LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pioneer, of Exeter
Early on the morning of the 22nd December, during a strong W.N.W. wind, large signal lights were seen in the direction of the West Scroby Sands. The same life-boat went out, but, after searching about for some time, could not discover any...
Ranger of Lune (1)
Padstow, Cornwall - At 8.47 a.m. on 2yth May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Ranger of Lune had engine trouble and was in difficulties twenty-five miles west of Trevose Head. There was a gentle...
48 Hours of Gale (From Page 250)
48 Hours of Gale (from page 250) Broughty Ferry: 1LB launched at 1700 in choppy seas and a fresh southeasterly wind to help a capsized dinghy one mile east of the station, The crew of three were landed and their boat towed to the...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Exhibit In the Court of Heroes, Government Building, at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1925 (1)
The Life-Boat Exhibit In The Court of Heroes Government Building at The British Empire Exhibition Wembley 1925. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A New Type of Life-Boat
A NEW type of life-boat, known as the Oakley type, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.
She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...
Category: Articles
The survivors of MV Dorset on board the Waveney Castle after being rescued
The survivors of MV Dorset on board the Waveney Castle after being rescued. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On 6Th April,1970, Captain Carlos Carreira and Captain Rogerio Pinto of the Portuguese Life-Boat Society,
On 6th April,1970, Captain Carlos Carreira and Captain Rogerio Pinto of the Portuguese Life-boat Society, in the course of a visit to R.N.L.I. establishments, called at Life-boat House, London. Here they are being shown a painting of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aerial view of the Greek cargo ship, Nafsiporos, adrift in the middle of the Irish Sea
Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals
Sophia, of Naples
On the 25th of November the services of the Ramsgate life-boat were again brought into requisition. At daybreak on that day, the wind blowing a heavy gale at the time from N.N.W., a brigantine was observed, with signals of distress flying,...