LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bronze Tablet on the Memorial to the Five Men of the Rhoscolyn Life-Boat Who Lost Their Lives on Service on 3rd December, 1920
Bronze Tablet on the Memorial To The Five Men of the Rhoscolyn Life-Boat Who Lost Their Lives On Service On 3rd December 1920. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1904
THE Blue Book recently issued by the Board of Trade furnishing abstracts of the shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom, from the 1st July, 1903, to the 30th June, 1904, is not less inter- esting than...
Category: Articles
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1876
THERE can be few Englishmen who are not aware that during several years past a very uneasy feeling has pervaded the British mind as regards the general status of our "Mercantile Marine," alike as regards the vessels of which it is...
Category: Articles
Staff Coxswain Billy Dent Has Called In to Discuss Problem With Cdr Roe Short Telephone Call to the Department Concerned Soon Resolves the Query
Staff Coxswain Billy Dent has called in to discuss a problem with Cdr Roe. A short telephone call to the department concerned soon resolves the query.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alethea and the Southern Cross
Howth, Co. Dublin.—During a vacht race on the evening of the 26th of May, 1954, the 5-ton yacht Alethea was dismasted off Portmarnock Strand about two miles from Howth. The yacht Ann Gail wirelessed a distress call for her to Portpatrick...
(Below), Built In the Same Simple and Rugged Style to Suit the Surroundings on The
Then and now... When a new inshore lifeboat station was needed at Flamborough's South Landing the old disused boathouse (right) was demolished to make way for the new (below), built in the same simple and rugged style to suit the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Do Whales Get the Bends?
Do Whales Get the Bends?
by Tony Rice
Review by Lucie Grisdale
Tony Rice is a former marine biologist who now spends his time lecturing about his experiences and knowledge of the ocean on...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Deck Ban.
Kg. 3.
Kg. 4.
; Body Han, Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats,...
Category: Articles
The Institution's Oldest Supporters
THE Institution has received her annual subscription from a lady in Dumfriesshire who is now in her 104th year. Two years ago she doubled her subscription, feeling how uncertain her next year's subscription must...
Category: Donations
Praise from the Pensioners
Two letters of appreciation of the life-boat service, both enclosing donations, have recently been written to the Institution by old age pensioners.
Eighty-two year old Mrs. Emily Stabback, of Greenwich, London S.E.io,...
Category: Correspondence