Sinking Collection (page 3)

HELENE MARCELLE WRECKED
A lifeboat pulls out from Le Havre to the sinking fishing boat, in time to save her crew from a cold wet death. Date: 1907

DIE SINKING ROOM AT MINT
The coinage and medal dies are formed under this press by forcing a punch, on which is the required design, into specially prepared blanks. Date: circa 1910

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

Disaster in the Bay of Saint Cast, Brittany, north-west France, 11 September 1758, during the Battle of Saint Cast, Seven Years War (1756-1763). Boats full of British soldiers were fired at and sunk

British ship, freighter Exeter City sinks North Atlantic, 1933
British ship, freighter Exeter City sinks in North Atlantic, 1933

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

The latest act of Hun fiendishness during the First World War: the Glenart Castle, the seventh hospital ship sunk in breach of the German pledge

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

Vintage photograph WW II - sinking HMS Barham in 1941
Vintage photograph World War II - sinking of HMS Barham in 1941 in the Mediterranean Sea - hit by German U boat, take after magazine explosion. 859 men lost

Sinking of HMS Courageous, September 1939
Photograph of aircraft carrier HMS Courageous as it sinks, having been torpedoed by a German submarine, 17 September 1939

Three children, survivors of the Athenia, September 1939
Three young girls; Margot from London, Theodora from Toronto and Virginia from Detroit, photographed after being rescued from the transatlantic passenger liner, the Athenia

Scuttling of German Fleet, Scapa Flow, 21 June 1919
The scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, after the First World War. 1919

Sinking of German Fleet, Scapa Flow, 21 June 1919
Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow after the First World War, 21 June 1919. 1919

Sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst, WW1
Sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst, 8 December 1914, in the Battle of the Falklands, First World War. 1914

HMS Bulldog in conflict at Cap-Haitien
The HMS Bulldog in conflict with the flotilla and fort at Cap-Haitien, on the coast of Haiti. The bulldog fires towards what is left of a sinking flotilla

Destruction of a Brazilian Gunboat
During a naval skirmish, a Brazilian gunboat is torpedoed and is in the process of sinking, life boats of sailors rowing away from the steamship to the shores of the river. Date: 1865

Cortes, having landed on mainland, destroys his fleet
Hernan Cortes, having reached Mexico and discovering already a mutiny, decided to sink the ships to stop any more arising. Men in longboats surround ships, either sunk or sinking. Date: 1519

Cortes orders his men to sink his ships
Hernan Cortes orders his men to sink the ships, so that they cannot retreat. Camp has been set up on the banks, as men in longboats surround various boats either sunk or in the process of sinking

Scuttling of German fleet at Scapa Flow, post-WW1
The scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow after the First World War, June 1919. 1919

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl of St Aldwyn
Capital F. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl of St Aldwyn (1837-1916), British Conservative politician - Chancellor of the Exchequer (1885-1886 and 1895-1902) Date: 1900

The remains of the German zeppelin L-15 sinking off the Kentish coast in 1916. The ship was hit by gun fire during an air-raid the previous night

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

The works for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway Bridge at Blackfriars, London. Sinking a cylinder for one of the stone piers. Date: 1863

Kitchener Memorial, Orkney, Scotland
On Marwick Head, five miles east of Dounby in Orkney, stands a crenallated tower built by public subscription to honour the memory of Herbert Kitchener

Crew of a British C Class submarine 1916
British sailors struggle to haul some German sailors onboard a submarine, after the German ship was torpedoed. At this stage of the war

TENTACULAR CATCH / FRANCE
Crew of French fishing boat of Cancale find their nets full of hundreds of octopodes which swarm onto the side of their boat, nearly sinking it Date: 1906

The St. Louis Beef Canning Co. - Cooked Corn Beef - suitable for any dramatic raft-based sea survival situation... Date: circa 1870s

The ship Rangoon sinks, 1871
The P&O mail steamship Rangoon sinking after the removal of the passengers and crew. The ship was accidently run onto the rocks when leaving Galle harbour in Sri Lanka, where it eventually sank. 1871

Fantastic Adventures - The Mermaid of Maracot Deep by Alexander Blade. A giant mermaid sits at the bottom of the ocean and holds up a tiny submarine in wonder. 1949

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

WW1 - Battle of Dogger Bank - Sinking of SMS Blucher
WW1 - Battle of Dogger Bank - A photograph showing the sinking of the German battle cruiser, SMS Blucher, after being shelled by the British in 1915

Scenes at the Kent Waterworks, 1876
Engraving showing a series of scenes at the Kent Waterworks, near London, in 1876. The images show (clockwise from top left)

Mary Cornish - Heroine - WW2 - Sinking of SS City of Benares
Heroic Deeds of the War - Miss Mary Cornish. During the Second World War the City of Benares was used as an evacuee ship to evacuate 90 children from Britain to Canada

WWI German U-boat attack on an English Commercial Freighter. Date: 1915

The Damage on the Lusitania by the first torpedo
A diagram showing the actually broken and the area weaked by the explosion. Date: 7 May 1915

Loose Lips Might Sink Ships - United States Office of War Information poster, reproduced on postcards by House of Seagram. Date: circa 1942

Sinking of SMS Szent Istvan, Austrian battleship, WW1
The sinking of SMS Szent Istvan, an Austro-Hungarian Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleship (launched 1914), torpedoed by the Italian navy off the Dalmatian coast during the First World War

Titanic commemorative napkin
Commemorative paper napkin produced in memory of the captain, mates, crew and passengers of the RMS Titanic which sank on 15 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage

German doll from Titanic
Philomena, a German bisque doll rescued from the sea after the sinking of the Titanic. It was at first mistaken for a childs body

Titanic passenger and victim Bertram Frank Dean
RMS Titanic - Third Class passenger Bertram Frank Dean, father of Millvina Dean. An original photo postcard of Mr Dean who was lost in the sinking at the age of 25

RMS Titanic - annotated diagram of sinking
RMS Titanic - post-disaster postcard showing annotated diagram of the ship sinking. Date: 1912

RMS Titanic - In Memoriam card with cross and ivy, issued after the sinking of the Titanic. In Sacred Memory of the Titanic which collided with an iceberg off Cape Race, on 15th April 1912'

President Woodrow Wilson's head against the Stars & Stripes
Wilson strove to keep America neutral but the German U-boat campaign, and the sinking of the Lusitania, forced his hand. WW1 Date: circa 1917

Bounteous fishing trawler half submerged, Newlyn, Cornwall
Bounteous fishing trawler half submerged at low tide off the coast of Cornwall, near Newlyn harbour, being pumped out and pulled upright after rolling and sinking in rough seas, 17 January 1980

WW1 - RMS Laconia torpedoed, 25th February 1917
WW1 - RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner torpedoed by SM U-50 while returning from the USA to England with passengers. The first torpedo struck the liner, but did not sink her

WW1 - British hospital ship Anglia sinks, November 17th 1915
WW1 - HMHS Anglia was a British steam ship requisitioned for use as a hospital ship during the First World War. On 17th November 1915, Anglia was returning from Calais to Dover

WW1 - HMS Birmingham sinking the German U-15 U-Boat
WW1 - On 9 August 1914, HMS Birmingham spotted the German submarine U-15, whose engines had failed as she lay stopped on the surface in heavy fog, off Fair Isle

Sinking of the Blucher in Great War Deeds, WW1
A dramatic incident in the Battle of Dogger Bank: the German armoured cruiser Blucher sinking and HMS Arethusa, British light cruiser, standing in to save life

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