Lifeboats Collection (page 2)

Queen Mary ocean liner: Lifeboats & gravity davits
Lifeboats built to carry 145 passagers, more than the total accommodated in the first Cunarder, " Britannia" : One of the Queen Marys 24 large lifeboats

WWI German U-boat attack on an English Commercial Freighter. Date: 1915

HMS Collingwood, battleship, on a Victorian scrap
HMS Collingwood, ironclad battleship, on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Penlee lifeboat, Mabel Alice, off Penzance, Cornwall
Penlee lifeboat, Mabel Alice, travelling at speed off the coast of Penzance, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

RNLI lifeboat crew, St Ives, Cornwall, just returned from a rescue mission. Includes Tommy Cocking, coxswain (second from left). Date: circa 1980s

Duke of Kent on a lifeboat at Newlyn harbour, Cornwall
The Duke of Kent in Newlyn harbour, Cornwall, for the naming of the new Penlee lifeboat, the Mabel Alice, on 18 July 1983. 1983

Harbour, Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, East Africa
Harbour scene with the Portuguese steamer " Africa" alongside the wharf, Lourenco Marques (now Maputo), capital city of Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa. Date: circa 1910

HMS Alert, British sloop launched in 1894, used as a depot ship in the Persian Gulf. Date: circa 1900s

St Cybi lifeboat, Civil Service No. 9, a Barnett-class lifeboat, funded by the Civil Service lifeboat fund

Penlee lifeboat towing stricken yachts to Newlyn, Cornwall
Penlee lifeboat towing stricken yachts and their passengers to Newlyn, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Hastings lifeboat on a rough sea, with crew on board. Date: circa 1930s

Diving experiments in Paris
Testing of various diving equipment in the Seine, Paris, 1855. The technologies included different diving apparatus such as those invented by Siebe, Heinke and Cabirol

HMS Marlborough - Admirals Barge on the Main Derrick
HMS Marlborough - Getting out the Admirals Barge on the Main Derrick (port side). HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill

Canadian Pacific Steamers, promenade deck
Canadian Pacific Steamers have spacious promenade decks -- children on a Third Class promenade deck, with a specimen Third Class menu printed at the side. Date: circa 1930s

French Lifeboat at Work
The French lifeboat Amiral Barrera sets out in heavy seas to the aid of a sailing boat in distress. Date: 1905

Duke of Kent at lifeboat naming, Newlyn harbour, Cornwall
The Duke of Kent taking part in a lifeboat naming service in Newlyn harbour, Cornwall, for the naming of the new Penlee lifeboat, the Mabel Alice, on 18 July 1983. Date: 1983

Boat day in, Honolulu harbour, Hawaii, USA
Boat day in Honolulu harbour, Hawaii, USA. Date: 1935

The Cunard Liner RMS Mauretania - Boat Deck - Funnels. Date: 1922

Brochure for the Cunard White Star Liner RMS Queen Mary
Brochure for the Cunard White Star Luxury Liner RMS Queen Mary. Date: circa mid-1930s

HMTS Dunera, passenger steamer, also used as a troop ship. Date: circa 1900

People in and around a lifeboat, with horses and a car in the foreground. Date: circa 1920s

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, being fitted out
With the launching of the Queen Mary Ocean Liner a new phase of work began. Eighteen months between September 1934, and her departure for preliminary trials on 24 March 1936

Army personnel on board ship, WW1
Army personnel on board a ship, with lifeboats and lifejackets. Date: 1917

An efficient ships lifeboat by G. H. Davis
In quest of an efficient ships lifeboat: a type which might have helped the Volturno (where one lifeboat overturned, two smashed against the side of the burning vessel)

Prince Albert and HMS Cumberland by G. H. Davis
Prince Alberts (later George VI) first glimpse of the world: a view of HMS Cumberland and the tour to be carried out by the Kings second son. He was a cadet undergoing training on the ship. Date: 1913

Last moments of HMS Courageous by G. H. Davis
The last moments of HMS Courageous after being torpedoed by a German U-boat: the crew abandoning ship in the failing evening light

Water distiller for lifeboats by G. H. Davis
Fresh water from the sea: a simple distiller for lifeboats. The K.M. Distiller, producing fresh water and hot drinks, and other life-saving devices for castaways, in use during the Second World War

Increasing supplies for lifeboats by G. H. Davis
Increasing the water and food supplies for ships lifeboats during the Second World War. New measures for saving the lives of crews of ships sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic. Date: 1941

Getting quickly on deck from cabins by G. H. Davis
The difficulty of getting quickly on deck from cabins: the maze inside a modern liner. A suggested illuminated sign, and a photograph of the newly designed Gaskin Hart lifeboat at the West India

The boat question by G. H. Davis
The boat question: a suggested method of launching ships boats (ie lifeboats) with long davits. The longer davit would launch the boat well clear of the ships side

Allied ship in action in the Dardanelles, Turkey, WW1
Allied ship in action in the Dardanelles, Turkey, during the First World War. Date: 1915

Poole Lifeboat Crew
The brave men of Poole Lifeboat Crew, Dorset, England. Date: early 1930s

Turkish Imperial 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 Date: circa 1930

Lowestoft No. 2 Lifeboat Stock Exchange
Lowestoft No.2 Lifeboat Stock Exchange, presented to The Royal National Life Boat Institution in 1893 by the members of the London Stock Exchange

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