LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lymington: Wing Cdr Alan Roxburgh (R) Station Honorary Secretary and Herbert Rand (I) Branch Vice-Chairman With Clare Francis Who Opened the Station's New Il
Lymington: Wing Cdr Alan Roxburgh (r.), station honorary secretary, and Herbert Rand (I.), branch vice-chairman, with Clare Francis who opened the station's new ILB boathouse on June 2, unveiling a plaque commemorating a gift from Saab... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
WINDOWS INTO THE PAST
A stunning collection of glass plate negatives brings the RNLI’s lifesaving history into a new light
The RNLI’s Heritage Team are always on the look-out for artefacts and materials that document the lifesaving work of the...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Diary
"Ship" Ha'pennies for Life-boats A LARGE tin containing a thousand ha'pennies, all with the "ship" design on one side, has been given by Mr.
Henry Broom and his daughter Betty, of Bedford,...
Category: Articles
GIVE IT A GO: FOSSIL HUNTING
Ever wanted to walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs?
Foraging for fossils at the coast may be the closest you’ll get
Paddy Howe’s fascination with fossils started at a young age. ‘When I was a kid, I was...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GILES' QUAY, DUNDALK.—On the appli- cation of the local residents, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life- boat Establishment at Giles' Quay, on the north side of Dundalk Bay, it having been considered that a Life-boat...
Category: Articles
The Array of Bottles and Other Prizes (Below)
The array of bottles and other prizes (below) proved an irresistible draw to those who bought a ticket in a raffle organised by Shoreline member John Regin of Ottershaw, Surrey. Ever since he joined Shoreline he has been planning a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sunderland Boat and Lifting Gear Perspective Diagram
THERE are more ways than one of launching a Life-boat. Perhaps the most elementary way now in use is that of pushing her into the water over skids thrown down on the foreshore.
The quickest, and therefore the most...
Category: Drawings
RNLI to Benefit from a Commercial Card
The life-boat service is to benefit from a Christmas card attractively illus- trated by a reproduction of a painting by Richard Eurich, R.A., showing the Britannia lying off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Through the generosity of the owner of the...
Category: Advertisement
The Trial In Progress: on Parallel Courses About 100 Yards Apart Arun 52-02 and Thames 50-001 Drive Through Rough Seas at About 17 Knots Photograph By Courtesy O
The trial in progress: on parallel courses about 100 yards apart, Arun 52-02 and Thames 50-001 drive through rough seas at about 17 knots. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Guernsey Evening Press. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brighton 175
RNLI lifeboats have been operating from Brighton for 175 years.
Jon Jones finds out how things have changed there over that time… It is true to say that over the years the RNLI, as it celebrates its 175th anniversary, has...
Category: Articles