Drowned Collection

Coastguards and civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey
Commemorative postcard, Heroes All! Five brave coastguards and two civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, who rescued 20 members of the 2nd Walworth Boy Scouts Troop who got into difficulties

Kingsley / Water Babies
Tom saw the fairies carry baby & cradle gently down; another drowned baby is introduced to the world of the water babies

RMS Lusitania - postcard, George Marks and wife, WW1
RMS Lusitania - postcard dated 5 May 1915 to a Miss Powell in Southampton. The card refers to a George Marks and his wife

President William Howard Taft and Major Archibald Butt, a presidential aide who died when the Titanic sank. Photo is pasted to heavy cardboard backing, with an incorrect notation on reverse. Pres

RMS Titanic - letter in Swedish, Carl Asplund, victim
RMS Titanic - Lillian Asplund Collection - a letter written in Swedish, including the words of an old Swedish song, and mentioning his son Oscar. Recovered from Carl Asplund's body

RMS Titanic - letter to Carl Asplund, victim
RMS Titanic - Lillian Asplund Collection - a letter written in Swedish, dated Worcester, 28 February 1912, to Carl Asplund. I have received your letter today

Mlle Lantelme, actress drowned in the Rhine
Mlle Genevieve Lantelme, actress (1883-1911), theatrical portraits, captioned France's most lovely actress, drowned in the Rhine'

MUSSORGSKY/KHOVANSCCHINA
Costume for Martha, a widow, mystic, former mistress of Andrei Khovanski, son of Ivan K : she escapes being drowned, dies throwing herself into a fire

The Admiralty Office, the Sailing Match and the Drowned Boy. The Admiralty Office of the Navy on Whitehall 61, sailboats racing on the River Thames from Blackfriars Bridge to Vauxhall in a Sailing

Amida deity, Japan
Amida (also known as Amitabha or Amitayus), is a celestial buddha according to the scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. Amida is the principal buddha in Pure Land Buddhism, (Mahayana Buddhism)

Kitchener Memorial, Orkney, Scotland
On Marwick Head, five miles east of Dounby in Orkney, stands a crenallated tower built by public subscription to honour the memory of Herbert Kitchener

VENDEEANS DROWNED
The Noyades [drownings] de Nantes - Republican general Carrier orders priests and royalist sympathisers taken out onto the Loire in barges and drowned. Date: February - May 1794

Afghan War - Men of the 10th Hussars drown - Kabul River
Forty-six men of the 10th Hussars are drowned, swept away by the current, as they attempt to ford the Kabul River. Date: 31 March 1879

WELL AT MOULINS, FRANCE
In this well in the rue des Grenouilles, at Moulins, France, maitre Jean Cabuche, being drunk, fell and was drowned, polluting the water for his neighbours Date: medieval

Shelley Drowned
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) - When he drowns off the Italian coast, Trelawny cremates his body on the beach at Viareggio Date: 1847

ACCIDENTS / LIFE-SAVING
Resuscitation - Dr H R Silvesters method Date: circa 1860

Old Testament, Noahs Ark on Mount Ararat
Old Testament -- Noahs Ark, resting on Mount Ararat after the Deluge, with the bodies of drowned people littering the landscape

Lord Kitchener black bordered Mourning Card
Kitchener's portait is surrounded by the names of the campaigns in which he served. He was drowned when HMS Hampshire sank on 5 June 1916. WW1 Date: 1916

Pharaoh and his host drowned in the Red Sea - Exodus 14. circa 1690

Friedrich I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor from 1155. He drowned in a river near Antioch while on a Crusade, but as depicted here there is a legend that he is sleeping with his knights in a cave

Captain Loxley of the Formidable, WW1 bravery
Clear Off - Submarines About: Captain Loxley of the Royal Navy, his terrier Bruce by his side, pictured giving his last order to another ship, warning of the danger of torpedoes

National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. Deputation to Mr. Asquith on Womans Suffrage. Cartoon shows the male voter in a lock, captioned, Good Heavens, if she opens that lock, I shall be drowned

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

Thomas Spencer
THOMAS SPENCER churchman described as that extraordinary genius who sadly drowned while bathing at Liverpool before realising his promise... Date: 1790 - 1811

