LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
76 Year Old Edwin E. Distin (seated), the Only Survivor of the 1916 Life-Boat Disaster at Salcombe
76 year old Edwin E.
Distin (seated), the only survivor of the 1916 lifeboat diaster at Salcombe, with (left to right) Mr.W. P. Budgett, honorary secretary, Hubert 'Bubbles' Distin, son, who is the coxswain, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Clifford's Improved Method of Lowering Boats at Sea
IT is now two years since, in conjunction with other plans, we reviewed this novel and ingenious mode of lowering boats, and we then emphatically declared our opinion as to its value, and expressed our hope that it might meet with that...
Category: Articles
Protective Clothing for Crews of Conventional Lifeboats Is Presently Supplied By Functional Clothing Co. Ltd. Small Modifications to the Normal Design, Including the Additi
Protective clothing for crews of conventional lifeboats is presently supplied by Functional Clothing Co. Ltd. Small modifications to the normal design, including the addition of a hood, are made specially for the lifeboat service.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—A new life-boat has been stationed at Groomsport, County Down, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a branch of the Society established there. Lying at the entrance to the bay of Belfast, this station will afford a...
Category: Articles
Her First Launch
The new life-boat Tynesider. She is a 46 ft. 9 ins. Watson cabin motor life-boat and went to the station on the 29th of November, 1947. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Freemasons' Albert Edward Life-Boat
IT will be remembered that at a special meeting of Grand Lodge, held more than a year ago, it was decided that the sum of 4,000?. should be voted to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, for the purpose of founding two Life-boat Stations...
Category: Services
Filey's Boathouse
Fi/ey's boathouse is not as old as it looks - it was in fact completed in 1991- and was designed to fit a very restricted site on the promenade, as can be seen in the aerial photographs on page 27.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ben Tart of Dungeness
Ben Tart of Dungeness We are sad to report the death of Ben Tart, one of the most well-known lifeboat coxswains of the East coast, who gave some 50 years service to the RNLI.
Born in Dungeness in January 1915, Ben followed...
Category: Obituaries
High Seas...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Tenby -- West Division Tenby, in Pembrokeshire, has one of the longest slipways in the country, its 360ft extending from the boathouse off Castle Hill into deep water. The...
Category: Articles
White Kitten
Five saved RED FLARES fired by a yacht off Beer Head were reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Lyme Regis ILB station at 1942 on Monday August 13, 1979. Five minutes later, Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 ILB was launched manned by...