LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Filter by

You can search by year, volume, issue and/or content type.
Year:
Add a to date (optional)
Volume:
Add a to volume (optional)
Issue:
Add a to issue (optional)
Type of content:
You can search by vessel, date and/or lifeboat station.
Service date:
Add a to date (optional)
Clear all filters
47289 search results for 'St Simeon'
List view Card view

Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs

Date: December 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 324

DURING the past year mounted charts showing the life-boat stations round the British Isles, with the signals to be used by vessels in distress, were sent to nearly ninety yacht clubs. It is proposed to continue the distribution of these...

Category: Articles

Cover Picture

Date: April 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 435

This photograph by Mr. Ronald E. Turner of the R.N.L.I.'s hull drawing office staff shows one of the Institution's McLachlan fast rescue boats—the fast R.N.L.I, rescue craft to be specifically designed for the Institution with a... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Southern African Branch.

Date: December 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 10

At a meeting in Capetown on February 22nd., 1942, with the Mayor presiding, a Southern African Branch of the Institution was formed. The Governor- General of the Union is its patron, Field-Marshal Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union, is its...

Category: Articles

The "Winston Churchill"

Date: June 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 342

THERE are at present on the coast seven motor life-boats which have been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund. An eighth is to be added to them before the end of the year, the 46-feet Watson cabin life-boat which is now...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Circassian Prince (1)

Date: November 1890

Volume: 14

Issue: 158

PALLING AND WINTERTON, NORFOLK.— Daring a strong breeze from W.N.W., a heavy sea, and thick weather on the night of the 21st March, the Palling No. 2 Life-boat British Workman and the Winterton No. 2 Life-boat Margaret proceeded to the...

The Shrimp Trawler Young Robert

Date: November 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 150

GORLESTON.—Two runaway apprentices, belonging to Ramsgate vessels, put to sea in the shrimp trawler Young Robert, of Yarmouth, intending to proceed to Grimsby, early on the morning of the 16th March. The weather was thick, with rain, the...

Plymouth's Lifeboats 1803-1974 By Jeff Moiris

Date: Spring 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 448

FROM PULLING 'ORIGINAL' TO HIGH SPEED 'FAST AFLOAT' WAVENEYPLYMOUTH, host city for the first International Lifeboat Exhibition, 'Lifeboat International', from July 19 to August 17, was one of the 31 stations to have a...

Category: Articles

The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 132

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...

Category: Articles

The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 220

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

Category: Articles

The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 228

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

Category: Articles