LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prince of Wales' Day In London. The Prince Leaving the Library Hall, Whitechapel
The Prince Leaving The Library Hall Whitechapel. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1885
Jan. 1.—Voted 5?. to the master and crew of the steam-tug Telephone, of Falmouth, for saving five fishing-luggers, some of their nets, and their crews, numbering twenty men, which were in much danger off Exmouth during a heavy gale from the...
Category: Articles
Successful Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
IN the year 1857 the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, as will be remembered by its supporters, appealed to the medical profession in this country and, through foreign ambassadors, to the public medical authorities of several other countries,...
Category: Articles
The Motor Keel Boat Lead Us
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At noon on the 29th of October, 1956, a message was received that the motor keel boat Lead Us. of Whitby, was approaching Whitby harbour in very bad weather.
Later a message was received that because...
Centenary of the Danish Life-Boat Service
THE Danish Life-boat Service com- pleted its first hundred years on March 26th, 1952. In these hundred years it has rescued 12,414 lives at the cost of 59 lives of its life-boatmen.
The Institution sent it the following...
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 Prince of Wales and the Life-Boat Service. Curious Coincidence
In the course of the eloquent speech and earnest appeal which H.R.H. The PRINCE OF WALES made as President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, at the London Life-boat Saturday Dinner on 1st May last, he said, " I am anxious to...
Category: Articles
The War Department Landing Craft L.405
Stromness, Orkneys.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th of December, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a landing barge had run ashore at Ness Beacon. At 7.18 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander...
The Business of the Morning Over Paul Daniels With Some of the Sea Scouts and Cub Sea Scouts Who Had Witnessed the Rnli's
The business of the morning over, Paul Daniels, with some of the Sea Scouts and Cub Sea Scouts who had witnessed the KNLI's ninth national lottery, took a look round the headquarters museum. One undoubted attraction was the working model... - 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...