LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Earl Mountbatten of Burma Aboard Shoreham Life-Boat
The life-boat was exhibited at the International Boat Show in London. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
School Adopts Whitstable IRB
Following the sponsored walk last November, there was a presentation ceremony at Walford School, Ealing, early this year to hand over to the R.N.L.I.
a cheque for £1,017 11s.—the proceeds from the walk and other small...
Category: Correspondence
Cygnet
Poole, Dorset. At 5.45 p.m. on i7th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received that a yacht was aground on the Hook Sands. The life-boat Basset Green went out at 6.5 in a strong westnorth-...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Viii—Ballast Keel
MORE THAN TWO TONS of mild steel are forged into the Rother's ballast keel.
Together with such heavy members as the twin diesel engines, set low in the hull, the purpose of the ballast keel is to lower the centre of...
Category: Articles
Public Servant (Civil Service No 44) at Tower
Public Servant (Civil Service No 44) at Tower This was the first of the Thames E class lifeboats to be named.
The money for the boat was raised by The Lifeboat Fund, which has been raising money for the RNLI for 140 years... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Columbia,of Stavanger
On the 7th April, 1869, the Arthur Frederick FitzRoy life-boat, on this station, went off to the barque Columbia, of Stavanger, which, during a high wind and dense fog, had run ashore opposite the life- boat house, soon after midnight. The...
Chase, of Shields
On the 1st Jan- uary, 1867, the brig .Chase, of Shields, was observed near this place with signals of distress flying. The life-boat Parses was conveyed along shore, and launched abreast of the vessel, which had grounded upon Horsey Beach....
Vera Mary
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the 17th November a heavy gale sprang up from the north, with a very heavy sea and rain. Several open cobles were at sea, and the motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was launched at 6.55 P.M. She went in the direction...
Naming Ceremony: Fleetwood
The naming of Lady of Lancashire FLEETWOOD'S NEW 44' WAVENEY LIFEBOAT by HRH The Duke of Kent PRESIDENT OF THE RNLIA LARGE CROWD lined the seafront at Fleetwood to see HRH The Duke of Kent name the new lifeboat. The early evening sun...
Category: Inaugurations
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The History of the Sheerness Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This, the latest of the author's comprehensive booklets on RNLI stations, was published in late 1996 when Sheerness...
Category: Articles