LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eastbourne Lifeboat the 37Ft
Launch into south-westerly strong gale, force 9, Sunday March 22: Three progressive photographs of Eastbourne lifeboat, the 37ft 6in Rather Duke of Kent, taken by 16-yearold Matthew Hancock as (left) she launched down her slipway into... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Destroyer Scharnhorst
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.5 on the evening of the 24th of January, 1961, the St. Peter Port signal station informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the island of Brechon that a vessel to the north-west of...
One Man, one vision
Imagine you’re out at sea, having fallen from a boat somewhere off the coast of the UK or Republic of Ireland. You’re treading cold, rough water.
And then you hear engines, and you see a splash...
Category: Articles
The Shipwrights' Exhibition
BY the kindness of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, the Life-boat service had a space at the exhibition of ships' models and equipment which the Company held in London from 28th January to 8th February of this...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
ON account of the simultaneous pub- lication with this issue of a special Cen- tenary Number, and our intention to publish in the next issue, wh;ch will appear in November, an illustrated!supplement, with an account of the various Centenary...
Category: Branches
The Merry Cobbler:
The merry cobbler: Fakenham shoe mender Chris Thomas, who is also a member of the re-formed Fakenham and District branch, dressed his mechanical shoe-mending dummy in lifeboatman's gear to attract attention during the town's flag... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danish Gun Boat Vaedderen
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 10.40 a.m. on 8th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish gunboat Vaedderen had a seriously sick man, the skipper of Grimsby trawler Northern Chief, on board and was proceeding to...
The Name's Bond...
When you think of Bond, most of you will think of James Bond - 007 with shaken, not stirred, vodka-martini cocktails. But the RNLI's real Bond is Peter Bond, Morecarnbe's D class lifeboat. Instead of a car with machine guns hidden... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rye Harbour: the Remains of the Tiger Moth Whose Crew of Two Were Rescued By Rye's D Class Inflatable Lifeboat on August 27 (See Right) Photograph By Courtesy of Mary Lestocq
Rye Harbour: The remains of the Tiger Moth whose crew of two were rescued by Rye's D class inflatable lifeboat on August 27 (see right). photograph by courtesy of Mary Lestocq. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. . Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view....
Category: Articles