LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
THE SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT DISASTER
Friday 27 October 1916 started with a rescue and ended in tragedy – one of the worst in RNLI history. It is a story of courage,
sacrifice and loss. 100 years on, a lifeboat town remembers the crew who never came home
Category: Articles
Francois Marie of Caen
On the 10th November, during a gale at E., the Life- boat Herbert Ingram assisted to save the brig Franfoise Marie, of Caen, and the barque Die Sehwalbe, of Rostock, both of which vessels were in. a greatly distressed condition off Skegness....
Northerly Gale: Short Steep Seas Break on the Bar at the Harbour Month Photograph By Courtesy of Dale Robinson
Northerly gale: Short, steep seas break on the bar at the harbour month. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Dale Robinson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Forward Cabin Looking Aft to Engine Room Bulkhead on Which Are Sited Electrical Distribution Board and First Aid Stowage Battery Box Forms a Step Forward of Ha
(Right) Forward cabin, looking aft to engine room bulkhead on which are sited electrical distribution board and first aid stowage. Battery box forms a step forward of hatch. A ventilation trunk runs below side deck and a flexible ventilation... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1895
THE Board of Trade is to be congratulated on the success of its efforts to lay before the public the " Abstracts of the Shipping Casualties which have occurred on or near the Coasts of the United Kingdom " up to the latest possible...
Category: Articles
The Advent of the Motor-Boat
THIS year has been one of exceptional interest with regard to the development of Marine Motors, and it will be satis- factory to the supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to know that the subject of placing motors in...
Category: Articles
A Little-Known Work By Sir William Hillary. Plan for a Steam Life-Boat
No doubt most readers of The Lifeboat possess a copy of Britain's Life-boats, by Major A. J. Dawson. They will find in Appendix A in that book a list of the works of Sir William Hillary, whose Appeal to the British Nation, published in...
Category: Articles
New Inventions. Patent Life-Seat
PERHAPS the chief drawback to a sufficiency of life preserving articles being provided on board our packet steamers and other passenger ships, has been the unfitness for "other purposes of any such articles commonly in use. Thus it may...
Category: Articles
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, for Elementary Schools, 1938
" Imagine that You are the Coxswain of a Life-boat. A Vessel is sending up Rockets of Distress. Describe the Rescue by Your Life-boat." THE essay competition in 1937, in which the writers were asked to imagine that they had...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860....
Category: Medals