Storm Gallery

Coastguards and civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey

Commemorative postcard, Heroes All! Five brave coastguards and two civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, who rescued 20 members of the 2nd Walworth Boy Scouts Troop who got into difficulties when their training vessel, a 32 foot ex-naval cutter, was hit by a sudden squall and capsized. Sadly, nine Sea Scouts died. There were 23 Sea Scouts, the Scout Master and five helpers on board. The tragedy was widely reported in newspapers at the time. A Memorial was erected in 1914 in Nunhead Cemetery.
4 August 1912

© Mary Evans / The Scout Association

Storm of The Battle of Tinderley Down by C K Monro

Promotional postcard for Storm or The Battle of Tinderley Down by C. K. Monro. First produced at the Ambassadors Theatre, 13th August 1924. The title refers to the expression storm in a tea-cup. The elegant red-head is Storm, the mistress of a handsome and popular but pompous singer, who realises too late that she prefers a timid but goodhearted man. She fails to prise him from his wife. Date: 1924

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Lady Elizabeth ? Stanley Harbour

?Lady Elizabeth?, an iron barque of 1,155 tons built by Robert Thompson Jr. of Southwick, Sunderland and launched on 4 June 1879. Damaged in a storm in 1912,she limped to Stanley where she grounded on Uraine Rock just off Volunteer Point, suffering a 6-foot (1.8 m) break in the hull and keel along with a 1-foot (30 cm) hole. She was deemed uneconomical to repair and used as a coal hulk until breaking loose in a storm and drifting to Whalebone cove, where she resides to this day, in the Falkland Islands. Date: 1984

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans