The 9 square puzzle using just a portion of a fine engraving of a painting by British artist Thomas M. M. Hemy (1852-1937). When the puzzle is complete, you should jump to a 16 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly, by clicking the red square.

Such information as I have about the artist can be found below.










The 16 square puzzle using the engraving of a Thomas M. Hemy painting. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 25 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.









The 25 square puzzle using the engraving of a Thomas M. Hemy painting. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 36 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.









The 36 square puzzle using the engraving of a Thomas M. Hemy painting. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 49 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.









The 49 square puzzle using using the engraving of a Thomas M. Hemy painting. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 64 square puzzle with the same image. To go there directly, click the red square.


The 64 square puzzle using using the engraving of a Thomas M. Hemy painting. Congratulations if you succeed. The applet permits up to a ten square puzzle. If there is any interest in my listing a puzzle of greater difficulty, drop me a line and I'll add it in.

Information about the artist can be found below.


The image is just a portion of an engraving which dates from 1889. The original painting is the fine work of a British artist ~ Thomas M. M. Hemy (1852-1937).

What can I tell you? Quite a lot today in fact. The webmaster maintains a sister website about his works with 70 pages, as I write these words - the first page being here. He specialised in marine paintings & had at least two artist brothers. An older brother (Charles Napier Hemy, link here, of Newcastle, England ~ 1841-1917) who would seem to have been more recognised as an artist. Thomas was born while the family was in the course of emigrating to Australia. He also was an author ('Deep Sea Days', published by H. F. & G. Witherby in London, England, in 1926) & actually specialized in the painting of shipwrecks. His most famous painting would seem to have been of the 'Wreck of the MV Birkenhead', (Do see this page, the first of three pages devoted to just that particular work) a troopship which sank off the coast of Africa on Feb. 26, 1852. The expression 'women and children first' originated with that sinking. It would seem that there were approximately 638 passengers aboard the Birkenhead when she hit a rock off Cape Danger (how appropriate that name!) about 100 miles south east of Cape Town. 113 people would seem to have survived the wreck.

The data I have located about the artist can be found commencing here & the first of three pages devoted solely to the Danmark/Missouri work is here. I invite you to visit both pages. The image I present here is another e-Bay image, of an engraving that was long ago for sale by 'martin2001' of Virginia - in Jan. 2002. The following is what Jim Martin said in describing the engraving with one minor change made by the Webmaster ~ the steamer's name was changed to Danmark from Denmark.


"There are very few Americans who are not familiar with the story of the wreck of the steamer Danmark, and of the saving of her entire human cargo by Captain Murrel of the steamship Missouri. It was in the month of April, 1889, and there was a very heavy sea, so much so indeed that it was a very perilous thing to lower the boats, but humanity demanded that an effort be made, and it redounds greatly to the honor and credit of Captain Murrel and his men that of the 735 souls on board the ill-fated steamship not one was lost. Our artist has chosen for his painting the scene of transferring the passengers. How difficult that was to do safely may easily be seen.  At the side of the vessel stands the brave captain, and through his orders and care every soul was saved."


Jim Martin's fine website of antique prints can be seen through his e-Bay store. You would enjoy dropping by, I know. You may very well end up bidding on a fine decorative engraving for your den wall! If anyone can help me in my search for data about the artist, or provide data as to where the original painting is today located, I would welcome your writing to me.

A large scan of the print is available here. Enjoy! Do see it full size!

A 1902 quotation from Colour Sergeant John O'Neil, believed to the last living survivor of the Birkenhead. ".... as I am on the subject of discipline I might be allowed to say a word or two about the memorable disaster, the wreck of the Birkenhead. My share in that is soon told: simple obedience of orders, standing on deck slowly but surely sinking, whilst the women and children got safely away in the boats, then by God's providence and a long and perilous swim 'midst sharks, breakers and seaweeds, I managed to scramble ashore."  Of interest to yours truly, it would appear that the Birkenhead's ship's 'no-name' dog (at the very bottom of the page), survived the sinking, but was later swept off the barque 'Eglinton' in mountainous seas off the west coast of Australia, later that same year, and survived that also! It was adopted by a family in Fremantle, Australia. Lucky pooch! Doubly so! Who says history is dull!

Once I discovered that the vessel was named 'Danmark' rather than 'Denmark', I was able to find data on the WWW about the wreck & the rescue.

 

A description of the 'Danmark' and (lower on page) an article about the wreck can be found here ~ a page from the 'Norway Heritage' website and the source of the image of the 'Danmark' at left. The article is by Kristin Brue whose great-grandmother was among the passengers rescued from the sinking ship in 1889.

An extensive series of articles from the New York Times in 1889, can be found here.

Or just visit my page about the Danmark, available here.

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The java applet that runs the puzzle is courtesy of Axel Fontaine, who lived just south of the city of Brussels in Belgium. Axel invited free use of his fine applet which you can, I hope, download here. Axel, we thank you!