LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The National Service for Seafarers
THE National Service for Seafarers, which is held each autumn, in St.
Paul's Cathedral, took place on 15th October.
At this Service the Institution is, of course, always represented, but this being the...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Ship Ellie Park
MARCH 2lST. - GIRVAN. AYRSHIRE.
At 9.45 P.M. the police reported that a vessel was ashore about one mile south of Turnberry Lighthouse and was showing flares.
The weather was calm but there was a dense fog...
Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.
THE leading principles of the following Directions...
Category: Articles
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part V: Behind the Scenes
ABOVE AND BELOW DECKS, the first prototype of the fast slipway lifeboat (FSB) is gradually taking shape in Fairey Marine's yard at Cowes. With some of the work progress is obvious; other jobs involve perhaps weeks of 'behind the...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Coble Zephyr
DECEMBER 23RD. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At about 10.10 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that the local motor fishing coble Zephyr, with a crew of three, was flying distress signals about one and a half milesN.E. of Whitby Rock...
The Merchant Fleet Auxiliary Albertross
The Life-boat Sarah Austin was called out shortly after 8 A.M. on the 27th December, the Merchant Fleet Auxiliary Albatross having stranded near Holborn Head.
When the Life-boat reached the vessel it was found that it was...
The Duchess of Sutherland Opening the London Bazaar
(Behind her, left to right, are : Mist Florence Eyre, Lady Baring and the Viscountess Bertie of Thame (Chairman of the London Women's Committee).). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Avec Nom
Margate, Kent.—At 2.50 on the after- noon of the 1st of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that he had received a message from Kingsgate that two men in a sailing boat three quarters of a mile off Joss Bay were waving an oar. At three...
The Longhope Life-Boat Disaster
As we were going to press we learnt with deep regret of the loss on the night of 18th March, 1969, of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat T.G.B., Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, three times holder of the Institution's silver medal, and seven...
Category: Obituaries
The Official Party Including the Duke of Atholl (Far I) and the Lord Mayor of Nottingham
The official party, including the Duke of Atholl (far I.) and the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, aboard Invergordon lifeboat after the naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of T. Bailey Forman Newspapers Ltd.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs