LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat and a Steamer
Torbay (Devon).
Between the 5th and the 7th December, with a strong gale blowing the whole time and a very heavy sea, the Torbay Motor Life-boat was out on service four times. She was out _for two hours on the 5th, rescuing...
This Is Red House Lugger In a Force 11 In the North Sea.
This is Red House Lugger in a Force 11 in the North Sea. - View image in PDF
It could have been you. - View image in PDF
Photo Peter Foskett, Assistant Mechanic Lowestott lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Certificates of Service and Pensions.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE and a PENSION, have been awarded to: JAMES REDMOND, 10J years coxswain, 15 years bowman, and 11 years a member of the crew of the Dun Laoghaire...
Category: Awards
Psyche, of Swansea
REDCAR.—On the 25th September at 10 • 30P.M., the schooner Psyche of Swansea went ashore on the rocks off Kedcar, and the Life-boat Burton-on-Trent was launched to her assistance. Hear-Admiral KOBERTSON, Assistant Inspector of Lifeboats to...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Chairman of the Bradford Branch, and also of his work as Chairman of the Bradford Life-boat Bazaar, has been elected a Vice- President of the Institution.
The following awards have also been made :—• To the Rev. T. N....
Category: Awards
The R.N.L.I. Goes to Miami
EARLY last year Mr. Hugh Matheson, jr., of the Jamaica Inn, Miami, Florida, U.S.A., made a request for English life-boat service photographs to hang in a room there. His request was fulfilled.
In October came news that,...
Category: Articles
(Right) Between July and October Last Year Beccles and District Branch Pirate Ship 'Raided' Holidaymakers on the Norfolk Broads With Collecting Boxes and Raised (550
(Right) Between July and October last year Beccles and District branch pirate ship 'raided' holidaymakers on the Norfolk Broads with collecting boxes and raised (.550.11; this year she will be outward bound in March. Her crew are:... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the morning of the 4th January, 1892, while a moderate gale of wind was blowing from the N.N.E., with strong hail squalls and a heavy sea, signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Ship Rock, about a...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
Velocity
GILES' QUAY, DUNDALK.—The schooner Velocity, of and from Carnarvon, bound for Dundalk, laden with slates, while endeavouring to enter her port of destination, a whole gale of wind blowing from the S., accompanied by a heavy sea and thick...