LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck of the Fishing Vessel Gang Warily
The wreck of the fishing vessel Gang Warily pictured from the cliff top two days after incident - when the weather had moderated considerably.
The difficulties of carrying out a rescue in an onshore Force 7 wind with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Viking O., of Dublin
JUNE 10TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. At 9.15 in the morning the lifeboat’s assistant motor-mechanic reported a yacht up against the east pier. The wind was blowing very strongly from the northwest, and the sea was rough....
Tamworth Guild Have Held Two 'Knit-Ins' at the Home of Their Chairman Mrs Marion Appleby Matthews More Than £200 Was Raised on Each Occasion Photograph By Courtes
Tamworth guild have held two 'knit-ins' at the home of their chairman, Mrs Marion Appleby Matthews. More than £.200 was raised on each occasion. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of J. Walker.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Five Lives Rescued In the Floods. Unusual Service By the Whitby Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 77 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1931 62,735 Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.
Unusual...
Category: Services
Presentations to honorary workers by the Chairman of the RNLI, Commander F. R. H. Swann, QBE, RNVR (left to Mr David Chapel
Presentations to honorary workers by the Chairman of the RNLI, Commander F. R. H. Swann, QBE, RNVR (left to right): Mr David Chapel (Arhroath), Mrs Graham Doggart (Selsey), Professor William Flexner (RNLI headc/ uarters), Mrs Teresa Smellie... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Sweden
By Captain STENISBERG, Secretary of the Svenska Sällskabet För Räddning Af Skeppsbrutne...
Category: Articles
Last Spring It Was Announced That the Variety Club of Great Britain Had Agreed to Meet the Costs of the Payments Made By the Rnli to Dependent Children of Lifeboat
Last spring it was announced that the Variety Club of Great Britain had agreed to meet the costs of the payments made by the RNLI to dependent children of lifeboatmen who had lost their lives on service or exercise, and also that the Club... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danish Fishing Vessel Senious
Lerwick, Shetlands - At 12.35 a-mon 22nd March, 1966, a vessel was reported aground to the east of Lerwick harbour. There was a moderate north westerly breeze and a calm sea. The lifeboat Claude Cecil Staniforth set out 20 minutes later on...
The Motor Ferry Boat Colonsay
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 12th of June, 1952, a resident of Bonahaven reported that a motor boat had run ashore half a mile from Bonahaven, and at 10.20 the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth left her moorings....