LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Left) Hull of Atlantic 21 B537 Stationed at Blackpool Looking Aft With Deck Removed Forward of Fuel Tank Bays Either Side of Centreline Division Floors Are Shaped to R
(Left) Hull of Atlantic 21 B537, stationed at Blackpool, looking aft with deck removed. Forward of fuel tank bays, either side of centreline division, floors are shaped to receive flexible trim tanks. Outboard of fuel tank compartments, port... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st April to the 30th Sept. 1878
PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Has- borough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
Category: Services
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Lerwick - Scotland Division Lerwick, in the Shetland Isles, lies in the midst of one of the world's wildest and most unfriendly waters - severe gales can be expected...
Category: Articles
Far West, of Newport
About ,7 o'clock on the evening of the 18th Novem- ber, information was received at Penarth that a large ship was stranded on the S.W.. Patch. The life-boat at once proceeded to the spot in tow of a steam-tug. On ar- riving alongside,...
A Raft
MAY 16TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. A raft had been reported off St. Leonard’s Pier, but it was found to be part of a hatchway probably from a ship that had been attacked.
- Rewards, £16 2s. 6d..
News
Soul searching There was extensive national and local TV, radio and press coverage in March of the painful unfolding story of a family lost to the sea at Scarborough. After an 11-year-old boy was swept off the front and his family attempted...
Category: Articles
The Queen and the Duke Edinburgh Meet Members of the Committee of Management During the Garden Party for the Rnli at Buckingham Palace July 16
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh meet members of the Committee of Management during the garden party for the RNLI at Buckingham Palace, July 16. Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlel and Lady Hezlet are introduced to Her Majesty by Commander F.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The French Life-Boat Service
By M. GRANJON de LEPINEY, Administrates Delegue.
[The footnotes are by the Editor of " The Life-Boat"] THE Central Society for Saving the Ship- wrecked * was founded in 1865 in the following circumstances. The...
Category: Articles
Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N. The Chief Inspector of Life-Boats Retires
COMMANDER PHILIP EDWARD VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life- boats, retired from the service of the Institution on the 30th of June of this year. He had been chief inspector since the 1st of January, 1939.
Commander...
Category: Articles
The Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat West Wind
No. 2 Life-boat Area (Southern Scotland, North West England and Isle of Man) EX-LIFE-BOAT SUMMONS LIFE-BOAT AN old ex-R.N.L.I, pulling and sailing life-boat now named West Wind caused the Barrow, Lancashire, life-boat Herbert Leigh, which is...