LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Fry Naming the "Manchester and Salford."
Lady Fry Naming The "Manchester and Salford". - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Help of Navy and Air Force.
The Navy and Air Force have been no less generous. During 1940 the Navy contributed £2099, nearly five times as much as in 1939. The appeal to the Air Force was made in September 1940. Up to the end of February 1941 the contributions...
Category: Articles
When a New Carriage-Launch Lifeboat Arrives at Her Station
When a new carriage-launch lifeboat arrives at her station she is immediately re-launched and then recovered again as a final check on the carriage, tractor and lifeboat and to familiarise the shorehelpers with the new equipment. Recovery... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Foynes Island, 10 miles down the Shannon Estuary, has a fast running title with an average depth of 20 feet at most stages. by courtesy of (the Irish Tourist Board)
Foynes Island, 10 miles downthe Shannon Estuary, has a fast running title with an average ilepth of 20 feet at most stages. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of (lie Irish Tourist Board. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Award to IRB Man
The Royal Humane Society has awarded Mr. J. A. Bate of the Bude IRB crew the Society's testimonial on parchment in recognition of his services on 17th June, 1968, when he saved a 4-year-old girl from the water (THE LIFE-BOAT, September,...
Category: Awards
Brede
Introduced In 1982, the Brede, although an Intermediate class lifeboat rather than allweather, can generally operate in any conditions experienced at the stations to which it is allocated.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Returning from Service
The Whitby motor life-boat on 23rd January, 1939. A moment after this photograph was taken the sea which is breaking over her stern completely enveloped her, and the onlookers thought that she had gone right under. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Sailing Yacht
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—31st August, 1939. A small sailing yacht with two men on board had broken adrift and was being carried out to sea in a dense fog, but when the motor life-boat found her she was safely at anchor and did not need...
A Steamer (1)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — 6th September, 1939. Information had been received that a steamer appeared to have blown up seven miles off Shoreham Harbour, but although the lifeboat made a wide search she found nothing.—Rewards, £7...
A Vessel (2)
Margate, Kent.—16th September, 1939. A vessel had been reported with a bad list, which was thought to be the result of enemy action, and the lifeboat put out in charge of the bowman, as both the coxswain and second coxswain were at sea...