LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Main Photo Bottom - After the Flotilla
Main photo bottom - After the flotilla, the Queen Victoria and her carriage are hitched to a team of Suffolk Punch horses before being paraded along the Quay.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dutch Honour for the Fishguard Crew
IT is with much pleasure that we record that the Netherlands Government have shown their appreciation of the service of the Fishguard Motor Life-boat in saving seven lives from the Dutch motor schooner Hermina, on the 3rd December, 1920, by...
Category: Awards
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CHEWS, AND OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31ST DECEMBER, 1870.
JAN....
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Motor Vessel No. 649
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Shortly after one in the afternoon information was received that a vessel was in difficulties, and later it was learned that she was showing a distress signal. The weather was fine and the sea smooth....
Wreck of the Training-Ship "Eurydice."
IT is the peaceful Sabbath-tide ; The sacred words have scarcely died That asked a guardian angel's hand For wand'rers over sea and land; Across the dancing waters bright A gallant vessel greets the sight, With every sunlit canvas...
Category: Poetry
The Screw Steamer Hellenis of Dublin
On the 15th Sep- tember, the screw-steamer, Hettenis, of Dublin, bound from Naples and Lisbon to Dublin, with a general cargo, and having 26 bullocks on deck, grounded on Ark- low Bank, during a strong gale from W. to W.S.W. The Arklow...
The Tank Steamer Pass of Ballater (1)
Peel, and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—On the night of the 1st December, 1938, information from the coastguard was received at both life-boat stations that the tank steamer Pass of Ballater, of London, was in distress and needed tugs. A moderate...
A Year on the front line
All lifeboat stations are equipped with digital waterproof Pentax cameras to help the crew take real-time, high quality images of their lifesaving activities.
RNLI lifeguard units also have access to the cameras. The RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Safety Fishing-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, aircompartments, shifting-coamings, and hatches of one of the safety boats, 40 feet in length and 14 feet in breadth.
In figs. 1 and 2, the...
Category: Articles
The "City of Leicester" Boarding Boat
Inaugural Ceremony at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.
ON 3rd September the Inaugural Cere- mony took place at Walton-on-the- Naze, Essex, of a boarding boat. The Motor Life-boat which was stationed at Walton in 1928 lies...
Category: Articles