Lifebelts Collection

Seaside shops at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Seaside shops at The Albion corner in Walton-on-the-Naze, on the north Essex coast. 1970

Bryan Gould, Labour politician and MP
Bryan Charles Gould (b 1939), UK Labour politician and MP, born in New Zealand, where he returned in the early 1990s. Seen here (just left of centre)

Man wearing lifebelt around body, designed by Admiral J. R Ward in 1854. Date: 1881

Steamer, Resolute, with passengers at Great Yarmouth
Steamer (double-ended ferry), Resolute, with passengers at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, owned by the Yarmouth & Gorleston Steamboat Company. Date: circa 1920

Studio photo, three people on board ship, The Fern
Studio photo, three people on a mockup of a ship, The Fern, with a painted backdrop. Date: circa 1910s

Two women with lifebelt and sailors caps
Two women wearing sailors caps, posing inside a lifebelt from the passenger steamer, the Queen of Thanet-- NMSPC stands for the New Medway Steam Packet Company. Date: circa 1930s

Tea dance at Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Tea dance at the Cavalier Beach Club, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Boy scouts in swimming race, British Honduras
Boy scouts in a swimming race, wearing lifebelts, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America. Date: 1951

Men on board the DW27 of Chatham, Kent, with two lifebelts

View of a boat, River Thames, London
View of a boat, the Peter Piper, on the River Thames, London. Date: 20th century

Allied troops landing for the Western Front, WW1
Allied troops (probably Belgian) landing in preparation for the Western Front in the early days of the First World War. The ship is the Princesse Clementine of Ostende. Date: 1914

Lifeboat men in a rough sea
Lifeboat men rowing their boat in a rough sea, wearing cork lifebelts

True to the Core lifeboat crew, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The crew of the True to the Core lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, seen here wearing their cork lifebelts and souwesters. circa 1895

Honourable Artillery Company lifeboat, Walton, Essex
The first National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, donated by and named after The Honourable Artillery Company whose Drama Club sponsored it, was launched in 1884

Crew of the Honourable Artillery Company lifeboat, Walton
Crew members of the Honourable Artillery Company lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Seen here at the boathouse, wearing their cork lifebelts with the lifeboat behind them

True to the Core lifeboat, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The lifeboat of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, named True to the Core, seen here under sail with her crew on board wearing their cork lifebelts. circa 1898

Lifeboat crew, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The crew of the first voluntary lifeboat of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, named True to the Core. They are seen here wearing their cork lifebelts. circa 1905

British Army on board ship on the way to France, 1939
British soldiers on board a Channel steamer on their way to France, all wearing lifebelts around their necks in case of an emergency. Date: 1939

Page from The Sphere, 4th May 1912, called The Newsletter, Week by Week. It features images of Indian students who have studied at the London School of Economics; Signor Murri

German troops at Oesel Island
German troops, wearing lifebelts, in a small boat having disembarked from the larger troopship alongside, prepare to make an amphibious landing on Oesel Island (Saaremaa)

Aboard a sinking ship
Aboard the sinking Vesris; a photograph taken on deck just seconds before the liner went down, showing people in lifebelts heading for the lifeboats

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