LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Coxswain Goes Aboard
Coxswain J. Dumble, of Sheringham, Norfolk, getting into an aeroplane.
The Coastal Command of the Royal Air Force which protects our coasts, shipping and fishing fleets from attack from the air (and has been nicknamed the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fast from a Carriage the Fast Carriage Lifeboat Takes Shape
The experimental prototype of a new design of 38ft lifeboat which is fast, yet capable of launching from a carriage, is now under construction and will begin trials in the spring. Edward Wake-Walker examines her development.THE RNLI HAS A...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
Category: Articles
The South Rock Lightvessel
Cloughey, Co. Down.—7th September, 1938. Signals were seen flying from the South Rock Light-vessel, but they were found to be for a tender to bring a sick man ashore. — Rewards, £10 2s. 6d..
The Sailing Barge Will Everard
Great Yarmouth and Gorlesfon, Norfolk.
—At 6.30 in the evening of the 17th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a barge was ashore on the Caister Shoal, and the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 6.40 in a...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 5.45 P.M.
on the 10th January, 1938, the life-boat mechanic heard cries for help, appar- ently from a trawler on the west side of the Wyre Channel, and he, the...
Category: Services
The Norwegian Life-Boat Service
By Mr. OTTAR VOGT, Secretary of the Norwegian Society for the Rescue of the Shipwrecked.
THE coast of Norway is very extensive and mountainous, rocky and precipitous all over — the whole coastline being guarded by a fence...
Category: Articles
Crowds on the Embankment Watch the Life-Boats Take Up Their Moorings
CROWDS on the EMBANKMENT WATCH THE LIFE-BOATS TAKE UP THEIR MOORINGS. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Voyage of the Motor Life-Boat "Joseph Adlam" from Cowes to Blyth
By Commander E. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.
WE left Cowes just before 7 A.M. of the 4th October. I had with me the Blyth Coxswain and three men, the Blyth Motor Mechanic, the...
Category: Articles
Lucy B., of Rye
Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).
On 2nd November, 1930, at 10.30 in the morning, the Selsey and Bognor Motor Life-boat was launched, as news had been received that a vessel was in difficulties to the west of Selsey Bill. A W.S.W...