Rescue Collection

The London Blitz An ARP warden rescues a young girl from the wreckage of a building bombed by Germany. V1 attack Buckingham Gate, Victoria

Smoke and flames pouring from a building in London Berkeley Square 1968

Worlds largest lifeboat, the William and Kate Johnston, launched at New Brighton, Merseyside, a seaside town in Wallasey, England. 18 September 1924

Battleship as ice breaker. Over 40 ships freed in the frozen Baltic Sea. Owing to the exceptionally severe frost the Baltic is almost completely frozen over

Widespread havoc caused by floods after heavy rain as the level of the River Medway burst its banks and cut off villages. Here marooned villagers are carried from their houses to a horse and cart

With his legs twisted round a pipe, Jock Kerr of Tottenham worked over the whirling water at the weir at Lea Bridge Road waterworks to secure a drum of highly dangerous explosive

Coxswain Sidney Page of Southend lifeboat wins 2 awards in a year. 15 December 1934

London County Council Fire Brigade display at Southwark headquarters, England. 18 March 1924

Bomb damage. Rescue squads in Hackney, East London, worked unceasingly under a dangerous tottering wall and brought out a youth who had been completely buried under the debris of a house for twelve

Fireman at the new headquarters are practising the display they would give when the King and Queen open the new Fire Brigade Headquarters on the Albert Embankment, London today (Wednesday)

New type of motor lifeboat Priscilla Macbean launched at Eastbourne on Wednesday 27 September 1922

Floods in Oporto. A street overlooking the Douro. 1 July 1921

Thames plunge of motor car. The motor car carrying a party of five which plunged into the Thames at Hampton Court, was raised by the police, who found inside the body of Mrs Small

Trevessa crews arrival. Mr Havelock Wilson MP, greeting the Captain of the Trevessa
" Trevessa " crews arrival. Mr Havelock Wilson MP, greeting the Captain of the " Trevessa ", Mr Cecil Foster. 23 August 1923

Crew of British steamer rescued. The City of Norwich ( pictured here in Hamburg
Crew of British steamer rescued. The " City of Norwich " ( pictured here in Hamburg ) which went aground on Gardner Island ( Nikumaroro ) in the South Pacific. 2 December 1929

Launching ceremoy in the Isle of Wight. A handsome sum of money bequeathed to the Royal Lifeboat Institution by the late Mr T G Langham of London and Leicester

New type of motor lifeboat. Priscilla Macbean the new motor lifeboat to be
New type of motor lifeboat. " Priscilla Macbean " the new motor lifeboat to be stationed at Eastbourne, Sussex, by Royal National Lifeboat Institution. 28 September 1922

Charles points to the tree from where he rescued the black cat that he is holding. 1936

Police rescue poultry from poultry farms in the flooded area of the Thames in Kent - 2nd February 1953

Rescue at a factory in Bexley, Kent after a bomb during the Blitz - 30 September 1940 eTopFoto

Kent lost thousands of sheep cattle and horses some farmers managed to obtain a rowboat near Sheerness Kent to rescue their stock February 1953

Thames Floods. Police of the Metropolitan River Squad brought a portable boat and rescued live stock near Belvedere, Kent. 2nd February 1953

The saving of the 705: uncrowded life-boats of the Titanic. Survivors aboard
The saving of the 705: uncrowded life-boats of the " Titanic". Survivors aboard a collapsible from the " Titanic"

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