LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The National Lifeboat Museum at Princes Wharf Wapping Road Bristol
The National Lifeboat Museum at Princes Wharf, Wapping Road, Bristol, is being opened at weekends this summer with a temporary exhibition occupying a quarter of the available area.
Among the exhibits are a Weyburn engine,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1861
Jan. 1,1861.—The brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham, was wrecked on the "Whitley Sands, Northumberland, during a strong gale, with a heavy sea and showers of snow and sleet. .The Cullercoats life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was...
Category: Articles
Clarke, Chapman & Company Ltd
CLARKE CHAPMAN M ARI N E A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATI O NS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.
Many other winches...
Category: Advertisement
On Service In a Motor Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 49 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November, 30th, 1934 - 63,862 On Service in a Motor Life-boat.1 By A. E. JOLLY, Motor...
Category: Services
A Rigid Inflatable Boat
Grounded crew pulled to safetyOn 11 August last year, a small rigid inflatable boat (RIB) with two people on board ran aground on West Pole Sands, on Hayling Island, Hampshire. Hayling Island lifeboat station launched the Atlantic 75...
The Rescue
I WAS hastening up from the beach, where the life-boat men had rendered good service that night.
****** The work was nobly done! JOHN FURBY, the coxswain, with a sturdy crew of volun- teers—twelve in all—were ready for...
Category: Articles
The Lord Mayor's Show
LAST November, for the first time since 1924, the Centenary year, a Lifeboat took part in the Lord Mayor's Show. The Boat was a Pulling and Sailing Life-boat from the Reserve Fleet at the Store-yard at Poplar. She was drawn by a...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Fuelling Steamer Rosa
A Fine Service at Flamborough.
A fine service was carried out by the Flamborough No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, Forester, on April 28th, when she rescued the crew of sixteen of the Admiralty fuelling steamer Rosa. In...
Margaret and Francis (1)
Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—On the morning of the 16th December the Cockenzie drifter Margaret and Francis was bound, light, from Burghead to Leith, with a crew of three on board. A whole southerly gale was...
Delila (1)
. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...