Sinking Collection (page 5)

Game to the Last - pirate on a ship
A pirate, sword in hand, stands on the deck of a sinking ship, prepared to fight to the bitter end. Date: 1928

Kadir Rocks, Sri Lanka, 1871
The Kadir Rocks at the entrance to Galle harbour, Sri Lanka, where the P&O mail steamship Rangoon was accidently sunk after running onto the rocks. Date: 1871

Dunkirk, France - tugs sunk in the port, WW2
Dunkirk, France - tugs sunk in the port during WW2. Date: 1940-1945

Dunkirk, France - Trystram Lock, WW2
Dunkirk, France - Trystram Lock, with a partially submerged vessel, following damage during WW2. Date: 1940-1945

Mules rescued from the mud, 1917
Mules in the mire of the battle area: a tragedy of the Flanders mud in three acts. 1917

St Peter walks on the sea towards Jesus - Matthew 14. circa 1688

Wreck of the Royal George
The HMS Royal George was built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1756, and sank whilst anchored off Portsmouth on 29 August 1782. Date: 1782

Blowing up of the Royal George
Wreck of the HMS Royal George blown up after failure of the attempts to raise her. Date: 1782

Shipwreck of St Paul - Acts 28. circa 1688

Sinking ship, off the coast of China, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Royal Edward torpedoed August 1915
The first British transport ships to be sunk in the First World War, Royal Edward owned by the Canadian Northern Steamship Company

The Pacific War. Battle of Iquique. The Chilean corvette Esmeralda is sunk by the Peruvian ironclad Huascar on May 21, 1879. Colored engraving

Work at a coal mine, 1878
Work at a coal mine, sinking a shaft. Date: 1878

Cunard Wharf, Boston
Cunard Wharf within Boston Harbour was owned by the Cunard Line Company who had been awarded the first British Trans Atlantic steamship mail contract in 1839

Bull Routed / Gallipoli
John Bull routed at Gallipoli. Date: 1915

Building Paris Metro
Building the Metro : sinking the central caisson beneath the Seine Date: 1908

Sunset over Monte Oliveto from banks of the Arno River, Florence, Italy. Date: 1905

Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915), art dealer best known for establishing the Municipal Gallery for Modern Art in Dublin in 1908. Died tragically when on board the Lusitania which was torpedoed by a German

That Sinking Feeling. Skinningrove, N Yorks 1970s Date: 1970s

Sinking of the U 15 - HMS Birmingham
The British Light Cruiser, H.M.S. " Birmingham", commanded by Captain Arthur Duff, notable for sinking the first German U-boat - the U15 - on 9 August 1914. Date: 1914

Cartoon, A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain, or, John Bull swamped in the Flood of new Taxes; Cormorants fishing in the Stream, by James Gillray

Men of the Australian Navy in Great War Deeds, WW1
Men of the Australian Navy, on board the HMAS Sydney, cheering and crying as the defeated and sinking German cruiser Emden turned to run ashore

WW1 - Sinking Svionia the merchantman - Baltics Sea, 1915
WW1 - The first German merchant ship victim Svionia, was sunk by the gunfire off Sassnitz in the western Baltic. The men from two smaller boats and a submarine

WW1 - Battle of Falkland - Heroic German on S. M. S. Leipzig
WW1 - Battle of Falkland - A heroic German waves a flag on top of the S.M.S. Leizpig as it sinks. SMS Leipzig (" His Majestys Ship Leipzig" )

British rescuing men from German destroyer, Heligoland, WW1
British sailors rescuing men of a German destroyer, under fire, at the Battle of Heligoland Bight - a gallant deed officially recognised by Germany

WW1 - The Sinking of the German Cruiser Blucher
World War 1 - The Sinking of the German Cruiser Blucher / SM, Dogger Bank, North Sea, England. World War 1 Date: 1915

