LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Culzean Castle and Aratus
At about 10.45 A.M. on the 3rd August two vessels came into collision in the Cockle Gat during a strong S.W. breeze and a moderate sea. They both hoisted signals of distress, in response to which the Life-boat Qodsend was launched and sailed...
Life-Boat Day at Great Yarmouth
Life-Boat Day at Great Yarmouth. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Around the World In a Day?
Circumnavigate the world without ever leaving London - on 25 September the RNLI is cramming the entire planet into the confines of Battersea!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint; double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...
Category: Medals
Top Crew Member Alan Woods Wears the Lifeboat's Smoke Hood In the Engine Room
Top Crew member Alan Woods wears the lifeboat's smoke hood in the engine room.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Right: Alan Deacon (left) Is Pleased To Support Nick (right) In Memory Of His Father Billy
Right: Alan Deacon (left) is pleased to support Nick (right) in memory of his father Billy Photo: SAC Adam Fletcher. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.
THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...
Category: Articles
The Four Young Whitnalls (Left to Right) Timothy, Now 9 (In Cap), Simon, 10, Mark, 7, and Jolly Rebecca, 31/2, Who Wants to Be 'A Life-Boatman'.
The four young Whitnalls (left to right) Timothy, now 9 (in cap), Simon, 10 , Mark, 7, and jolly Rebecca, 3j, who wants to be 'a life-boatman'. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of IF. G. Whitnall. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
• Grahame Farr, one of the honorary archivists of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, is a true historian and whenever he publishes a paper containing the results of his research he makes available a new and valuable chapter to all those...
Category: Articles
Letters
ALL SPICK AND SPAN • I should like to record my appreciation and thanks for THE LIFE-BOAT which reaches me from time to time. It is full of interest and having absorbed the contents I circulate it around my ship.
It is...
Category: Correspondence