Sunk Collection (page 2)

HMS Aboukir, British Cressy class armoured cruiser, launched 1900, sunk by German U boat in September 1914

Haden Hill Coal Pits, Staffordshire
A typical Black Country coal mine. Sunk in 1893 by the Draycott Colliery Co, the colliery was originally known as the Klondyke and finally closed in 1943 Date: circa 1910

HMS Seagull, minesweeper
HMS Seagull was a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat, converted to be a minesweeper. She was built at Chatham Dockyard from 1888-1891

HMS Courageous, aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Courageous, an aircraft carrier, (formerly a battle-cruiser). HMS Courageous was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World

HMS Courageous - Fleet aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Courageous, a Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by First Sea Lord John Fisher

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Cruiser Baleares, ship of the nationalist side sunk by the republican fleet in March 1938. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid. Navy Museum

Admiral Graf Von Spee 1914
Admiral Graf Von Spee (1861 1914), naval officer of the German Kaiserliche Marine, Died on the 8 December 1914, on SMS Scharnhorst, South Atlantic, off the Falkland Islands. Date: 1914

Republican Submarine B. 6 off Corunna; Spanish Civil War, 1
Photograph showing the Republican Government's submarine B.6 on the surface, viewed from the deck of the Nationalist cruiser Velasco, off Corunna, 10th September 1936

BIRTH CERTIFICATE 1914
A 1941 copy of a birth certificate from 1914. Alan Sanderson went missing presumed dead when his ship was sunk in World War Two. Date: 1941

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

SPANISH SUB SUNK NR GIB
NAVAL WARFARE Nationalists sink a Republican submarine near Gibraltar. Date: 1936

Dassault-Breguet HU-25B Guardian 2111
United States Coast Guard - Dassault-Breguet HU-25B Guardian 2111 (MSN 413), of CGAS Corpus Christi, (Hulk sunk as artificial reef off North Carolina 3 May 2006) Date: circa 2000

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

HMS Hermes, Highflyer-class protected cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Hermes, a Highflyer-class protected cruiser, before conversion to an experimental seaplane carrier / tender

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

Captain Roger Wietzel Memorial, near Hermanville
Wietzel was the Captain of the French ship Courbet, an old French cruiser, which without engine or guns and filled with concrete, was towed across the Channel and sunk 1

Norwegian Destroyer Svenna, Anchor, la Breche
This is at la Breche d Hermanville just off Sword Beach. The ship was sunk by a German torpedo on D-Day and the anchor was retrieved by the French Navy in the summer of 2003

Memorial, at Portsea to the Crew of HMS Royal George
Memorial at Portsea to the Crew of HMS Royal George, sunk on the heel of Spithead on 29 August 1782. 1780s

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

Salvage operations, sunken submarine M2
Salvage operations on the sunken submarine M2, September 1932. 1932

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

The Royal Edward liner - sunk at the Dardanelles
The Royal Edward, formerly the Cairo, a big, two-funnelled liner which formerly crossed the Atlantic, and was later used as a troop ship

Curtis British Entomology Plate 170
Lepidoptera: Eudorea murana = Scoparia scoparia (The Curtis genus Eudorea having been sunk, and his specific name not Check Listed)

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

EGYPT WRECK - 5
The SORIMA salvage team, led by Giovanni Quaglia, aboard their ship the Artiglio with the first ingots of gold raised from the wreck of the SS Egypt

Deerhound rescues a portion of the crew of the Alabama, the Confederate war-steamer sunk by the Federal steam- sloop the Kearsarge. Date: 19 June 1864

GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE The French fleet is defeated by Howe off Ushant; five French ships are sunk and six are captured Date: 1 June 1794

BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK
Italian aircraft sink a British destroyer in the Mediterranean : the crew take to the boats as the warship goes down Date: August 1940

SPANIARDS SINK REVENGE
Sir Richard Grenville in the Revenge fights the Spanish, but Revenge is sunk. He defends his ship of 150 for 15 hours against 15 ships of 5000 men (1 of 2) Date: 1591

Purton Hulks, near Sharpness, Gloucestershire
The remains of one of the Purton Hulks. The old boats were deliberately sunk in 1950s to protect the banks of the Sharpness and Gloucester Canal at Purton, near Sharpness Docks

Men stand on forepart of part-submerged German Battlecruiser
WW1 - Men stand on the forepart of part-submerged German Battlecruiser SMS Bremse - Orkney - possibly part of the Scapa Flow salvage operations which commenced in 1919. Date: 1919

Submarine A3 - sunk at Spithead in collision with HMS Hazard
A-class Submarine HMS A3 - sunk at Spithead in collision with HMS Hazard with the loss of all 14 lives on 2nd February 1912 - The HMS Hazard

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

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

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

Russian battleship Slava, WW1
The Russian pre-dreadnought Borodino-class battleship Slava, launched 1903, served in the Baltic Sea during the First World War, sunk October 1917. Seen here flying the Russian Navy Jack flag

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

Lusitania Menu
1907 cabin tea menu from the passenger liner Lusitania which was sunk eight years later in May 1915 when hit by a torpedo by a German U-boat during WWI

Save Food to win Wwi
A woman saves food according to rationing recommendations during World War I in order to help save ships (many merchant ships were sunk by U-boats during WWI)

HMS Wren - Admiralty modified W class destroyer
HMS Wren (D88/I88) was an Admiralty modified W class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was ordered in April 1918 from Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited under the 13th Order for Destroyers of

Leaving SS Ivernia, Boston Harbour
SS Ivernia was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Launched in 1899 by the Cunard Line company to act as an intermediate ship catering for the vast immigration

HMS Glasgow in Great War Deeds, WW1
HMS Glasgow, cruiser of the British Royal Navy, in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, during which the German ship Leipzig was set on fire and sunk

Captain Loxley of the Formidable, WW1 bravery
Clear Off - Submarines About: Captain Loxley of the Royal Navy, his terrier Bruce by his side, pictured giving his last order to another ship, warning of the danger of torpedoes

Germans showing guns on the Lusitania 1915
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on 7 May 1915 during the First World War, by a German U-boat, hitting the Lusitania twice with torpedoes, sinking within 18 minutes

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