Catastrophe Collection (page 8)

Wreck of the "Royal Adelaide" Steam-Ship, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Wreck of the "Royal Adelaide" Steam-Ship, 1850. On Sunday 31 March 1850 a ship was wrecked on Tongue Sands, just off the coast of Kent

The Village of Killard, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Village of Killard, [Ireland], 1850....Killard forms part of the Union of Kilrush, and possesses an area of 17, 022 acres

The Wreck of the Reliance (November 12, 1842), November 1, 1843. Creator: George Baxter
The Wreck of the Reliance (November 12, 1842), November 1, 1843

The High Tide - Overflow of the Thames on Tuesday - Vine-Street, York-Road, Lambeth, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The High Tide - Overflow of the Thames on Tuesday - Vine-Street, York-Road, Lambeth, [London], 1850....the tide rose so extraordinarily high

Destruction of Caversham-Park House by Fire, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Destruction of Caversham-Park House by Fire, 1850....an extensive conflagration broke out at Caversham-park, near Reading, the seat of Mr

After the Chicago Catastrophe, from Puck, 1880. Creator: Joseph Keppler
After the Chicago Catastrophe, from Puck, 1880

Terrific Explosion at the Raj Ghaut Ferry, Benares, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Terrific Explosion at the Raj Ghaut Ferry, Benares, [India], 1850....a fleet of thirty-four boats, laden with military stores, consisting of 16 brass guns

Wreck of the "Orion" at Low Water, 1850. Creator: Unknown. Wreck of the "Orion" at Low Water, 1850
Wreck of the "Orion" at Low Water, 1850. The Orion paddle steamer struck a submerged rock near Portpatrick Lighthouse, Wigtownshire, Scotland. 41 of the 200 passengers on board died

The "Orion" Sinking, 1850. Creator: Unknown. The "Orion" Sinking, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The "Orion" Sinking, 1850. The Orion paddle steamer struck a submerged rock near Portpatrick Lighthouse, Wigtownshire, Scotland. 41 of the 200 passengers on board died

Wreck of the "Orion" at High Water, 1850. Creator: Unknown. Wreck of the "Orion" at High Water
Wreck of the "Orion" at High Water, 1850. The Orion paddle steamer struck a submerged rock near Portpatrick Lighthouse, Wigtownshire, Scotland. 41 of the 200 passengers on board died

Scene of the recent railway accident at Winchburgh, on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Scene of the recent railway accident at Winchburgh, on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, 1862....a collision on the Edinburgh and Glasgow line, near Winchburgh

The Inundation in the Fens: the syphon dam of the middle-level drain, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Inundation in the Fens: the syphon dam of the middle-level drain, 1862. The employment of the syphon is quite a novel feature in the history of drainage. Should the experiment now devised by Mr

The Inundation in the Fens: the blown sluice at the Marshland Drain, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Inundation in the Fens: the blown sluice at the Marshland Drain, 1862. View of...the remains of the Smee or Fen Drain sluice

The Flood in the Fens: making the cofferdam, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Flood in the Fens: making the cofferdam, 1862. The hopes, mingled largely with fears, of the Marshland farmers are centred upon the gigantic cofferdam which Mr

The fatal fire at the Liverpool Workhouse, Brownlow-Hill: ruins of the children's dormitory, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The fatal fire at the Liverpool Workhouse, Brownlow-Hill: ruins of the children's dormitory, 1862....a most calamitous fire...resulted in the loss of the lives of two women

Troops Buried by a Snowstorm, 19th century. Creator: Nikolay Nikolaevich Karazin
Troops Buried by a Snowstorm, 19th century. One of 21 watercolors (out of an original 27) from an album relating to the history of the Siberian Cossacks held by the Rare Books Department of

The Great Fire at Enschede, Holland: distribution of blankets to the houseless... 1862. Creator: Mason Jackson
The Great Fire at Enschede, Holland: distribution of blankets to the houseless - from a sketch by our special artist, 1862....a labouring man had expressed to some of his comrades his disgust at

Illustration of the Great Fire at Enschede, by our special artist: doorway of the... 1862. Creator: Unknown
Illustration of the Great Fire at Enschede, by our special artist: doorway of the Protestant church, 1862. The town...contained about a thousand dwellings, four churches, a townhall, a post-office

The Flood in the Fens: view from Islington Bridge, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Flood in the Fens: view from Islington Bridge, 1862. From the summit of the Middle-Level railway-bridge almost the entire extent of the flooded country was presented to the view

The Flood in the Fens: the submerged railway between Lynn and Wisbeach, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Flood in the Fens: the submerged railway between Lynn and Wisbeach, 1862. From the summit of the Middle-Level railway-bridge almost the entire extent of the flooded country was presented to

The Flood in the Fens: the breach in the bank, three miles and a half above the sluice, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Flood in the Fens: the breach in the bank, three miles and a half above the sluice, 1862. The high tides of the past week made no impression on the eastern bank of the Middle-Level Drain

The Inundation in the Fens: scene from the drain bank, above the Coffer Dam, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Inundation in the Fens: scene from the drain bank, above the Coffer Dam, 1862. From the summit of the Middle-Level railway-bridge almost the entire extent of the flooded country was presented to

Destruction by fire of the western wing of Queen's College, Cork, on Thursday week, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Destruction by fire of the western wing of Queen's College, Cork, on Thursday week, 1862. Fire-engines were soon on the spot; but the fire raged so furiously that there was no hope of saving

