LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Douglas Lifeboat R a Colby Cubbin No1
Douglas lifeboat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 is pictured returning from an exercise involving the warship HMS Ribble a River class RNR minesweeper based at Liverpool. The exercise involved transferring a casualty in a Neil Robinson stretcher... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Just In Case:
Just in case: a happy Tony Hunter (below right) the RNLI's chief buyer, stores, receives a case of brandv from David Shepherd, brand manager for Martell Cognac, a bottle of which is carried on all large lifeboats. The cognac has been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Blogg's Broadcast.
Gifts still come in answer to the broadcast by Coxswain Henly Blogg, of Cromer, in the "Week's Good Cause" in the Home Service of the B.B.C, last March. There have now been 6800 replies amounting to £5, 260. lo....
Category: Articles
Fuchsia
On the 28th of the same month, the schooner Fuchsia, of Goole, from. Castlehill to South Shields, being in danger on a lee shore, with an E.N.E. gale blowing, the Life-boat proceeded off to her against a heavy sea, and succeeded in rescuing...
Safe Return, Mary Frances, Glance and Green Flag
ARKLOW, IRELAND.—Several fishing boats having been driven from their moorings on the morning of the 16th October, the Out Pensioner Life-boat was launched at 9 o'clock, and saved four large boats, the Safe Return, Mary Frances, Glance,...
John, of Hartlepool
The Thomas Wilson life-boat also went out three times to the brig John, of Hartlepool, which had gone ashore at Cape Kerr Point; and on the last occasion was tile means of rescuing the master, who had remained on board helpless after his...
Mr. Courtenay H. Edmonds
Mr. Courtenay H. EdmondsWith the death of Mr. Courtenay H.
Edmonds, of Exeter, at the end of 1923, the Institution lost the oldest of its Hon- orary Secretaries. Mr. Edmonds became Honorary Secretary to the Exeter Branch...
Category: Obituaries
Receiving and Transmitting Sets
The Marconi R/T installation as used in life-boats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Life-Boat Religious Service
Held in the grounds of Peel Castle, Isle of Man. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Trimaran
HOW A TRIMARAN WAS SAVED At 3.14 on the afternoon of the 21st July, 1962; the Lowestoft, Suffolk, lifeboat was launched to the help of a trimaran. An eye-witness account of this service appears on page 349..