Life Boats Collection (page 2)

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

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

Turkish Steamship Ertogrul
Turkish Imperial steamship (albeit still with high masts for sails) the Ertogrul (named after the father of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire) riding high in the Bosphorus

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

Lifeboats from the Titanic
A photograph showing two lifeboats approaching the rescue ship Carpathia

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

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

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

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

The ship, Cospatrick in flames
Emigrant ship, the Cospatrick on fire at sea. On discovery of the fire, the crew tried to extingush the flames, but the wind spread them around the ship

Lifeboat Drill, Germany
Lifeboat drill on a German warship

Leipzig Sinking 1914
During the Battle of the Falkland Islands, German vessel Leipzig sinks with great loss of life after a relentless British attack

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

Great Eastern / Lifeboats
Lifeboats on the starboard quarter of the Great Eastern

Red Cross of the Sea
A lifeboat saves passengers from a sailing vessel : note the insignia, The Red Cross of the Sea which we have not seen elsewhere

H. M. s. Lord Nelson
British sailors lowering a lifeboat from H.M.S. Lord Nelson, which was completed in 1908 and was active during World War One, including in the Dardanelles in 1915

Lifeboats on Ship
A view of the lifeboats on board the Queen Elizabeth

Haste to Rescue
Horses pull the lifeboat across the beach to the sea

Titanic Stokers Wait
Stokers wait on the deck hoping to board lifeboats

Sinking of Brit Steamer
German representation of sinking of British merchant steamer Monkey

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