Sweeping up flour after attack on German bakery, WW1
Sweeping up the remains of flour emptied in the street by the crowd after an attack on a German bakery in East India Dock Road

Edwardian group in the garden of Strathclyde, Offerton Road, Stockport. Standing with his sister and brothers is James Johnson Battersby who survived the Lusitania sinking ten years later

WWI Poster, Remember the Lusitania
Remember the Lusitania! Enlist Today. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster in letterpress, using emotive anti-German propaganda. Date: 1916

Card commemorating Falkland Islands naval battle, WW1
Card commemorating Falkland Islands naval battle on 8 December 1914, when the British navy sank four German warships (Scharnhorst, Leipzig, Nurnberg and Gneisenau)

Sinking of the Empress of Ireland
Cover of the Illustrated London News Special Double Number on 6th June 1914 commemorating the loss of the Empress of Ireland which sank in the early hours of 29th May 1914 with great loss of life

The sinking of the Brig Charles Bartlett, 1849
The front cover of The Illustrated London News, dated 7th June, 1849 featuring the sinking of the Brig Charles Bartlett. Date: 1849

Bone ornament - sinking of SMS Blucher
Carved and painted bone ornament remembering the sinking of S.M.S. Blucher with German and Imperial Naval flags. Produced by German civilian internees in the Isle of Man. Trench Art

Copy of German original medallion - sinking of the Lusitania
This is a British strike of the German original medallion made to celebrate the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine on the 7th May 1915

WW2 poster, Victory of the Allies is Assured, showing a British submarine sinking an enemy ship. Date: 1940s

The Zep That Bill Built
A poetic spoof of the rhyme, The House that Jack Built, telling the tale of a zeppelin built by the Germans and its eventual sinking by the British. Date: 1915

Front cover of The Illustrated London News, 1843
The front cover of The Illustrated London News, dated 29th July 1843. The wreck of the ship Pegasus is pictured, and the news on the Rebecca riots in south Wales are reported on. Date: 1843

The Lusitania struck by a torpedo
A page from the Illustrated London News showing three sketches of a series of five by Oliver Bernard, a scenic artist at the Covent Garden Opera, who was on board the Lusitania, and survived

British soldiers in water during rest break, WW1
British soldiers in water during a rest break on the Western Front in France during World War One. Their improvised boat has just sunk. Date: circa 1916

War horses during wet weather, Western Front, WW1
The effect of wet weather on war horses on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Sinking of German ship, Konigin Luise, by G. H. Davis
The sinking of the German mine layer, Konigin Luise, off Harwich in the early stages of the First World War. Showing the position of the Lance when firing the three fatal shots. Date: August 1914

Sinking of a German submarine by G. H. Davis
The sinking of a German submarine, showing the action in four stages between HMS Birmingham and the German U-boat U15. Also shown: how long a cruiser can keep going with one supply of coal (middle)

Submarine incident in North Sea by G. H. Davis
A submarine incident in the North Sea. How the sinking of the German cruiser Hela was accomplished (top). Two other illustrations relate to

B. R. S. M Tea Party
Children, attended by adults, sit at trestle tables in a small hall. Their mugs are filled from watering-cans. A hand-written caption states B.R.S.M. perhaps part of the Ragged Schools Mission

Last moments of HMS Courageous by G. H. Davis
The last moments of HMS Courageous after being torpedoed by a German U-boat: the crew abandoning ship in the failing evening light

RAF pilot bombing U-boat by G. H. Davis
How an RAF pilot stalked a U-boat and bombed it. The sinking of a German U-boat by a young South African pilot of the RAF. Date: 1939

Battle of the Philippines by G. H. Davis
The crushing rout of the Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Philippines during the Second World War. A map of the operations

Escort carrier Archer by G. H. Davis
How the escort carrier Archer made her kill in the gap during the Second World War. The aircraft of the Archer, escorting an Atlantic convoy, sight and sink a German U-boat. Date: 1943

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