LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Royal Bank of Scotland
We're not asking you to risk your life in Force 9 gales. Or to be on call, day and night. Or even to devote time to training. We are asking for something equally important, though: put pen to paper, below, and take out a Lifeboats...
Category: Advertisement
Death of a Head Launcher
EARLY on the evening of the 28th of August, 1957, a schoolmaster went to the harbour at Staithes in Yorkshire with a number of his pupils to bathe.
There was a light north-westerly wind blowing, and outside the harbour the...
Category: Articles
Letters to the Editor
SIR. - Since it would appear that no record has been made of the Institu- tion's earliest effort at mechanization, I am most interested in preparing a paper covering the inception of the steam life-boat; its design; building and method...
Category: Correspondence
An R.A.F. Spitfire Aeroplane
MARCH 1ST . - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. An R.A.F. Spitfire aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a trawler and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £6 13s..
Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Mansell, K.C.V.O., C.B.E., D.L., J.P.
The committee of management also regret the death of another colleague, Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Mansell, K.C.V.O., C.B.E., D.L., J.P., an Elder Brother of Trinity House, who died on 26th April, at the age of...
Category: Obituaries
Mr. A. W. Hawkes, the Author of This Article, Pictured In His Workshop at Waldringfleld, Suffolk. No Matter What Is Afoot—Agricultural Shows, Flag Days and So On—Mr. Hawkes Can Be Relied Upon T
Mr. A. W. Hawkes, the author of this article, pictured in his workshop at Waldringfleld, Suffolk. No matter what is afoot—agricultural shows, flag days and so on—Mr. Hawkes can be relied upon to go almost anywhere and to tackle almost any... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Barrels Lightvessel
MOTHER WAS DYING At 5.10 p.m. on 23rd July, 1964, the Irish Lights Office requested the services of the life-boat to land a member of the Barrels lightvessel crew whose mother was dying. It was a fine day with a smooth sea and light airs...
Down to the Last Detail: a Model of Rnlb Ruby and Arthur Reed
EVERY PIPE, every cable, even the oilcan and the radio telephone instructions, all to scale, can be found in a beautiful and meticulous model of Cromer's 48ft 6in Oakley lifeboat which was presented to the Institution last December....
Category: Articles
The S.S. Finvoy
Girvan, Ayrshire.—Early on the afternoon of the 24th October the coastguard reported that a steamer off the harbour was flying distress signals.
A S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and the weather was thick,...
The French Life-Boat Society
The New Motor Life-boat for Calais.
LIKE the Institution, La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages publishes in its second half-yearly Report for 1929 a preliminary survey of the activities and progress during that...
Category: Articles