LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Newspaper Award for Best Account of a Life-Boat Service
The Royal National Life-boat Institution's award for what was, in the Institution's judgment, the best factual account of a service by a life-boat to appear in a newspaper in 1965 has been made to Air. T. G. Barker of the Whitby...
Category: Awards
The Lifeboat Service In Two World Wars
THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which depends entirely on voluntary contributions, was founded in 1824 and has now saved over 98,500 lives in peace and war. Sir William Hillary, the founder, built the lifeboat service on sound...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat In Verse
The Life-boat in Verse. An anthology covering a hundred years, a commentary by Sir John Gumming and Charles "' the Royal National Life-boat Institution by Hodder Selected with Vince. Published for & Stoughton. 25. 6d.MUCH verse...
Category: Poetry
I Have Come Through Safely.
A soldier's wife has sent £5. Her husband came through Dunkirk and is now serving in Libya with trie Eighth Army. He wrote to her: "I nave come through safely. Will you please send a cheque to the Royal National Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Present from Denmark: the Holbek Tambourkorps Band of Flutes and Drums from Denmark
Present from Denmark: The Holbek Tambourkorps Band of Flutes and Drums from Denmark paid a visit to the Anstruther lifeboat station during a tour of Fife. Before leaving they played a selection of well known airs and after taking a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Main
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.15 on the evening of the 12th of January, 1961, flares were seen north-north-east of Arklow. There was a moderate south- south-westerly wind with a correspond- ing sea, and the tide was ebbing. At 7.30 the life-boat...
Pictured During the Presentation of This Year's Cheque for £1,000
Pictured during the presentation of this year's cheque for £1,000 are. from left to right, Don Galbraith, yacht club commodore; Brian Hurst, chairman of the Castletown branch; Rod Haire, representing Royal Life; Jane Galbraith,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
THE ISLE OF PURBECK, AND ITS LIFE- BOATS.
XLI. — SWANAGE.— The Charlotte and Mary, 35 feet by 9 feet, 10 oars.
XLII.—KIMERIDGE.—The Mary Heape, 28 feet by 6 feet 8 inches, 5 oars.
THIS...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Societies Abroad
The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Societies. The...
Category: Articles
After Cockpit Well: Fig 3 (Left) Beams
After cockpit well: Fig. 3 (left) Beams and, Fig. 4 (right) side decks are fitted. Straight run back of after end of cartings, inboard of side decks, will take sliding wheelhouse doors. All spaces under beams will be filled with shaped,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs