Loss Collection (page 6)

Ansells Fire-Damp Indicator, 1880
Engraving showing the instrument, designed by Ansell, for the detection of fire-damp in underground mines, 1880. If fire-damp gases built up then the risk of explosion increased

Holmfirth Reservoir
Terrible inundation and loss of life at Holmfirth when the reservoir burst its banks in 1852

Fred VII at Flensburg
Frederik VII is warmly received at Flensburg, then in Denmark, though later by his intransigence he will bring about the loss of Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia

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

Stores arriving at Gallipoli
A war stores depot for an Australasian division, on the beach at Galllipoli. The Dardanelles campaign, the aim of which was to overpower Turkey, who had entered the war on Germanys side

The Promenade Deck
The promenade deck of the Lusitania showing passengers reclining on deck-chairs. The Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of 1210 lives

Torpedoed ship
Front page photograph from the Illustrated London News showing torpedoe damage to a Norwegian oil-tank steamer, Belridge. The picture was intended to show the damage suffered by the Lusitania

American Prairie on Fire
A Fire broke out in Monticello prairie, a few miles away from Alton, destroying buildings and causing much loss of life

Unloading Passengers off Jaffa, 1890
Engraving showing the transfer of a passenger from ship to boat, at sea off Jaffa, Palestine, 1890. The ship can be seen rolling as the passenger is swung out in a chair on a boom

The Irresistible sinking
Photograph showing the loss of H.M.S Irresistible having struck a mine during the Dardanelles campaign on March 18th 1915

RMS Forth, 1849
Engraving of the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Companys paddle-steamer Forth. Built in Leith in 1841, the Forth went missing between Southampton and the West Indies early in 1841

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

The Smoking-Room of the Lusitania, the liner torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915, with the loss of 1200 lives

The Civil War in America. The bombardment of Frederickburg
Army of the Potomac under General Burnside suffering a defeat at Fredericksburg, Virginia, with the loss of 12, 653 men after 14 assaults on the Maryes Heights by the Federal Army

The Zulu war. The Battle of Isandhlawana, January 22nd 1879
The landscape of Isadhlwana, a rocky point terminating in a huge precipice about 1, 000 feet high, with Zulu forces suurounding the British troops on every side

HMS Goliath, 1907
Photograph of HMS Goliath, a Canopus Class battleship of 12, 950 tons, launched in 1898. She was sunk in May 1915, off Cape Helles, Dardanelles, with the loss of most of her crew

A Laudable Partnership or Souls and Bodies cured without loss of Time

The loss of HMS Victoria the flagship after being rammed by
The loss of the flagship H.M.S Victoria showing the boat sinking after being rammed by H.M.S Camperdown. 436 men died as a result of an Admiral sending the two ships on a collison course

Interior Tea Room on the Titanic
Photograph of one of the interior tea rooms onboard the Titanic. Built by the shipyard Harland and Wolff for White Star Lines, the liner was almost identical to her sister ship

Battle of Turbigo
French forces at Turbigo are attacked by the Austrians, but after severe fighting MacMahon repels the attacks with considerable loss on both sides

Racial / Pueblo Child 1908
A child of the Pueblo people of Arizona cries for the loss of her candy

Santorios Balance C16
Santorio (b.1561) weighed himself for 24 hour periods and proved that weight gain or loss varied according to the type of food consumed

Leipzig Sinking 1914
During the Battle of the Falkland Islands, German vessel Leipzig sinks with great loss of life after a relentless British attack

Profit and Loss
PROFIT AND LOSS Winners and losers

We ll Meet Again
WE LL MEET AGAIN A soldier and his sweetheart wave a poignant goodbye to one another on the music sheet of the song made famous by Vera Lynn

Manet Takes Tiassale
Marchand and Manet take Tiassale with much loss of life

Victoria / Family Mourning
QUEEN VICTORIA and her nine children mourn the loss of Albert

French Avenged for 1871
The peace treaty avenges France for her loss of the Franco-Prussian war

Traviata - Liebig - 3
Act two, scene eight : Alfredos father, Georgio Germont, tries in vain to console him for the loss of Violetta who has nobly renounced him

Woolwich Arsenal Explode
A terrible explosion in the lyddite works at Woolwich causes great damage and the loss of several lives

Great Storm of 1703
The Great Storm of 1703 which ravaged the south of England and caused great loss of life, particularly at sea

Grief in Fishing Village
Among the missing Bad news on the fishing fleets return

LOSS OF INDIAN QUEEN
This sailing vessel strikes an iceberg in the South Pacific

Messina Earthquake - 1
MESSINA, SICILY In Sicily, Calabria and Provence - and particularly at Messina - a severe earthquake causes much loss of life and destruction of property

Loss of a Hat
- Great heavens, hes shot his hat off !

Trafalgar / French Loss
The sinking of Admiral Villeneuves flagship

Paris Opera Closed
When Necker, the only minister trusted by the people, is dismissed by Louis, the crowd close the Paris Opera, symbol of luxury, as a gesture of their sense of loss

Lusitania Sinks (Morell)
Torpedoed within sight of the Irish coast: a reconstruction of where and how the Cunard passenger liner was sunk by German U-boat U-20, with the loss of 1198 lives

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