LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Returning from the Sands
The Walmer life-boat and her crew The 'last photograph is by Mr. Bert. Hardy, of Picture Post, and is reproduced by kind permission of that paper. The other photographs are by Mr. George Goldsmith Carter, author of Looming Lights, A True... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Barge Melissa
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 12.33 A.M. on the 3rd January, 1938, flares were seen in the bay, and at 12.50 A.M.
the motor life-boat Prudential put out to investigate. A moderate E.N.E.gale was blowing, with a rough...
The S.S. Lagosian and the S.S.. Ashly
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 11.10 P.M. the coastguard reported two vessels on fire, one five miles S.E.
of Rattray Head and the other about ten miles E.S.E. from Peterhead. They belonged...
Practical Help: (Above) Scouts Repaint Poole's Old Lifeboat House Now a Museum With Paint Supplied By 1C I As Part of the Brighter Britain Campaign (Photo Jeff Morris) A
Practical help: (above) Scouts repaint Poole's old lifeboat house, now a museum, with paint supplied by 1C I as part of the Brighter Britain Campaign (photo, Jeff Morris), and (below) members of 206 air navigation course, RAF Finningly,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Into the Archives
Throughout the RNLI's history the Annual Presentation of Awards has always made national news. Many supporters would have heard of a Medal for Gallantry or a Badge for voluntary work but Barry Cox, RNLI honorary librarian, has been...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Pinedene
SALCOMBK, SOUTH DEVON.—Signals of distress having been reported by the Coastguard on the 17th January, the Life-boat Lesty was launched at 12.10 A.M. and proceeded towards Prawle Point; when about two miles distant from there she showed...
A Constant Procession Board the 52Ft Arun for a Closer Look Round She Was Lying Alongside the Depot Quay Astern of the Prototype 47Ft Tyne
A constant procession board the 52ft Arun for a closer look round. She was lying alongside the depot quay, astern of the prototype 47ft Tyne.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Cross Sand Lightvessel
Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 2nd of April, 1956, the local Superintendent of Trinity House rang up to say that a man on the Cross Sand lightvessel had been badly injured. He asked if the life-boat would take him ashore,...
The Material Revolution
"he days when wood was the automatic choice of material from which to build a lifeboat have long gone - today aluminium, steel and a new generation of composites are providing the solutions to technical problems. James Paffett explains ...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Cairo City
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 4.34 in the morning of the 24th of September, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned that the Cross Sand Lightvessel, which had a crew of seven, had reported that she had been in collision and...