LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Michael Vernon, the Chairman of the RNLI
Michael Vernon, the Chairman of the RNLI addresses the audience at the afternoon Annual Presentation of Awards.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jenny Lind
PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN.—While a gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a high sea, on the 30th September, signals of distress •were shown by the lugger Jenny Lind, of Castletown, which while returning from the herring fishery stranded...
Topdal
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—Flares having been shown by a vessel at anchor in the bay while a moderate gale was blowing from S.E., accompanied by a heavy sea and thick weather, on the 4th October, the Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched at 5.50...
The Fire at Cowes
The remains of the Watson cabin motor life-boats from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight and Selsey, Sussex. Nothing is left forward but the keels, deadwoods and iron floor-straps. On the left can be seen the forward steel bulkhead of the engine-room... - View image in PDF
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon.'r Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.<...
Category: Medals
Life-Boot Launches on Service During the Months March, April and May, 1971
Aldeburgh, Suffolk Arbroath, Angus Arklow, Wicklow Ballycotton, Co. Cork Barmouth, Merionethshire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire Beaumaris, Anglesey Bembridge, Isle of Wight Blackpool, Lancashire Bridlington, Yorkshire Broughty Ferry, Angus...
Category: Services
Star of Hope, Freda and Minnie
On the morning of the 1st May the local motor fishing cobles put out to haul crab pots. A moderate N. wind was blowing, with a considerable ground swell, and at 10.30 A.M. with the tide ebbing the sea broke heavily across the bay, making the...
The Bishop of Exeter Dedicating the Plymouth Life-Boat
{Behind him are Lady Jellicoe and the District Inspector ol Life-boats.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Helena Modjeska, of New Orleans
SEPTEMBER 12TH - 14TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.8 in the afternoon the Deal coastguard telephoned that a ship was in danger of going aground on the Goodwins. A light south-east wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat...
Karemma Ashore After Her Crew of Five Had Been Taken Off By the 52' Barnett Lifeboat Ramsay- Dyce on Her Last Service at Aberdeen Photograph By Courtesy of Aberdee
Karemma ashore after her crew of five had been taken off by the 52' Barnett lifeboat Ramsay- Dyce on her last service at Aberdeen . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs