Last lifeboat of the Vestris being lowered before the ship sank off the coast of Hampton Roads, Va., after capsizing due to severe weather conditions.
Photograph of Rescue Teams on the Capsized Hill of USS Oklahoma Seeking Crew Members During the Attack of Pearl Harbour. December 7th, 1941.
Drowning Woman with her baby in her arms proclaiming the sinking of the Lusitania by a German Submarine off the Coat of Ireland
This song sheet enitled the Wet Deep is about the sinking of the Titanic on which the owners of Macy's Department store in New York drowned. While...
Aerial view of Japanese sailors both in the water and clinging to a sinking ship as it keels over after damage from a American B-25 bomber attack,...
Illustration showing the sinking of the Union frigate USS Cumberland by the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 8,...
Illustration showing the sinking of the Confederade ship CSS Alabama by the USS Kearsarge at the Battle of Cherbourg, off Cherbourg, France, June...
It's front wheels already off the end of a ramp on an Arkansas River wharf, a car driven by stuntman, Hal Needham is about to make a 63-foot "leap"...
Navy scout bomber crashes while landing on the aircraft carrier flight deck and ends up in the catwalk as ground crews rush to assist, Pacific Ocean,...
View of the aftermath of the sinking of a Japanese merchant ship by the US Navy submarine USS Tambor, with survivors visible on the ship's rigging,...
Fishing boat foundering and sinking in a storm, rolled onto its side as swells of waves push it into shore, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1952.
Large waves crash upon an American tank landing ship moored in an outpost in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, February 29, 1944. The ship had been...
The battleship USS Maryland survived while the USS Oklahoma , to which it was connected by a gangway, rolled over and capsized during the attack on...
World War II era poster showing portraits of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill with the title "Liberators of The World". The poster also shows...
Overturned Eastland ship in the Chicago River at night, Chicago, Illinois, 1915. Powerful electric lights aid workers and rescuers.
Print from a watercolor of an early American whaling expedition, with a large whale destroying a whaling ship, circa 1875.
Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and his daughter, Christina Onassis , attend the funeral of his son, Alexander Onassis, who died in a private...
American-born shipping heiress Christina Onassis , the daughter of Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, follows behind her paternal aunt, Mrs....
New York Police boat heads directly into the inferno created by the crash of an Italian Airlines plane in the Bay off Idlewild Airport. Of the 32...
This aerial view shows the capsized ferryboat Toya Maru in Tsugaru Straight between Honshu and Hokkaido Islands. An estimated 1,000 persons,...
George Balcer, a member of the crew of the ill fated Mohawk, shown at the Ward Line Pier in New York, where he was brought by the liner Algonquin...
Newspaper ad from the German Embassy in Washington giving warning to Lusitania travellers before its May 1, 1913 trip through the German sub-infested...
The sinking of the luxury ocean liner, Titanic, after its collision with an iceberg, April 14, 1912. Drawing .
In Queenstown, a family of survivors of the sinking of the British liner, SS Lusitania, make their way through the streets. | Location: Queenstown,...
The sharp prow of the Swedish ship SS Nyland almost cuts the Liberty ship E. Kirby Smith in two after they collided near Norfolk. The Nyland plowed...
Shipwrecks: The Chivalry of the Sea. "Women and children first" after the "Titanic" disaster. All accounts of the disaster to the "Titanic" show that...
Sausalito, Ca.: Two oil tankers collided early January 18th under the Golden Gate Bridge spilling at least half a million gallons of fuel oil into...
The front page of The New York Times after the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania by a German submarine, along with a notice printed within from...
An German propaganda illustration of the sinking of the Lusitantia which shows two guns at either side of her foredeck, giving the Germans cause to...
Illustration entitled "THE DOOMED TITANIC," depicting the moment of the huge ship's final plunge on April 14th, 1912. Boatloads of survivors leave...
During the night of April 14th the English S.S. Titanic crashed into an iceberg and sank with a loss of 1563 lives. This sketch depicting the...
Illustration depicting women and children being loaded into life boats during the great Titanic disaster on April 14, 1912. Detail from an undated...
This terrible scene, painted by German artist Willy Stoewer, depicts the sinking of the Titanic, the proud British luxary liner which struck an...
Life boats still remain on her port side as the Italian liner Andrea Doria lies dead in the water, her crew and passengers abandon, after a collision...
This overhead view of the Hampton Roads dock shows survivors of the freighter Mormackite, which capsized and sank October 7th, being moved from the...
The British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal lists before capsizing after being torpedoed by German submarine U-81, 35 miles east of Gibraltar, 13...
Captain Vincent P. Arkins and members of his crew are pictured in lifeboat No. 1 in which they escaped from the sinking American ship "Leigh" after...
Crew of firemen haul ashore a small boat containing Joe Cannon, copilot of the helicopter that crashed in an attempt to rescue Mrs. Jean Bugay from...
Gasoline fires spread across the main deck when a suicide Jap plane crashed into the USS Nevada off Okinawa. Though still burning, the fire was...
The S.S. Algonquin arriving at the Ward Liner pier in New York with a group of rescued passengers and members of the crew of the Ward Liner Mohawk,...
New York: The Albertina Rasch Ballet Troupe wouldn't dance for the photographers when the De Grasse sailed from New York, but they did soon after...
Investigation was started July 8 into the auto accident at Tarrytown, N.Y. Which resulted in the deaths of Vincent Santori and his brother Frank of...
Nearly twenty deaths and injuries to 150 other persons was the toll of the wreck and fire of the French boat express train which, sound from Paris...
Nearly twenty deaths and injuries to 150 others persons was the toll of the wreck and fire of the French Boat express train, which bound from Paris...
The Atlantic: You don't have to tell this seaman of a torpedoed merchanman that the Battle of the Atlantic is still in full swing. Standing on a...
The British ocean liner, SS Lusitania, whose sinking by a German submarine on its New York-Liverpool route, May 7 indirectly initiated the United...
Boston, MA: A man and a woman were drowned when their auto plunged over an unguarded retaining wall into Ft. Point Channel.The tragedy, apparently...
Political cartoon depicting Abraham Lincoln and his opponents in a sinking boat, representing 'The Irrepressible Conflict' and the fight to end...
Hong Kong:The Queen Elizabeth is rotting away. And nobody seems to know what to do with it. Once the largest liner in the world and pride of the...
ABOARD THE USS HORNET: A RESCUE HELICOPTER LIFTS THE FIRST APOLLO 11 ASTRONAUT FROM THE RAFT AFTER THE SPLASHDOWN IN THE PACIFIC, THE OTHER TWO...
Off East Coast of Malaysia: Vietnamese refugees, some of the 60 who arrived ashore in Malaysia in 1978, gingerly make their way off their sinking...
The debris strewn Nanaehama Beach, off which the ocean going ferry Toya Maru capsized during Sunday night's typhoon bringing death to more than 1,000...
British tugboat slowly sinks in the English Channel after running aground near Dover, England. The tug was on its way to assist the Brazilian...
Rescue boats move in on the battleships U.S.S. West Virginia and U.S.S. Tennessee which sit low in the water and burn after the Japanese surprise...
Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sinking after a collision with the Swedish ocean liner Stockholm off Cape Cod.
Part of the Army's Navy consists of numerous "crash" boats, manned by soldier "Gobs", and designed for the Primary purpose of getting quickly as...