LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your Letters
Pass them on...
The letters regarding 'passing on' THE LIFEBOAT interested me as I too have done this for a number of years, taking the journal to our local doctors' surgery and, more recently, sending them on a...
Category: Correspondence
The Material Revolution
"he days when wood was the automatic choice of material from which to build a lifeboat have long gone - today aluminium, steel and a new generation of composites are providing the solutions to technical problems. James Paffett explains ...
Category: Articles
After the Hurricane
THE hurricane-force winds which caused so much damage in the south of England last October resulted in a dozen launches by lifeboats in the area affected by the storm, with three of the services leading to medal awards.
The...
Category: Articles
The Equipment of a Life-Boat. (Continued.)
The Sails of a Life-boat are of No. 5 or No. 6 canvas, made from the finest flax, and tanned with bark to render them rot-proof. They are now all cut with a very high peak, and consist in most cases of a jib and standing fore and mizen lugs,...
Category: Articles
Boy Eric
APRIL 19TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M. the naval base reported a fishing boat, off the North Foreland, in need of a tow into harbour. She was the Boy Eric, of Lowestoft, on voyage, with a crew of two, to Ramsgate for repairs. A light S.W...
Cullercoats:
Cullercoats: Miss Diana Phillips afloat in the C class inflatable lifeboat partly funded by her gift in memory of her parents, Mr and Mrs H. A. Phillips; she was shown the lifeboat at RNLI Cowes base before it was sent to Cullercoats, where,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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JUNE 29TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
Red flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £19 15s..
Schooner Teazer, of Ipswich
During a terrific gale of wind, on the night of the 8th of January, the look-out-man at Stonehouse Point observed signals of distress from Mount Batten. The Prince Consort life- boat was at once launched, and proceeded to the bay. Owing to...
Humber Lifeboat Crew In 1956 When the Late Captain William S Anderson (Fourth from Right) Was the Superintendent Coxswain Standing Directly By the Bow Is Mr Robert
Humber lifeboat crew in 1956 when the late Captain William S. Anderson (fourth from rig/it) was the superintendent coxswain.
Standing directly by the bow is Mr Robertson Buchan, his son-in-law, who recently retired as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
ON MARCH 4, 1984, the RNLI will celebrate the 160th anniversary of its foundation in 1824. The event in itself is perhaps of minor importance—just another milestone—but what it represents is of far greater significance: the unbroken record...
Category: Articles