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Life Boat Collection

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Carl Laemmle, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service

Carl Laemmle, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Carl Laemmle, between c1915 and c1920. Shows German-American film producer Carl Laemmle (1867-1939) with his children Carl Laemmle Jr. and Rosabelle Laemmle

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Seizure of casks, with arms and ammunition, on board the Dublin steamer Windsor, 1870

Seizure of casks, with arms and ammunition, on board the Dublin steamer Windsor, 1870. Creator: Unknown
Seizure of casks, with arms and ammunition, on board the Dublin steamer Windsor, 1870. 'The subject of our Illustration is the seizure of Fenian contraband arms on Friday, the 1st April

Background imageLife Boat Collection: MACEDONIA, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service

MACEDONIA, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
MACEDONIA, between c1910 and c1915

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Lundin lifeboats, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service

Lundin lifeboats, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Lundin lifeboats, between c1910 and c1915. Shows metal lifeboats designed by Andreas Petrus (Andrew Peter) Lundin (1869-1929), of New York for the Welin Marine Equipment Company

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Lundin Life Boat, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service

Lundin Life Boat, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Lundin Life Boat, between c1910 and c1915. Shows metal lifeboats designed by Andreas Petrus (Andrew Peter) Lundin (1869-1929), of New York for the Welin Marine Equipment Company

Background imageLife Boat Collection: H.W. Thornton & family, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service

H.W. Thornton & family, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
H.W. Thornton & family, between c1910 and c1915. Shows businessman Sir Henry Worth Thornton (1871-1933), who served as the General Superintendent of the Long Island Rail Road (1911-1914)

Background imageLife Boat Collection: The steam-ship Chicago stranded on a reef of rocks off Cork Harbour, 1868. Creator: Unknown

The steam-ship Chicago stranded on a reef of rocks off Cork Harbour, 1868. Creator: Unknown
The steam-ship Chicago stranded on a reef of rocks off Cork Harbour, 1868. Cargo ship wrecked on the route between Liverpool and New York

Background imageLife Boat Collection: The South Australian Newspaper Press Boat, Port Adelaide, 1868. Creator: Unknown

The South Australian Newspaper Press Boat, Port Adelaide, 1868. Creator: Unknown
The South Australian Newspaper Press Boat, Port Adelaide, 1868. 'Though situated almost at the antipodes, the South Australians are equal to the enterprise of collecting the earliest shipping news

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Suppression of the Slave Trade...running on shore of a slave-dhow to escape capture, 1869

Suppression of the Slave Trade...running on shore of a slave-dhow to escape capture, 1869. Creator: Unknown
Suppression of the Slave Trade on the east coast of Africa: running on shore of a slave-dhow to escape capture, 1869. Engraving depicting '...the running on shore of an Arab slave-dhow

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Launch of a life-boat at Weymouth, 1869. Creator: Unknown

Launch of a life-boat at Weymouth, 1869. Creator: Unknown
Launch of a life-boat at Weymouth, 1869. 'The town of Weymouth has been presented, by the Earl of Strafford, with a life-boat, which was launched, on Tuesday week

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Lady Houghton naming the Pontefract and Goole Life-Boat, Ferrybridge, Knottingley, Yorkshire

Lady Houghton naming the Pontefract and Goole Life-Boat, Ferrybridge, Knottingley, Yorkshire, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Lady Houghton naming the Pontefract and Goole Life-Boat, Ferrybridge, Knottingley, Yorkshire, 1865. 'The new life-boat...was named by Lady Houghton

Background imageLife Boat Collection: GEO. WASHINGTON, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service

GEO. WASHINGTON, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
GEO. WASHINGTON, between c1915 and c1920

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Life belt drill on liner, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service

Life belt drill on liner, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Life belt drill on liner, between c1915 and c1920

Background imageLife Boat Collection: 'Christening' of the Manchester and Salford Lifeboat in Peel Park, Salford, 1868. Creator: C. R

"Christening" of the Manchester and Salford Lifeboat in Peel Park, Salford, 1868. Creator: C. R
"Christening" of the Manchester and Salford Lifeboat in Peel Park, Salford, 1868. 'The ceremony, ... in the presence of about ten thousand spectators, ...was performed by Mrs

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Boat Drill on USS Washington, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service

Boat Drill on USS Washington, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Boat Drill on USS Washington, between c1910 and c1915. USS Washington was renamed the Seattle in Nov. 1916

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Card. Vannutelli at New York, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service

Card. Vannutelli at New York, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Card. Vannutelli at New York, 1910

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Marines aboard Prairie, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service

Marines aboard Prairie, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Marines aboard Prairie, 1911

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Signal of Distress, 1890. Creator: Winslow Homer

Signal of Distress, 1890. Creator: Winslow Homer
Signal of Distress, 1890. In the foreground a group of sailors watch as fellow crew members prepare to board a lifeboat and reach safety

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Drill, Holland America Line - life boats ready to launch, between c1910 and c1915

Drill, Holland America Line - life boats ready to launch, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Drill, Holland America Line - life boats ready to launch, between c1910 and c1915

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Life boats launched, Holland America line, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service

Life boats launched, Holland America line, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Life boats launched, Holland America line, between c1910 and c1915

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Boat drill KAISER WILHELM II, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service

Boat drill KAISER WILHELM II, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Boat drill KAISER WILHELM II, between c1910 and c1915

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Life boat drill, Holland America Line - putting boats over the side, between c1910 and c1915

Life boat drill, Holland America Line - putting boats over the side, between c1910 and c1915

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Life boat device on S.S. Imperator, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service

Life boat device on S.S. Imperator, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Life boat device on S.S. Imperator, between c1910 and c1915. Shows a model of the S.S. Imperator, an ocean liner of the Hamburg America Line

Background imageLife Boat Collection: 'The Ramsgate Life-boat: Morning after a Heavy Gale - Weather Moderating'...by E.W Cooke. R.A

"The Ramsgate Life-boat: Morning after a Heavy Gale - Weather Moderating"...by E.W Cooke. R.A
"The Ramsgate Life-boat: Morning after a Heavy Gale - Weather Moderating" - from the picture by E.W Cooke. R.A. 1864. Engraving of a painting

Background imageLife Boat Collection: On 'Red Cross', 1914 Sept. Creator: Bain News Service. On 'Red Cross', 1914 Sept

On "Red Cross", 1914 Sept. Creator: Bain News Service. On "Red Cross", 1914 Sept
On "Red Cross", 1914 Sept. Medical personnel aboard the "Red Cross" bound for Europe at the beginning of World War I in mid-September 1914

Background imageLife Boat Collection: The Prince's Voyage Home from India: life on board the Serapis: exercising the 'Gainees'...1876

The Prince's Voyage Home from India: life on board the Serapis: exercising the "Gainees"...1876
The Prince's Voyage Home from India: life on board the Serapis: exercising the "Gainees", from a sketch by an officer of the Serapis, 1876

Background imageLife Boat Collection: At sea; Shipwreck survivors hoist themselves aboard the lifeboat, 1917. Creator: Unknown

At sea; Shipwreck survivors hoist themselves aboard the lifeboat, 1917. Creator: Unknown
At sea; Shipwreck survivors hoist themselves aboard the lifeboat, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Background imageLife Boat Collection: At sea; Amid the lifeboatds, rafts and swimmers, a French gunboat arrives... 1917. Creator: Unknown

At sea; Amid the lifeboatds, rafts and swimmers, a French gunboat arrives... 1917. Creator: Unknown
At sea; Amid the lifeboatds, rafts and swimmers, a French gunboat arrives to collect the shipwreck survivors of the "Sontay", 1917

