LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Folk-Boat Huckleberry Finn
Weymouth, Dorset - At 6.50 p.m.
on 29th May, 1966, a yacht reported that the folk-boat Huckleberry Finn was dismasted and adrift about eight and a half miles south east of the Shambles lightvessel.
The...
At the Harwich Naming Ceremony
At the Harwich naming ceremony (left to right) Captain H. W. T. Owen, Chief Superintendent of Trinity House and chairman of the local branch; Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E, Secretary of the R.N.L.I.; the Mayoress of Harwich; Capt G.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Zetland Pictured In the 1877
Zetland pictured in the 1877 boathouse at Redcar, which is now a museum dedicated to the 190-year-old lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below. Calm After the Storm
Below. Calm after the storm - a very bedraggled Rasmus lies afloat in Ramsgate Harbour following the rescue. Photo: Mike Pert. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Norwegian Honour for the Institution
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., Chairman of organizathe Committee of Management, and Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution, have each been presented by H.M. the King of Norway with the Gold Medal of the Norwegian Life-boat Society...
Category: Awards
The Institution's Oldest Supporters
THE Institution has received her annual subscription from a lady in Dumfriesshire who is now in her 104th year. Two years ago she doubled her subscription, feeling how uncertain her next year's subscription must...
Category: Donations
The Navy Entertains Life-Boatmen
WHEN the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight life-boat went to the help of the schooner Lamorna, on the 4th of November, 1951, and rescued her crew of fourteen (as described on page 308), H.M.S. Redpole, which had had the Lamorna in tow, was standing by...
Category: Articles
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part II: on the Stocks
TRADITIONALLY, when building a boat in wood, the first operation is the laying down of the keel from which is built up a framework of stem, transom, bulkheads and other transverse and longitudinal members. When building a small boat in steel...
Category: Articles
The End of the Line. Barry Dennis Loads Another Basket of Parcels Into the Waiting Lorry
The end of the line. Barry Dennis loads another basket of parcels into the waiting lorry. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Following the Ceremony - Brian Sevan Takes Hrh the Duke of Ken! Aboard the New Lifeboat.
Following the ceremony - Brian Sevan takes HRH The Duke of Ken! aboard the new lifeboat. Photo. Roger Jack. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs