Incident Collection (page 4)

British Hurricane ramming Italian raider by G. H. Davis
The new technique in air attack during the Second World War: a British Hurricane ramming an Italian raider in mid-air. The British pilot said of the incident

Deutschland crew go aboard City of Flint by G. H. Davis
The beginning of the eventful odyssey of the American cargo steamer, the City of Flint: the Deutschlands crew go aboard. Date: 9 October 1939

British submarine A7 which failed to come to the surface
Diagram of British submarine A7 which failed to come to the surface while exercising in Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, was one of the oldest submarines left (at the time)

Cuttens photography apparatus
John Cuttens apparatus for automatically photographing any unusual incident. Date: 20th century

Marchand Photo
JEAN BAPTISTE MARCHAND. French soldier, implicated in the Fashoda incident where the territorial ambitions of France collided with those of Britain. Photo 1899. Date: 1863 - 1934

Sketch for An Incident of the Great Plague of London, 1665 (1872). Crawford, Ebenezer 1830 - 1874. Date: 1872

Firefighters at the scene of an explosion at 157 The Broadway, London

Lorry under bridge, Loughborough Lane, SW9
Lorry stuck under a bridge, Loughborough Lane, London SW9

Turntable ladder in operation at a commercial property fire, Paddington, West London

Firefighters during a chemical incident exercise, Egerton Road, Twickenham

GLC-LFB Brigade Headquarters Control Unit (CU)
The mid 1970s saw a number of innovative appliance designs come into play as the London Fire Brigade adapted to an ever changing and more Health and Safety conscious working environment

GLC-LFB Forced entry and lighting unit at Clapham
The mid 1970s saw a number of innovative appliance designs come into play as the London Fire Brigade adapted to an ever changing and more Health and Safety conscious working environment

GLC-LFB Brigade photographer Dolly Gray
The brigade had three Sub Officers skilled in photography, who attended all fires of special interest, fatal fires and those requiring more than eight pumps to record evidence

LCC-LFB Fire scene in a London street
The hose lines indicate a serious fire has occurred, requiring at least two jets to bring it under control, but little evidence of what actually happened

LCC-LFB Defective paraffin heater, fire investigation
A photograph taken for evidence of a paraffin heater which started a fire due to a defective ON/OFF control knob that could not be switched off

London Salvage Corps at an incident
A salvage worker from the London Salvage Corps inspects a room following the removal/collapse of a plasterboard partition

LCC-MFB lithograph print of firefighters in action
Metropolitan Fire Brigade firefighters race to the scene of a fire on their horse drawn steamer fire engines

LCC-LFB four pump fire and a typical street scene
A London street scene and a fire that required four pumps to deal with the incident. Charged hose is feeding one of the pumps but life seems to continue despite the fire brigade activity that is

Incident at Lancaster Grove, Belsize, Hampstead, NW London. The occupant was taken to hospital after the gas fire had been left on

Map of the LCC-LFB area
Map showing 30 incidents of note in the LCC-LFB area

Transformed armor pulling incident kusazuri biki. Print shows a man sitting on the floor clutching a long piece of cloth held by the woman standing next to him; she has her hand on a hairpin

Incident with an American tank, western front, WW1
An incident with an American tank on the western front during the First World War. The tank appears to be stuck in a ditch or trench. Date: 1917-1918

Memorial to victims of Russian Outrage
A memorial to George Henry Smith and Richard William Leggett of the ill-fated trawler Crane, who lost their lives as a cause of action by the Russian Baltic Fleet on October 22nd 1904

WVS Civil Defence poster, Incident Enquiry Point
WVS (Womens Voluntary Service) Civil Defence poster, Incident Enquiry Point. 1940s

Vision of Jeanne D arc
Jeanne d Arc, in prison, receives a comforting vision of Saint Denis. (This incident from Voltaires La Pucelle may not have occurred in real life...) Date: 1431

Writing on a Fish

Anti-splash car / W H Robinson
A friendly driver spots a messy incident in the making and lowers his anti-splash device (an umbrella on a mechanical arm)

Counting compensation money for murder of Mr Richardson
Sketches in Japan: Counting the compensation money for the murder of Mr Richardson. Charles Lennox Richardson was a Yokohama based merchant who was killed by a large armed retinue of Shimazu

Fighting the Turks
An incident in the struggle for Serbias independence from Ottoman rule : Serbian commander Mihailo Ilik leads an attack on the Turks at Tcemerniza

The Lost Cunarder
Photograph of the Lusitania, a floating palace, torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of 1200 lives

Lusitania - an American fatality
An American victim of the sinking of the Lusitania being stretchered through Queenstown covered in the American flag. The Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of

Assassination in Sarajevo
Photograph showing the arrest of Gavrilo Princips, leader of the group of Serbian nationalists, who assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on June 28th 1914

Fable / Partial Judge
THE PARTIAL JUDGE After an incident with an oxen and a bull, a farmer finds that a lawyer is keener to see justice done when its in his favour rather than against him

Jean-Baptiste Marchand
JEAN BAPTISTE MARCHAND French soldier and explorer in Africa, involved in the Fashoda incident causing diplomatic crisis: served in China and in World War One

Slip of earth on the Great Northern Railway line
Slip of earth at the Spittal-Gate cutting off the Great Northern Railway. The incident happened just south of Grantham, over a thousand tons of earth fell on the track alomost burying the engine

Rastatt Incident 5
in a wood near Rastatt (or Rastadt) the French plenipotentiaries to the Congress of Rastatt are murdered by Austrians to impede the negotiations

Rastatt Incident 4
The French plenipotentiaries to the Congress of Rastatt are murdered by Austrians to impede the negotiations

Revolt of Helvetii
An incident in the revolt of the Helvetii - Alpinula begs Caecinna for the life of Julius Alpinus, her father who is one of the leaders of the Helvetii against the Romans

Wounded Officer
A wounded officer is carried off the battlefield by his men. The uniforms are German or Austrian, and this is probably an incident of the Seven Years War

BOOK BURNING / 10. 5. 1933
Disruptive books from private and public libraries were burned in front of the University of Berlin. This incident provoked a wave of disgust throughout the world

Wolf Britannia / Fashoda
Britannia seen as the big bad wolf at the time of the Fashoda Incident, a territory dispute in south Sudan between Kitcheners Anglo-Egyptian army and Marchands French

Dr Henry Sacheverel
HENRY SACHEVEREL English clergyman, the centre of a religio-political incident, where he attacked the whig government in two sermons (1709). Date: ?1674 - 1724

Betty Hill Explains
At the site where on 19 September 1961 an alien spaceship landed and she and her husband Barney were taken on board, Betty Hill describes the incident to investigators

Battle of Sediman
Albeit unlisted in any of our reference books, the battle of SEDIMAN is almost certainly an incident of Napoleons ill-starred Egyptian campaign

Garibaldi Lands Marsala
THE RISORGIMENTO Garibaldi and the thousand land at Marsala, Sicily - the first incident in the campaign which will lead to the unification of Italy

The Gaspee Burnt
THE GASPEE INCIDENT - The citizens of Rhode Island, angered by British tax demands, board the grounded revenue schooner Gaspee and burn her

Picking up his Cap
An incident of the street fighting - a boy who has dropped his cap runs to pick it up though guns are firing all around him !

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