Survivor Collection (page 7)

Crusoe at Dinner, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe In His Bower, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe and Friday Out Shooting, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe Ill Reading The Bible, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe Sees a Foot-Print in the Sand, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe and Friday On The Hill, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

The Mutineers Overpowered, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe Advised by his Father, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

The Burial of Friday, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe Making Baskets, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe Sowing Corn, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe and Friday Felling Wood, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Cassells Robinson Crusoe, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe Teaches His Parrot To Talk, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe Loading His Raft, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Friday and His Father, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe Discovers Himself To The English Captain, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Crusoe and Friday, c1870. From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. [Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London]

Burning of the Kent, c1893, (1911). Artist: Thomas M M Hemy
Burning of the Kent, c1893, (1911). The Kent, an East Indiaman, owned by the British East India Company, launched in 1820. The Kent left the Downs on 19th February 1825 with 641 people on board

Robinson Crusoe, chapbook cut, 18th century (1964). A print from A History of Wood Engraving, by Douglas Percy Bliss, Spring Books, London, 1964. (Colorised black and white print)

H. M. S. Glowworm Sunk, 1940, (1940)
H.M.S. Glowworm Sunk, 1940, (1940). Oil covered survivors being rescued by a German ship after the HMS Glowworm a British minelaying destroyer sank. From The War in Pictures

Reception for the survivors of the defence of Lucknow, India, January 1876 (1908). From Harmsworth History of the World, Volume 2, by Arthur Mee, J.A. Hammerton, & A.D. Innes, M.A

Rita Jolivet (1890-1971), English actress, 1911-1912. Jolivet was a silent film actress whose career spanned from 1914 to 1926. During that time she made only 20 films

Freemasons Hall, c1841. Artist: Henry Melville
Freemasons Hall, c1841. The dinner of the Royal Humane Society with the Procession of the Persons saved during the year from drowning

Boat of the Deerhound rescuing Captain Raphael Semmes, 1864 (c1880). Semmes was a Confederate naval officer during the American Civil War

The lifeboats of RMS Lusitania, 7 May 1915, (1926). Artist: Samuel Begg
The lifeboats of RMS Lusitania, 7 May 1915, (1926). On 7 May 1915, a German submarine torpedoed and sank the Lusitania off the south-west coast of Ireland near Kinsale

After a Shipwreck, 1847. Artist: Eugene Delacroix
After a Shipwreck, 1847. Delacroix, Eugene (1798-1863). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The passengers and equipment of Admiral Gueydon shipwrecked on the African coast, 1903. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 11th October 1903

The Shipwrecked Sailor Boy, late 18th-early 19th century (1912). Artist: William Redmore Bigg
The Shipwrecked Sailor Boy, late 18th-early 19th century (1912). A print from The Connoisseur, (London, 1912)

The Battle of the Nile, 1800. Artist: Philip James de Loutherbourg
The Battle of the Nile, 1800. The battle was fought at night in Abu Qir Bay, near Alexandria, Nelson found the French fleet at anchor and attacked, Tate Gallery, London

The Battle of Camperdown, 1799. Artist: Philip James de Loutherbourg
The Battle of Camperdown, 1799. In 1797 the British fleet defeated the Dutch, who were then aligned with the French, near Camperdown on the coast of Holland. Tate Gallery, London

The Shipwreck of Don Juan, 1840. Artist: Eugene Delacroix
The Shipwreck of Don Juan, 1840. From the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France

Scene from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 1892. Artist: John Dawson Watson
Scene from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 1892. This 18th century memoir novel was inspired by the story of the Scottish seaman Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721). Robinson Crusoe ill with ague

Survivors of the explosion of the Atom bomb at Hiroshima, Japan, 1945. Beds occupied by casualties suffering the effects of radiation

An Accident in Santander, Divers Looking for the Bodies of the Victims, 1893. Fire broke out on the commercial ship Cabo-Machchichaco, the crew of the liner Alphonse III, tried to help

Diagram of Mrs Anne Edson Taylor in the barrel in which she plunged over the Niagara Falls, 1901
Diagram of Mrs Anne Edson Taylor in the barrel in which she plunged over the Niagara Falls on 25 October 1901, her forty-third birthday. She was the first person to survive such a journey

First Anglo-Afghan War 91838-1842), c1880
First Anglo-Afghan War 1838-1842: Rescue of British prisoners from the Afghans after the defeat of Akbar Khan, April 1842

Rescuing survivors from sinking Russian vessel, Russo-Japanese War, 1904. Russian vessel Variag sinking at Chemulp, 9 February 1904. The French cruiser Pascal rescuing survivors

All That Was Left of Them, 2nd Boer War, 1899. Artist: Richard Caton Woodville II
All That Was Left of Them, 2nd Boer War, 1899. The Black Watch after the Battle of Magersfontein, 11 December 1899. In the week from 10 to 17 December 1899 the British under General Methuen suffered

Titanic survivors Picked up by the Carpathia : surviving sewardesses of the Titanic

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

WW2 Air raid on Eastbourne, East Sussex
Defiant against German air raids, a little girl stands in her garden in Eastbourne, teddy bear in one hand, union jack in the other, posing by a bomb crater

Titanic survivors on deck of a rescue ship
Deck of the " Carpathia" crowded with " Titanic" survivors, 1912. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

The Footprint on the Sand, from Daniel Defoes novel Robinson Crusoe. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c. 1900

"We cast off and moved away from the wreck". Illustration from the novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann
" We cast off and moved away from the wreck". Illustration from the novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900

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