LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Peel's Boathouse
Peel's boathouse, of 'familiar 19th century design and construction' currently houses the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat.
It will make way for a completely new building designed for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books
BooKs BOOKS From the history of lifeboats and lighthouses to pastimes for Winter evenings, Carol Waterkeyn reviews what’s new on the shelves this season Sea stories – new writing from the National Maritime Museum Various writers This...
Category: Articles
Paperchase
Two saved in harbour drama Faced with the choice of a wait offshore for eight hours in gale force conditions or reaching dry Land quickly by a risky harbour entry, which would you choose? Decision time When a crew of two undertook a maiden...
Heather Deane of the Rnli Poole Office Signs on Howard Lang: 'The Onedin Line's' Captain Baines
Heather Deane of the RNLI Poole Office signs on Howard Lang: 'The Onedin Line's' Captain Baines.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services by Shore-Boats
DRUMMORE, WIGTOWNSHIRE. During the afternoon of the 14th November, 1938, the steamer Ben May sprang a leak and sank in East Tarbert Bay. Her crew of live took to the ship’s boat, and at the request of the coastguard, three men put out in a...
Category: Services
In Memory of Grace Darling (1)
Planting an oalc tree in Battersea Park, London. (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Life-Boat for Fraserburgh
A VERY interesting ceremony took place at Fraserburgh on the 4th August, when the new Motor Life-boat, the Lady Rothes, presented to the Institution by Mr. T. Dyer Edwardes, was named and launched in the presence of some thousands of...
Category: Inaugurations
Holyhead: the Duke of Kent President of the Institution Names the 52Ft Arun Hyman Winstone Photograph By Courtesy of Jeff Morris
Holyhead: The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, names the 52ft Arun Hyman Winstone. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fig 2: Engine Beds In Place Note Bulkhead at Forward End of Engine Room (Right)
Fig. 2: Engine beds in place. Note bulkhead at forward end of engine room (right).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Suevic (2)
THE LIZARD, CADGWITH, COVERACK, and PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—A disas- ter of such magnitude as seldom occurs on the coast of the United Kingdom took place off Cornwall on the night of the 17th March. Thanks to the prompt action of the...