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Launch of the lifeboat Tynesider at Tynemouth. information on the boat. TYNESIDER 1947 Ð 1979 : 46O09 Watson Type. 46O09 long by 12O09 wide, weight 21 tons 15 cwt, 2 Ð 40 bhp Ferry VE4 engines
The Tynemouth lifeboat enters the sea from its house at Low Lights, North Shields. Picture taken 15th September 1962
The Tynemouth lifeboat Tynesider approaches Newcastle Quayside for its visit to inaugurate Lifeboat Week. Picture taken 3rd October 1950
The Sunderland lifeboat Edward and Isabella Quinn. Picture taken 8th February 1951
A crewman on board the Sunderland lifeboat. Date taken 22nd October 1941
The South Shields lifeboat Tyne, pictured in 1932. The Tyne built in 1833. The Tyne Lifeboat, the worlds second oldest lifeboat in existence
The Sunderland lifeboat Edward and Isabella Irwin which rescued three fishermen shortly before their boat broke in two and sank three miles south of the Tyne
The Sunderland lifeboat Edward and Isabella Irwin after her launch by Lady Marr. Picture taken 15th June 1936
The South Shields lifeboat. Note to editorsThe South Shields lifeboat. **Note to editors : No more information is available for this picture, i.e. the name of the boat
The Sunderland lifeboat William Myers and Sarah Jane Myers being handed over to the Sunderland station on 5th July 1963. The £ 45
A Sunderland lifeboat launches into floating crude oil left by a passing ship. Picture taken 19th October 1954
The Sunderland lifeboat Guy and Claire Hunter. 46. 90 feet (14The Sunderland lifeboat Guy and Claire Hunter. 46.90 feet (14.30 m) long and Built in 1953 by White, J Samuel & Co Ltd, Cowes, Isle of Wight
The lifeboat Princess Alexandra on the right, which is a new Lifeboat to the area of Tyneside, since 1978. It is pictured alongside the larger " George and Olive Turner" Lifeboat
PS Lincoln Castle, paddle steamer, which ferried passengers across the Humber from the 1941 until 1978, pictured in Port of Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, 1983
HMS Ajax returns to the Royal Navy dockyards at Devonport following the destruction of the German Pocket Battleship Graf Spee. 18th February 1940
World War II Invasion of France Part of the British invasion fleet bound for the Gold Juno and Sword Normandy beaches seen here on the morning of D-day from the cliffs overlooking Folkestone
The Hospital Ships Dinard and St Julien seen here at Newhaven prior to a wounded prisoner exchange between German and British forces at Dieppe. 5th October 1941
Two of nine Fleet Air Arm Fairey Swordfish bombers launched from a Royal Navy Aircraft carrier travelling to attack the German battleship Bismarck in the Atlantic Ocean during the Second Word War
Seamen safely rescued from the armed merchant cruiser Transylvania, pennant F56, sunk by torpedo fired the German U-boat U-56 off Malin Head, Ireland on 10th August 1940
Mechanics working on the British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Argus inside the hangar after it had completed 25 years of continuous service with the Royal Navy. September 1943
At this invasion port on the South Coast of England, Royal Navy postmen deliver 6000 letters every day to men and women serving in the ships taking part n the operations across the Channel in
RAF Coastal Command Beaufighters attack enemy shipping in the waters of the North Sea off the Dutch Coast on 1st March 1944 and score a hit with a torpedo on a medium sized merchant vessel
The Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Stalker. January 1944
It is now revealed that during the most critical period of the Battle of the Atlantic a number of British merchant ships were equipped with flight decks for the launching
Sweeping the snow covered flight deck of the British escort carrier HMS Fencer during a convoy patrol in Northern waters in the Second World War
The Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Pursuer arrives at a British port during the Second World War. Four of her Gruman Wildcat fighters successfully defended a valuable Atlantic convoy in a night action
The Royal navy aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable seen from the air during the Second World War. November 1944
A panoramic view showing the great armada of warships and merchantmen standing by before returning to the French coast. June 1944
"Deck landing"training of Fleet Air Arm pilots at a Royal Naval Air Station" Deck landing" training of Fleet Air Arm pilots at a Royal Naval Air Station. Photo shows: Pilots scramble. Naval Swordfish ranged on the deck at a naval shore station for immediate take
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilots in training exercises during the Second World War. Picture shows: Wheeling out the torpedo to be fitted to their aircraft. March 1941
Picture taken on board the British Escort carrier Campania during a recent British convoy to and from Russia when a U-boat was sunk
Small high speed vessels, manned by officers and men of the Merchant Navy, have run the enemy blockade of the Skagerrak to bring valuable war materials from Sweden
Of ten Norwegian ships which attempted to escape to Britain from Gothenburg, Sweden in March, 1941, one, a new 10, 000 ton tanker the B.P. Newton, arrived safely at a British port
For 7 hours early in 1943 the corvette HMS Lavender lay alongside a blazing Panama tanker in the Caribbean Sea while the Corvettes crew fought the flames
Picture highlighting the the bitter cold conditions of the Artic region, taken on board the Royal Navy destroyer ship HMS Milne in Northern Waters shows sailors wearing Arctic hat fashions
Picture taken aboard Royal Navy cruiser HMS Manchester in Northern Waters highlighting the the bitter cold conditions of the Artic region. Circa May 1941
An Admiralty statement on 14th August 1942 stated that supplies and reinforcements had reached the fortress of Malta despite very heavy enemy concentrations designed to prevent their passage
HMS Ashanti Puts In To Refit. April 1942, Naval Dockyard, England. Scenes In The Dockyard During The Refit Of The Destroyer. Women dockyard workers coming ashore from the destroyer. April 1942
This fast new cargo ship, made in British shipyards, has been designed for the purpose of carrying strategic cargos. The length of holds and " tween" decks
The Merchant Services Fighter United, an RAF operational aircraft unit based at Speke Airport, have played one of the most daring parts in the war at sea and in the air
A Dutch tug has, since 1940, towed to safety 22 Allied ships with a total tonnage of over 128, 000. Among this number was an American freighter
A month before the Normandy landings, Mosquito aircraft of Bomber Command laid mines in the Kiel Canal, the most heavily defended waterway in the world
An impromptu concert in the wardroom of a British ship in a Royal Navy convoy inn the English Channel during the Second World War, given by an officers band
Canadians in landing craft near the port of Piraeus in Greece Second World War. 9th November 1944
Looking down on Lodingen Harbour, Norway as an enemy aircraft tender circles out of control and on fire after it receives a direct hit, from Fairey Fireflys of Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm
Attack on enemy shipping by RAF Mediterranean Command. A series of heavy bombing raids on military objectives in Southern Italy and Sicily
A Blenheim bomber of RAF Mediterranean Command delivering an attack from mast height on an enemy tanker off the coast of Tunisia. The tanker was escorted by a destroyer
