LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
4. Sheringham Lifeboat
4. Sheringham lifeboat station's first lifeboat, Augusta, faking the crew off a Fiussialn barque..
Category: Drawings
All That Remained of the 19Ft Sum Speed After She Caught Fire on the River Orwell In Suffolk Both of Harwich's Lifeboats
All that remained of the 19ft Sum Speed after she caught fire on the River Orwell in Suffolk. Both of Harwich's lifeboats were called to the scene and the photograph was taken from the lifeboat by the crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Their Bikes
Port Isaac crew members Richard Hambly and Greg Hingley raised £528 by cycling over 250 miles round Cornwall, visiting every Cornish lifeboat station.
The seven-day trek started at Bude and Richard and Greg were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of Life-Boats
BUDEHAVEN, NORTH CORNWALL. —On the 9th of October last, the Margaret, a sloop belonging to Bideford, was observed to strike heavily on the Chapel-rock, off the entrance of Budehaven, and then to bound off into deep water, evidently with...
Category: Services
The R.N.L.I. Goes to Miami
EARLY last year Mr. Hugh Matheson, jr., of the Jamaica Inn, Miami, Florida, U.S.A., made a request for English life-boat service photographs to hang in a room there. His request was fulfilled.
In October came news that,...
Category: Articles
Moving Model of a French Lifeboat Station Made By Alain and Philippe Nacass the Plastic Lifeboat on the Slipway Is a British 37' Oakley
Moving model of a French lifeboat station made by Alain and Philippe Nacass. The plastic lifeboat on the slipway is a British 37' Oakley.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Roy Castle and the Crew of Yarmouth Lifeboat at the Making of the Shipshapes Video for Children
Above: Roy Castle and the crew of Yarmouth lifeboat at the making of the Shipshapes video for children.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Iv—Skeleton Hull
DURING THE PAST THREE MONTHS, the work of building up the skeleton hull of the lifeboat (Fig, 1), swiftly sketched out in Part III of this article, has been progressing at William Osbornes with meticulous care. Each of the very many pieces...
Category: Articles
The RNLI’s Very Last Arun Class Lifeboat On Service (right) Is Finally Withdrawn, Replaced At Calshot By A Former Relief Tyne Class (left)
The RNLI’s very last Arun class lifeboat on service (right) is finally withdrawn, replaced at Calshot by a former relief Tyne class (left). The first Arun, named Arun, was built in 1971 and had a wooden hull. The last, Duke of Atholl, was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Value of Life-Belts on Shipboard
IN an account of the loss of the ship St. Abbs, on the coast of Madagascar, on the 15th of June, 1855, when 22 persons un- fortunately perished, it is recorded that " a seaman saved himself by tying an empty tin oil-can to his back,...
Category: Articles