LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1923
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Category: Services
Lifeboats from Many Member Countries of the International Lifeboat Federation Alongside During the 1991 Conference In Oslo.
Lifeboats from many member countries of the International Lifeboat Federation alongside during the 1991 conference in Oslo. The RNLI's Mersey class is clearly visible, as are several Colin Archer-type sailing lifeboats long since retired... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
L.G. Biglow, of Nova Scotia
On the morning of the 11th November the look-outs at this station discovered signals of distress flying from a barque anchored in dangerous proximity to the well-known Tuns Bank at the entrance of Derry Loch. Some time was lost owing to the...
The Bravest Deeds of 1951
THE Maud Smith reward, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke, for the bravest act of life-saving of the year by a life-boatman was awarded to Alfred R. Wilson, of Margate, for going on board the yacht Girlanda in the darkness of the...
Category: Awards
Coxswain Albert Spurgeon of Lowestoft
COXSWAIN ALBERT SPURGEON, of Lowestoft, who died on the 5th of April, 1953, at the age of 73, had been one of the Institution's most distin- guished coxswains. According to the local records he joined the life-boat crew in his teens, and...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Tanny, of Bristol
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.17 A.M.
on the 12th December the coastguard reported that distress flares had been seen four or five miles N.E. of Castle Hill. A moderate N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and it was very...
Lady of the Lake (1)
SIDMOUTH AND EXMOUTH. — On the 29th March, the smack Lady of the Lake, of Portsmouth, was seen to show signals of distress off High Peak. A strong E. to E.N.E. gale was blowing at the time,accompanied by snow. The Lifeboat Bimington,...
List of Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution for the Purchase of the Following Life-Boats
1856. Hornsea, Yorkshire.
1858. Skerries, Co. Dublin 1861. Aberystwith. . .
1857 Walmer 1857. Seaton Carew 1858. Fraserburgh . . .
1858. Carnsore, Co. Wexford 1859. Exmoath 1859. Lizard ....
Category: Donations
The Loss of H.M.S. 'Captain'
AMIDST the fearful events of the war, which at this moment are rending the heart of Europe and holding captive the sympathies of us all, there are few public events of a sufficiently stirring nature to claim from any of us more than a...
Category: Articles
The Last of the "Malvoisin."
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave an account of the Life-boat services to the British ketch, Malvoisin, which, built in 1883, was wrecked last May off Calais and broke up on the rocks.
To the three services to this...
Category: Services