Sharks Collection

Cartoon, Mermaids and U-Boats, WW1
Cartoon, Mermaids and U-Boats. Two mermaids and two fish are disturbed by a German U-boat which has a face like a shark. Date: 1917

Sponge diver loses his footing
Diving for sponges off the Tunisian coast, diver loses a leg to a shark

Mary Celeste / Fosdyk 1872
ABEL FOSDYKs STORY All the crew, except Fosdyk, are eaten by sharks : he survives on drifting wreckage of the fallen quarter-deck (almost certainly a hoax)

Mother of pearl divers attacked by a shark, Tahiti. Date: 1885

Shark Fishing in the Caribbean
A group of men gather around the carcass of a large shark they have caught on the coast of a caribbean island. Shark fishing is still legal in much of the world, including the Caribbean, to this day

Carcharodon carcharias, or great white shark, also known as the white pointer, white shark, or white death. Date: 1862

SOLDIERS CATCH SHARK
Sailors begin to hack a shark to death on their deck which they have just caught. Date: circa 1830s

WW1 - Whales mistaken for submarines
The bodies of hundreds of whales, sharks, and other large fish, mistaken for submarines in the zealous hunt for German raiders, now lie strewn along the Atlantic coast

Cards? by H. M. Bateman
A rather naive gent is invited to join three more worldly looking chaps at a card table, only to find himself soon afterwards utterly at a loss. Date: 1920

Squatina squatina, or Monkfish, also known as angelshark and angelfish. Date: 1862

Cetorhinus maximus, or Basking Shark. Date: 1862

Hammerhead Shark, belonging to the Sphyrnidae family. Date: 1862

Squalus acanthias, or Spiny dogfish (adult and young)
Squalus acanthias, or Spiny dogfish, also known as spurdog, mud shark and piked dogfish. Date: 1862

Prionace glauca, or blue shark, a species of requiem shark. Date: 1862

Sea Serpents
Two explanations for the sighting of sea serpents: the first, a school of porpoises; the second, the tentacles of a giant squid

Sir Brook Watson escaping from the jaws of a shark
Miraculous escape of Sir Brook Watson, 1st Baronet (1735-1807), merchant, soldier, and later Lord Mayor of London, from the jaws of a shark during his boyhood. He lost his right leg below the knee

Menu for London epicures 1906
Photograph of some expensive dishes from different countries not ever been eaten or seen before, on rich peoples menu in London

Polyprosopus Macer, or Broad-Headed Gazer. Date: 1865

Echinorhinus brucus, or Spinous Shark
Echinorhinus brucus, also known as Spinous Shark Spiny Shark and Bramble Shark. Date: 1862

Somniosus microcephalus, or Greenland Shark, also known as the gurry shark, grey shark, and Eqalussuaq. Date: 1862

Rashleigh Shark and Broad-Headed Gazer
Squalus Rashleighanus or Rashleigh Shark (above) and Polyprosopus Macer or Broad-Headed Gazer (below). Date: 1862

Mustelus asterias, or Starry smooth-hound, a species of houndshark. Date: 1862

Lamna nasus, or Porbeagle, a species of mackerel shark. Date: 1862

Alopias vulpinus, or common thresher, a species of shark. Date: 1862

Suffragette, Mixed Bathing at Seaside. Never mind the sharks! Sign on the beach reads, Beware of the Suffragettes, Bathing Machines provided for Ladies and Suffragettes

A Mako Shark Hooked
A huge Mako shark being hooked off the coast of New Zealand. Date: 1928

Old Card Sharks
Old card sharks analysing the game in hand... Date: 1930s

Young Gamblers
Four young men playing a game of cards at a round table. Date: 1930s

Blackburn B-6 Sharks in production

Shark Fishing
Shark fishing boats in the harbour at Looe, Cornwall, England. Date: 1960s

Sharks Eat Parachutist
Sharks enjoy a feast when the Australian parachutist, Lieut. Guiller, is carried out to sea by air currents. Date: 1928

Boy Taken by Shark / 1901
A boy is taken by a shark (although it is not certain that this photo is genuine) Date: 1901

Eat More Fish by de Rosa
Humorous illustration showing a gentleman relaxing as he bobs in the sea using a rubber ring, reading in his newspaper about eating more fish

Working on Treasure Ship
Divers discover the wreck of a Spanish treasure-ship, sunk in 1632, off the coast of San Domingo in the Caribbean : they also find that it is infested with sharks

Jaw of a shark, showing its teeth
The jaw of a shark, showing its teeth

Shark pursuing a shipwrecked sailor
A Common Shark (carcharias lamia) about to make a meal of a shipwrecked sailor

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