Tollymore Park, Bryansford - the Pool
Tollymore Park, Bryansford (the Pool in which Dr. Hunters Daughter was Drowned) (1847). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1847

Shipwreck off a rocky coast, c. 1815
A ship is wrecked in a stormy sea off a rocky coast. People on shore try to rescue half-drowned survivors. A broken rowing boat has been washed up or dragged to shore

Thomas Gray in a Wig
THOMAS GRAY Poet best known for his elegies, on a cat drowned in a goldfish bowl, and in a country churchyard. Date: 1716 - 1771

Thomas Gray (Anon)
THOMAS GRAY Poet best known for his elegies, on a cat drowned in a goldfish bowl, and in a country churchyard. Date: 1716 - 1771

John Fitch, Inventor
JOHN FITCH American inventor who built successful steamboats but failed to obtain financial backing so drowned himself at Philadelphia. Date: 1743 - 1798

Captain William Harrison
The first commander of the Great Eastern, Cpt. William Harrisons fate mirrored that of the massive ship under his command, when he drowned in an accident off Southampton Date: circa 1859

John Hamilton (Naval)
JOHN HAMILTON naval commander, known for his courage and humour : instigated reforms in seamens conditions, drowned in shipwreck Date: ? - 1755

Death of Humph Gilbert
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT is drowned in a storm off the Azores Date: 1539 - 1583

Antinous (Bell)
ANTINOUS, favourite and companion of emperor Hadrianus, drowned in the Nile aged 20 : many statues and busts of him were erected Date: 117 - 138

Protestants Drowned
Protestants are forced into the sea at Terawley by Catholics with spears and are drowned. Date: 1601

Richard Kempenfelt
RICHARD KEMPENFELT Rear-Admiral : drowned when the Royal George refitting at Spithead, heeled over, taking with her 800 crewmen, tradesmen, women and children Date: 1718 - 1782

Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915), art dealer best known for establishing the Municipal Gallery for Modern Art in Dublin in 1908. Died tragically when on board the Lusitania which was torpedoed by a German

Captain Loxley of battleship Formidable & his dog Bruce
Portrait of Captain Loxley, in command of the battleship Formidable which was sunk by a German torpedo in 1915. Also included is a picture of his terrier dog Bruce who reportedly stayed with his

A drowned rat Somewhere in France
A drowned rat. Somewhere in France. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Matchbox cover inscribed In memoriam - Kitchener, WW1
Matchbox cover inscribed " In memoriam - Kitchener, born 24th June 1850, drowned 5th June 1916. He did his duty." Trench Art

Sketch cover, Captain Loxleys faithful dog, WW1
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring a portrait of Bruce, the faithful Irish terrier belonging to Captain Noel Loxley of H.M.S Formidable

Margaret Fuller
SARAH MARGARET FULLER marchioess Ossoli American teacher, editor and transcendentalist, drowned in shipwreck with husband and son with her autograph Date: 1810 - 1850

Hester Tradescant
HESTER TRADESCANT wife of John Tradescant the elder (and mother of the younger), found drowned in her pond at Lambeth. Date: ? - 1678

Giambattista Grimani
GIAMBATTISTA GRIMANI Venetian naval commander : while leading his fleet against the Turks, he was drowned in a storm off Psara. Date: ? - 1648

Kyoto, Japan - Kimozuji Dera Temple Complex - Sacred stones - Memorial to the suicide (by drowning) of Saigo and Gessho. Date: circa 1905

Popular song Goodbye Dolly
A woman in despair over her drowning soldier husband who whilst rowing broke an oar and fell into the water. Realising his fate he bids fond farewell to his wife, Dolly

Sqn Cdr E H Dunnings Sopwith Pup N6452
Sqn Cdr E.H. Dunnings Sopwith Pup, N6452, going over the side of HMS Furious during his third attempt, 7 August 1917. Sqn Cdr Dunning was drowned. Date: 1917

Cloudesley Shovell
SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL British naval commander, drowned when his vessel was wrecked in a storm off the Scillies. Date: 1650 - 1707

Friedrich 1 Drowns
The emperor FRIEDRICH I, participating in the Third Crusade, is drowned while attempting to cross the Saleph River in Cilicia (in present- day Turkey) Date: 1190

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