LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service at the Festival of Britain
THE Life-boat Service is represented at the Festival of Britain by its latest life-boat, the Sir Godfrey Baring, a 46-feet 9-in hes Watson cabin life-boat built for the station at the Humber, to which she will go when the Festival closes,...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Museums and Display Centres By Richard Mann Display Manager
THE RNLI HAS SEVERAL small museums and display centres around the coast where those in search of lifeboat history can find model lifeboats, collections of paintings and photographs, perhaps some examples of equipment no longer used, or...
Category: Articles
Award of Medals, Gratuities, Etc
THE following is a list of the cases in which the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has voted Honorary or Pecuniary Rewards, to persons who have been instrumental in saving lives during the year 1854-5.
April 23,...
Category: Medals
Maid of Tire & Oxalis
On the same day the Life-boat Robin Hood of Nottingham, stationed at Boulmer, was called out on two occasions, but the first time, when the schooner Maid of Tire, of Inverness, struck and sunk on the North Steel rocks the services of the...
Shy Girl
Margate, Kent - At 5.40 p.m. on i4th May, 1967, a report was received of a red flare off Nayland rocks. The IRB was launched to investigate and report.
Two red flares fired by the IRB were seen shortly afterwards. The...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Sidney Cann of Appledore, who was appointed bowman in 1922, became second coxswain in 1931 and has been coxswain since 1933. Since he became a boat's officer Appledore life-boats have been...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, Tor the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
founded in 1824.—Supported Try Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
Category: Advertisement
The Eagle, of Llandudno
LLANDDULAS.—On the 30th July, at about 2 P.M., a disabled boat was discerned [ from this station, whilst it was blowing ; hard from the S.W. and a heavy sea j running. The Life-boat Henry Nixson \ No. 2, was launched as speedily as...
2. the Airlifted Casualty Is Taken By Helicopter to Hospital
2. The airlifted casualty is taken by helicopter to hospital. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs