Sujet

Port Louis, Mauritius, 1868. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Port Louis, Mauritius, 1868. 'The tremendous hurricane which visited the British colony of Mauritius on the night of March 11 drove twenty vessels ashore in the harbour of Port Louis, and destroyed, wholly or partially, many buildings in the town and in the adjoining district. Even stone buildings, the walls of which could resist the force of the wind, were stripped of their roofs, commonly made of zinc or galvanised iron; and for the wooden houses there was much less chance. Hundreds of tons of sugar in the storehouses, and probably a fourth of the growing crop, are estimated to have been lost'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A34_411

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

27,9Mo (2,5Mo) / 31,1cm x 22,5cm / 3670 x 2659 (300dpi)

Mots clés

weather transport transportation city Indian Ocean ocean sea job arts mountain mountains harbour art trade port ship ships occupation mountainous British geography Mauritius hurricane shipping location century Britain profession newspapers press print rough seas B&W capital city aftermath engraved engraving sailing ship sailing ships 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Port Louis The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper landscape Unknown 19th-century The Illustrated London News