LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Oil Exploration Vessel Oregis and Northsider
Tug on rocks AN ENGINE breakdown just as she had cast off her tugs on her final trials resulted in the oil exploration vessel Oregis going aground at the entrance to the Tyne. It was 1530 on Sunday, March 10. Tynemouth honorary secretary was...
The Three Survivors of the Lynmouth Crew of 1899
Left to right—R. Burgess, G. S. Richards (who was second coxswain from 1886-1926, and coxswain from 1926-1931), and W. Richards (now second coxswain).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The New Seaham Life-Boat, the George Elmy
A 35-feet 6-inches Liverpool boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Skipper of the "Hesperian" With Coxswain Worth of Penlee
(see page 163). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
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Category: Committee
The Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
The Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 1.—The 60-Feet Barnett Type
THE 60-feet Barnett type of Motor Life- boat is the largest, fastest and most powerful in the Institution's Fleet, with the exception of the one Motor Life- boat designed and built for the special circumstances of service in the Straits...
Category: Articles
A French Trawler (2)
NOV. 23RD. - ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY. At 8 A.M. Mrs. R. W. Hathaway, La Dame de Sark, telephoned that a French trawler had anchored near Havre Gosselin, Sark. A fresh S.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 8.25 A.M.. the motor...
The Late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I.
BY the death of Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., the marine painter, on 12th September, at the age of sixty-one, the Institution has lost a valued and •generous friend. Mr. Dixon painted two of the outstanding life-boat services of recent years, the...
Category: Obituaries
The Southport and St. Anne's Disaster
DECEMBER 9th of last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the great disaster on the Lancashire coast when the life-boats at Southport and St. Anne's were both capsized, with the loss of 27 lives, in an attempt to rescue the crew of the...
Category: Articles