LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Now in Tesco and Asda
Supporting the RNLI’s lifeboat crews can be as simple as sitting down for a cup of tea.
Lifeboat Tea is already available in Waitrose, and from March you’ll be able to pick up a box in Tesco and Asda stores. For every pack...
Category: Articles
Above: the Curiously Named. Coastguard Tug. Far Turbot.
Above: The curiously named. - View image in PDF
Coastguard tug. Far Turbot.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat In Water-Colour
A water-colour study of a life-boat launching which won a holiday cruise to Russia and Scandinavia for Barry Ketley, 17 year old Hull schoolboy. He entered the painting in the Daily Mail New Year Schools' Contest and was one of 24...
Category: Drawings
Beginning of the New Fleet
When the war in Europe ended sixteen months ago, six life-boats were in the yard waiting to be finished. Four of them have since gone to the coast.
Of the 29 life-boats which the Institution had planned to build as soon as...
Category: Articles
Improved Liquid Boat Compass and Binnacle of the National Life-Boat Institution
IN a former Number of this Journal we published a description, with illustrations, of this valuable little instrument. Subsequently, in 1867, the Committee of the Institution presented to J. MACGREGOR, Esq., the founder of the " Canoe...
Category: Articles
Relief Fleet -D Class British Diver Hi C Class British Diver Iv
Two new inshore lifeboats funded by the British Sub Aqua club were named and dedicated at a special ceremony on 24 October. This is believed to be the first 'double ceremony' for inshore lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (7)
AUGUST
Launches 37. Lives rescued 13.
AUG. 1ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
Three men, visitors to Moelfre, who were out in a rowing boat,...
Category: Services
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
Efficiency In the Life-Boat Service
IN an article dealing with the Board of Trade returns of the shipping disasters during the year ended 30th June, 1903, a newspaper, whilst showing much appreciation of the work done by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION, and in a...
Category: Articles
October
Launches 32. Lives rescued 31.
OCTOBER 8TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 P.M. the Tara coastguard reported that the motor boat Dawn, of Glasgow, engaged on salvage work, was showing signals of distress at the...
Category: Services