Shipwreck Collection

The Mary Rose, Tudor ship, built in 1510. In service for 34 years, it sank in 1545. Discovered in 1971 it was successfully raised from the sea bed in 1982 amid much publicity. Date: 1982

Nelsons Flagship Foudroyant - Blackpool, Lancashire
The decaying hulk of Horatio Nelsons Flagship Foudroyant wrecked on the beach at Blackpool, Lancashire. On 16 June 1897 during a violent storm when under tow

Grace Darling, rowing with her father
Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, seen here rowing with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838

RMS Titanic docked
The Titanic docked before her disastrous voyage Date: 1912

TITANIC SINKING SEQUENCE
A sequence of illustrations showing the sinking of the Titanic, sketched by survivor John B Thayer Jr. (known as Jack, the son of John B Thayer, second vice-president of the Pennylvannia Railroad)

Grace Darling, lighthouse keeper's daughter
Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, who rowed with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838

Cartoon, The Dropped Pilot, WW1
Cartoon, The Dropped Pilot, twenty-four years after Tenniel. In Tenniels Dropping the Pilot cartoon of 1890 Kaiser Wilhelm II watches as Bismarck disembarks from the ship (of state)

Medals Awarded for Gallantry or Life-Saving at Sea - top row (L-R) Stanhope gold medal awarded by the Royal Humane Society for the bravest life-saving deed of the year

Timber Shipwreck, Scilly Isles, Cornwall, England. Date: 1910s

Hurricane at Madras, India: wrecks on the beach Date: 1872

The Jockey of Artemision - a Hellenistic bronze statue of a young boy riding a horse, dated to around 150140 BC. A very rare surviving original bronze statue from Ancient Greece

Ship figureheads on the Scilly Isles - Victorian period

Longstone Lighthouse Farne Islands Victorian period

Bell Rock Lighthouse Victorian period

Round Island Isles of Scilly Victorian period

A wreck on the beach at Overstrand near Cromer, Victorian period

Shipwreck and lifeboat, Whitby, Victorian period

Blackpool Wreck of the HMS Foudroyant in 1897

Wreck of the Foudroyant, Blackpool early 1900's

Aberdeen Beach Victorian period

Pirrie Carlisle Archive - illustration and photos
Pirrie Carlisle Archive - George Maurice Burn (1862-1945) pen and ink study of a shipwreck - THE END. Below it are five photographs of various people, and a large house. Date: early 20th century

RMS Lusitania - propaganda medal, leaflet and other items
RMS Lusitania - Carlton ware model 6.5 inches, together with German propaganda medal, leaflet, and other items. The bronze German Lusitania medal was designed by Karl Goetz

Shipwreck of P&O Oceana
The masts of the P&O liner ??Oceania?. It sunk above the water six miles south east of Eastbourne. It was run into by the German ship ??Pisaqua?. Date: 1912

Shipwreck
Drawing of what appears to be shipwreck victims, laid in contorted positions. Date: circa 1929

Shipwreck, Driving to Her Doom Date: circa 1900

Cartoon, Disenchantment, WW1
Cartoon, Disenchantment. The old ones are no fun, they die too quickly, muses a German U-boat commander. Date: 1916

Boats pulled up along the shore, Port Said, Egypt
19th century vintage photograph: boats pulled up along the shore, Port Said, Egypt. Zangaki studio

Boats along the banks of the River Nile, Egypt
Vintage 19th century photograph - boats tied up along the banks of the River Nile, Egypt, c.1870 s

boats on Lake Maggiore, Pallanza, Italy
19th century vintage photograph - boats on the waterfront, Pallanza, Italy. Pallanza is a district of the Italian comune of Verbania

Carp banner flying along the creek, Yokohama, Japan
Vintage 19th century photograph: Japan c.1880s - carp banner flying along the creek, Yokohama for the Boys Festival

Ship, Bosphorous, Constantinople, Istanbul, Turkey
Vintage 19th century photograph - iron clad ship, Bosphorous, Constantinople, Istanbul, Turkey

Comic postcard, Edwardian woman at sea in large hat Date: early 20th century

Wreck of HMS Wasp, British gun-boat, at Tory Island, Donegal, north coast of Ireland, 1884

View of Luxor from the River Nile, Egypt
19th century photograph - view of Luxor from the River Nile, Egypt

Scenes of the Eastern Cape (Kaffraria), South Africa, 1820
Nguni or Bantu (Kaffir) warrior hunting antelope with spears 55, forsaking a woman drowning in a river 56, and worshipping an anchor from an East India ship 57

Olivia features in Shakespeares Twelfth Night aromantic comedybelieved to have been written around 1601???1602. The play centres on the twinsViolaandSebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck

Cartoon, The pantomime is coming
Cartoon, " The World" is withdrawn, but the pantomime is coming. Possibly a reference to an unsuccessful production coming to an end, just before the pantomime season begins

Illustration, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
Illustration by Kenny Meadows to The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. The storm at sea, watched by Ariel. Date: 1840

The last of the Leviathan: the Titanic plunging beneath the waves. Mr Beesley, one of the survivors, described the final scene

MONKEY AND DOLPHIN
THE MONKEY AND THE DOLPHIN The dolphin thinks it has saved a man from the shipwreck, but finds its only a monkey

Forfarshire Shipwreck
When this paddle steamer wrecks on the Farne Islands, off Northumberland, lighthouse keeper Darling and 18-year old daughter Grace row to the wreck and save nine. Date: 7 September 1838

SINBADS STRANDED SHIP
Sinbads ship is stranded

Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731). Robinson Crusoe rescuing of the b
English literature. 17th century. Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731). English novelist. Robinson Crusoe rescuing of the boat all what could be before of its sinking. Colored engraving

HMS Warspite, Prussia Cove, Cornwall
HMS Warspite, Prussia Cove, near Praa Sands, Cornwall, England. Shipwreck Date: 1947

Shipwreck of Paul the Apostle on Melita (Malta)
The Bible book of Acts recounts that on the way to Rome for his appeal as a Roman citizen to Caesar, Paul the Apostle was shipwrecked on " Melita" (Malta). circa late 19th century

Music cover, Sailing Home, by Charles Osborne
Music cover, Sailing Home, words and music by Charles Osborne, performed by Wilton Smart. circa 1890

Lifeboat to the Rescue -- a shipwreck, with lifeboat crew and distressed people. 1890

Deep sea divers at work underwater. 1896

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