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FUNERAL, ON SUNDAY LAST, OF SERGEANT DRANSFIELD...TOWER HAMLETS ENGINEER VOLUNTEERS, 1865. CREATOR: C. R..
Funeral, on Sunday last, of Sergeant Dransfield, R.E., instructor to the 1st Tower Hamlets Engineer Volunteers, 1865. '...a few days ago, in Victoria Park [in East London],...Sergeant Dransfield, of the Royal Engineers, while performing his duties as instructor to the 1st Tower Hamlets Volunteer Engineers, was killed by the premature explosion of a mine...His funeral, last Sunday, in the Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Bow, was attended with military honours...Every member of the corps wore a band of crape on the left arm...The officers wore a black sash, a band, with a bow of crape, round the busby, black gloves, and the grenade and sword-knot covered with crape...The coffin was conveyed to the grave on a gun-carriage, drawn by four black horses. It bore the inscription, "William Lewis Dransfield. Died Oct. 6, 1865, Aged 34 years."...the coffin was covered with a black pall edged with white; over this was spread the union jack...As might have been expected, the volunteer force was very strongly represented, almost every metropolitan corps sending its complement...The route was lined by thousands of spectators...A military salute was fired by a company of deceased's comrades'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. Funeral, on Sunday last, of Sergeant Dransfield...Tower Hamlets Engineer Volunteers, 1865. Creator: C. R.. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609546243
TESTIMONIAL TO A FRENCH ADMIRAL FOR ASSISTING THE CREW OF THE BOMBAY, 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Testimonial to a French admiral for assisting the crew of the Bombay, 1865. 'The terrible disaster which befel H.M.S. Bombay, off the port of Montevideo, on the 22nd of December last, when nearly a hundred officers and men lost their lives in the burning ship, will not be forgotten by our readers...At the court-martial held on board the Victory, at Portsmouth, to inquire into the circumstances of this affair, it appeared that those who were rescued from the Bombay, 600 in number, were treated with the greatest kindness, when they got ashore, by the officers of the French and Italian squadrons then at Montevideo, who supplied them with such clothes, food, and other necessaries as they required. In acknowledgment of this friendly action the British Government has sent to Admiral Chaigneau the piece of plate manufactured by Messrs. Widdowson and Veale. It bears the following inscription "Presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to M. le Contre Amiral Chaigneau, Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur, Commander-in-Chief of H.I.M. squadron in the Brazils, as a mark of their high appreciation of his great kindness to the officers and crew of H.B.M. late ship Bombay, after the destruction of that ship by fire on the 14th Dec, 1864".' From "Illustrated London News", 1865. Testimonial to a French admiral for assisting the crew of the Bombay, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609545923
DESTRUCTION OF ST. MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL AT SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Destruction of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral at Sydney, New South Wales, 1865. Engraving of a drawing by Mr. J. Smedley, showing '...the conflagration in its most terrific aspect...The flames burst forth almost simultaneously...The roof was composed of shingles, which were quickly burnt through...as the outlines of the stately structure were vividly defined and skirted with flame, the sight was one of unsurpassed grandeur. Myriads of sparks ascended high into the air and fell in showers in the direction of Woolloomooloo Bay...From the top of the cathedral clouds of yellow flame and smoke issued, which shed a lurid lustre on all around...The reflection of the fire in the sky was visible for a distance of twenty miles at sea...the flames, like innumerable serpents of fire, hissed and crackled...The interior...was a vast furnace of fire, which glowed with intense heat; and the wind and flame roaring through the sacred pile, and the timbers crashing from above, made a noise which resembled the waves beating along the seashore as heard from afar...The cathedral, which had cost not much less, with its furniture and decorations, than £50,000, was not insured. It contained several pictures by the old masters, none of which have been saved'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. Destruction of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral at Sydney, New South Wales, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609544683
WRECK OF THE MAIL-STEAMER ATHENS IN TABLE BAY, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Wreck of the mail-steamer Athens in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1865. A '...tremendous storm...on the 17th of May...[wrecked a ship] belonging to the Union Steam Navigation Company...[She] was carried broadside upon the rocks, at Green Point, between the lighthouses...It was seven o'clock in the evening when she was driven upon the rocks, where she very rapidly broke up. The calls for help of those on board could be distinctly heard upon the shore, amid the roar of the breakers...for two hours a continued wail of anguish and appeals for help came from the steamer, which could occasionally be seen lying on the rocks, broken-backed, but still above water...About ten o'clock the cries ceased, and thick darkness gathered over the scene...Next morning two bodies were recovered, both very much bruised from pounding against the rocks, and both were stripped, with the exception of under-drawers, showing that, before taking their final plunge, the unhappy men had calmly prepared themselves for a last struggle for life...the master, Captain D. Smith, Dr. J. Heath Curtis, the medical officer...engineers, and twenty-five other persons, made up the list of the officers and crew; and there is no doubt that they all perished'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. Wreck of the mail-steamer Athens in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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THE SCREW STEAM-SHIP ROYAL STANDARD IN COLLISION WITH AN ICEBERG...HOME VOYAGE FROM MELBOURNE, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
The screw steam-ship Royal Standard in collision with an iceberg on the home voyage from Melbourne, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Captain G. H. Dowell, commander of the screw steam-ship Royal Standard, one of the White Star line of Australian packets...The weather [in the South Pacific Ocean] was hazy...the vessel was sailing with a fresh breeze from the north-west, ten knots an hour; her steam-engines, therefore, were not at work, and her screw-propeller was raised, while she made use of the favourable wind. Suddenly she ran into a dense fog. The look-out man...saw a large iceberg...its precipitous cliffs, 600 ft. in height, were towering above the ship...Each wave now knocked her against it...the maintopmast and the mizzen-top-mast snapped asunder...The ship, having thus lost much of her sailing power, could not now keep her hull from coming into violent contact with the iceberg...By another crash, an upper plate amidships was split, with considerable damage...the destruction of the ship seemed quite inevitable...The Royal Standard had thus rubbed shoulders with the iceberg for about half an hour, scraping along half a mile of its length, when, happily, the end of it was seen through the surrounding fog, and at last the ship got clear'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. The screw steam-ship Royal Standard in collision with an iceberg...home voyage from Melbourne, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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