LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ship to shore
Remarkable advances in technology mean that sailors are no longer isolated from the rest of the world while at sea
Throughout history sailors would have to go many months without news from home...
Category: Articles
Fortuna
On the evening of the 16th March the S.W.
wind at Holyhead is reported to have reached the force of a hurricane, and at 8.35 P.M. signals of distress were observed from the brigantine Fortuna, of Glasgow, and the ketch...
For the Third Year Ray Rushton Offered His Car a 1904 Wolseley to the Rnli for Sponsorship In Last November's Veteran Car Run His Passenger Was Charlie Smithers Co
For the third year Ray Rushton offered his car, a 1904 Wolseley, to the RNLI for sponsorship in last November's Veteran Car Run. His passenger was Charlie Smithers, Comedian of The Year in 1974. More than £3,000 was raised. In... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-eighth Anniversary of this valuable Society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, on Friday, the 20th April, when its old and valued Chairman, Captain the Hon. FRANCIS MAUDE, R.N., presided with unabated...
Category: Meetings
Arun Is a Prototype 52-Foot Fully Self-Righting Life-Boat Built to Satisfy the Need for a Faster Design the Second Prototype Will Have Reduced Free-Board Amidships
Arun is a prototype 52-foot fully self-righting life-boat, built to satisfy the need for a faster design. The second prototype will have reduced free-board amidships.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Dinghy
Four rescued ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
(Below) There Were No Open Days In 1994
(Below) There were no open days in 1994 as the new facilities at Cowes were under construction. This was the first opportunity for visitors to see how the Atlantics are built and maintained in their new purpose-built workshops.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BACTON, NORFOLK.—The Institution replaced the life-boat on this station last October, by a new boat 33 feet long, rowing 10 oars double-banked, and provided with a transporting-carriage. The old boat, while out on service, had been damaged,...
Category: Articles
DANGER RISING
As a frightened young couple shelter in a sea cave, powerful swells break over the rocks and the tide rises towards them. Will local lifeboat volunteers reach the trapped teens in time?
When a warm afternoon turned to cool...
Category: Articles
Imbrin
JAN. 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. The steam trawler Imbrin, of La Rochelle, had stranded on the Haisborough Sands, but got off without help.-Rewards, £29 6s. 6d..