LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Modern Lifeboat Equipment
PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...
Category: Articles
Behind the Bleep
It’s time to run – the pager’s gone off, calling the dedicated volunteer fromtheir work or bed. Mairéad Dwane discovers the technology behind the drama
RNLI crew members, shore helpers, launching authorities, medical...
Category: Articles
Erin
WEXFORD.—Signals of distress were shown by the steam-tug Erin, of Wexford, at 5.30 P.M., on the 8th March. The Ethel Eveleen Life-boat proceeded to her assistance and found that her engines had broken down, and that she was in a very...
Thanks to Culdrose
Plymouth lifeboatman, Fred Jackson, visited RNAS Culdrose in March to say thank you to the team who airlifted him to Derriford Hospital during a rescue last year.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Countess Mountbatten of Burma Addresses the Meeting Prior to the Presentation of Awards at the Royal Festival Hall London on 16 May 1989
The Countess Mountbatten of Burma addresses the meeting prior to the presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 16 May 1989.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, on Friday, the 21st day of March, 1873, The Right Hon. SIR SYDNEY H. WATERLOW, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, the following Report of...
Category: Annual Reports
The Record of 1927. A Year of Conspicuous Services
A Year of Conspicuous Services.
THE storms in the latter part of 1927 have supplied the answer, if any were needed, to the question which is sometimes asked whether the gradual replacement of the sailing ship by steam and...
Category: Annual Reports
Card Collecting: Some Notes on Charitable People. By a New Life-Boat Worker
I HAVE learnt several things about my fellow men and women which have interested me very much since, some months ago, I undertook always to have one of the Prince of Wales's Life-boat Collecting Cards with me wherever I went. I think...
Category: Donations
The S.S. Empire Gatehouse, Formerly Jutland
DECEMBER 28TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 11.13 in the morning, the coastguard reported that North Foreland Radio had received an SOS call from the S.S.
Empire Gatehouse, formerly the German steamer Jutland....
Margaret, Boy Don and Alsace Lorraine
APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a fishing boat in distress S.W. of Penzer Point, and the motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at 6.50 A.M.
An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...