LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Books
Books Thorny's - an oral history of Vosper Thornycroft's shipyard, Southampton Edited by Krista Woodley, Padmini Broomfield and Sheila Jemima Published by Southampton City Council ISBN 0954394151 Price £12 hardback John I...
Category: Articles
No Life-Boat There!
BY NICHOLAS MICHELL, ESQ.* (With Ittuslration.') IT was a wild and lonely shore, Girded by rocks; the sea-bird's cry, The billow's everlasting roar, The tempest, howling through the sky, The only sounds—as though Despair Sat...
Category: Poetry
City of Belfast and Her Crew
City of Belfast and her crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Operational and Fundraising Colleagues In London
Operational And Fundraising Colleagues In London. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Torbay Lifeboat Alec and Christina Dykes
The Torbay lifeboat Alec and Christina Dykes. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mountbatten of Burma Is Hauled Over By Crane for Her Capsize and Righting Trial; She Has Already Been Hauled Over More Than 100 Degrees and Is Still Stable the Port Tube of Her Sponson Supporti
Mountbatten of Burma is hauled over by crane for her capsize and righting trial; she has already been hauled over more than 100 degrees and is still stable, the port tube of her sponson supporting the weight of the whole boat. -The roll bar... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Life-Boat Stations
DURING the last few months several addi- tional life-boat stations have been formed along our coasts, and some old boats replaced by others on an improved construction.
This is an important work, which we hope to see...
Category: Articles
New Inventions
WHILE this Institution is endeavouring to supply our coasts with ample means for saving life on occasions of accident at sea, and whilst our sister institution, " The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent...
Category: Articles
"Boats That Save Life." A New Film of Life-Boat Building
THE Institution has had made for it a new sound film which tells the story of the building of a motor life-boat. It starts on the other side of the world, with the hauling by elephants of teak logs in the Burmese forests, and the felling of...
Category: Articles
Accounts of Services by Life-boats
JANUARY.
Launches 50. Lives Rescued 35.
JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea...
Category: Services