LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lifeboat Is Hauled Up the Beach Up The
The lifeboat is hauled up the beach, up the short ramp and on to her turntable. Finally she is pushed round through 180 degrees so that her bow is once more towards the sea.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
Oh do pay attention 007 RNLI London Events Office held a James Bond fundraising party on the River Thames aboard HMS Belfast on 25 September.
Guests disguised themselves as their favourite Bond characters - ranging from 007...
Category: Articles
The prototype fast afloat boat (right) may have superficial similarities with the Arun class, but she was the result of a 'clean-sheet' design approach.
The prototype fast afloat boat (right) may have superficial similarities with the Arun class, but she was the result of a 'clean-sheet' design approach.
Apart from being much latger at 17m overall and with roughly... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 3rd September, 1863. Captain Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Report of Captain DAVID ROBERTSON, K.N., the Assistant-Inspector of Lifeboats of the Institution, of the 3rd...
Category: Committee
Muschi, the Feline Storm Force Member, Taking Things Easy at the Grand Old Age of 13!
Muschi, the feline storm force member, taking things easy at the grand old age of 13!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Foundering of the "Northfleet," January 1873
A fragment* 'MIDST the thick darkness Death, The dread inexorable monarch, stalked ; And, lo! his icy breath Encircled the devoted barque where talked, Or laughed, or watched, or slept, The doomed three hundred of her living freight,...
Category: Poetry
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of ex-Coxswain Stephen Clayson, of Margate, Kent. He served as second coxswain for over seven years, from 1898 to 1905, and then as coxswain for twenty years, retiring in 1925 at the age of seventy-two. During...
Category: Articles
The Mignonette.
BROOKE.—On the 19th January at 8 P.M.
the coastguard at this station discovered that a ship was on the rocks at Sudmore.
The crew of the Life-boat George and Anne were summoned as soon as possible, and...
The Curlew
AN INEXPERIENCED CREW Stromness, Orkneys.—At midnight on the 15th of July, 1947, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Curlew, of Kirkwall, had left Rousay at about nine o'clock for Kirk- wall but that nothing had been...