Life Boat Collection (#7)

Life Boat Rowing To Rescue Of Foundering Sailing Ship. From A Print Dated 1820 Engraved By Milton After W. Anderson

RNLI B-class Atlantic 85 rigid inflatable lifeboat, on training manoeuvres at sea, Silloth, Solway Bay, Cumbria, England, June

View of Tobolsk, a historic capital of Siberia, Russia
A view of Tobolsk, a historic capital of Siberia on the Irtysh river (where it joins the Tobol), now part of the Tyumen Oblast, . A rescue boat / lifeboat Station on the river

Lifeboat coxswain Henry Britton, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Henry Britton, coxswain of the lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from 1884 to 1914. Seen here wearing his cork lifejacket, with the lifeboat behind him. circa 1900

Welsh Youth Hostel
The old lifeboat house at Port Eynon, Glamorganshire, Wales, which was later used as a Youth Hostel. Date: 1950s

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Sinking of the ironclad USS Monitor in a gale off North Carolina, 1862, crew making for the USS Rhode Island. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Destruction of John Smiths ship by the Spanish, ending his New England venture. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Japanese Vice-Admiral Togo and Signal men. Heihachiro, Marquis Togo (1838 - 1934) - Japanese naval commander whose defeat of the Russian fleet at Tsushima (in May 1905 - interestingly)

Lifeboat / Cromer / Norfolk
A lifeboat creates a huge splash as it is launched into the sea at Cromer, Norfolk

Antarctica, Antarctica Peninsula. Promenade deck of the MV Discovery and cruising along Graham Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctica

The Sinking of the Russian Battleship St. Evstafius in the naval Battle of Chesma, 1771. Artist: Jacob Philip Hackert
The Sinking of the Russian Battleship St. Evstafius in the naval Battle of Chesma, 1771. Hackert, Jacob Philipp (1737-1807). Found in the collection of the State Open-air Museum Peterhof, St

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), 18th century. Persian manuscript in Islamic style illustrating the12th century Persian poem Book of Alexander the Great (Eskandar-nameh) by Nezami

Life boat of the icebreabker Kapitan Khlebnikov after a snow storm Greenland Sea
Life boat of the icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov after a snow storm, Greenland Sea, East Coast of Greenland

Sailors release lines from a rigid hull inflatable boat
Arabian Gulf, January 28, 2011 - Sailors release lines from a rigid hull inflatable boat during a man overboard drill aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln

Members of the fleet survey team conducting formation exercises
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, December 28, 2011 - Members of the fleet survey team perform a break away while conducting formation exercises and coxswain training

A U. S. Navy frogman team helps in the recovery of the Gemini-Titan 4 spacecraft
June 7, 1965 - A United States Navy frogman team participates in the recovery of the Gemini-Titan 4 spacecraft. The USS Wasp was the prime recovery ship for the Gemini-4 mission

THE OVERTURNED LIFE-BOAT"
" THE OVERTURNED LIFE-BOAT"

Wreck of the Troop-Ship Charlotte. Attempt of the Life-Boat, 1854

Source Size = 3984 x 3391
The Recent Gale, Scene at Whitby: Upsetting of the Life Boat and Loss of Twelve Lives, February, 1861

Source Size = 3873 x 2738
Launch of the Licensed Victualler Life-Boat at Hunstanton, Norfolk, Uk, 1867

Section of Northumberland Life Boat

Nelson wounded at Tenerife in 1787, illustration from The Life of Nelson
KW234265 Nelson wounded at Tenerife in 1787, illustration from The Life of Nelson by Robert Southey (1774-1843) first published 1813 (engraving) by Westall

Oteranga Bay, from a ferry in the Cook Strait, Makara, Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

RMS OLYMPIC, c1911. The deck from the 2nd class entrance on the RMS Olympic ocean liner. Photograph c1911

SHIPWRECK, c1916. A shipwreck, probably of the Norwegian ship, Glendoon, sunk by a German submarine in Glasgow, c1916

Launching the Lifeboat at Worthing West Sussex by Motor Tractor. 1920s 1930s

Old salts visit the Cutty Sark in Greenhithe, Kent. 1938

Ship steams up the river Thames past HMS Worcester in Greenhithe. 1936

Section Of Northumberland Life Boat

Tamar class lifeboat at sea, Sennen Cove, Sennen, Cornwall, England, May

Old lifeboat station converted into house, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, August

Pilot cottages used to service pilot boats and lifeboats on tidal island, Llanddwyn Island, Newborough Warren National Nature Reserve, Newborough, Anglesey, Wales, August

Hastings lifeboat house and beach. Date: 1906

USA, Alaska, Inside Passage. Ferry Kennicott sails in Wrangell Narrows

CIVIL WAR: POWDER MONKEY. A powder monkey (boy whose job it is to supply gun crew with powder and shot) aboard the U.S.S. New Hampshire, Union Navy, off Charleston, South Carolina. Photographed 1864-5

BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE, 1813. Oliver Hazard Perry leaving his badly damaged flagship, the Lawrence, for the Niagara to continue fighting against the British at the Battle of Lake Erie

STEAMSHIP ACCIDENT, 1857. Survivors from the American steamship Central America, which burned and sank, 11 September 1857, with 500 persons aboard

PERRY: NAVAL BATTLE, 1813. Oliver Hazard Perry leaving his badly damaged flagship, the Lawrence, for the Niagara to continue fighting against the British at the Battle of Lake Erie

Sailors and others in a lifeboat, as one sailor gestures to a submarine in the background. Date 1917

Two lifeboat coxswains, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Retiring lifeboat coxswain John Byford (left) and new coxswain Thomas Bloom, pictured at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. John Byford had been cox from 1929 and Thomas Bloom, known locally as Puggy

True to the Core lifeboat crew, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The crew of the True to the Core lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, seen here wearing their cork lifebelts and souwesters. circa 1895

Honourable Artillery Company lifeboat, Walton, Essex
The first National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, donated by and named after The Honourable Artillery Company whose Drama Club sponsored it, was launched in 1884

Crew of the Honourable Artillery Company lifeboat, Walton
Crew members of the Honourable Artillery Company lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Seen here at the boathouse, wearing their cork lifebelts with the lifeboat behind them

Boy Scouts in Lifeboat Day parade, Walton-on-the-Naze
Some of the first Boy Scouts in the UK taking part in the Annual Lifeboat Day parade through the seaside town of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. circa 1910

Prince George naming the new lifeboat, Walton, Essex
Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902-1942), at the naming ceremony of the new lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. The boat was named EMED

Wartime Lifeboat Crew after a dramatic rescue, Walton
Eight members of the lifeboat crew at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, pictured on the day they rescued three men from the barge Martha

True to the Core lifeboat, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The lifeboat of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, named True to the Core, seen here under sail with her crew on board wearing their cork lifebelts. circa 1898

Lifeboat crew, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The crew of the first voluntary lifeboat of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, named True to the Core. They are seen here wearing their cork lifebelts. circa 1905

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