LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dunkerquoise, of Dunkirk
The Bradford life-boat at Ramsgate, under the management of the Board of Trade, and two Broadstairs life-boats not belonging to the Institution, assisted to get the schooner Dunkerquoise, of Dunkirk, off the North Sand Head. She was, however...
Disaster at Fraserburgh
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1953 - 78,220 Disaster at Fraserburgh MONDAY the 9th of February, 1953, was a fine sunny day...
Category: Services
Bookshelf
THE SPICE OF LIFE by 'Albert' Published by Harvey Press, 23/20 Royal Hospital, London SW34SRat£10(plus£1p&p) ISBN 09517513 01 'Albert' is one of the dedicated band of pensioners from the Royal Hospital, Chelsea...
Category: Articles
ROPE TRICKS
With a yacht pinned to rocks in 60mph winds and driving rain, Tobermory lifeboat crew would need to quickly overcome some hurdles to save the four people onboard
The 2018 summer heatwave took a dramatic turn at the end of...
Category: Articles
The Institution's Storeyard at Poplar
The Institution's Storeyard at Poplar Getting Ready A Reserve Motor Life-Boat In Case She Is Needed To Replace The Damaged Boat At Cromer. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When the Chilterns Branch Held a Fashion Show at Little Kingshill School Buckinghamshire Children Under Seven Painted This Large Picture of a Life-Boat In Action
When the Chilterns branch held a fashion show at Little Kingshill School, Buckinghamshire, children under seven painted this large picture of a life-boat in action with a helicopter overhead and an IRB approaching a vessel in...
Category: Drawings
Rose, of Ipswich
On the night of the 20th December, the Life-boat George Hounsfield, stationed at this place, put off, during a gale from the S.W., in reply to signals of distress, in the shape of burning tar-barrels, from a vessel which proved to be the...
Sir William Hillary: "A Son of All Countries."
THE Spanish Society for Saving the Shipwrecked has named the new Motor Life-boat which it has stationed at Malaga, near Gibraltar, the Sir William Hillary, after the founder of the Institution, Colonel Sir "William Hillary, Bt., who...
Category: Articles
Peel, Isle of Man - Ireland Division
Peel's boathouse and slipway - tucked into the crook of the harbour between the breakwater and St Patrick's Isle in the main photo - were rebuilt in 1992 to house the station's carriage-launched Mersey. Because of the picturesque... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Pillar Collecting Box on the Cliffs at Sennen Longships Lighthouse Is In the Distance
A pillar collecting box on the cliffs at Sennen. Longships lighthouse is in the distance.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs