LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Message from the Director
Twelve months ago we predicted another busy, challenging year for the RNLI. and our predictions have certainly proved correct.
The launchings of the prototype FABs 3 and 4 were keenly anticipated as so many of our future...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Sea Venture
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 2.10 P.M.
** on the 20th October, 1939, a message was received from the senior naval officer that the s.s. Sea Venture had been sunk by enemy action fifteen to twenty miles east of Flugga, and that...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats (1)
The Fishwives of Cullercoats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. St. Patrick
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — During the morning of the 28th February the Great Western Railway local marine superintendent asked if the motor lifeboat White Star would place a crew on board the railway's s.s. St. Patrick, which was lying...
Above Right: the Lifeboat Shop
Above right: The Lifeboat Shop earns over £30,000 a year for Dublin branch. Its main trade is in second hand clothes which are donated by the bundle. They are sorted, put on display and sold by a dedicated band of volunteer ladies who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Roadshow's Colourful Displays, Videos and Interactive Cd-Roms Pique the Interest of Children During Portpatrick Lifeboat Week
The roadshow's colourful displays, videos and interactive CD-ROMs pique the interest of children during Portpatrick lifeboat week. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Achilles
At 8 P.M., on the 9th October, in a S.W. wind and moderate sea, the Lifeboat BeaucJiamp was launched at the request of Lloyd's Agent, and proceeded to the s.s. Achilles, of South Shields, which had stranded on Scroby...
The National Life-Boat Institution
IN the year 1824 was established, in the City of London, mainly through the benevolent and untiring exertions of the late Sir WM. HILLARY, Bart., Mr. THOMAS WILSON, M.P., and others, the "ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOE THE PRESERVATION...
Category: Articles
Sink or swim! the popular RNLI raft race, now an annual event on the Ouse in York
Sink or swim! The popular RNLI raft race, now an annual event on the Ouse in York, attracted a total of 80 craft of varying descriptions. The one-and-a-half mile course attracted thousands of spectators who lined the riverbank to watch the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Gannet
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 9.50 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel sinking to the east of Peterhead, but other vessels put out, and the life-boat was not launched. At 2.45 next morning the coastguard...