The late fire at Campden House: view of the garden front, showing the remains of the theatre, 1862
The late fire at Campden House [Kensington]: view of the garden front, showing the remains of the theatre, 1862. On the morning of Sunday week...a fire broke out at Campden House

Scene of the boiler explosion at Millfield Ironworks, near Wolverhampton, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Scene of the boiler explosion at Millfield Ironworks, near Wolverhampton, 1862. Engraving from a photograph by W. H. Dodds, photographer, Railway-street, Wolverhampton

The explosion at Millfield Ironworks: portion of the boiler hurled to a distance of 250 yards, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The explosion at Millfield Ironworks: portion of the boiler hurled to a distance of 250 yards, 1862. Engraving from a photograph by W. H. Dodds, photographer, Railway-street, Wolverhampton

The Great Flood in the Fens: attempt to form a dam in the middle-level drain, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Great Flood in the Fens: attempt to form a dam in the middle-level drain, 1862. The destruction of the sluice connected with the Middle-Level outfall...has been attended with the most serious

Illustration of the Great Fire at Enschede, by our special artist: ruins of the Roman... 1862. Creator: Unknown
Illustration of the Great Fire at Enschede, by our special artist: ruins of the Roman Catholic church, 1862. The town...contained about a thousand dwellings, four churches, a townhall, a post-office

Illustration of the Great Fire at Enschede, by our special artist: general view of the town... 1862 Creator: Unknown
Illustration of the Great Fire at Enschede, by our special artist: general view of the town after the fire, sketched from the meadows, 1862....about four thousand individuals

The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: view from the railway, taken shortly after... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: view from the railway, taken shortly after the catastrophe, 1862. The Hartley Colliery disaster was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England

The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: removal of the coffins containing the bodies, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: removal of the coffins containing the bodies, 1862. The Hartley Colliery disaster was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England

The New Hartley Pit Calamity: the funeral procession leaving Colliery Row for Earsdon... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The New Hartley Pit Calamity: the funeral procession leaving Colliery Row for Earsdon Churchyard, 1862. The Hartley Colliery disaster of 16 January 1862 was a coal mining accident in Northumberland

The Flood, 1866. Artist: Gustave Dore
The Flood, 1866. Humans and animals are overwhelmed by the deluge while, in the background, The Ark floats on the waters. From the Bible (Genesis)

Painting, title unknown, mid 19th century. Artist: Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna
Painting, title unknown, mid 19th century

The Ryogoku Fire Sketched from Hamacho on the 26th of January, 1881, (1881). Creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika
The Ryogoku Fire Sketched from Hamacho on the 26th of January, 1881, (1881). The fire broke out in Kanda Matsueda-cho, half a mile west of Kiyochika's house near the west end of Ryogoku Bridge

A Fire at Night, 1807. Creator: CW Eckersberg
A Fire at Night, 1807

The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: Mr. William Shields, Master Sinker, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: Mr. William Shields, Master Sinker, 1862. The Hartley Colliery disaster was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England

The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: Mr. Emerson, Master Sinker, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: Mr. Emerson, Master Sinker, 1862. The Hartley Colliery disaster was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England

The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: Mr. David Wilkinson, Master Sinker, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: Mr. David Wilkinson, Master Sinker, 1862. The Hartley Colliery disaster was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England

The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: Mr. Thomas Watson, Pitman, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: Mr. Thomas Watson, Pitman, 1862. The Hartley Colliery disaster was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England

The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: Mr. Coulson, Superintendent of the Exploring Party, 1862 Creator: Unknown
The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: Mr. Coulson, Superintendent of the Exploring Party, 1862. The Hartley Colliery disaster was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England

The New Hartley Pit Calamity: Gilbert Ward, Esq. M.R.C.S.E. 1862. Creator: Unknown
The New Hartley Pit Calamity: Gilbert Ward, Esq. M.R.C.S.E. 1862. The Hartley Colliery disaster of 16 January 1862 was a coal mining accident in Northumberland which resulted in the deaths of 204 men

The New Hartley Pit Calamity: Anthony Davison, Esq. M.R.C.S.E. 1862. Creator: Unknown
The New Hartley Pit Calamity: Anthony Davison, Esq. M.R.C.S.E. 1862. The Hartley Colliery disaster of 16 January 1862 was a coal mining accident in Northumberland which resulted in the deaths of 204

Memorial-stone to the late Mr. Braidwood, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Memorial-stone to the late Mr. Braidwood, 1862. The tribute to the memory of the late Mr. Braidwood, Superintendent of the London Fire Brigade, raised by the M division of police

The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: Mr. Robert Turnbull, Pitmen's Deputy, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Fatal Accident at New Hartley Colliery: Mr. Robert Turnbull, Pitmen's Deputy, 1862. The Hartley Colliery disaster was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England

"To The Rescue"-- An Episode of a Colliery Disaster, 1886. Creator: Unknown
" To The Rescue" -- An Episode of a Colliery Disaster, 1886. From " The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

The Debris of the Shipwreck, ca. 1756-88. Creator: Louis Joseph Masquelier
The Debris of the Shipwreck, ca. 1756-88

Effect of Thunder, ca. 1755-85. Creator: Bertaud
Effect of Thunder, ca. 1755-85

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