Stranded Collection (page 2)

Wreck of French Fishing Boat Varenne, Lands End, Cornwall
Wreck of the French Fishing Boat Varenne of Cherbourg, at Dollar Cove, Lands End, Cornwall Date: 1968

Wreck of the Broadmayne, ashore at Mill Bay Cove, Devon
Wreck of the Broadmayne, ashore at Mill Bay Cove, Kingswear, South Devon. Date: 1922

Wreck of the Brigontine Crossowen at Thurleston, Devon Date: 1908

Car in the snow on Dartmoor, Devon. Date: circa 1970s

Harbour with fishing boats at low tide, and a ship in the background. Date: circa 1920s

Enquirers at the British Consulate, Paris at outbreak of WW1
Enquirers at the British Consulate, Paris at the outbreak of WW1 Date: 1914

A picturesque view of the state of the nation for February 1778. An Indian (America) cuts the cows horns of English commerce, milked by Holland

Stranded Rissos dolphin - Head standing, playing out of the water. Scarring is believed to be made by the teeth of other Rissos dolphins or by their squid prey. (Grampus griseus)

Some people can always get help
A attractive woman stands helplessly next to her broken down car, while a man helps. Date: 1923

Women Workers WW1 Y. W. C. A Womens Day
Poster commemorating Womens Day, a fund-raising event on behalf of the Womens Wartime Workers Fund. The Young Womens Christian Association (Y.W.C.A) set up centres for munitions workers, W.A.A.C s

Woman Railway Porter WW1. Stranded old lady passenger is offered a bed with the lady porter! (Both are respectable married women) Date: circa 1917

Giant Ferris Wheel, Earls Court
Construction work began on the wheel in March 1894 and it was opened to passengers in July 1895. It had a diameter of 300ft, weighed 1, 100 tons and a complete revolution took around twenty minutes

1937 Coronation - Abbey guests stranded in rain after ceremo
Peers and peeresses taking shelter during the height of the downpour which occurred at the most inconvenient possible moment after having held off during the Coronation ceremony of King George VI

Heligoland submarine rescue by G. H. Davis
During the naval action off Heligoland in the early part of the First World War, a boats crew is rescued by a British submarine. Date: August 1914

Stranded Sea Elephant - Falkland Islands
Stranded Sea Elephant (Southern Elephant Seal) - Falkland Islands Date: circa 1920s

Three Piasecki HRP-1s on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Saipan just before it departed from Norfolk, Virginia, for Greenland in an effort to rescue 13 stranded airmen

Scientist at work in the Darwin Centre
A stranded harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, is examined to establish its age, diet, the number of parasites it bears, and the likely cause of death

Working on whale carcass, 1930s
Since 1913, when the Crowns rights to whales and dolphins stranded or caught in English waters (Fishes Royal) were transferred to the Museum, staff have been monitoring cetacean strandings

A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family of nine who are stranded and penniless in New Mexico. Date 1937 Aug

Flooding in Lyon in 1910
Flooding in Lyon in January 1910 caused a great rise in the water level of the River Rhone. Here a baker and his boys in his traditional bateau boat

Italian submarine stranded near Tagliamento River
Italian submarine no.10 stranded near the mouth of the Tagliamento River, north east Italy. Date: 20th century

HMS Louis, British destroyer, Suvla Bay, WW1
HMS Louis, British Laforey-class destroyer, launched 1913, served during the early part of the First World War, stranded and wrecked in Suvla Bay during the Dardanelles Campaign

Dog on a Rock
The King of the Castle, a dog stranded at sea! Date: early 1930s

Stranded steamship, Linney Head, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
View of a stranded steamship, the Princess Irene, on the coast at Linney Head, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. Shortly after leaving Aberdeen the ship met foggy weather and steered to Linney Head

Theatre, Maughams, The Moon And Sixpence 1925, Nerman
Eileen Sharp as Ata, the native girl, and Henry Ainley as Charles Strickland, in Somerset Maughams The Moon And Sixpence. Although and excellent play

Musical lovers in a boat
Being stranded in a boat on the river, this poor woman can find no escape from her lovers musical offering so she sits back resigned to an afternoon of violin playing

Whale Stranded at Winterton, Norfolk, 1857
Engraving showing a whale which was stranded on the beach at Winterton, Norfolk, during gales in January 1857

Cars stuck in snow at Pease Pottage, 1963
A long line of cars stranded at Pease Pottage Hill on the London to Brighton road in deep snow during the ferocious winter of 1963

Baychimo on Iceberg
The cargo ship " Baychimo" lost in 1931, is seen stranded on an iceberg by Eskimos in 1936

Beached Sailing Ship
A sailing ship stranded on a British beach at low tide

Pilgrims in Holland
The first shipload of pilgrims under John Robinson and William Brewster get as far as Holland but are forced to stay there until 1620

Stranded Squid / Canada
ARCHITEUTHIS PRINCEPS stranded on a Newfoundland beach Date: 1883

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