Lifebelt Collection

Advert for Players Navy Cut Tobacco and Cigarettes, 1923. A print from The Illustrated London News, 28th April 1923

Battlecruiser HMS Hood, seen from HMS Nelson, 1937. The largest warship in the Royal Navy, HMS Hood exploded and sank while engaging the German battleship Bismarck

Group of passengers on deck of S.S. Amsterdam, c1910. Creator: Unknown
Group of passengers on deck of S.S. Amsterdam, c1910

Maison Jays mourning outfitters, 1888. Creator: Unknown
Maison Jays mourning outfitters, 1888. From, The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume38. July to December, 1888

At the Wall of the Federationists, June 1894. Creator: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
At the Wall of the Federationists, June 1894

Captain of the Tenby Lifeboat, 1853-56. Creator: Mr. Gonne
Captain of the Tenby Lifeboat, 1853-56

Port Augusta, South Australia, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Port Augusta, South Australia, 1901. Port Augusta, a natural harbour and seaport on the Spencer Gulf named after Augusta Sophia, Lady Young, the wife of the Governor of South Australia

To the rescue: the life-buoy, c1900. Creator: Unknown
To the rescue: the life-buoy, c1900. From " Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

Throwing the Life-Line, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Throwing the Life-Line, 1890. Lifeboatmen in sou westers carrying out a rescue in rough seas - the man in the centre preparing to throw the rope wears a belt of buoyancy aids

North Cape - from the west - land of the Midnight Sun, near midnight, N. Norway, c1905
North Cape - from the west - land of the Midnight Sun (71° N. lat.), near midnight, N. Norway, c1905. From " The Underwood Travel Library - Norway". [Underwood & Underwood, London ]

Entering Grimsby Docks at the end of a North Sea voyage is the fishing vessel Saurian, 1937. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. II, edited by Clarence Winchester. [The Fleetway House, London]

War time lifebelt drill on board an ocean liner, 1915. From The Manchester Guardian History of the War, Vol. II. - 1914-15. [John Heywood Ltd, London, 1915]

Sixteenth-Century Lifebelt, 1555. From Old Ship Prints by E. Keble Chatterton. [John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London & New York, 1927]

Atlantic, c20th century (1932). Artist: Paul Nash
Atlantic, c20th century (1932). From The Studio Volume 104. [The Offices of the Studio, London, 1932]

Margaret, of the Windmill Theatre, London, 1938. Cigarette card from Modern Beauties, 7th series, issued by the British-American Tobacco Company

Irene Hervey, American film actress, c1938. Irene Hervey (1909-1998) appeared in numerous films in the 1930s and 1940s. From the 1950s onwards she switched increasingly to television acting

Bluejackets of the torpedo boat destroyer HMS Sturgeon, 1896. Artist: Gregory & Co
Bluejackets of the torpedo boat destroyer HMS Sturgeon, 1896. The Sturgeon was launched in 1894 and was attached to the Channel Squadron

Phyllis Dare (1890-1975), English actress, 1907. From the Rotary Photographic Series

Chief Painter, 1937. Artist: WA & AC Churchman
Chief Painter, 1937. Churchmans Cigarette Series, The Navy At Work

Passengers on a ferry, Rotterdam, 1898. Artist: James Batkin
Passengers on a ferry, Rotterdam, 1898. Illustration from a book of photographs taken in Holland and Belgium by James Batkin, (1898)

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