LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK. — On the 6th January, 1898, the coxswain of the Life-boat Hearts of Oak was informed that flares had been shown in the direc- tion of the Middle Happisburgh Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were at once...
Category: Services
STARS IN OUR TIME OF DARKNESS
The First World War is one the darkest chapters in our history, but we will never forget the countless acts of humanity that shone through – including those of RNLI lifeboat crews on the home front
This year, we celebrate...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A fearful gale was experienced on this coast on the 30th September, 1871. In the midst of the storm an Italian barque, the Three Sisters, became a complete wreck, attended with an agonizing and consider- able loss...
Category: Services
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obvene.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Doable legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.
Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness."...
Category: Medals
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
Afternoon: Shoreline Member No I Sir Alec Rose (R) Hands Over to Major-General Ralph Farrant Chairman of the Committee of Management a Rather-Shaped Che
Afternoon: Shoreline member No. I , Sir Alec Rose (r.) hands over to Major-General Ralph Farrant, chairman of the Committee of Management, a Rather-shaped cheque for £101,000, the result of the Shoreline appeal which will go towards the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Beginning of the New Fleet
When the war in Europe ended sixteen months ago, six life-boats were in the yard waiting to be finished. Four of them have since gone to the coast.
Of the 29 life-boats which the Institution had planned to build as soon as...
Category: Articles
Mr. Wright Griggs, of Hythe
Mr. Wright Griggs, of Hythe, Kent, who died on 18th September last, at the age of sixty-nine, was a member of a family whose name is very familiar in the history of the Hythe Life-boat Station. He went to sea as a boy, and then as a young...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Denmark
By C. V. FABRICIUS, Manager of the North Jutland Life-Boat Institution.
THE Danish Life-Boat Institution, as at present organised, was established by the Act of 26th March, 1852.
It is an institution...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Battle royal The peace of the Glasgow afternoon was shattered by the sound of rocket and gunfire and the waiting crowd watched with tense expectation. A variety of lifeboats stood by waiting for the call as the Russian battle fleet closed in...
Category: Articles