LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"Literature of the Life-Boat."
THERE are still some copies left of Literature of the Life-boat by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vicepresident of the Institution, published in 1936 and 1937 as supplements to this journal. A copy of the two supplements bound...
Category: Articles
Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.
THE leading principles of the following Directions...
Category: Articles
Rescue By Boarding Boat In Near Gale
AT 6.55 on the evening of Monday, 2nd September, 1963, the mechanic of the Valentia, County Kerry, life-boat station, Joseph Houlihan, saw a small dinghy capsize about 600 yards from the Life-boat storehouse, where he was working at the time...
Category: Services
Talacre
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Talacre, of Beaumaris, bound from Conway forLarne with a cargo of slates, the Lifeboat John Monk put off at 8.15 A.M., in a strong W. breeze and a heavy sea, on the...
The Angry State of the Sea at the Time Is Well Illustrated In This Striking Aerial Picture of the Wreck of the M.V. Anzio I off the Lincolnshire Coast on 3rd April, 1966
The angry state of the sea at the time is well illustrated in this striking aerial picture of the wreck of the m.v. Anzio / off the Lincolnshire coast on 3rd April, 1966. Some of the crew of the Number life-boat were injured because of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Archibald Malcolm of Campbeltown
Coxswain Archibald Malcolm of Campbeltown. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The last crew of Greencastle
The last crew of Greencastle. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Survivors of the Guyana Flood
Survivors Of The Guyana Flood. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life- boat crew in 1960 has been won by Coxswain Patrick Power of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, for the rescue of the only man on board a disabled barge on the 4th of...
Category: Awards
Seagull, of Cowes
At 4.46 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been reported firing red flares five miles south of the Needles.
The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped her moorings at...