What disasters looked like in the 1910s
Huge steamships with tall funnels cross the oceans, and some of them never arrive.
Read the ship, the lifeboats and the clothes on deck.
1910s moments in the game
- Titanic Departing from Queenstown Harbour1912
- RMS Titanic Sinking1912
- The Gamboa Dike Explodes1913
- The RMS Lusitania Torpedoed Off Old Head of Kinsale1915
- Wreck of the Endurance in Antarctic Ice1915
- Shackleton's Endurance Trapped in Pack Ice1915
- Halifax Explosion Devastates the Harbor1917
- John Bauer Perishes In Sinking Of Steamer Per Brahe1918
- The Great Boston Molasses Flood1919
Dating a disasters scene
- Buildings
- Wooden cities that burned easily are mostly before 1900; steel and concrete ruins point to the 20th century.
- Rescue
- Bucket chains and horse-drawn pumps are before 1900; fire engines and ambulances after 1910; helicopters after 1950.
- Landscape
- Volcanoes, fault zones and storm coasts narrow the map to a short list of places.