Background imageLife Boat Collection: At Sea; After the 'Sontay' was torpedoed on April 16, 1917, at noon: the last passenger... 1917

At Sea; After the "Sontay" was torpedoed on April 16, 1917, at noon: the last passenger... 1917
At Sea; After the "Sontay" was torpedoed on April 16, 1917, at noon: the last passengers board into lifeboats. The "Sontay" was going from Marseille to Salonika

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Plan and Sections of the Life-boats adopted by the Royal National Life-boat Institution... 1858

Plan and Sections of the Life-boats adopted by the Royal National Life-boat Institution... 1858. Creator: Unknown
Plan and Sections of the Life-boats adopted by the Royal National Life-boat Institution, designed by James Peake, Esq... 1858

Background imageLife Boat Collection: La piraterie sous-marine; Un canot d epassagers du paquebot ARABIA

La piraterie sous-marine; Un canot d epassagers du paquebot ARABIA, torpille par un sous-marin alle Creator: Unknown
La piraterie sous-marine; Un canot d epassagers du paquebot ARABIA, torpille par un sous-marin allemand, le 6 novembre 1916, 1916

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Inauguration of a Life-boat and Life Boat House at Sunderland, 1858. Creator: Unknown

Inauguration of a Life-boat and Life Boat House at Sunderland, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Inauguration of a Life-boat and Life Boat House at Sunderland, 1858. Miss Burdett Coutts has, with her usual wakeful sympathy

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Boys signal to a ship from a sinking rowing boat, in or before 1894. Creator: Willem Wenckebach

Boys signal to a ship from a sinking rowing boat, in or before 1894. Creator: Willem Wenckebach
Boys signal to a ship from a sinking rowing boat, in or before 1894. In the semi-darkness three boys are at sea in a rowing boat. One waves with a handkerchief to a sailing ship

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Shipwreck of 'The Northern Belle': the Crew of 'The Mary White', in their Life-boat

Shipwreck of "The Northern Belle": the Crew of "The Mary White", in their Life-boat, drawn through Broadstairs, 1857

Background imageLife Boat Collection: U.S.S. New York, looking aft from bridge, between 1893 and 1901. Creator: William H. Jackson

U.S.S. New York, looking aft from bridge, between 1893 and 1901. Creator: William H. Jackson
U.S.S. New York, looking aft from bridge, between 1893 and 1901

Background imageLife Boat Collection: U.S.S. Maine, signal drill, (1896?). Creator: William H. Jackson

U.S.S. Maine, signal drill, (1896?). Creator: William H. Jackson
U.S.S. Maine, signal drill, (1896?)

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Rescue at sea, 1838-1892. Creator: Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest

Rescue at sea, 1838-1892. Creator: Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest
Rescue at sea, 1838-1892. Boat crew saving a person from drowning

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Last pilot going aboard Str. New York, between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown

Last pilot going aboard Str. New York, between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
Last pilot going aboard Str. New York, between 1900 and 1905

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Le torpillage du paquebot 'Arabia'; un canot de passagers du paquebot-poste... 1916

Le torpillage du paquebot "Arabia"; un canot de passagers du paquebot-poste... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Le torpillage du paquebot "Arabia"; un canot de passagers du paquebot-poste anglais "Arabia", torpille par un sous-marin allemand. 6 novembre, 1916

Background imageLife Boat Collection: U.S.S. Brooklyn, ship's company, c.between 1896 and 1899. Creator: Unknown

U.S.S. Brooklyn, ship's company, c.between 1896 and 1899. Creator: Unknown
U.S.S. Brooklyn, ship's company, c.between 1896 and 1899

Background imageLife Boat Collection: U.S.S. Chicago, Capt. Rockwell, 1899. Creator: Unknown

U.S.S. Chicago, Capt. Rockwell, 1899. Creator: Unknown
U.S.S. Chicago, Capt. Rockwell, 1899

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Wizard Tree, Cathedral Woods, North Conway, White Mountains, The, c1900. Creator: Unknown

Wizard Tree, Cathedral Woods, North Conway, White Mountains, The, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Wizard Tree, Cathedral Woods, North Conway, White Mountains, The, c1900

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Travel views of Cuba and Guatemala, between 1899 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Travel views of Cuba and Guatemala, between 1899 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Cuba and Guatemala, between 1899 and 1926

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Travel views of Cuba and Guatemala, between 1899 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Travel views of Cuba and Guatemala, between 1899 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Cuba and Guatemala, between 1899 and 1926

Background imageLife Boat Collection: The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes, 1883. Creator: Michael Peter Ancher

The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes, 1883. Creator: Michael Peter Ancher
The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes, 1883

Background imageLife Boat Collection: The Gales on the South Coast - Dragging the Lifeboat from Brighton to Portslade, 1891

The Gales on the South Coast - Dragging the Lifeboat from Brighton to Portslade, 1891. Creator: G Durand
The Gales on the South Coast - Dragging the Lifeboat from Brighton to Portslade, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Background imageLife Boat Collection: The Right Side of the Quarterdeck with Cargo for the Anadyr Expedition, 1889. Creator: Unknown

The Right Side of the Quarterdeck with Cargo for the Anadyr Expedition, 1889. Creator: Unknown
The Right Side of the Quarterdeck with Cargo for the Anadyr Expedition, 1889. From a collection consisting of an album and individual photographs that document the Arctic voyage in 1889 of

Background imageLife Boat Collection: The Left Side of the Quarterdeck with Cargo for the Anadyr Expedition, 1889. Creator: Unknown

The Left Side of the Quarterdeck with Cargo for the Anadyr Expedition, 1889. Creator: Unknown
The Left Side of the Quarterdeck with Cargo for the Anadyr Expedition, 1889. From a collection consisting of an album and individual photographs that document the Arctic voyage in 1889 of the clipper

Background imageLife Boat Collection: The launch of the Ipswich Life-Boat, 1862. Creator: Unknown

The launch of the Ipswich Life-Boat, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The launch of the Ipswich Life-Boat, 1862. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Dixon Piper. It is calculated that from 30, 000 to 40, 000 persons attended...The life-boat

Background imageLife Boat Collection: U.S. Life Saving Station, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown

U.S. Life Saving Station, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
U.S. Life Saving Station, between c1900 and c1930

Background imageLife Boat Collection: The Southwold Life-boat making for the rescue of a ship's crew on the outer shoal, 1862

The Southwold Life-boat making for the rescue of a ship's crew on the outer shoal, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Southwold Life-boat making for the rescue of a ship's crew on the outer shoal, 1862. View of...a very gallant and prompt service rendered on the 28th January by the Southwold life-boat

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Hauling the Lifeboat, c1930. Creator: Unknown

Hauling the Lifeboat, c1930. Creator: Unknown
Hauling the Lifeboat, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

Background imageLife Boat Collection: For Practice Only, c1930. Creator: Unknown

For Practice Only, c1930. Creator: Unknown
For Practice Only, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Boat Drill Aboard the Aquitania. c1930. Creator: Unknown

Boat Drill Aboard the Aquitania. c1930. Creator: Unknown
Boat Drill Aboard the " Aquitania". c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

Background imageLife Boat Collection: A Crew Rescued, 1894. Creator: Michael Peter Ancher

A Crew Rescued, 1894. Creator: Michael Peter Ancher
A Crew Rescued, 1894

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Top deck on steam yacht Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes

Top deck on steam yacht Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Top deck on steam yacht Venetia, 1920

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Lower deck on Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes

Lower deck on Venetia, 1920. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Lower deck on Venetia, 1920

Background imageLife Boat Collection: The Sinking of the Russian Battleship St. Evstafius in the naval Battle of Chesma, 1771

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

Background imageLife Boat Collection: Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), 18th century

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


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