LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Four of the Five Survivors of the Aldeburgh Crew of 1881
The photographs were taken by Mr. S. C. F. Gooding, Honorary Treasurer of the Aldeburgh Branch.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The End of H.M.S. Warspite. A Dangerous Service By Penlee
AT the end of April the famous battleship Warspite, which was built over thirty years ago. and served with great distinction in two wars in all parts of the world, was being towed from Portsmouth by two tugs to a shipbreaker's yard on...
Category: Services
Poster Stamps of the Life-Boat Service
ON page 100 there is reproduced a set of nine poster stamps, which repre- sents in brief pictorial form the history Of the Life-boat Service of Great Britain. These stamps are not for use on letters through the post but as a Commemorative...
Category: Advertisement
Coxswain Gerald Mcloughlin of Howth Read One of the Lessons at the Commemorative Service In the National Cathedral of St. Patrick Dublin Photograph By Courtesy Of
Coxswain Gerald McLoughlin of Howth read one of the lessons at the commemorative service in the National Cathedral ofSt Patrick, Dublin. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Independent Newspapers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches
Walton-on-the-Naze.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 29th December, the chair being taken by Mr. E. Standley, in the unavoidable absence of Mr. J. W. Eagle, the Chair- man. The account for the year ending the 30th...
Category: Branches
Journey Up the Thames of the Teesmouth Motor Life-Boat
ON the day on which the International Life-boat display on the Thames finished, and the foreign Life-boats went down the river and out to sea, the Teesmouth Motor Life-boat started on a six weeks' cruise up the Thames. She was in charge...
Category: Articles
The French Fishing Boat T.R 47
Whilst making for Newhaven Harbour on the 13th March in a W. by S. moderate gale and very heavy sea, the French fishing-boat T. R. 47 stranded about a quarter of a mile to the eastward. The Life-boat was promptly launched, but whilst pro-...
The Fundraisers
In Brief MKMBKRS of Backwell branch recently travelled to Cherbourg and back in a day as guests of the P&O ferry company to sell RN LI Volvo draw tickets to passengers. The captains of both the ferries involved, Pride of Cherbourg and...
Category: Articles
The Other Side
Reciprocal visits across the Channel were renewed in May when a party of 10 committee members of the Dover station branch of the R.N.L.I, and five crew members of the Dover life-boat went by invitation of the Societe Humanite et des...
Category: Committee