LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
METHIL and BUCKHAVEN, FIFESHIRE— I On the application of the local residents a new Life-boat station has been formed at Buckhaven, on the north side of the Firth of Forth, where there are plenty of fishermen available to work the...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Despite being so far away, the RNLI's Hong Kong branch works tirelessly to raise funds for the Institution.
The committee members were thrilled, therefore, when HRH The Duke of Kent, the Institution's president,...
Category: Donations
Poly, Mary, Congress Bell and Sheila
On the 19th September four fishing boats which had left har- bour early in the morning were seen to be in trouble five or six miles north of the harbour. A moderate S.S.E. gale had sprung up, bringing a rough sea and heavy rain. The motor...
Lines on Seeing a Life-Boat In An Inland Town
GOD speed thee, thou life-boat! for blest is thy mission— To save poor weak man from the wild ocean's rage; When the heavens are black, and the dark waves are roaring, And dread is the war which the elements wage.
All...
Category: Poetry
Two Great Services on the East Coast. Cromer Norfolk; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Norfolk; Southwold, Suffolk; Lowestoft, Suffolk
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Category: Services
(Below) Later Walked Over to the Dais to Name the New Boat Ann Ritchie
(Below) . . . later walked over to the dais to name the new boat Ann Ritchie.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sudden Foundering of Ships of War, and How to Save Their Crews
WE have been so accustomed to look on our Ships of War as " the safest things afloat" that our whole attention has been hitherto turned to measures for increasing the safety of our merchant vessels, and to providing the most...
Category: Articles
Franklin Mint Limited,
INSPIRED BY CLASSIC ENCJLISH LANTERN CLOCKS OF THE 1600s, THE NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY SPONSORS THE INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL CLOCK A Barometer, Thermometer, Compass and Clock - in a Superb Re-creation of an Antique Ship's...
Category: Advertisement
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obvertt.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, "W. Wyon, Mint; double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron,...
Category: Medals
An Effective But Less Elegant Self-Righting Method
An effective but less elegant self-righting method. Inflating an air-bag, seen here on a 52ft Barnett, moves the centre of buoyancy to right the boat, but its bulk is less than convenient if left inflated.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs