Lifeboat Collection

A Tight Fit
9th October 1926: The lifeboat being pulled through the streets of Port Isaac, Cornwall in England. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Tight Squeeze
The Port Isaac Cornwall lifeboat being dragged through the very narrow streets of the town at its launch. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Liverpool Lifeboat
A lifeboat in Liverpool docks, circa 1890. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Scarborough Shipwreck
Ships run aground at Scarborough in North Yorkshire, 1880. Original Publication : Illustrated London News - pub. 6th November 1880 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hauling Lifeboat
9th October 1926: Lifeboat Port Isaac, Cornwall is hauled through the streets of Port Isaac to its launching. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Rime of the Ancient Mariner - boat spun round
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore of a scene from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Upon the whirl, where sank the ship, The boat spun round and round

Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Pilot shrieked
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore of a scene from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, I moved my lips the Pilot shrieked and fell down in a fit

Rime of the Ancient Mariner - more dread
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore of a scene from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Under the water it rumbled on, Still louder and more dread

Boarding At Genoa
Italian men board a boat in Genoa, bound for Buenos Aires, circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Off-shore oil rig surrounded by sailing fireboat and flying helicopter, underwater cross-section depicting the rigs foundations

Coming To America; Immigrants pack the upper deck of the liner SS Patricia as it
Immigrants pack the upper deck of the liner SS Patricia as it travels from Hamburg to New York, December 10, 1906. The Patricia was built by A.G

Castaway of the South
Vintage engraving of a pair of castaways drifting in a small boat at sea, 1892

Victorian lifeboat at sea, 19th Century
Vintage engraving of a Victorian lifeboat at sea, 19th Century

Ship Wreak
Vintage engraving from 1898 showing people shooting rocket toward Ship Wreak

Illustration of lifeboat with radar, aerials, rescue helicopter and several small red lifeboats attached to side

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

Launching Lifeboat
10th September 1933: The launch and inauguration of the new motor lifeboat (RNLB Charles Cooper Henderson) at Dungeness. (Photo by A. Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Alfred Staniforth
August 1907: A crowd gathered around a group of lifeboatmen and their lifeboat, the Alfred Staniforth in Teignmouth, Devon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Caistor Lifeboat Men
February 1908: Lifeboat men from Caistor near Yarmouth after being decorated by the visiting Czar of Russia. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lifeboat Drill
Lifeboats being tested on board the Cunard liner Aquitania

Lifeboat Launch
The launching of the Newquay lifeboat

New Boathouse, Cromer Beach 1928
5th December 1928: The lifeboat HF Bailey II enters the new boathouse at Cromer beach. (Photo by J. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lizard Lifeboat
The Lizard lifeboat, The Duke of Cornwall being hauled up its slipway after a trial launch. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Lusitania Deck
A view on the deck of the Cunard liner Lusitania, circa 1915. The ship was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on 7th May 1915. Original Publication: The Graphic, pub. 15th May 1915

Lifeboat Launch
circa 1860: Flotsam floats ashore as the crew of a lifeboat struggle to launch their vessel and go to the aid of a stricken ship

Greatest Liners
Three of the worlds greatest liners, the Cunard vessel Aquitania (left), the White Star vessel Olympic (right) and the USS Leviathan ( former Hamburg America Line vessel Vaterland)

Lone Seamen
Two seamen are drawn behind the stern of the Cunard liner SS Mauretania at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lusitania Sunk
7th May 1915: The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner Lusitania by a German submarine off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. 128 US citizens lost their lives

Titanic Lifeboats
Lifeboats on board the SS Titanic. When the liner sank in the Atlantic after hitting an iceberg there were only enough lifeboats on board to hold a third of the passengers and crew

Titanic Survivors
29th April 1912: Survivors of the Titanic disaster board a GWR (Great Western Railway) ferry at Plymouth after arriving in England on the SS Lapland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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