LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Use of the Lead
THE great necessity of constantly using the lead or sounding has been recognised from the earliest period in the history of navigation.
In the present day, when so many thousand vessels are engaged in carrying on the...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer David L. Swain
JULY 27TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 2.41 in the afternoon the St. Ives coastguard reported that a vessel four miles west of the Longships had a case of appendicitis on board in urgent need of attention. There was a light...
Mr. Stanhope Bone
Mr. Stanhope Bone, who died on the 30th of October, 1959, at the age of 79, was the Institution's Surveyor of Life- boats from 1929 to 1940. He first joined the Institution's surveying staff in 1912 and later served as R.A.S.L. at...
Category: Obituaries
Blyth Motor Life-Boat: The Inaugural Ceremony
THE Blyth station is one of the oldest on the coast — it was established in 1826, two years after the Institution itself was founded — and the inaugural ceremony of the Joseph Adlam, the Motor Life-boat which arrived at the station on 4th...
Category: Inaugurations
A R.A.F. Dinghy
'Abandoned' airman retrieved from dinghy Cullercoats East Division Lifeboats and helicopters are frequent partners in rescue missions, so there was nothing unusual in Cullercoat's C class inflatable working with a helicopter crew...
The American Liberty Ship T. A. Johnston, of Pensecola
DECEMBER 10TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
About ten at night the coastguard reported to the Swanage life-boat station that a steamer was ashore off Egmont Point, west of St. Albans Head. The motor life...
The Record of the War
In the five years, eight months and six days of war, from September 3rd., 1939, to May 8th., 1945, the life-boats of the Institution were launched to the help of ships and aeroplanes in distress 3760 times and rescued from them 6376 lives....
Category: Articles
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Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life-boat was taking the food and mails to Gmtness on the 1st of March, 1947, a doctor, whom she had taken to Quarff on the 28th of February, but who had been unable to land, telephoned that the patient there...
Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.
THE leading principles of the following Directions...
Category: Articles
The Montrose Life-Boat: The Good Hope
On her way to Edinburgh for a week's exhibition, in April 1930. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs