Lifeboatmen Collection

Throwing the Life-Line
A member of the lifeboat crew wearing a cork flotation jacket is about to throw out the life-line during a rescue

Coxswain of Beaumaris Lifeboat and colleague, Anglesey
David Gallichan, Coxswain of Beaumaris Lifeboat leads a crew member from the lifeboat station in Anglesey. The Sunday Times Date: 1991

Filey Lifeboat early 1900s

Launching a lifeboat, early 1900s

Lifeboat Demonstration Day (possibly Scarborough) Victorian period

Tynemouth Lifeboat Victorian period

Lifeboat Demonstration Day early 1900s

Whitby Lifeboatman Henry Freeman Victorian period

Margate Lifeboat early 1900s

Blackpool Lifeboatmen Victorian period

Lifeboat and lifeboatmen

Early Lifeboat Victorian period

Ilfracombe Lifeboat Practice Victorian period

Steam lifeboat Queen early 1900s

Ilfracombe Lifeboat Victorian period

Launching a Lifeboat Victorian period Date: 19th century

The Edith and Annie lifeboat, Southport, Victorian period

Launching the Eastbourne lifeboat, early 1900s

Walton on the Naze Lifeboat, early 1900s

Lifeboat Station, Carrickfergus, Ireland, early 1900s. Date: early 1900s

WW2 Lifeboatmen
An illustration which portrays a British WW2 lifeboatman, who are heroes in peace and doubly valiant in war. Date: circa 1941

Lifesavers by Stettman. Date: circa 1908

Cromer's Motor Lifeboat and Crew at the end of the Town Pier. Date: circa 1910s

Lifeboat Crew and boat - Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA Date: 1908

Disaster at the Mouth of the Mersey - Wreck of the Lelia
Disaster at the Mouth of the Mersey off the north west lightship - the cutter-rigged steamer Lelia commanded by Captain Skinner foundering with the loss of 20 lives

The Coxswain of the Lifeboat Date: 1909

Lifeboat. Lifeboatmen experiencing heavy seas. Date: 1904

Lifeboat, 1806
The Northumberland lifeboat, 1806. Date: 1806

Lifeboatmen, c1870
Three lifeboatmen scan the horizon for seafarers in peril. Date: c.1870

Preparing to launch a lifeboat, 1830s
Preparing to launch a lifeboat into a stormy sea, with the help of a horse and wagon, 1830s. Date: 1830s

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

Lifeboat men in lifeboat on beach
Lifeboat men in their lifeboat on a beach, watched by local people

Caister-on-Sea - Lifeboat Memorial
Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, England - Lifeboat Memorial (dedicated in 1903 at Caister Cemetery) to the lives lost in the Caister Lifeboat Disaster of 13th November 1901. Date: circa 1903

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

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

The rescue at Boscombe, yacht the Hally Lise against the sea
A small yacht, the Hally Lise was blown to shore in stromy weather at Boscombe, Hants. Her two occupants Dr G. E Reeves and M. Pierre Keroux were saved by the Swanage lifeboatmen

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