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Sketch cover, Captain Loxleys faithful dog, WW1Front 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 FullerSARAH MARGARET FULLER marchioess Ossoli American teacher, editor and transcendentalist, drowned in shipwreck with husband and son with her autograph Date: 1810 - 1850
Hester TradescantHESTER TRADESCANT wife of John Tradescant the elder (and mother of the younger), found drowned in her pond at Lambeth. Date: ? - 1678
Giambattista GrimaniGIAMBATTISTA 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 DollyA 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 N6452Sqn 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 ShovellSIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL British naval commander, drowned when his vessel was wrecked in a storm off the Scillies. Date: 1650 - 1707
Friedrich 1 DrownsThe 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
Group of Romanian JewsA group of Romanian Jews, with a quotation from Prime Minister Carp. Below is an historical note about the persecution of the Jews in Romania in 1866
Scene of Welsh floods with damaged bridge, AberdareScene of Welsh floods, with people standing near a damaged bridge in Aberdare, South Wales. Two lives were lost when the bridge collapsed due to heavy rain -- two youths
St. Aldhelms Chapel, on top of the windswept promintory of St. Aldhelms Head, near Worth Matravers, Dorset, England. Built c.1140 in memory of a bride & groom who drowned. Date: early 12th century
Jean Charcot PhotoJEAN BAPTISTE ETIENNE AUGUSTE CHARCOT - French explorer and oceanographer, son of the eminent doctor, drowned in shipwreck off Iceland : in 1910. Date: 1867 - 1936
Illustration, The Sea Mine, WW1An illustration entitled The Sea Mine, depicting people drowned and drowning in the sea following their ship being hit and sunk by a mine during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918
Hopeless Plumber - Flooded House" What is home without a Plumber." He leaves the water tap runnning... A family wakes up in the morning to discover that the rather hopeless plumber
Lord Kitchener, headlines announcing his deathNewspaper headlines on a large poster, announcing the death by drowning of Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916). He died when HMS Hampshire, on which he was travelling
The White Ship tragedyWilliam Adelin dies following the sinking of the White Ship in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. As the only legitimate son of Henry I and heir to the throne of England
The Wise Men Gotham by Charles Folkard. So they left the eel to be drowned. Anon 1923
British Ballad, The Cruel SisterTHE CRUEL SISTER (The Twa Sisters - The Miller and the Kings Daughter) British ballad first known to have appeared on a broadside in 1656
Lear / Nonsense / EmsThere was an Old Person of Ems, who casually fell in the Thames; And when he was found they said he was drowned, that unlucky Old Person of Ems
Lear / Nonsense / CadizThere was an Old Person of Cadiz, who was always polite to all ladies; But in handing his daughter, he fell into the water, which drowned that Old Person of Cadiz
Drowned in the Vaal: De Wets fellow conspirator, General Beyers
Admiral Jellicoes farewell to Lord KitchenerA photograph of Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe (1859-1935) bidding farewell to Field-Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) before his embarkation aboard the H.M.S
Police Agent DrownedA police agent is set upon by the mob and drowned in the Seine
Seamen Missing at SeaA letter informing a mother that there is still no news about her son, since his ship Inverness was sunk one month ago by the enemy. He is presumed drowned
Missing Seamen 1941Letter to a mother whose son was drowned when his ship was sunk by the enemy. It gives information about his pension arrangements
The flooded fens around the Coffer Dam. Farmland drowned inThe flooded fens of the Eastern Counties. The flooding caused by numerous high tides which was hoped to be resolved by the building of the Coffer Dam The dam would act as a barrier to the assaults of
The bursting of the Bilberry Reservoir, spreading destructioThe bursting of the Bilberry Reservoir. Much destruction was caused by the flooding, bridges lost and buildings demolished
Sir C Shovell / BloodSIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL British naval commander, drowned when his vessel was wrecked in a storm off the Scillies
Pharaohs Army DrownedRealising that the Jews are leaving Egypt, Pharaoh sends his army after them, but God sees to it that they are drowned in the Red Sea
Ghost of O Sumi, JapanThe ghost of Japanese girl O Sumi, accidentally drowned in Idamachi pond, haunts the place where she died
POMMERN IN THE BALTICThe German balloon Pommern comes down in the Baltic : the three passengers are all drowned
Amy Johnson - AviatorAmy Johnson (Mrs Mollison), British aviator who made several record flights. Drowned in 1941, after bailing out over the Thames estuary
Halcyone / Ceyx / KingfisherShe sees her husband Ceyx drowned; transported by grief, she changes into a kingfisher which some say hatches its eggs on calm seas in halcyon days
The Deluge ComesThe waters rise, the land is flooded, one by one the sinful people are drowned, until only Noah and his family are left alive, sole representatives of the human race
Titanic VictimMrs Henrietta Loring, whose husband drowned in the Titanic sinking, travels to the site and throws flowers into the sea as her last goodbye Date: 1912
Moses : the Red SeaTHE RED SEA : God parts the waters to let the Children of Israel pass across safely, but Pharaohs pursuing troops are overwhelmed by the waters and drowned
GENERAL SLOCUM BURNSThe American excursion paddle- steamer catches fire in New Yorks East River, and a thousand passengers - mostly women and children - burn or are drowned
Children Using the RopeFrench children using la corde - a safety rope which, so long as they hold on to it, will prevent them being swept out to sea and drowned
Girls at the SeasideA girl is invited by a friend to go into the water : ropes stretch out into the sea from the shore so that the bathers shall not be swept out to sea by the waves and drowned
Grief in Fishing VillageAmong the missing Bad news on the fishing fleets return
Crossing the Red SeaEscaping from Egypt, the Israelites would be drowned in the Red Sea, did God not send a pillar of fire to divide the waters and enable them to cross in safety
Hereward Leaves ElyHEREWARD THE WAKE How Hereward and his men left Ely (Cambridgeshire, England) by rowing boat and how his poor mare Swallow was told to swim, but drowned
Paul Goes to RomeCaught in a storm on the way to Rome, Paul assures crew and passengers that they will not be drowned