LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The H.M.S. Spider & Condor
At 2.30 A.M. on the 22nd November the Coastguard reported that a steamer had grounded on the beach and was making signals of distress. The Coxswain, John Swan, therefore assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat Kentwell. On...
Arranmore’s Lifeboat Really Did Face ‘all weathers’, Like This Severn Class, And The Inflatable Y Boat Stored On Top Proved Invaluable Once The Storm Began To Ease
Arranmore’s lifeboat really did face ‘all weathers’, like this Severn class, and the inflatable Y boat stored on top proved invaluable once the storm began to ease. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Mr. E. W. Cooke, R.A., F.R.S.
We lament to record the death, on the 4th January last, of this distinguished marine artist and Member of the Royal Academy.
By Mr. Cooke's death the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION . has lost one of its oldest friends....
Category: Obituaries
As London Life-Boat Day Went Ahead on 18Th March 1969 the Search for the Missing Longhope Life-Boat Was Announced on Newspaper Placards All Over London
As London Life-boat Day went ahead on 18th March, 1969, the search for the missing Longhope life-boat was announced on newspaper placards all over London.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Huge Expansion In Work of R.N.L.I.
Huge Expansion in Work of R.N.L.I.
DURING the years 1963 to 1969 inclusive the Royal National Life-boat Institution opened 49 new stations and closed 11. In roughly the same period the number of calls by rescue craft...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BUDEHAVEN.—A new life-boat, on Mr PEAKE'S design, has been stationed at Budehaven on the north coast of Cornwall by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Her dimensions are, length 27 ft., beam...
Category: Articles
The Best Essay
By DENIS BUTLER (aged 14J), of Stamshaw Boys' School, Stamshaw, Portsmouth.
Why I admire the Life-boatman.
WHEN we consider the higher qualities with which men are endowed, we find that we admire...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (25)
MARCH 27TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 11.30 A.M. the coxswain received a telephone message from the RAF. that a Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea opposite the South Promenade, about five miles west, and the motor life-boat Sarah...
Brighter Hope and Mary Joy
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.35 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the coastguard reported that four fishing boats were at sea, a strong south- south-east breeze was blowing, a heavy sea running, and the wind and sea increasing....
Launch By Horses at Padstow Fifty Years Ago
Launch By Horses at Padstow Fifty Years Ago. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs