LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
THE LANGDON LEGACY
It's 27 March 1941. Two days after being attacked by a squadron of Luftwaffe bombers, the SS Somali, a large convoy ship, burns a mile off the Northumberland coast. Intent on saving her cargo, crew from a salvage tug board to assess the...
Category: Articles
The Arctic—In the North Sea
The Skegness life-boat going to look for the Dutch coaster Tuko, of Delfyzl, on February 22nd, 1947 She found the Tuko, which did not need her help, and was out for nine hours. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vision of the future?
Predicting future technology is rarely an exact science. But we couldn't resist a peek into the world of 2074 – and what a lifeboat of the future might look like …
‘How, sir, would you make...
Category: Articles
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1964
1963 Kt 311,782 562 67,171 18,851 250 56,924 21,060 5,016 3,932 86,932 3,831 83,101 481,717 11,058 1,189 24,448 2,439 3.83I 42,965 39,602 33,883 73,485 75,918 2,409 12,716 61,666 3,522 1,546 81,859 46,827 8,632 409 55,868 811,812...
Category: Accounts
Notes of the Quarter
GUESTS OF HONOUR at the annual presentation of awards meeting at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Tuesday May 15 in this the RNLI's 160th anniversary year was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the Institution....
Category: Articles
The Blackwater Lightvessel
MAN TAKEN OFF LIGHTVESSEL IN NEAR GALE Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, At 8.30 on the morning of the 2nd April, 1962, the assistant inspector of Irish Lights told the honorary secretary that the mother of a seaman on board the Blackwater...
In the Name of Humanity Courage Dedication and Skill I Declare This Stone Well and Truly Laid' With These Words Commander F R H Swann CBE Rnvr Chairman of Th
'In the name of humanity, courage, dedication and skill, I declare this stone well and truly laid.' With these words, Commander F. R. H. Swann, CUE RNVR, chairman of the Institution laid the foundation stone of the new RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Bird of Dawning
The Bird of Dawning
by John Masefield
Review by
Carol Waterkeyn
The Bird of Dawning is a classic from 1933, recently republished by the National Maritime Museum with an introduction...
Category: Articles
Looking to the Future
In June the RHLI asked Its supporters to help quantify its 'Vision and Ualues1 for the future.
Here Undrew Freemantle, Director of the Institution, reports on the outcomeM any thousands of people intimately involved in...
Category: Articles
The Destroyer H.M.S. Trafalgar
St. Helier, Jersey.—On the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1953, the destroyer H.M.S. Trafalgar arrived off St.
Helier, anchored one mile south-south- west of Elizabeth Castle and landed one hundred and fifty libertymen.<...