Thanks for that will take a look. Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Latham" <web@mightyseas.co.uk> To: "MARINERS" <mariners@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:35 AM Subject: [MAR] Photographs of the 1864 cyclone at Calcutta > The correspondence on the 1864 cyclone at Calcutta caught my eye as I > have an interest in one of the ships wrecked there, the Aladdin. I did a > desultory search for new information on Google and surprised myself by > finding a photograph of this wreck, together with that of the paddle > steamer Mirapore, taken by John Thomson and now in the George Eastman > Collection. > > http://www.geh.org/fm/mismis/m197302190041.jpg > > There are several other photographs of the aftermath of this cyclone, > which destroyed 160 vessels and brought about the bankruptcy of a number > of Liverpool insurance companies. > > http://www.geh.org/ne/mismi3/india_sum00005.html#73:0219:0041 > > A further look around the Internet found this site which has eight > prints of the aftermath of the cyclone taken from the Illustrated London > News. Type 1864 calcutta cyclone in the Search box. > > http://www.prints-4-all.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=0 > > Best Wishes, > > Tim Latham > www.mightyseas.co.uk > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >