LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Walmer Luggers
A TABLET has been placed on the side of the life-boathouse at Walmer, Kent, commemorating the Walmer luggers which were, in the words of the Institution's honorary secretary at Walmer, " the cradle of the life-boat- men " of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-bouses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Lionel Lukin,
Above: Lionel Lukin, 'the original inventor of that principle of safety'. Below: 'Unimmergible boats' - Lukin's 1806 patent relating to the forerunner of the modern lifeboat..
Category: Drawings
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. . Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view....
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Albas
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
Aquilo
Selsey, Sussex - At 10.43 P-m. on 3
Maime
THREE MEDALS FOR STORNOWAY On the 30th January, 1962, the Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, life-boat rescued two people from the motor fishing vessel Maime. A full account of this service, for which three medals for gallantry were awarded, appears...
Presentations Brian Clark National Organiser (Ireland) Presents the Silver Badge to Madam Anne Rittweger Ladies Secretary of Donaghadee Golf Club In Recognition F
Presentations . . . Brian Clark, National Organiser (Ireland), presents the silver badge to Madam Anne Rittweger, ladies secretary of Donaghadee Golf Club, in recognition for all she has done over many years for the Institution; in 1976... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charles Boyes (1)
MAY 25TH. - CAISTER, AND, GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.
At 12.20 P.M. a heavy explosion was heard at Caister, and later it was learnt that the trawler Charles Boyes, engaged in Admiralty service, had been mined...
Fishing Cobles
At 6 A.M. on the 4th April nine of the cobles belonging to Filey went off fishing, in a moderate N.E. breeze. Later the sea increased very much, and at 9 A.M. one coble returned and reported the sea outside was very rough for the cobles....