Sunk Collection (page 6)

War in the Pacific
Pages from The Sphere, 20th December 1941, with an article and accompanying photographs and illustrations about the loss of the British battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse

Battered cruiser HMS Vindictive after Zeebrugge Raid
The damaged Cruiser HMS Vindictive (much repaired!) after the Zeebrugge Raid. Early in 1918 she was fitted out for the Zeebrugge Raid

Foundering of the Union Companys Mail Steam-Ship American
This image depicts the loss of the steam ship American which sunk near Cape Palmas on 23rd April 1880

The Battleship Arizona
The photograph shows the battleship Arizona which was sunk by a Japanese aircraft in Pearl Harbour, 1941

Lear / Nonsense / Chertsey
There was an Old Lady of Chertsey, who made a remarkable curtsey; She twirled round and round, till she sunk underground, which distressed all the people of Chertsey

Lloyds Underwriters viewing the Casualties Board, 1890
Illustration showing a group of Lloyds underwriters viewing the Casualties Board, for information about damaged and sunk ships, Lodnon, 1890

Views of St. Pauls Cathedral, London, 1913
Illustrations and photograph of St. Pauls Cathedral, London, in 1913 when it was felt that the building was suffering from subsidence

U14 rammed by British trawler
A German illustration depicting their version of events as submarine U 14 is sunk treacherously and unsuspectedly. The illustration shows a British trawler ramming the U boat deliberately

The German flag ship sunk by the British near the Falklands: The cruiser Scharnhorst

H. M.s Good Hope
Sunk in action off Chile, H.M.S Good Hope

Truck sunk during the Anzio landings; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a three-ton truck sunk alongside a pontoon, during the Allied landings in the Nettuno-Anzio area, 1944

The entrance to a captured German dug-out
The staircase and entrance to a German dug-out captured by the British army during the Somme offensive in July 1916. Such shelters were often highly elaborate

The Lost Cunarder
Photograph of the Lusitania, a floating palace, torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of 1200 lives

Torpedoed ship
Front page photograph from the Illustrated London News showing torpedoe damage to a Norwegian oil-tank steamer, Belridge. The picture was intended to show the damage suffered by the Lusitania

The Hesperian
The liner, Hesperian sunk by a German submarine off the Irish south coast on September 4th 1915 on a voyage from Liverpool to Montreal

The Smoking-Room of the Lusitania, the liner torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915, with the loss of 1200 lives

Unsere Helden
A commemorative photograph of the crew of the U9, a German submarine claiming to have sunk three British cruisers in 1914. With the news, the men became heroes of the Fatherland

Survivors in a Lifeboat, 1918
Photograph showing the survivors of a passenger ship, sunk by German submarine action, adrift at sea in a small lifeboat during the First World War

Rear-Admiral Markham, of HMS Camperdown, 1893
Photograph of Rear-Admiral Markham of the Royal Navy, c.1893. Markham was in command of the Second Division of the Mediterranean Squadron on board HMS Camperdown

HMS Goliath, 1907
Photograph of HMS Goliath, a Canopus Class battleship of 12, 950 tons, launched in 1898. She was sunk in May 1915, off Cape Helles, Dardanelles, with the loss of most of her crew

Egypt Wreck - 7
Though some of the gold and silver sunk off Brest with this P&O liner has been recovered by divers, others continue to search believing there is more to be recovered

Lost Seamen Letter
A letter from the Ministry of War Transport to a mother whose son has been lost at sea following the sinking of his ship by the enemy

Seamen Missing at Sea
A letter informing a mother that there is still no news about her son, since his ship Inverness was sunk one month ago by the enemy. He is presumed drowned

Missing Seamen 1941
Letter to a mother whose son was drowned when his ship was sunk by the enemy. It gives information about his pension arrangements

Donation to Seamen
A note detailing a mothers donation to the Missions to Seamen charity in memory of her son, whose ship was sunk in the Altantic in World War Two

British Tankers Sunk
Italian bombers destroy a British tanker carrying essential fuel to the Allied forces in North Africa

Death Certificate 1941
Death certificate issued when Alan Sandersons ship Inverness is sunk by the enemy in the North Atlantic in World War Two. He is missing, supposed drowned

Indian Troopship Sunk
East Africa : a ship bringing Indian reinforcement troops to support the Allied campaign against the Italians is destroyed by the Italian navy in the Red Sea

Custom - Flowers
When the Russian ship Bouvet is sunk during World War One, the people and their priest scatter flowers on the water

Spanish 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)

Austrian Ship Sunk
The Italian struggle provides little opportunity for naval heroics, but the Piedmontese at Salo sink an Austrian steamship on lake Garda

Lusitania - Photo
The Great Cunard liner Lusitania, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine

German Captain Salutes
The captain of a German warship, having sunk an enemy vessel, shows his good breeding by saluting the ship and its crew whom he has sent to their graves

AMPHION SUNK
The British cruiser Amphion is sunk by a mine in the Thames estuary while attacking the Konigin Luise

HERMES SUNK BY U-BOAT
The British cruiser Hermes is torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat

EMDEN SINKS SHIPS
The German raider Emden sinks two British ships, Tumerico and King Lud, but will herself be sunk by the Australians in November off North Keeling Island

Shipbuilding, Ww1 Period
A ship on the stocks in a British shipyard during World War One, when ships were being built as rapidly as possible to replace those sunk by the German U-boats

The Unfortunate Merchant
A merchant receives news that the ship in whose cargo he had invested all his capital is sunk, and with it all his hopes of making his fortune. Ah, the vanity of human wishes!

Britannia Cunarder
Passenger liner of the Cunard Line which starts the first regular transatlantic mail service; in 1849 she is sold to Germany and ends her career sunk as a target ship

Rj War / Novik Sunk
The Russian cruiser Novik is sunk by the Japanese cruiser Tschitole

Working on Treasure Ship
Divers discover the wreck of a Spanish treasure-ship, sunk in 1632, off the coast of San Domingo in the Caribbean : they also find that it is infested with sharks

The Carrier Stuck Fast
THE CARRIER STUCK FAST The carter despairs when he sees the wheels of the hay wagon sunk deep into the ground

THE ROYAL GEORGE
Raising the the wreck of the Royal George, which sunk in 1782

German Submarine Wwi
12-inch gun on a minster German submarine, the kind that sunk British shipping

Ostend from the Air
Aerial view of the Vindictive memorial at Ostend, where on 23 April 1918 the ship was deliberately sunk, blocking the passage to German U-boats

Defence of Le Havre
Le Havre is being bombarded by the English, when PIERRE BASTE, commander of a small gunboat, attacks the attackers. When his vessel is sunk he takes another

Lusitania Sinks (Morell)
Torpedoed within sight of the Irish coast: a reconstruction of where and how the Cunard passenger liner was sunk by German U-boat U-20, with the loss of 1198 lives

Lusitania in 1908
Passenger liner of the Cunard line, the largest in the world at the time of her launch; she will be torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915, with the lost of 1198 lives

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