LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
At Exmouth on 16Th May, 1970, the 48-Foot 6-Inch Solent Type Life-Boat City of Birmingham,
At Exmouth on 16th May, 1970, the 48-foot 6-inch Solent type life-boat City of Birmingham, paid for by contributions by the citizens of Birmingham, was named by the Deputy Mayor of Birmingham (Aid. Charles V. G.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
6. Amy, Daughter of Gary Collett, a Boat Builder at the Ilc, Presents a Bouquet to Lynn Faulds Wood
6. Amy, daughter of Gary Collett, a boat builder at the ILC, presents a bouquet to Lynn Faulds Wood during the naming ceremony of the Mersey class lifeboat Bingo Lifeline. Photo Janet Smith The two naming ceremonies are described in more... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishy Goings-On
The recent fish quay festival at North Shields was graced by the presence of old King Neptune! Dressed in his self-created green, seaweedy raiment, Bill Lodge collected £208 for the RNLI. (Photo courtesy The Gazette). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
Category: Articles
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 26. Lives rescued 21.
ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 3.8 in the afternoon of the 18th of January, l944, a report was received through the military and the coastguard that a Martinet aeroplane, which had been...
Category: Services
Hunt's Gun and Projectile for Effecting Communication With Wrecked Vessels
IN the last number of this Journal we described an ingenious American invention for night-signalling, which we conceive would be especially valuable in cases of stranding, or other disaster to trading vessels. "We have now to notice...
Category: Articles
Letters
Fraserburgh lifeboat My son Jim and I were two of the people rescued by Fraserburgh lifeboat last summer when the yacht Blanche got into trouble in a force 8 gale. We were most impressed by both the efficiency and humanity of the coxswain...
Category: Correspondence
A Canoeist Comes Ashore at Dugort Pier After a Rescue By the Achill Lifeboat
A canoeist comes ashore at Dugort Pier after a rescue by the Achill lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wreck of the Barque 'Mary Stoddart' on the Irish Coast
THE following account of a disastrous shipwreck which recently occurred near Dundalk, on the east coast of Ireland, cannot fail to be interesting to all who peruse it. We think it deserving of record on three accounts —1st. As an instance of...
Category: Services
New Ways of Raising Money
'Just Men' was the title of a long poem written by Mr. Anthony S. Burry, of Wickmead Close, Southend, in honour of the Moelfre life-boat and sold in booklet form by the Moelfre branch on their flag day on 28th August, 1967. The poem,...
Category: Donations