Hello Cam and Tim,
Cam, I believe this picture
is showing Olympic's lifeboats : the "strips above the dangling ropes" (sorry I don't know how to name those) are white. All the pictures I've seen so far of Olympic's lifeboats before her post-Titanic sinking refit show that they were painted completely white, whereas the Titanic's lifeboats had their strip above the ropes painted brown.
Here is another picture of Olympic's lifeboats, taken on May 31, 1911 in Belfast :
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(credits : harland and wolff collection)
(speculation : since the lightning looks very similar and we can see puddles on the deck in both pics, maybe they were taken on the same day ?)
In comparison, look at the picture of Titanic's lifeboats Tim linked :
Tim, speaking of this last picture, I think it is Thomas Barker's and not Francis Browne's. Indeed, I recently visited the Cherbourg Titanic museum in France and the photograph was captioned as being Thomas Barker's. You can also read in the descripion under the photograph on wikipedia that its author is Thomas Barker :
link.
Let's keep in mind that this info comes from two sources only, which is quite light to assume with a 100% certainty that Barker is the author of the pic... Tim, where did you find that it was Browne who took that picture ?
Regarding the anchor picture, like Tim, I had never seen it before.
Hope that helps
Manon