RM2BTPAF8–Lifeboat Woman . First to pass Board of Trade test , Miss Blanche Tucker , aged 34 , the Chief Cashier in the French restaurant of the White Star Liner , ' RMS Majestic ' . 9 January 1929
RM2M97MH5–Ramsgate lifeboat men with passengers on board a ship caught on the Goodwin Sands.
RM2BW3BPG–Three fisherman from Kent brought ashore by lifeboat . 22 October 1934
RM2A9MMED–Car boot sale raising money for the RNLI Lifeboat charity
RMD1CABW–Victorian engraving of a lifeboat man and his sweetheart, 1897
RM2GED95Y–NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN - 04 September 1939 - An elderly woman is hoisted aboard the American cargo steamship City of Flint after spending the night in a
RMH5BJC9–Portrait of a man and woman in front of a lifeboat possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939
RM2K64JAK–Lucile Stewart Carter Brooke (nee Polk) (1875-1934) - American socialite and the wife of wealthy American William Ernest Carter. Survived the RMS Titanic disaster (along with her husband and their two children) after the ship hit an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912. Pictured here when a young woman in 1892. Date: 1892
RM2HFK3GH–Laing Sports Ground, Rowley Lane, Elstree, Barnet, London, 14/06/1969. A man with a RNLI lifeboat collection box at the Laing Sports Ground, with children in the background sitting in a boat on the grass. A Gala Day was held by Laing at the Laing Sports Ground on 14th June 1969, as a replacement of the annual Sports Day. Sports events were held by the Sports Club, which included hockey, tennis, bowls, and football tournaments. A traditional English fete programme featured coconut shies, bingo, pony rides, catering and a beer tent, candy floss, and roundabouts. The day ended with a beauty conte
RM2JRFG38–Sinking of SS Athenia, September 1939 An elderly woman is hoisted aboard the American cargo steamship City of Flint after spending the night in a lifeboat. She had been rescued from the passenger liner Athenia which was torpedoed by U-30 on the evening of 3 September 1939 off the north west coast of Ireland and sank the next morning.
RM2HHT9KM–Miss Vera Pearson helping in the rigging loft of the Royal National Lifeboat Institutions Stores. Alfred Stephens, an ex-Navy man, is teaching her to fix a thimble to a six inch rope and the filling of lifebouys with Kapok. The rigging loft is stored with coils of stout rope for issue to coastal crews.28th December 1944.
RMGCJRYR–PRINCESS VICTORIA STEAMER
RMB51RH8–Sister Clevely stepping aboard the SENNEN lifeboat 1952 C134/2
RMDB039G–transport / transportation, navigation, disasters, sailors rescue a mother and her child, 'In the last moment', after a motif from the island of Falster, Denmark, wood engraving after drawing by E. Knutsen, published in 'Die Gartenlaube', 1873, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2PBD2TN–British migrants on the deck of the Georgic, bound for Australia, 1949, Norman Herfort, Pix Magazine
RM2WG0J82–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, which has been built with much pains, and with the latest improvements, was drawn on its carriage by eight beautiful horses...through the principal streets, until it found its natural element in the broad stream of the Orwell...Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., chairman of the institution, then said: This was a bright and encouraging day for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution...It was a source of great satisfaction to find that th
RMR2WNGT–Woman looking out to sea shielding her eyes from the glare of the winter sun at Freshwater Bay isle of Wight
RF2D4T6KH–People in rescue boat icon, outline style
RM2BWBGY1–Newbiggin lifeboat heroines decorated at the National Lifeboat Headquarters . Mrs Dent , the coxswain , and Mrs Clark . 27 May 1927
RMD5JT11–Einar Sivard & wife (LOC)
RM2R8YXNA–Navarch, between 1880 and 1899.
RM2T1M0WX–Sinking of SS Athenia, September 1939 An elderly woman is hoisted aboard the American cargo steamship City of Flint after spending the night in a lifeboat. She had been rescued from the passenger liner Athenia which was torpedoed by U-30 on the evening of 3 September 1939 off the north west coast of Ireland and sank the next morning.
RM2PBD2XJ–British migrants on the deck of the Georgic, bound for Australia, 1949, Norman Herfort, Pix Magazine
RMAJ82W5–Loss of the troopship 'Birkenhead', South Africa, 1852 (early 20th century). Artist: Unknown
RM2BW3A40–Mrs Robert Patton and her daughter . The wife of Runswick lifeboat skipper , Robert Patton who was killed while rescuing a lame crewman of the salvage vessel , Disperser . He reached the cook , the last crewman left on the sinking vessel , but both were then swept away . Mr Eglon escaped unhurt but Mr Patton was crushed against the side of the ship whose deck rail they were hanging onto . The lifeboat was swept against the Dispenser , badly crushing Patton , but he supported the crippled crewman until a rescue was effected . He was returned to shore but sadly later died of his injuries . 20
RMD5H5N7–H.W. Thornton & family (LOC)
RM2WRH52Y–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.
RM2R4DFK9–'Le torpillage du paquebot "Arabia"; un canot de passagers du paquebot-poste anglais "Arabia", torpille par un sous-marin allemand. 6 novembre', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916". (A passenger boat from the English mail liner "Arabia", torpedoed by a German submarine. November 6)
RM2BW93JC–The charity Lifeboat fete in Scadbury , Kent . Mrs Marsham Townshends and her dogs . 1939
RM2MBGPBC–Departure of colored emigrants for Liberia, 1890-1899. From The Illustrated American, March 21, 1896.
RM2R8Y962–Shipwreck of "The Northern Belle": the Crew of "The Mary White", in their Life-boat, drawn through Broadstairs, 1857. Lifeboatmen saved the lives of the crew of a US ship that was wrecked off the coast of Kent. '...the Mary White was dragged upon her truck by three horses into Broadstairs. In the boat sat her gallant crew. Tied to an American oar was the American standard which was so recently hoisted as a signal of distress. The tattered flag fluttered over the broken bows of the Mary White. It was thus that the boat passed through the streets of Broadstairs, amidst the jo
RM2BW93JG–The charity Lifeboat fete in Scadbury , Kent . Sir Waldron Smithers and Mrs Marriot playing hoopla . 1939
RM2X221MP–Marines aboard Prairie, 1911.
RM2K03WTG–'The Red White and Blue Bazaar at the Agricultural Hall', 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"
RM2BW93K0–The charity Lifeboat fete in Scadbury , Kent . Sir Waldron Smithers and Mrs Marriot playing hoopla . 1939
RM2RRJ84T–Inauguration of a Life-boat and Life Boat House at Sunderland, 1858. 'Miss Burdett Coutts has, with her usual wakeful sympathy, sent down to this dangerous coast a large life-boat properly found and equipped. The gentlemen of the port...have erected on the beach for its reception a neat life boat house, a Sketch of which we have engraved from a drawing sent us by Mr. J. G. Brown, architect, of Sunderland. The splendid life-boat was...installed...at the South Dock...a procession was formed...consisting of the Monkwearmouth Colliery band; the life-boat (called the Duke of Wellington) on its carr
RM2BW93K6–The charity Lifeboat fete in Scadbury , Kent . Sir Waldron Smithers chatting to a steward while enjoying a cigarette . 1939
RM2BW93K9–The charity Lifeboat fete in Scadbury , Kent . Lady Smithers , Sir Waldron Smithers and Mrs Marsham Townshends walking down a gangway . 1939
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