lifeboats

[First class promenade on the boat deck]

Title: [First class promenade on the boat deck] ..Creator: Bedford Lemere & Co. ..Date: ca. 1905-1907..Place: The United Kingdom ..Part Of: Photographs of Q.S.T.S. ''Lusitania''..Physical Description: 1 ... More

The terrible sufferings of Grant, Tice, Dawson and others

Seven illustrations showing them saving themselves after the sinking of the Central America. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1857 Oct. 17, p. 312.

U.S.S. Warrimoo at Dunedin - Muir & Moodie, New Zealand

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Union S.S. Co.'s "Te Anau" at Dunedin, New Zealand

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Supper Cove, Dusky Sound, New Zealand

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Shipping, Westport - Muir & Moodie, New Zealand

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S.S. Ionic [1] at Port Chalmers, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

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Studies of lifeboats and pulleys; on verso, study of ship with two mas...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - French painter, printmaker, and illustrator of the Post-Impressionist period. He is best known for his depictions of Parisian nightlife, including the world of cabarets, cafes, and b... More

John Singer Sargent - Lifeboats on Davits (from Scrapbook)

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SS "Rotorua" in Milford Sound, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

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[The lifeboat house at Riva]. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 2. No. 76. In album: Black Sea lifesaving stations, naval facilities, ports, mines, and factories, Turkey and Greece, Ottoman Em... More

[Capsizing the lifeboat] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

At Şile. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 40. No. 642. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms pa... More

[After being capsized, the lifeboat being leveled] / Constantinople, A...

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[Exterior view of lifesaving station] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frère...

Lifesaving station at Riva. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 27. No. 643. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottom... More

[The floating of the lifeboat, Riva] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 34. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid... More

[Capsizing the lifeboat] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

At Şile. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 41. No. 642. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms pa... More

[The lifesaving exercises at Riva]

Men attempting to right a capsized boat. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. Title translated from album caption. No. 30. No. 86. In album: Ships, Black Sea lifesaving stations, naval personnel and facilit... More

[Lifeboat moving with sail] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

At Şile. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 38. No. 644. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms pa... More

[The floating of the lifeboat, Şile] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 33. No. 633. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Ab... More

The conduct of the lifesaving exercises at Şile

Group of men in boat with oars raised. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. Title translated from album caption. No. 27. No. 89. In album: Ships, Black Sea lifesaving stations, naval personnel and facilitie... More

[The lifesaving exercises at Riva]

Group of men clinging to hull of a capsized boat. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg w... More

[Lifeboat moving with oars] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

At Şile. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 39. No. 641. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms pa... More

Lyttelton, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

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"Wairarapa" - July '84, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

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Bangor Castle I - Public domain image of steamship

Paddle steamer Bangor Castle en fête for some big event! We don't know where this was taken. Can just make out ...KLOW at extreme left on the prow of the steamer behind the Bangor Castle...Date: 1860-1883..NLI ... More

Robert French - Alexandra Graving Dock, Belfast (2)

… taken from further back, showing all of the Rothesay Bay out of Glasgow (is that how it's termed?)...Date: Between October and December 1889 or between July 1890 and mid-1899..NLI Ref.: L_NS_01663 ( vtls000344666 )

Return of lifeboat /. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

"Shows a life boat coming through the breakers. The surf is high and the stout boat is tossed about like a cork. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog. "Pacific Coast Life Saving Service series: These subjects are ill... More

Launch of surf boat - movie film screenshot

"The crew of seven dressed in cork jackets, push the boat through the surf; they clamber in and row out to the wreck. 50 ft."--Edison films catalog. "Pacific Coast Life Saving Service series: These subjects are... More

Sandhamn Stockholms Mellersta Skärgård - Fo134613

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Sandhamn Stockholms Mellersta Skärgård - Fo134612

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Kungliga Svenska Segelsällskapet - Fo165043A

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Launch of life boat /. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

"Pacific Coast Life Saving Service series: These subjects are illustrative of the work performed by the Life Saving Corps of the United States Government, and show the methods in vogue at one of the most import... More

Passagerarfartyg, Sandhamn Stockholms Mellersta Skärgård - Fo134591

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Capsize of lifeboat / motion picture

"Daily practise [sic] of life boat crew, showing boat being upset purposely by the men. As these boats are self-righting and self-bailing, the scene is particularly interesting. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog. ... More

The launching of the life-boat, Cape Cod

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Lifeboat on the crest, Truro Massachusetts

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The life boat afloat, Truro Massachusetts

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Return of life boat, Truro Massachusetts

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Winslow Homer - The gulf stream

Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of painting signed "Homer, 1899" at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Negative cracked at left. "029310" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M407. Gi... More

Lifeboat in the breakers, Truro Massachusetts

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[The wreck] - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Launching the life boat, Truro Massachusetts

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The life boat afloat, Truro Massachusetts

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John Singleton Copley - Watson and the shark

Title from jacket. Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a painting signed "J. Copley, 1778." Detroit Publishing Co. no. 048031. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[text på kortets framsida, v kant:] "Printed by Valentine Ltd, Dundee....

[text på kortets framsida, v kant:] "Printed by Valentine Ltd, Dundee."; [n bildfält; otydliga vita bokstäver:] "Life Boat, Seaton Carew [otydbart] JV."; [n kant, under bilden:] "Life Boat, Seaton Carew"; [baks... More

Lost in the desert the great dramatic spectacle : written by Owen Davi...

D13751 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Last of the "Mary Jane." Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print., Cincinnati & New York." No. 4719. Forms part of: Theatrical poster c... More

Watson and the shark - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Bringing in life boat, Truro Massachusetts

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[Watson and the shark] - Public domain drawing

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Launching the life boat, Truro Massachusetts

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The return from the wreck, Cape Cod

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The gulf stream - Drawing. Public domain image.

