LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Doctor's Ten Hours at Sea
Mr. James Hall, M.B., B.S., F.R C.S., who went out four times in the Walmer life-boat in forty hours to the help of sick seamen. In the first six months of the war, he went out to sick seamen more than eighty times, eight of them in the life... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Film Winner In Italy
A 24-MiNUTE film on the life-boat service, Part-Time Heroes, won a silver cup presented by the Ministry of Naval Defence when shown this year at a review of maritime docu- mentaries during the Milan Fair.
The film shows a...
Category: Articles
First Prize for Sheffield Schoolgirl
ELIZABETH LAVINIA MAXFIELD, of North and South Anston County Pri- mary School, North Anston, Sheffield, won first prize in the competition for the best essay on the life-boat service organized by the Institution.
The...
Category: Articles
Forty Years of Motor Life-Boats
IT was .in 1904 that, as an experiment, the first petrol engine was fitted in a pulling and sailing life-boat. It was an engine of 10 horse power. Two years later three other sailing life-boats were fitted with larger engines. The experiment...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 11th October, 1906. SIR EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and...
Category: Committee
War on the water
On a windless Spring day off Ireland’s south coast, a magnificent steamship carrying almost 2,000 people was hit by a torpedo. It was a tragedy that would be felt around the world
The passenger...
Category: Articles
Gravesend Guild at the Grand Christmas Bazaar
An attractive display of RNLI souvenirs laid out by the ladies of Gravesend guild at the grand Christmas Bazaar which made £558.
Although there are only ten members of the guild they raised £2,367 last year and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Light Type of Motor Life-Boat. Problems of the Three Capsizes
By LiEUT.-CoMMANDER P. E. VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
THEEE motor life-boats have capsized in the space of fifteen months. In each capsize lives were lost.
The St. Ives life-boat...
Category: Articles
A Boat
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 7.10 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1957, the life-boat coxswain was told that a small boat was missing from the harbour.
There were marks in the sand indicat- ing that she had been dragged...
Ring of Safety
There’s no mistaking an RNLI lifeboat – but what are all those other craft in the lifesaving team?
When RNLI lifeboat volunteers answer the call for help, they are launching to the front line in a battle to save lives –...
Category: Articles