Survive Collection

Danae Cast Adrift (1903)
Danae, daughter of Acrisius king of Argos, is impregnated by Zeus : perceiving her son Perseus as a threat, papa casts them adrift in a boat, but of course they survive Date: 1903

S. S. Terra Nova, June 1910
Cut-away illustration of the Terra Nova, the ship that Captain Scott used in his second expedition to the Antarctic, 1910-1913

Wroxeter (Vriconium)
A surviving section of the Roman wall of Wroxeter, the largest Roman city to survive completely without any modern development. Only the Roman Baths are on public display

Babcock and Wilcox 6 ton Steam Roller YB7976 Toby (msn 95/4009). Seen with a 1955 Standard 10 motor car 200CPJ at a 1959 Walford Cross auction. Built in 1925 to the design of Messrs

Royal Air Force Supermarine Swift FR. 5 WK281
Royal Air Force Supermarine Swift FR.5 WK281. Built by Vickers Armstrong and delivered on 5 November 1956, WK281 joined No 79 Squadron at RAF Gutersloh

Supermarine Swift FR. 5 7712M - WK281
Royal Air Force Supermarine Swift FR.5 7712M / WK281. Built by Vickers Armstrong and delivered on 5 November 1956, WK281 joined No 79 Squadron at RAF Gutersloh

WW2 - Five Survive
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Five Survive, written by Charles Graves. The image shows a number of British fighter planes in the skies. Date: circa 1940s

Titanic fireman Lindsay continuous certificate of discharge
RMS Titanic - fireman William Charles Lindsay, continuous certificate of discharge, showing Titanic listed as voyage No. 7 and described as intended New York

Lockheed TR-1A 80-1068
United States Air Force (USAF) - Lockheed TR-1A 80-1068 (Article 068), at the SBAC Farnborough Air Show held between 5-12 September 1982

GENERAL-IN-CHIEF
Jules Henri Marius Bergeret, general in chief : he will survive the Commune and die in New York in 1905. Date: March-May 1871

RAF Survival School, Plymouth, where air crew are taught how to survive after ditching their aircraft. Seen here is a man in the water wearing a lifebelt, about to be air lifted to safety. Date: 1966

One of the sixteen famous milestones erected by Dr. Warren, Vicemaster of Trinity College, Cambridge, England. Only four survive, dating from 1728 to 1732. Date: erected 1728 - 1732

NEW YORK WARSHIP
One of several ships with this name, this battleship of the U.S.Navy will serve with the British fleet during World War One and also survive the 1946 Bikini atom bomb tests

V2 rocket attack on Manor Park, East London, WW2
A woman is rescued after a V2 rocket attack in Manor Park. Although many such amazing rescues took place, hundreds of Londoners died in these attacks launched in the latter stages of WW2

Medusa Raft Abandoned
When French vessel wrecks on African coast, all take to boats or a raft, to be towed by the boats : but the raft is abandoned, the 157 on it suffer terribly, only 15 survive. Date: July 1816

Illustration, A Song of the English, Barren Landscape
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Daniel in the Furnace
Daniel, along with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, is cast into a fiery furnace for refusing to worship the idol ordered by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. They survive

RAF Survival School, Plymouth, where air crew are taught how to survive after ditching their aircraft. Seen here is a man in the water wearing an inflatable lifejacket. Date: 1966

Mme Recamier (Viollat 1)
JEANNE-FRANCOISE-JULIE- RECAMIER French social leader who will manage to survive the Revolution. Date: 1777 - 1849

Mme Recamier (Gerard 3)
JEANNE-FRANCOISE-JULIE Madame RECAMIER French social leader who will manage to survive the Revolution. Date: 1777 - 1849

Mme Recamier (Mackenzie)
JEANNE-FRANCOISE-JULIE- RECAMIER French social leader who will survive the Revolution. Date: 1777 - 1849

Head-On Collision
Two trains of the Ligne du Nord meet face to face near Arras, with distressing consequences for the coaches and wagons, though the two locomotives survive ! Date: 1864

Life saving guide for seamen by G. H. Davis
For those in peril on the sea: a Government guide designed to save the lives of shipwrecked seamen during the Second World War

Town Hall at Louvain, Belgium, WW1
The Town Hall at Louvain, Belgium, with an inset of Kaiser Wilhelm II at the start of the First World War. The caption suggests that the building, in Brabantine late gothic style

Francois Montesquiou
FRANCOIS MARC ANTOINE FEZENZAC de MONTESQUIOU French statesman from Paris, president of the Assemblee Nationale 1790, managed to survive the Revolution. Date: 1757 - 1832

Airspeed AS5 Courier, G-ACVF, during rebuilding at Rochford, was the only Courier to survive WW2 and operated on pleasure flights and taxi work for East Anglian Flying Services

The Blunts Attacked
WILFRED SCAWEN BLUNT and his wife, LADY ANNE, are attacked - in error - by Arabs in the desert. Its scary for a while, but they survive to tell the tale. Date: 1840 - 1922

Queen Eleanors Cross, Northampton. The Eleanor crosses were 12 originally wooden, but later lavishly decorated stone, monuments, of which three survive intact

Seven Droog Castle, built in 1784 by Sir William James to commemorate his victories in India, but only part of the building will survive into the 21st century

Ship Hit by Lightning
The French warship Amiral is hit by lightning in St Lawrence river, Canada, and sinks with all her hands : only two women survive, by swimming to the shore

Chanzy Assaulted
General Chanzy is assaulted by the crowd and imprisoned by the Communards; hoever, he will be released after a few days and survive the Commune

U-Boat Drowns Survivors
When the British steamer Belgian Prince is torpedoed, the crew are taken aboard the U-boat and lined up on its deck; it then submerges... only a few survive

Centaur Wrecked
This naval warship goes down in a violent storm off Jamaica, but Captain Inglefield and 11 crew members survive

Malta Attacked
Malta : Italian bombers attack the island, a strategic target which is subjected to intense bombardment but manages to survive

Santa Barbara Mission was founded in 1786. Portions of five units of its extensive water works survive today. Ruins of tanning vats and pottery kilns also survive

Fishing Fleet in Storm
When a fishing fleet is caught in a severe storm, the vessels that survive pick up the crews of those which are destroyed

Duel / Clemenceau
DEROULEDE v CLEMENCEAU Poltical opponents Paul Deroulede and Georges Clemenceau fight with pistols, both survive the encounter

Paris-London Crash
A British plane carrying passengers from Paris to London runs into bad weather and crashes : only two of the six travellers survive

Noah Builds the Ark
Having received a flood warning from God, Noah sets about the construction of an Ark in which he, and two of every living creature, can survive

Japan - Mongols Checked
The Mongols, under Kublai Khan, seek to conquer Japan but their invasion fleet is devastated by storms, and the Japanese finish off any vessels which survive

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