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On the way to the wreck, Cape Cod

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Winslow Homer - The wreck - Detroit publishing company. Public domain.

Title from jacket. Men pulling lifeboat on wagon. "M 805" on transparency. Photograph of a painting by Winslow Homer. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 050393. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The start of the life-boat, Cape Cod

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The life boat afloat, Truro Massachusetts

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Off to the rescue, Cape Cod postcard

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Launching the life boat, Truro Massachusetts

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Arthur Henri Poole - Sibyl - Public domain image of steamship

As derangedlemur solved today's mystery image ( nlireland/9454962057/ ) in about 30 seconds, presenting today's bonus photograph - the paddle steamer Sibyl (libations to all the maritime gods that for once the... More

John Singleton Copley - Watson and the shark

Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a painting in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 104. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Rauðagnúpur, N.-Iceland. Iceland - Cornell University Library

Collection: Icelandic and Faroese Photographs of Frederick W.W. Howell, Cornell University Library..Title: Rauðagnúpur, N.-Iceland...Date: ca. 1900..Place: Rauðagnúpur (Iceland)..Medium: collodion print..Reposi... More

The start of the life-boat, Cape Cod

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Life rescue at Long Branch /

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(4 namn) group photo, Sweden, Sjöhistoriska museet Sweden

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Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu - Muir & Moodie, New Zealand

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Fo134466 Sverige. Public domain image.

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Keep Off Propellor - Public domain image of steamship

Displaying a fine example of Eats, Shoots and Leaves ( http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/854886-eats-shoots-leaves-the-zero-tolerance-approach-to-punctuation ) signage, this is the SS Scotia docked at Holyh... More

Among the oil barrels where fire started, showing defective life prese...

Stereograph shows oil barrels and the burnt remains of lifeboats and life preservers at the harbor. H49054 U.S. Copyright Office No. 8401. Copyright by H.C. White Co. Copyright entry: Aug. 12, 1904, Class H; XX... More

[Officer standing on the navigation bridge, looking aft]

Title: [Officer standing on the navigation bridge, looking aft] ..Creator: Bedford Lemere & Co. ..Date: ca. 1905-1907..Place: The United Kingdom ..Part Of: Photographs of Q.S.T.S. ''Lusitania''..Physical... More

On the way to the wreck, Cape Cod

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[Boat deck, Lusitania], Southern Methodist University collection

Title: [Boat deck] . .Creator: Bedford Lemere & Co...Date: ca. 1905-1907..Part Of: Photographs of Q.S.T.S. "Lusitania"..Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 24 x 30 cm. ..File:... More

Lifeboat on the crest, Truro Massachusetts

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[Boat deck], Southern Methodist University collection

Title: [Boat deck] ..Creator: Bedford Lemere & Co. ..Date: ca. 1905-1907..Place: The United Kingdom ..Part Of: Photographs of Q.S.T.S. ''Lusitania''..Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin s... More

Return of the life boat postcard

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U.S. life saving crew leaving the station

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Fo16039A, Sjöhistoriska museet Sweden

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Lifeboat in the breakers, Truro Massachusetts

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Launching the life boat, Truro Massachusetts

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Winslow Homer - Gulf Stream - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title from jacket. Photograph of a painting signed "Homer, 1899." "G 282" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 029434. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Gulf Stream] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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Sandhamn Stockholms Mellersta Skärgård - Fo145089

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Surf boat drill, Truro Massachusetts

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Scene at Wellington N.Z. on arrival of the R.M.S. 'Ionic' [2] with 700...

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The "Washington", George Grantham Bain Collection

Bain News Service photograph. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Zak Joseph Zachariah - On board the T.S. 'Dartford'

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Fo10774A, Tyskland, Sjöhistoriska museet Sweden

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Fo113540A, Sjöhistoriska museet Sweden

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Lundin lifeboats - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows metal lifeboats designed by Andreas Petrus (Andrew Peter) Lundin (1869-1929), of New York for the Welin Marine Equipment Company. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

...3-mast barken "Anton" av Väddös besättning år 1910. kapten M. Matts...

...3-mast barken "Anton" av Väddös besättning år 1910. kapten M. Mattsson i mitten.

Foto, Sjöhistoriska museet Sweden

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Förskeppet på en Livbåt., Sjöhistoriska museet Sweden

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Diagonalbyggd livbåt i dubbel bordläggning.

Diagonalbyggd livbåt i dubbel bordläggning. Public domain photograph - 20th-century Swedish maritime photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit Shipbuilding Co. life rafts dept

Photograph shows the Orleans Street yard of the Detroit Shipbuilding Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. (Source: researcher W. Worden, 2017) "M #1" on negative. Life preservers or rafts on wooden pallets, 1801 Atw... More

Titanic survivors on way to rescue ship Carpathia

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The wreck of the Titanic : piano solo

Detroit Shipbuilding Co. life rafts dept.

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Luxuries versus lifeboats / Kep., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows an ocean liner sinking amid icebergs with many passengers jumping into the sea for lack of enough lifeboats, as a few lifeboats loaded with passengers row clear of the ship. Caption: The Gri... More

Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Lincoln Branch, Flag day, Saturda...

Poster showing a lifeboat at the scene of a foundering ship. Text continues: 311 lives saved from H.M. warships, destroyers, seaplanes and other vessels since the outbreak of war. Supported solely by voluntary ... More

[Ship with lifeboats]. Museum of New Zealand collection

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Royal National Life-boat Institution, Heywood Branch, Flag days, Frida...

Poster showing a lifeboat at the scene of a foundering ship.