LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Before Winter Sets In Coxswain Frank Bloom Checks Mooring Chains and Anchors of Walton and Frinton 46' 9" Watson Lifeboat Edian Courtauld Helped By Divers John
Before winter sets in, Coxswain Frank Bloom checks mooring chains and anchors of Walton and Frinton 46' 9" Watson lifeboat Edian Courtauld helped by divers John Wilcox and Peter Horlock with Crew Member Brian Oxley, Bowman Bobby... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
House-To-House Collections
THE value of the house-to-house collection is well known to experienced Life-boat workers, as one of the simplest, most economical, and most effective methods of appeal. It is used with particular success in the North of England. When the...
Category: Articles
At Her Righting Trial the Fast Slipway Boat Prototype City of London 'Capsized' By Crane Righted In Just Five Seconds Photographs By Courtesy of Brian Manhy
At her righting trial the fast slipway boat prototype City of London. - View image in PDF
'capsized' by crane, righted in just five seconds. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Brian Manhy 19. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd
RICHARD ARMSTRONG Vent Grace Darling Maid and Myth A mariner by training, Mr. Armstrong presents Grace as a living girl, already a legend in her lifetime. His account of the wreck of the Forfarshire is entirely...
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News and Views
Top coxswains Bill Cargill, coxswain of Montrose lifeboat and Harold Jones, retired coxswain of Beaumaris lifeboat have been honoured by their local communities for their hard work on behalf of the lifeboat service - Bill has been named 1996...
Category: Articles
Plymouth's Lifeboats 1803-1974 By Jeff Moiris
FROM PULLING 'ORIGINAL' TO HIGH SPEED 'FAST AFLOAT' WAVENEYPLYMOUTH, host city for the first International Lifeboat Exhibition, 'Lifeboat International', from July 19 to August 17, was one of the 31 stations to have a...
Category: Articles
Peep Into the Past
These days it is hard to imagine lifeboats propelled by anything but powerful engines. Back in the autumn of 1905 though, the then Life-boat Journal was hailing the introduction of marine • - ** *i***** " .xT- ~~ -'*'- 100...
Category: Articles
A Steam Life-Boat for South Holland
THE South Holland Life-boat Society was so pleased with the result of its inquiries as to the success of the NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION'S Steam Life-boats that it recently instructed Messrs. J. I. Thornycroft and Co., of Chiswick,...
Category: Articles
Coast review
Despite being nearly 188 years old, the lifeboat service never stands still
How do you decide where to locate a lifeboat station and what kind of craft should be housed there? That’s the job of...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (24)
FEBRUARY 28TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. A British aeroplane coming towards land was heard to strike the water. Aeroplanes and launches, as well as the life-boats, made a long search but all that was found was one body, by a launch,...