LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Rescue of Three Fishermen. A Gallant Service off Folkestone
A Gallant Service off Folkestone.
ON the night of Sunday, 13th December last, a strong S.W. gale was blowing off Folkestone, with a very heavy sea and driving rain. The day had been fine, and early in the afternoon the...
Category: Services
The Light Type of Motor Life-Boat. Problems of the Three Capsizes
By LiEUT.-CoMMANDER P. E. VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
THEEE motor life-boats have capsized in the space of fifteen months. In each capsize lives were lost.
The St. Ives life-boat...
Category: Articles
The Value of a Life
No one can calculate the full value of a life saved, but in The Lifeboat for March, 1929, we published a calculation made by an Assurance Company which showed the minimum value, that is to say, the cost of providing the dependents of a man...
Category: Articles
A Steamer (2)
24th February.
A steamer went ashore on a sandy beach, but her crew were not in danger.
—Rewards, £13 2s. 6rf..
A Motor Boat (3)
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 1.17 p.m. on I4th August, 1966, a small motor boat was reported to have broken down a quarter of a mile east of Chapel point. At 1.30 the IRB was launched in a heavy swell and a fresh westerly wind. It was one...
Grace Darling Centenary. Opening of a Memorial Museum at Bamburgh
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 137 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 28 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1938 .... 65,849
Grace Darling...
Category: Articles
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 7
AMONG the many busy years of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, 1887 and 1888 were the busiest so far as boat-building and altering existing Life-boats was concerned. In 1887, as will be seen on referring to page 244 of the August...
Category: Articles
A Ride on a Bicycle from Newcastle to Dundee
A ride on a bicycle from Newcastle to Dundee in 4'h days is a feat impressive enough in itself, but when one learns that the 212-mile ride was made on a penny farthing bicycle and by a 73-year-old man, Jock Harrison, well, that is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat (1)
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 1.18 p.m. on ist January, 1967, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a small boat appeared to be in distress and that coastguards were going to Vicar's Point to investigate. The...
Crowds Thronged the Harbourside at Dingle to Watch Valentia's Arun Put on a Winching Exercise As Part of a Display Organised By the Irish Marine Emergency Ser
Crowds thronged the harbourside at Dingle to watch Valentia's Arun put on a winching exercise as part of a display organised by the Irish Marine Emergency Service.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs