LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New York Harbor Festival July 5: the Rnli Team of Lifeboatmen from the North East Seen Here With An Australian Team After the First Heat Went on to Win the Trophy the Course Was Over One Mil
New York Harbor Festival, July 5: the RNLI team of lifeboatmen from the north east, seen here with an Australian team after the first heat, went on to win the trophy. The course was over one mile in 28ft wooden pulling boats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dundee Life-Boat Day. The Help of the Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Co.
THE Dundee Life-boat Day this summer was an outstanding event. The Honorary Secretary, Mr. Lindsay, and his Life-boat Day Sub-Committee had j the very generous help of Mr. Kalph (.'. Cowper, the General Manager of the Dundee, Perth and...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (2)
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 5.35 on the evening of the 23rd of November.
1956, the Deal coastguard reported that an aircraft of the United States Air Force had crashed into the sea near the Cork lightvessel and asked for...
The Converted Motor Fishing Vessel Kathmar
Engine broken down RED FLARES fired by a vessel about a mile south of Boddin Point, four miles south of the lifeboat station, were reported to the honorary secretary of Montrose by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Tuesday March 28.
A Song of the Life-Boat
I sing a song of the Life-boat crew, Sons of the sturdy oar! Whose hearts are steadfast, firm and true, When angry billows roar.
Who flinch not when the raging gale Sends forth its deadly breath; Whose spirits ne'er a...
Category: Poetry
Member of the Institution's Staff Killed
A member of the Institution's staff, Mr. Thomas Edgar Langridge, was killed last Christmas morning. He was cycling along a snow-bound road in Wembley, near his home, when he collided with a motor car. Two hours later he died in hospital...
Category: Obituaries
Balloons Being Launched During the Large Scale R.N.L.I, Competition at the End of Last Year.
Compiled by Grahame Farr with the help of members of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society 1—Which life-boat station is farthest from the shore? 2—Where are old life-boat houses now used as (a) a library, and (b] an aquarium? 3—Which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Drifters Loranthus, of Banff, and The Harvest Reaper, of Buckie
DECEMBER 7TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 in the morning the life-boat coxswain heard an SOS call.
There was a dense fog. A nasty swell was running with a southerly wind which freshened later into a gale. The motor...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
A Long Search on the Goodwin Sands
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to June 30th, 1952 77,747 A Long Search on the Goodwin Sands AT 10.53 on the night of the 13th...
Category: Services