LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Douglas Lifeboat the 46Ft 9In Watson R a Colby Cubbin No 1 Launches on Exercise Photograph By Courtesy of the 'Isle of Man Examiner'
Douglas lifeboat, the 46ft 9in Watson R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1, launches on exercise. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the 'Isle of Man Examiner'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Prince Ivanhoe Holed and Aground Off Horton Beach With the Mumbles 47Ft Watson Lifeboat Alongside Photograph By Courtesy of 'Western Mail and Echo'
Prince Ivanhoe holed and aground off Horton beach with The Mumbles 47ft Watson lifeboat alongside. photograph by courtesy of 'Western Mail and Echo'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, April 14th, 1932.
Sir GODFKEY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the death of Sir William Priestley, President of the Bradford Branch, and a Vice- President of the Institution since 1926, and...
Category: Committee
Self-Righting and Non-Self-Righting Life-Boats. Losses Through Capsizing Since 1850
THE discussion in the Press and elsewhere which followed the Rye disaster showed that the public was very far from understanding the relative merits of self-righting Life-boats and of those which do not self-right, or the reasons which...
Category: Articles
and Model Making: (Above) a Model of the 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat John Fison Stationed
. . . and model making: (above) a model of the 44ft Waveney lifeboat John Fison stationed at Harwich. This model, made by Rodnev Morlock, an Enthusiast from Felixstowe, is scratch built but using a pre-cast GRP hull.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ross Lion
Tynemouth, Northumberland. •— At 11.30 on the night of the 16th of April, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a trawler had reported that one of her crew had injured his hand badly and urgently needed hospital treat- ment. The...
In 1975 When Herne Junior School In Petersfield First Opened In Love Lane a Pupil Presented Sir Alec Rose With a Flag for the Walmer Lifeboat Hampshire Rose and S
In IV75 when Herne Junior School in Petersfield first opened in Love Lane a pupil presented Sir Alec Rose with a flag for the Walmer lifeboat. Hampshire Rose, and said 'When it wears out can we buy another'.'' In February,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Weymouth's 54Ft Arun Class Lifeboat Tony Vandervell
Weymouth's 54ft Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell shows her paces in quieter conditions than those experienced in the services to the three yachts.
Derek Sergeant retired as Coxswain/ Mechanic during November... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Benefactors: "Not of An Age, But for All Time." Henry Greathead. [Born 1757. Died 1813]
IT is our national boast that Britannia rules the waves, and so it was only befitting that the honour of, inventing the Life-boat should fall to the lot of a Briton. Whether or not Henry Greathead was that particular Briton has been a matter...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the 2nd April, 1881,at about 11 A.M.,on observing the bri- gantine Danube, of Guernsey, which was about to enter the Hartlepool East Harbour, hoist a flag of distress, the West Hartle- pool No. 1 Life-boat Rochdale...
Category: Services