Life Boat Collection (page 2)

UNSINKABLE LIFEBOAT
Our lovely model demontrates a novel and unsinkable lifeboat at the British Industries Fair, Olympia, London. Date: 17 February 1930

Nautical Film Crew
A floating menagerie and strange crew, docked at Catalina, Canada, whilst filming a movie. Date: 1930s

Sailors repairing a boat on a ship, WW1
Men of the British Royal Navy undertaking repairs on a boat on board a ship during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Noelle, Countess of Rothes (1878 - 1956)
Wife of the 19th Earl of Rothes, Noelle survived the Titanic disaster, escaping in Lifeboat 8, taking the tiller and doing much to boost the morale of the other women in the lifeboat. Date: 1912

Sinking of the French liner Sontay, Mediterranean, WW1
Scene during the sinking of the French liner Sontay in the Mediterranean after being torpedoed by a German submarine during the First World War, with passengers and crew escaping into lifeboats

View on deck HMAS Australia, WW1
View on deck the HMAS Australia, an Indefatigable class battle cruiser, launched 1911, served in the First World War, decommissioned 1921. Date: 1914-1918

HMS Espiegle at Basra, Mesopotamia, WW1
Deck view of the British sloop HMS Espiegle at Basra, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War, around the time the port was captured by Anglo-Indian forces. 1915

Isle of Wight - Yarmouth Lifeboat Crew
Isle of Wight - The Yarmouth Lifeboat Crew. The large wheels of the trailers are fitted with boards, preventing the wheels from digging into the soft sand of the beach. Date: circa 1910s

Hayling Island Lifeboat returning from a rescue; pulled up onto the beach. Date: 1906

LIFE-BOAT
The Inshore Lifeboat (ILB) Station, Eastbourne, which was built in 1903, seen here with the Royal Navy Lifeboat (RNLB) Beryl Tollemache, which was launched in 1949. Date: 1960s

STEAMSHIP FLORA 1862
Dudgeons new double-screw iron steam-ship Flora. Date: 1862

Lifeboat on Carriage
A lifeboat rests on its carriage, ready to be dragged across the beach and launched into the water to the aid of a ship in distress. Date: circa 1880

Rowing boat, the Kathryn Anne, off the Devon coast
A rowing boat, the Kathryn Anne of Exmouth, moored off the Devon coast. (2 of 2)

St Justinian lifeboat, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
People in the St Justinians lifeboat, near the lifeboat station, on the Pembrokeshire coast, Dyfed, South Wales

Lifeboat, Freeport, Long Island
Lifeboat, Point, Lookout, Freeport, Long Island Date: c. 1910s

Lifeboats at Padstow, Cornwall
The Padstow Steam Lifeboat Helen Peele (background) at the quayside in Padstow, Cornwall, with the surfboat Edmund Harvey in the foreground

The launching of the Constantinople Lifeboat
An elder lifeboatman lifts his hammer to strike out the holding peg to launch the Constantinople lifeboat and its team of lifeboatmen down a wooden ramp. The boat is called the Shellu

Lifeboat Station interior - Constantinople
The interior of the Lifeboat Station, Constantinople

KNSM shipping company
A Spanish language KNSM Royal Netherlands Steamship Company poster depicting the lifeboats of an ocean liner

Bowness Ferry Boat
The departing Bowness Ferry boat on the way to Furness Abbey, transporting two horse-drawn carriages across Lake Windermere, Cumbria

A Night to Remember, book and film items
The book by Walter Lord, with an information folder and film poster advertising the 1958 film, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, based on the Titanic disaster of 1912

Selection of Titanic postcards
A selection of eight postcards, relating to the rescue of RMS Titanic survivors by the RMS Carpathia

Chart Room key of Titanic lamp trimmer
The Chart Room key and brass identity tag of Samuel Hemming, a lamp trimmer on the RMS Titanic. Hemming was saved from the sea by Lifeboat no.4 and had this key and others in his pocket

The Stafford House Fete - scene in the gardens
The Lifeboat Fete at Stafford House, the London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. Scene in the gardens, which were illuminated

Great Fete at Stafford House
Page from The Tatler 3rd July 1901, covering the fete at Stafford House in aid of the National Lifeboat Institution. Stafford House, the London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland

Stead telegram and brass nameplate
1. One of eight telegrams sent to Miss EK Harper relating to the Titanic disaster and the loss of WT Stead. 2. A cast brass nameplate from Titanic lifeboat no. 12

Limehouse Boatyard Etc
Messrs Forrestts lifeboat building yard and the elevated railway at Limehouse

Portland Harbour - Funnels of Ships of the Royal Navy Fleet

Lifeboat from the Titanic
A photograph showing a rope ladder being fixed from the lifeboat to the Carpathia

Dramatic rescue of a young girl
A colour illustration showing a relieved mother reaching out to a lifeboat man for her rescued daughter

Appledore lifeboat, Devon
View of the local lifeboat and crewmen sailing offshore at Appledore, on the North Devon coast

Outward Bound by Unknown Artist
Scene showing a lifeboat team rescuing the crew of a capsized boat

The Sea Messenger, 1870
Engraving of the Sea Messenger, a lifeboat designed for ships letters and papers, invented by J.A.R. Vandenbergh. As many ships carried mail and state papers

Patent Reversible Lifeboat, 1875
Engraving of a patent reversible lifeboat for ships, designed by Anderson and Burkinshaw of Bridlington Quay, 1875. The lifeboat could be used either way up

Survivors in a Lifeboat, 1918
Photograph showing the survivors of a passenger ship, sunk by German submarine action, adrift at sea in a small lifeboat during the First World War

Captain Jerninghams Anchor-Firing Mortar, 1846
Engraving of an experiment to test Captain Jerninghams idea to assist the launching of lifeboats. The launching of lifeboats from a beach into heavy breaking surf was often dangerous

Lifeboat on Roadside
Shiver my timbers! What a strange roadside sight! Once the pride of Falmouth, Cornwall, this old lifeboat lay for many years in quiet country lane in Surrey

Pleasure Steamer
Passengers on the deck of a pleasure steamer at Southend, Essex, England

British Lifeboat C1880
A lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution - it is equipped with a sail to assist the oarsmen if the wind is in a favourable direction

Cullercoats Lifeboat
Launching the lifeboat at Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear : the boat is dragged into the water on its carriage

On board the luxury liner, L Atlantique, the central stree
On board the French luxury liner, L Atlantique. A unusual feature at the time, the central street of shops, over 150 meters long, with the spacious embarkation hall

On board the luxury liner, L Atlantique, the chapel, where
On board the French luxury liner, L Atlantique. A unusual feature at the time, the decorative chapel, where passenger could attend religious services and practise their devotions during a voyage

Burnt out liner L Atlantique, successfully brought into port
The burnt out liner, L Atlantique successfully brought into port at Cherbourg. The fire broke out in the early hours of 4th January 1933, at 6am the abandon ship order was given

Lifeboat Drill, Germany
Lifeboat drill on a German warship

Kings Lynn from Ouse
An unusual view of the town of Kings Lynn, Norfolk, looking across a steam ship on the River Ouse, towards St. Margarets Church

Greathead Lifeboat / Anon
Greatheads Lifeboat rescues a ship in trouble. Date: 1791

Belgica / Gerlache
The Belgica expedition which gathered many geological samples. De Gerlache on the bridge of the Belgica

Goodyears Lifeboat
Charles Goodyear of New Haven, Connecticut, best known for his tyres, also displays an india-rubber lifeboat and pontoon at the Crystal Palace

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