LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The French Life-Boat Society. Boat-House With Movable Platform at La Joliette, Marseilles
THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages has recently found itself obliged to provide a pontoon boat-house for one of its motor boats, owing to the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory site for a boat-house and slipway in the...
Category: Articles
The Cadet Training Barge Kenya Jacaranda
At 4.30 p.m. on 6th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a Thames spritsail barge was aground on Margate Hook sands and asked if the IRB could investigate. She had not fired any distress signals but appeared to be in...
Looking at Lifeboats - the Tyne Class
Keith Thatcher, RNLI Naval Architect, continues a series of profiles of lifeboat classes Many people's image of a lifeboat launch is of a boat plummeting down a slipway into rough seas, disappearing into a cloud of spray at the foot of...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers
DURING November and December, 1920, and January, 1921, the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recognition of their services in the cause of the Institution : — To ROBERT LEES, Esq...
Category: Awards
The Fishguard Gold Medal Service
ON the 2nd December the three-masted Dutch motor schooner Hermina, which had been sheltering in Fishguard Harbour, left for Rotterdam. During the night the wind freshened until it was blowing a moderate gale from N. W., and she was compelled...
Category: Articles
Having a Ball at the Hilton
Lady Beaverbrook, chairman of the Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball, with Lord Beaverbrook at the Hilton Hotel. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Desmond O'Neill Features). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
King Ja Ja
About 6 o'clock on the morning of the 13th October, whilst a strong northerly gale was blowing, a steamer which proved to be the King Ja Ja, of Swansea, bound from Newcastle to Methil, with a cargo of steam rails, was sighted in a...
A Rescue at Southend-On-Sea
The sinking lighter Elmsdale is on the right. The one man on board had taken to a small boat. It can be seen, nearly full of water, ahead of the life-boat. - View image in PDF
(See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Herring Boats
At about 6 P.M. on the 25th August several large herring boats and a yacht were to be seen making for port, and two miles N.E. of the pier head the yacht was dismasted. A nasty sea was running and it was blowing very fresh from the north—at...