LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prince Albert Convalescent Home, Worthing. Some of the Patients After Taking Part In the Collection at the Practice Launch of the Life-Boat
Prince Albert Convalescent Home Worthing Some of the Patients After Taking Part In The Collection at The Practice Launch of the Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fast from a Carriage the Fast Carriage Lifeboat Takes Shape
The experimental prototype of a new design of 38ft lifeboat which is fast, yet capable of launching from a carriage, is now under construction and will begin trials in the spring. Edward Wake-Walker examines her development.THE RNLI HAS A...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. A very strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy and rough sea, and as six local fishing cobles were out, the life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched at 10.40 A.M. She met five of the...
3,298 RNLI RESCUE CRAFT LAUNCHES 1 JANUARY–30 JUNE 2017
The launches listed here are those for which returns had been received at RNLI Headquarters and processed by 25 July 2017
Behind every launch, new lifeboat and naming ceremony listed in this section is a community of...
Category: Articles
United States Life-Boats
IN the June, 1964, number of THE LIFE-BOAT it was stated that a delegation from the United States Coast Guard which visited Europe in 1928 had decided that the Watson cabin life-boat of the R.N.L.I. was the most suitable for their purposes...
Category: Articles
The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
IN a recent number of this Journal, after explaining the reasons which had led to the transfer of the Life-boat Establishments of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society to the Royal National Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Coxswain William Fleming, G.C.
WILLIAM FLEMING, former coxswain of the Gorleston life-boat, died on the 30th of September, 1954, at the age of 89.
He was born in 1865 and first served as a member of the Gorleston crew before he was twenty. He became...
Category: Obituaries
Model Effort:
Model effort: this half size replica of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston 44ft Waveney lifeboat Barham took eight months and several hundred man hours to complete and will be used to raise funds for the RNLI by being rented out to fetes and... - 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: RICHARD LEE, 21J years coxswain, 7J years second coxswain and 3J years bowmam of the Douglas...
Category: Awards
The Song of the Life-Boat
When the tempest raves, and the angry waves Break crashing on the shore ; When the vessel cracks, and drops in her tracks, I face the ocean's roar.
I dance o'er the heaving surge and the foam, For the stormy sea is...
Category: Poetry