LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER, 1872.
JAN. 1,...
Category: Articles
On the Variations of the Reading of the Barometer and the Weather In the Months of September, October and November, 1865
By JAMES GLAISHER, ESQ, F H.S. , THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the period from September 12 to November 30, making altogether eighty days, are shown in the accompanying diagram and...
Category: Articles
Train of Thought
Mike Floyd, Editor of THE LIFEBOAT, joins a crew preparing to take delivery of their new Mersey The lifeboat crew were about to haul a survivor aboard when an unmistakable siren broke into their ordered efforts.
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Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
PEESEKVATION OF LITE FEOM SHIPWEECK.
Obvene.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
The Inaugural Ceremony of the Montrose Motor Life-Boat
Left to right:—Mr. George F. Shee (Secretary of the Institution), the Duke of York, the Duchess of York, Provost W. Douglas Johnston (Chairman of the Branch), the Hon. George Colville (Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management). The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Details of the Control Board
The motor mechanic is standing at the top of the ladder leading down to the engine-room.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Plasma, of Fraserburgh
OCTOBER 17TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
About 10.30 at night, in a thick fog, the engines of a vessel apparently aground half a mile to the eastward could be heard, and at 10.50 the motor life-boat Clarissa Langdon was...
The Sailing Boat Maretta Belle, of Troon
MAY 20TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At one in the afternoon the naval authorities enquired about a small boat which had left harbour the previous evening but had not returned. An hour later the life-boat coxswain saw a small sailing boat off the...
Riders of the storm – the story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Riders of the storm – the story of the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution
by Ian Cameron
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
This is a new edition of the hardback book published in...
Category: Articles
Sea Caress, of Skibbereen and The Gem
JANUARY 1 7TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. At 9.50 at night friends of the crew of the motor fishing boat Sea Caress, of Skibbereen, reported that the boat was in distress five miles to the south-east of Baltimore Harbour, and...