LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Rowing Boats Mercury and Blue Peter
MIDNIGHT SEARCH FOR MISSING ROWING BOATS Weymouth, Dorset. At 10.50 on the night of the 23rd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the owner of several rowing boats on the sea front had repotted that two of his...
While Brownies of the 13Th Durham I Below Left I and 9Th < Below Right) Packs Are Helping the Rnli Hy Collecting Foreign Coins the Brownies Also Took Part In a Po
. . . While Brownies of the 13th Durham I below left I and 9th below right) Packs are helping the RNLI hy collecting foreign coins. The Brownies also took part in a poster competition and the three best entries were displayed at a coffee... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (43)
APRIL 8TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the airmen were picked up by a motor boat from Colwyn Bay. - Rewards, £9 4s.
(See Colwyn Bay, “ Services by...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-bouses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Pomona
On the 10th February, at 7.30 A.M, the No. 2 Life-boat Hearts of Oak was launched to a steamer which had been in collision with another vessel and was proceeding southward. On arriving alongside, the master stated that he was not in need of...
A Record Year
THE year 1936 was for the life-boat service the busiest in its whole history of 113 years. Life-boats were launched 468 times to the help of vessels in distress. That is an average of nine launches a week. Never before have there been so...
Category: Annual Reports
The Dutch Oil Tanker Georgia
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Oil As a Wave Smoother
The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette recently called attention in a leading article to the advisability of the use of oil during rough weather at sea under certain favourable conditions. They remarked that it was gratifying to observe that...
Category: Articles
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Xii—Trials
THROUGHOUT HER BUILDING a lifeboat is under the regular scrutiny of the RNLI's own hull, machinery and electronics overseers; she also receives periodic visits by Lloyd's Register of Shipping surveyors and an exceptionally high...
Category: Articles
Armistice Day, 1928
Armistice Day last year was celebrated by the Life-boat Crew at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston in the same way as during the previous two years.
The Crew, headed by the Coxswain and Second Coxswain, each bearing a wreath,...
Category: Articles