LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Long and Hazardous Service
COXSWAIN John King of Bridlington has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry for a service described in the official report as 'long, frustrat- ing and hazardous'. At the end of it the life-boat saved the life...
Category: Services
The Late George Lennox Watson, Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution 1887-1904
IT is fifty years this year since George Lennox Watson, the yacht designer, of Glasgow, was appointed consulting naval architect to the Institution.
Looking back over these fifty years, one can say that Mr. Watson's...
Category: Articles
Pride of Cahirciveen
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 9.10 on the morning of the 5th of May, 1951, a telephone message was received from the post office that the motor fishing boat Pride of Cahireiveen, with a crew of four, was about eight hours overdue from the fishing...
Sandefjord
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 9.43 on the night of the 30th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a tanker had gone aground near the North Goodwin Buoy, and at 9.49 the life- boat Prudential left her moorings.
The sea was...
The Lymington to Yarmouth Ferry, Farringford
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 8.20 p.m. on 27th February, 1967, British Railways reported that the Lymington to Yarmouth ferry was aground in the Lymington river and asked for the lifeboat's assistance in taking off the...
Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for the Purchase of the following Life-boats
Special Gifts for the Pwehase of the following Life-boats ;- Hornsea, Yorkshire.
Skerries, Co. .Dublin .
Aberystwyth. .
Walmer Seaton Carew . . .
Jfraserburgh . . . .<...
Category: Donations
The Motor Fishing Coble Isabella
Filey, Yorkshire.—The local motor fishing coble Isabella put to sea on the morning of the 28th of November, 1949. The weather was bad and, as it began to worsen, the life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 11.30. A moderate northerly breeze was...
The District Inspector of Life-Boats for the South East, Mr. R. D. Pike, Being Briefed by Staff- Sergeant R. Fennessey, U.S.A.F., About the Pilot's Survival Kit Used With the McDonnell F-4C Phantom II fighter
The District Inspector of Life-boats for the South East, Mr. R. D. Pike, being briefed by Staff- Sergeant R. Fennessey, U.S.A.F.,about the pilot's survival kit used with the McDonnell F-4C Phantom II fighter.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bridlington: on the Morning of November 27 1975 Bridlington Lifeboat the 37' Oakley William Henry and Mary King Stood By With Drogue Streamed While a Coble and Ten
Bridlington: On the morning of November 27, 1975, Bridlington lifeboat, the 37' Oakley William Henry and Mary King stood by, with drogue streamed, while a coble and ten motor fishing vessels entered harbour. The wind was southerly strong... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Pilot Gig
BRIXHAM, DEVON.—At 10.45 A.M. on the 18th January, on the urgent solicitation of a number of experienced master mariners, sailors and seamen, the City of Exeter Life-boat was launched to render assistance to a pilot gig proceeding to put...