LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE LIFE-BOAT Christmas card and the calendar for 1939 will have the above picture reproduced on them in colours.
The picture shows a modern motor life-boat of the Watson type being launched down a slipway. It has been...
Category: Advertisement
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HOLYHEAD.—On the 4th of April, 1886, at midnight, the schooner Lorn, of Lan- caster, bound from Wicklow for Liver- pool, showing signals of distress during a moderate gale from the S.W., the Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off to her assistance...
Category: Services
Ramsgate - Tyne Class Kenneth Thelwall Ii
Right The new Tyne class lifeboat at Ramsgate, Kenneth Thelwall II, pictured leaving Ramsgate after her naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
(Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Anniversary of Grace Darling's Rescue
The 1th September, 1963, was the 25th anniversary of the famous rescue by Grace Darling and her father of survivors from the Forfarshire. The following article, which has been specially written for the Life-boat by Commander W....
Category: Articles
Bose
THE GUARANTEE IS AS CLEAR AND UNDISTORTED AS THE SOUND.
THE BOSE" WAVE" RADIO/CD. We can describe to you how clear and natural the sound is. We can explain how the small size, convenience and simplicity add to the...
Category: Advertisement
Seven Men Rescued from Trawler Aground
FOUR minutes after midnight on I3th December, 1963, the coxswain of the Caister life-boat, J. R. Plummer, learnt from the Gorleston coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in trouble two miles from the North Denes look- out. Coxswain Plummer...
Category: Services
Cdr Peter Roe Operations Room Officer Checks a Position on the Chart While Julie Mannd (I) Assistant Boat Movements Officer Receives a Telephone Message from A
Cdr Peter Roe, operations room officer, checks a position on the chart while Julie Mannd (I.), assistant boat movements officer, receives a telephone message from a station honorary secretary and Margaret Pearce, operations room assistant,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Imperial Prince
A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year 1884-85
No Wreck Register having been issued this autumn by the BOARD OF TRADE, we are unable, as has been our wont for upwards of thirty years, to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, with a Chart showing the wrecks and...
Category: Articles
Young England
On the 20th Oct., about 10.30 P.M., it then blowing a mode- rate gale at S.S.W. with a very heavy sea on, a man swam ashore about a mile north of Winterton Life-boat Station. An over- turned ship's boat lay beating about in the surf not...