Sujet
The Explosion of the Rocket Factory at Woolwich Arsenal, 1883. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
The Explosion of the Rocket Factory at Woolwich Arsenal, 1883. '1. Finding a dead body 2. Spot where a body was found. 3. Interior of the Rocket Shed. 4. A corner of the Armoury. 5. Fragments of Rockets: one of them embedded in a gaspipe...A most terrifying disaster...A fire broke out...in one of the...buildings of the East Laboratory, where cartridges and explosive projectiles are manufactured...This building was used as a workshop for the painting of military rockets, and above seven hundred of those formidable instruments of war, fully charged with gunpowder, lay there in store. They presently ignited, and began to fly abroad, whizzing through the...air with coils of white smoke behind them, as is observed in the use of rockets in actual warfare, and coming down at long distances...A man and a boy...were instantly killed by the explosion...Besides six hundred of Hale's war-rockets, which are hollow cylinders...charged with gunpowder,...there were a number of Boxer's 12-pounder rockets, used in case of shipwreck to cast a rope or line from shore to the vessel in danger. The rockets flew into the buildings of the Armoury and the Small Arms Experimental Branch'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A50_190
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
21,6Mo (2,4Mo) / 31,0cm x 17,5cm / 3659 x 2067 (300dpi)