Lifesaving Collection

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

RMS Titanic, Thomas Andrews
RMS TITANIC - THOMAS ANDREWS 1873-1912: Thomas Andrews was Titanic's chief designer and one of the heroes of the disaster

Lifesavers by Stettman. Date: circa 1908

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

Gallant Rescue off the Bachelor Rocks Date: 1871

Marine and Life-Saving Apparatus, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Palace of the Marine and Life-Saving Apparatus Exhibition, Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

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

Tremletts Fender and Life Preserver 1846
Early lifebuoy by Tremlett. Date: 1846

ACCIDENTS / LIFE-SAVING
Resuscitation - Dr H R Silvesters method Date: circa 1860

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

The lifesaving Mermaid of Bognor Regis, Mary Wheatland
Mary Wheatland (1835-1924) - a well known Bognor Regis Character, a woman who hired bathing machines from the east of the pier

LCC-LFB Southwarks Emergency Tender and crew
Southwarks Emergency Tender and crew. By the 1920s emergency tenders were developing into far more that just a carrier of firefighters with breathing apparatus and lighting at incidents

A heroine of the war, Lassie of HMS Formidable, WW1
Lassie, the dog who helped to save the life of a seaman of H.M.S. Formidable by licking his face and warming his body until he moved, and by calling attention to him

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

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

Tenby life boat, 1857
The Tenby life boat proceeding to the rescue of the crew of the Spanish ship Nuevo Torcuvato, 1857. The life boat bears the mark of the National Life Boat Institution. Date: 7th December 1857

Lifeboat, 1830s
A lifeboat of the 1830s, encountering a storm. Date: 1830s

Captain Robert Hook, lifeboatman
Coxswain Robert William Hook (1828 -1911) of the Lowestoft lifeboat Samuel Plimsoll, the saviour of more than 200 lives. Pictured here at Lowestoft harbour entrance in 1883, in a heroic pose

Apparatus for saving life in case of shipwreck
Various apparatus for saving life in case of shipwreck. A Dennetts rocket line is shown both in action and arranged for firing, as well as and the landing of a crew using the breeches buoy

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

The volunteer life brigade at work : life saving at sea
The late storm: the volunteer life brigade at work. Rocket life-saving apparatus kept ready for use whereby a rocket is fired to throw a line over the ship in trouble from the shore

Boulogne-sur-Mer, France - Lifeboat, Bathers and Fisherwoman
Boulogne-sur-Mer, France - Lifeboat, Bathers and example of the traditional local costume worn by Fisherwomen, featuring a sun headdress. Date: circa 1910s

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

British Empire Exhibition 1924 - The Trevessa Boat
British Empire Exhibition 1924 - lifeboat fom the SS Trevessa. On 4th June 1923, the Hain Line steamer Trevessa, heading from western Australia and loaded with zinc concentrates, sank 1

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

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