Lifeboats Collection

SS Asturias, ocean liner, built in 1926, served during the Second World War, and was used as the Titanic in the 1957 film, A Night to Remember. Date: late 1940s

Coveracks new lifeboat, 1954
Coveracks new lifeboat, William Taylor of Oldham, being hauled up the slipway on 24th July 1954. It cost 25, 000 to build. Cornwall. Date: 1954

RMS Olympic, cruise ship of the White Star Line, WW1
RMS Olympic, cruise ship of the White Star Line, seen here from a seaplane whilst on war service during WW1. Date: 1914-1918

RAF lifeboats to the rescue
RAF motor boats rescuing a pilot who has crash landed at sea. The boats were built at the British Power Boats works at Southampton and with 100 h.p. engines, could travel at 26 miles per hour

Alvsborg Bridge, Gothenburg (Goteborg), Sweden
Alvsborg Bridge, suspension bridge over the Gota River, Gothenburg (Goteborg), Sweden. It was built in 1966. Date: circa 1960s

Coastguard Station and Promenade, Cromer, North Norfolk. Now the site of the wonderful RNLI Henry Blogg Museum and Rocket House Cafe (I recommend the dressed Cromer crab salad...). Date: circa 1905

A race of six lifeboats at Mounts Bay, Penzance, Cornwall. Date: 1867

Greatheads Lifeboat 2
In a heavy sea, Greatheads lifeboat puts out to the aid of a vessel in distress : the helmsman stands aft, the look- out in the bows, the ten oarsmen row as best they can. Date: 1791

Filey Lifeboat early 1900s

Lifeboat Demonstration Day (possibly Scarborough) Victorian period

Tynemouth Lifeboat Victorian period

Lifeboat Demonstration Day early 1900s

Lifeboats at Tynemouth

Whitby Lifeboatman Henry Freeman Victorian period

Margate Lifeboat early 1900s

Blackpool Lifeboatmen Victorian period

Early Lifeboat Victorian period

Ilfracombe Lifeboat Practice Victorian period

Steam lifeboat Queen early 1900s

Ilfracombe Lifeboat Victorian period

Harwich Harbour - Trial of first steam lifeboat in 1889

Dover Castle from Admiralty Pier, Kent Date: circa 1910s

Lifeboat coxswain, with RNLB The Lord Southborough Date: 1920

Group photo, Lifeboat Crew Date: 1920

Dandelion-Puff Balloon Club by Thomas Maybank Date: 1920

Lifeboat to the rescue in a rough sea Date: 1920

Hauling the lifeboat through a narrow street Date: 1920

Falling Leaf Aero Club by Thomas Maybank Date: 1920

Come Aboard the Lifeboat - man gesturing Date: 1920

Abandon Ship, lifeboat alongside Date: 1920

A Motor Lifeboat in action on the sea Date: 1920

HMV 78rpm record, and brass To Life Boats sign
HMV 78rpm gramophone record in buff coloured paper sleeve, Be British and Stand to Your Post, and a brass To Life Boats sign, 20 inches. Formerly the property of Brian Ticehurst, Titanic expert

Notes relating to Board of Trade Titanic inquiry
RMS Titanic, Captain Maurice Clarke Archive. Typed notes dated 28 April 1912 relating to the Board of Trade enquiry into the Titanic disaster

Book cover, Lusitania by Colin Simpson. Date: 1972

RMS Titanic - SOS Titanic film, EMI colour trade brochure Date: 1979

RMS Titanic - poster, Spanish version of SOS Titanic film
RMS Titanic: rare Spanish colour poster for the film SOS Titanic, 28 x 42 inches. They said that not even God could sink it! Date: 1979

Launch of the Boy's Own No. 2 Lifeboat at Poole, Dorset in July 1882 Date: 1882

Titanic sinking Memorial Card with luminous cross
The dramatic image of the sinking ship surrounded by lifeboats is entitled NEARER MY GOD TO THEE - a reference to the tune that the ship's band was often said to have played as the vessel sank

H. M. destroyer rescues passengers of the Athenia, Sept 1939
Sailors on a British destroyer are shown holding onto former passengers of the Athenia in a lifeboat, 1939. The Sphere comments on the swell which made the rescue operation more difficult

Lifeboats watching the Athenia as it sinks, Sept 1939
Illustration of overcrowded lifeboats as they watch the transatlantic ocean liner, the Athenia, sink. The ships are shown lighting flares

Lifeboat crew in action at sea, English coast
Lifeboat crew in action at sea on the English coast. Date: 1922

Ships lifeboat and airmens dinghy, WW2
A ships lifeboat and an airmens dinghy during the Second World War. Both were supplied with Bovril products, including tins of Pemmican (a form of preserved meat with a high nutritional value)

Convoys in Peril, by Claude Muncaster, WW1
Convoys in Peril, by Claude Muncaster, First World War. Showing a British freighter dead in the water after a torpedo attack, with the crew escaping by lifeboats. 1914-1918

The last of the Leviathan: the Titanic plunging beneath the waves. Mr Beesley, one of the survivors, described the final scene

A lifeboat on its way back to shore and safety. Date: 1886

Lifeboat Horses - Hastings
Lifeboat horses at Hastings used to haul the lifeboat from the beach to the water; two boys watch the scene Date: 1937

The Drive, Great Yarmouth - note the two superb horse-drawn omnibuses in the foreground. Date: circa 1901

RMS Aquitania, Cunard Line cruise ship with 36 years of service, from 1914 to 1950. She served in both world wars, and returned to passenger use afterwards. Date: 20th century

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