LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Mayor of Calais at the Monument Des Sauveteurs
In front of him are the Life-boatmen of Calais.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Opening of the Kirkcudbright New Life-Boat House
ON the 30th November last a double event of a most interesting nature took place at the Lake, near Kirkcudbright, when the new Life-boat house, recently built by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT ' INSTITUTION, was opened and formally handed...
Category: Inaugurations
Mr. Punch In 1892. Mr Punch to the Life-Boatman
From Punch, February 13th, 1892, on the occasion of the wreck of the Eider Reproduced by kind permission of the proprietors of PUNCH.
Category: Drawings
Eastbourne: a New D Class Ilb Has Been Donated By Downland Eastbourne Round Table and About 250 People Including the Mayor and Member of Parliament Wer
Eastbourne: A new D class ILB has been donated by Downland Eastbourne Round Table and about 250 people, including the Mayor and Member of Parliament, were present at the handing over ceremony on Saturday July I . Dick Barnhoorn fc.j,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Experimental Motor Life-Boats
IN July, 1905, as will be seen by reference to the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for November, 1905, page 551, it was decided that three Life-boats should be installed with petrol motors, viz., Walton-on-the-Naze, Norfolk and Suffolk type, 43 ft. by 12...
Category: Articles
Rita Livesey, of Danish Shoe Company Ecco,
Rita Livesey, of Danish shoe company Ecco, hands over a £5,000 cheque to the RNLI's James Vaughan at the 2001 Southampton boat show. The company kindly donated €5 for every pair of 'Ocean Shoe' sold. The innovative sailing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat - In Danger's Hour By Patrick Howarth
Lifeboat - in Danger's Hour by Patrick Howarth and published by Hamlyns was 'launched' at Eastbourne last April, when the author (r.} presented a copy to Coxwain/ Mechanic Ronald Wheeler. Chosen by the Booksellers Association as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Matthews, of Moelfre, Anglesey.
He has been coxswain since 1918, and previously served for three years as bowman. During the nineteen years that he has been an officer of the...
Category: Articles
After Opening the Lifeboat Exhibition at Plymouth on July 19 Hrh the Duke of Kent Flew By Helicopter to Sennen Cove Conwall to Name Diana White Semen's New 3
After opening the Lifeboat Exhibition at Plymouth on July 19, HRH the Duke of Kent flew by helicopter to Sennen Cove, Conwall, to name Diana White, Semen's new 37' 6" Rather lifeboat. Nigel Warington Smyth, OBE, a vice-president... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Worst Floods In Living Memory
ON the night of the 31st January- 1st February the sea invaded large areas of land in many parts of the east coast, when exceptionally high tides were driven higher by violent northerly winds often reaching gale force. The floods which...
Category: Articles