Hunter Gallery

RMS Carpathia, 1903

Photograph of the Cunard Line's RMS Carpathia, launched by the Swan Hunter Shipyard, in 1902. She was the first vessel built for the Cunard Line which was exclusively for second and third class passengers. In 1912 she was the first vessel to attend the sinking of the Titanic'. The Carpathia was sunk by a German U-boat in 1918, off the Fastnet, Southern Ireland

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Prince of Wales with Denys Finch-Hatton

Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, and Duke of Windsor, pictured with the Hon. Denys Finch-Hatton, who had accompanied the Prince on his most recent safari in East Africa. Denys Finch-Hatton, was a big game hunter and was immortalised in the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Out of Africa. He was killed shortly after this photograph was taken when the Gypsy Moth he was flying crashed in Kenya. Date: 1931

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Piltdown Man reconstructed, 1912

Piltdown Man, as imagined by Illustrated London News special artist Amedee Forestier, soon after the discovery of the bones was made public in 1912. Believed to be the missing link between man and ape, the spectacular discovery was revealed to be an elaborate hoax in 1953

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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