Disasters Collection (page 4)

Salisbury railway disaster July 1906 engine no 421 Date: 1906

The Grantham accident, overturned carriages and debris

Tail of wrecked R101 airship at Beauvais
The shape of the tail fins and rudder of the R101 airship can be clearly seen amid the wreckage after it crashed on 5th October 1930 near Beauvais, France, on its maiden voyage

R101 survivors arrive at Croydon
Survivors of the R101 airship crash near Beauvais, France, on 5th October 1930 arrive at Croydon Airport ten days later

Wreckage of R101 airship
The mangled wreckage of the British R101 airship which crashed on 5th October 1930 near Beauvais, France, on its maiden voyage

Diagram of R101 crash
A diagram showing how the British R101 airship dived twice and crashed on a hillside of Allonne, near Beauvais, France on 5th October 1930 on its maiden voyage

Flag of the R101 airship
The torn flag of the British R101 airship salvaged from the wreck after the airship crashed on 5th October 1930 near Beauvais, France, on its maiden voyage

Scene of mine disaster at Wellington Pit
The under-seas tomb of over a hundred men. The scene of the great mine disaster at Whitehaven: Wellington Pit, which extends five miles under the Irish Sea

Chalked message at Wellington Pit
The Wellington Pit explosion and fire at Whitehaven on 11th May 1910 was one of Britains worst mining disasters in which 136 men and boys lost their lives

Fire at Clumber House
Clumber House, the Nottinghamshire seat of the Duke of Newcastle, showing the mansion on fire with the fire brigade from Worksop fighting hard to control it

The Disaster of the Scott Expedition
Page from The Sphere, a journal which took great interest in the expedition to the South Pole of Captain Scott, which gives a commentary on the disaster

Coal Mine Explosion
An explosion in a coal mine

Vasco Da Gama & Spirit
At the Cape of Storms (later Good Hope) Adamastor, the spirit of the Cape, appears to Gamas crew and warns of disasters to all who seek to sail round the Cape to India

Folklore / Adamastor
At the Cape of Storms (later Good Hope) Adamastor, the spirit of the Cape, appears to Gamas crew and warns of disasters to all who seek to sail round the Cape to India

Cambrai Cathedral
Cambrais magnificent cathedral in its original state, before a series of natural and man-made disasters reduced it to little more than a ruin

Coal Mine / A Fall-In
A fall-in in a coal mine, leaving the miners trapped

Adamastor and Gama
At the Cape of Storms (later Good Hope) Adamastor, the spirit of the Cape, appears to Gamas crew and warns of disasters to all who seek to sail round the Cape to India

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