LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boatman's Gallantry on the High Seas
Awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Humane Society for the bravest deed of the year. WHEN the trawler Sarepta of Lowestoft was returning from the fishing grounds on October 31st last, in heavy, squally and very cold weather, with a heavy sea...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Sobo
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1959, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the s.s. Sobo of Liverpool had severely injured his head in an...
The LRET supports new crew
The Lloyd's Register Educational Trust (The LRET) generously donated £174,000 to the RNLI in 2011, helping us train 258 crew members in sea survival and firefighting.
The LRET is an independent charity working to...
Category: Articles
Coxswains of Three Lifeboats Which Were on Service for More Than 20 Hours at the Height of the Fastnet Storm:
Coxswains of three lifeboats which were on service for more than 20 hours at the height of the Fastnet storm:. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Black Cat
TORQUAY.—At 11 A.M. on the 14th October it was reported that the fishing smack Black Cat, of Paignton, was hanging on to her nets, in great danger,' off that place, having been in that positionsince the commencement of the gale, which...
New Ways of Raising Money
A collecting box placed at Mashford's Boat Yard, where Sir Francis Chichester's Gipsy Moth IV was berthed after her record breaking voyage back to Plymouth., raised £85 for the R.N.L.I.
* * * The...
Category: Donations
Looking at Lifeboats the Arun Class
Continuing a series of profiles of lifeboat classes By Keith Thatcher RNLI Naval Architect TI he RNLI's experiment with an in the Waveney class proved to Institution turned its attention to tended service...
Category: Articles
The Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
The Most Hon. the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, P.C., K.T., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., who died on 7th March,1934, at the age of eighty-six, had been a vice-president of the Institution for fourteen years and was patron of the Aberdeen branch....
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Holmside
crew of six men.
At 6.30 P.M.-, on the 23rd June, during a N.E. wind, and a heavy sea, the s.
Holmside, of London, was seen standing for the Cockle Gat, with a flag in her rigging. The No. 2 Life-boat, the...
George McConkey and His Painting of the Saving of the Roscairbre
George Mcconkey and His Painting of the Saving of the Roscairbre. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs