LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The 1952 Christmas Card In Black and White
From a drawing by John Hart (See page 406).
Category: Drawings
The Life-Boat Service Cricket Team at Orpington
(See "A Life-boat Diary"). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Win a Trip for Two on the Orient-Express
Photos: Venice Simplon Orient- Ex press. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
State and Condition of the Several Life-Boats, Boathouses, Etc
Click 'View Original Layout'
Category: Articles
Imagine the Sealed Orange Superstructure As a Permanently Inflated Air Bag'
Imagine the sealed orange superstructure as a permanently inflated air bag' and it is easier to imagine the upward lorce it is generating as this Tyne class hleooai rolls upright. This view also shows how the height of the upperworks... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Attempted Rescue By Two Lytham Mechanics
AT 8.15 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station was told that a swimmer was in difficulties on the Southport side of the River Ribble. A fresh north-westerly gale was blowing,...
Category: Services
January 1881: Three Weeks of Storms and Blizzards Just a Hundred Years Ago By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer
A CENTURY AGO lifeboat crews were nearly all fishermen who spent most of their time working at sea and were well used to long periods of exposure in harsh conditions. Their lifeboats, although the best of their day, were simple open boats...
Category: Articles
Valldemosa (1)
OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the Chicken Rock.
Port Erin was asked...
Neepawa, Fishing Boat Audrey, Lighter Elmsdale, Schooner Westward
Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex.—During the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, the barge Neepawa, of Rochester, was seen to be in distress a quarter of a mile east of the pier. A whole S.S.W.
gale was blowing, with a very rough sea...
Christmas Cards and Calendars
In addition to three different types of Christmas card, the Institution will this year have for sale a twelve-page calendar. On each page there will be a striking colour photograph of a seascape, several of them having direct lifeboat...
Category: Advertisement