeboats. The top picture shows women passengers sewing for the survivors and distributing clothes

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Boeing B-29 crash landing on retrun from raid, Saipan, 9 July 1945

Laurence Irving & Mabel Hackney, lost in Empress of Ireland
Mr Laurence Irving, actor and playwright, and his wife, the actress Miss Mabel Hackney, who both died in the Empress of Ireland disaster. 1914

King John loses Crown Jewels in the Wash
On 14 October 1216, King John, while on a campaign, arrived at the south side of the Wash. As his army crossed the sands, the tide rose unexpectedly and the Kings baggage, including the crown jewels

Nor do these. Plate 11 of The Disasters of War
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Nor do these. Plate 11 of The Disasters of War. Etching

Titanic - sunrise on April 15th after the ship had sank
On the verge of the ice floe. A tranquil, yet eery impression of the area of the Atlantic ocean where the White Star passenger liner, RMS Titanic sank the morning after

Bruce Ismay giving evidence during the Titanic Inquiry
The Chairman of the White Star Line, Joseph Bruce Ismay, giving evidence before Lord Mersey at the inquiry into the Titanic disaster

Sinking of the Daphne on the Clyde

The Aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake of 18th April 1906, showing devastated and burnt-out buildings, many reduced to piles of rubble

Mosside Mine Flood / 1939
A flood at the Mosside Mine, near Airdrie, Scotland, results in the deaths of three miners. Date: 22 September 1939

Ninevites Repent
The prophet urges the people of Nineveh to repent of their sinfulness, which they do, whereupon God doesn t inflict on them the disasters he had planned for them

Oaks Colliery / 1866
The spoil heaps are used to fill in the cupola shaft, to cut off the air supply and thus extinguish the fire raging below at the pit in Barnsley, England. Date: December 1866

l Aigle de malheur. Apocalypse of Angers
BATAILLE, Nicolas (14th c.). The Fourth Trumpet and the Eagle of Woe. 1375-1382. Disasters on the skies. Scene of the tapestry number 2 from the series Apocalypse of Angers commissioned by Louis I

Gieve life saving waistcoat for torpedoed shipwreck victims
Advertisement for the Gieve life-saving waistcoat from Gieves Ltd, The Royal Naval Outfitters, intended for use by victims of torpedoed ships during the First World War

Medals of Valour for Heroes of Pit Disasters
Postcard celebrating (with a poem) the medals of Valour awarded by King Edward VII to the Heroes of the Pit Disasters at Whitehaven

On account of a knife, Plate 34 of The Disasters of War
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). On account of a knife. Plate 34 of The Disasters of War. Etching

Bury them and keep quiet. Plate 18 of The Disasters of War
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Bury them and keep quiet. Plate 18 of The Disasters of War. Preparatory

This is bad. Plate 46 of The Disasters of War
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). This is bad. Plate 46 of The Disasters of War. Etching

This is how it happened. Plate 47 of The Disasters of War
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). This is how it happened. Plate 47 of The Disasters of War. Etching

There is no-one to help them. Plate 60 of The Disasters of W

They do not agree. Plate 17 of The Disasters of War
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). They do not agree. Plate 17 of The Disasters of War. Etching

They don t like it. Plate 9 of The Disasters of War
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). They don t like it. Plate 9 of The Disasters of War. Etching

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