LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Marquess of Ailsa
THE committee of management greatly regret the death in April of their colleague, the Marquess of Ailsa, at the age of ninety-one. Lord Ailsa was not only the oldest, but the senior member.
He joined the committee of manage...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXXI. APPLEDORE No. 1.— Temporary Boat, 31 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
LXXII. APPLEDORE No. 2.— Jane Hannah MacDanald, 34 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
JLXXIJI. BRAUNTON.— Robert and Catherine, 34 feet by 8...
Category: Articles
The Lay of the Life-Boat
GENTLEMEN all, are your glasses charged? for I've a toast for the winter weather.
Answer it, then, with a three times three; voice and heart, if you please, together.
It is not a sorrowful theme I...
Category: Poetry
The Friendly Forester
THE FRIENDLY FORESTER A gift to the Institution from the Ancient Order of Foresters (see page 676). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The St. Albans
The St Albans The New Motor Life-Boat at New Quay Cardigan A Gift From The Institution's St Albans Branch. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below: the Launching of the Vvorkington Lifeboat
Below: The launching of the vVorkington lifeboat by crane is unique within the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th Jan., 1875: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.U.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
The Engine-Room
The two 40-h.p. Diesel engines on board the Violet Armstrong, the 46-feet Watson cabin motor life-boat, stationed at Appledore, North Devon, in 1938. The big black pipes are the exhaust! running up to the funnel.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Lorelei
TOW FOR SAILING BOAT IN NEAR GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, a message was received that a sailing boat had capsized off Rush and that no local boat was likely to be able to help. A near gale was...
In the Cabin
The transmitter and receiver, with the power pack underneath, and the microphone in the mechanic's hand. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs