LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Building Where the Institution Was Founded
London Tavern, 123, Bishopsgate Street Within.
This famous Tavern was built in 1765, and finally closed in 1876, when it was sold to the Royal Bank of Scotland. It is t h u s described by Wheatley in his " London Past...
Category: Drawings
Honey' Owned By Weymouth's Life-Boat Mechanic Mr D Sargent Once Picked Up a Large Collecting Box Sat on the Quayside With It for a Couple of Hours and Collected
Honey', owned by Weymouth's life-boat mechanic, Mr. D. Sargent, once picked up a large collecting box, sat on the quayside with it for a couple of hours, and collected £2 for the R.N.LI. That was the start of the dog's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part IV: Deck and Superstructure
FROM PREVIOUS PARTS of this article it will be remembered that, as the fast slipway boat (FSB) is made of steel, her hull is built upside-down until plating is complete. Here (Figs I and 2) the second of the two prototype FSBs building at...
Category: Articles
Services of Life-Boats
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 5th of January, 1854, the brig Earl of Newburgh, of Shields, coal laden, brought up in a sinking state in Coquet Roads, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. The danger to her crew being...
Category: Services
The Bullfinch, of Paignton
JUNE 1ST. - TORBAY, DEVON. At three o'clock in the afternoon the motor life-boat George Shee set out on a publicity cruise. A fresh south-westerly breeze was blowing.
with a steep, choppy sea. The life-boat saw a motor...
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by Ti feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-eases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
Death of a Launcher
ON the afternoon of the 30th of May, ths life-boat at Cullercoats ran an engine trial. As she was being re- placed on her carriage she slipped and fell on one of the launchers, a man of sixty-seven. One of his legs was so severely injured...
Category: Obituaries
Ranger of Essex
Weymouth, Dorset - On 24th January, 1967, the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke saved the catamaran Ranger of Essex and rescued her crew of two. A full account of this service, for which a special award has been made to the coxswain and crew,...
An Evening Hymn. For Those at Sea In Stormy Weather
FOR THOSE AT SEA IN STORMY WEATHER.
" The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly; But yet the Lord who dwelleth on high is mightier." Psalm sciiL-v. 5,
THIS night, O Lord, we lift our...
Category: Songs
David Cox Joined Wells Lifeboat Crew In 1943 and Was Appointed Coxswain In 1960; He Was Awarded the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum In 1964 and 1973 and the Silver Medal In 1979
David Coxjoined Wells lifeboat crew in 1943 and was appointed coxswain in 1960; he was awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in 1964 and 1973 and the silver medal in 1979.
photograph by courtesy of Peter... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs