LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Past and Present
50 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, December 1940 issue Four Months of War The first four months of war, from 3rd September to the 31st December, have been the most crowded and hazardous in the whole history of the life-boat service...
Category: Articles
Alice
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.41 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a cargo vessel was listing heavily near Gull Stream Buoy. At 1.53 the life- boat Greater London, Civil Service No.
3, on...
Our Late Secretary
With the deepest sorrow we have to announce that Mr. Charles Dibdin, the Secretary of the Institution, died, after a long illness, on the 7th June. Mr. Dibdin was born on the 9th October, 1849, and was thus in his sixty-first year. He was...
Category: Obituaries
The Gale of October 15-16th Last
At a recent meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society, a paper was read by Mr. 0. HARDING, P. E. Met. Soc., on "The Gale of October 15-16th, 1886, over the British Islands," in which he remarked that the storm was of very...
Category: Articles
Classification of Services and Lives Saved By Life-Boats
CATEGORY (1) Naval vessels . .
(2) Foreign going merchant vessels (3) Home trade merchant vessels . .
(4) Commercial fishing vessels (5) Powered pleasure craft . .
(6) Sailing pleasure...
Category: Services
Philip Weeks
Limited Edition Prints Passing Longstone The Liverpool class lifeboat Grace Darling stationed at Seahouses passing Longstone lighthouse in the 1960s.
Passing Beachy Head The Beach class Watson Beryl Tollemache of Eastbourne...
Category: Advertisement
The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster's Appeal for the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has received a personal letter from His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster (the Most Rev. Arthur Hinsley, D .D.), commending to Catholics the appeal of the life-boat service. It is dated 25th June, 1938.
Category: Correspondence
Brittania Rescue
•' We've been voted road rescue 'Best Buy' for the 4th time in a row by the UK's leading consumer testing magazine, that's just one of the reasons why the RNLI has made us their official membership motoring scheme for...
Category: Advertisement
The Wreck Register and Chart
WE are glad to be in a position to present to our readers our customary annual review of the casualties in shipping, the loss of life incurred, and the lives saved by the Institution in the year ending June 30th, 1913, in connexion with the...
Category: Articles
The Grp Arun's Hull Plug Is Double Diagonal Construction Coated With 18 Coats of Furane Resin, Rubbed Down Hard Between Each Coat. the Ultimate Finish of a Glass Rei
The GRP Arun's hull plug is double diagonal construction coated with 18 coats of Furane resin, rubbed down hard between each coat.
The ultimate finish of a glass reinforced plastic hull is dependent on the fine quality... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs