LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Picture of the Mudeford Ilb Returning With a 'survivor' on the Occasion of the Official Opening of the Ilb House on Mudeford Quay the Ilb House Was Built With Funds Do
by courtesy of S. M. Wheatley A picture of the Mudeford ILB returning with a 'survivor' on the occasion of the official opening of the ILB house on Mudeford quay. The ILB house was built with funds donated by Christchurch Round Table... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Life-Boat Cushion from the Sudan
THE Institution has received a leather cushion which has been specially made for it by an engineer in the Sudan government dockyard at Khartoum, Mr. R. C. Roberts, of Broughton-in- Furness. The cushion, which has been made in imitation of...
Category: Articles
ALL HANDS TO THE PUMP
With a small angling boat rapidly taking on water in the North Sea, it took the combined skills of three lifeboat crews to save the vessel and the eight men onboard
The volunteers on Tynemouth’s all-weather lifeboat were...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to October 31st, 1953 78,410 Notes of the Quarter First Shore-boat Award of the Year Two...
Category: Articles
Crew Member John Dew Torbay Photograph By Courtesy of Torbay Herald Express
Crew Member John Dew, Torbay. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Torbay Herald Express. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lord Saltoun at the International Lifeboat Conference In Edinburgh 1963 Photograph By Courtesy of John Dewar
Lord Saltoun at the International Lifeboat Conference in Edinburgh, 1963. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of John Dewar. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Reliance, of Whtiby
On the 11th February, the Yarmouth surf life-boat went off in reply to signals of distress from a vessel on the North Beach. A heavy gale was blowing from the S.S.E. at the time. When the life- boat arrived alongside, the sea was making a...
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to December 31st, 1953 78,497 Notes of the Quarter THE terrible disaster at Arbroath, following...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
• 'In the lifeboat service people are all important.' With this, the opening sentence of his foreword, Patrick Howarth sets the pattern of his latest and most intriguing book on the RNLI, Lifeboats and Lifeboat People (White Lion...
Category: Articles
Walmer Life-Boat Crew at French Embassy
THE crew of the Walmer life-boat went to London on Thursday, 27th of November, to receive the medals awarded to them by the French life-boat society, La societe centrale de sauvetage des naufrages for the rescue on the 13th of January, 1952,...
Category: Medals