Slide set: The lifeboat (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 20 slides, 1899)

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Slide 1

Slide 2

Been out in the lifeboat often? Ay, ay, sir, often enough

Slide 3

Slide 4

Slide 5

Slide 6

She knew she was sinkin' quickly -- she knew her end was nigh

Slide 7

I sat and watched her dying, holding her wasted hand

Slide 8

When the door of the room burst open, and my mates were there

Slide 9

'You've never refused to go, John; you'll put these cowards right'

Slide 10

'I can't go, mate,' I murmured, 'in an hour she may be dead'

Slide 11

She whispered, 'Go, and God's will be done!'

Slide 12

My mates outside, when they saw me, set up three hearty cheers

Slide 13

We launched the boat in the tempest, though death was the goal in view

Slide 14

We rowed for the spot, and shouted, for all around was dark

Slide 15

I stretched out my hand to seize it. I dragged it aboard, and then

Slide 16

My mates came in and whispered; they'd heard I was comin' round

Slide 17

Presently Ben goes out, the others slink away like

Slide 18

I thought it must be a vision as my weak eyes gazed upon

Slide 19

He'd knelt by his mother's bed, and the sudden joy had saved her

Slide 20

My old eyes woke from darkness to look on my son and wife

Number of slides

Manufacturer

Bamforth & Co., England

Other related organisation

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1899-1914 (item ref. 1168)

Main type of image

life model

Main usage of set

recitation

Date of first manufacture

1899

Reading or song

George R. Sims, ‘The lifeboat’ in several compilations

Related slide set

see generic title The lifeboat (generic set title – 5 different versions are known)

People appearing in slides

BAMFORTH, James (1842-1911) – slides 2-3

Notes

Riley catalogue refers to this as a 'new series', presumably in replacement of the earlier York set (Riley 202) in their catalogue. There may be a possibility that there was an earlier Bamforth set?

Collections

2 slides in The Hecht Collection: Screen Archive South East (University of Brighton)

18 slides known to exist in private collection

Subject keywords

accidents and disasters – maritime
transport – maritime
heroism – lifeboat rescue
SIMS, George R. (1847-1922)

Lucerna ID 3001963

Record created by Richard Crangle and Lydia Jakobs. Last updated 24 November 2016

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Slide set: The lifeboat (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 20 slides, 1899)