LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat's Crew
Left to right: G. Cox, Robert Cox, I. R Davies, J. J. Davies, junior, W. H. Davies, J. J. Davies, senior (second coxswain), Henry Blogg (coxswain), J. W. Davies, H. T. Davies, F. Davies, R. C. Davies and H. W. Davies (motor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor skiff Rosslyn
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 3.15 p.m. on yth July, 1965, a member of the IRB crew was told that a motor skiff carrying two people was in difficulties half a mile north of St. Ives Pier Head. At 3.15 the IRB launched in a northerly breeze and came...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Michael F. Hardy, of East- bourne.
He was second-coxswain from 1919 to 1924, and since then he has been coxswain, so that he has now been an officer of the life-boat for nearly...
Category: Articles
The Replica Longship Dyflin
Pillaging will be delayed slightly...
It is not often that a lifeboat tows a Viking longship, but it does happen! Moelfre's Tyne class lifeboat Robert and Violet is pictured doing just this on 15 July 1990 after...
The Montrose Life-Boat: The Good Hope
On her way to Edinburgh for a week's exhibition, in April 1930. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duchess and the Flamborough Motor Mechanic
(See page 323). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea Rescue: a Bird's-Eye View By Des Lavelle
LURCHING ABOUT on the deck of Valentia lifeboat, struggling to make sense of a simple piece of chartwork, it was shattering to hear the smooth delivery of the necessary accurate information over the radio from the Nimrod aircraft overhead....
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
" MAN the life-boat! man the life-boat! Hearts of oak, the tempest brave; See, the shatter'd vessel staggers; Hound her billows foam and rave.
See the ark of refuge launching: See her hardy crew prepare For the...
Category: Poetry
Annual Report. 1888
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 24th day of March, 1888, His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, E.G., President of the...
Category: Annual Reports