LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1908-1909
- _ (_ 0 1908-1909/9 SHOWING ALSO THE PRESENT LIFE BOAT STATIONS.OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION
Category: Charts
Atlantic Storms
" So long as men shall continue to navigate the ocean, and the tempests shall hold their course over its surface, disasters by sea, shipwreck and peril to human life must inevitably take place." —SIR WILLIAM HILLARY,...
Category: Articles
In Support of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham and Bbc Pebble Mill Lifeboat Appeal the Bbc
In support of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham and BBC Pebble Mill lifeboat appeal, the BBC staged a Pebble Mill Dash last October; it was a competition to find who could arrive at the Birmingham TV studios by the most unusual means. The first... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kapok Life-Belts. Report of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade
Report of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade.
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
THE Court of Inquiry held by the Board of Trade into the wreck of the Rye Harbour...
Category: Articles
The Duke of Northumberland's Competition Prize Essay
THE second year of the Essay Com- petition, full details of which were given in The Life-Boat for November, 1918, has produced a very interesting crop of essays, both the number and the quality varying greatly and, in some ways, surprisingly...
Category: Articles
The Redcar Life-Boat and Captain Cook
THE famous explorer, Captain Cook, was born near Stockton-on-Tees, in Yorkshire, on 27th October, 1728, and his bicentenary was celebrated this year.
His mother was a member of an old Redcar family, while his sister married...
Category: Articles
Members of the Watchstanding Crew at Work In the U.S. Coast Guard's Automated Merchant Vessel Report (Amver) Centre on Governors Island, New York. the Man on the Left Evaluates Voyage
Members of the watchstanding crew at work in the U.S. Coast Guard's automated merchant vessel report (AMVER) centre on Governors Island, New York. The man on the left evaluates voyage information received over the teleprinter, while the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Life-boatmen Cross the Atlantic
IN March, 1949, two former members of the life-boat's crew at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Stanley Smith, aged thirty, and Colin Smith, aged twenty-nine, sons of Coxswain S. T. Smith, went to Canada. There, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, they...
Category: Articles
The Cromer IRB Returning from a Service. the Crew Are Mr D Abbs (Helmsman) Mr D
The Cromer IRB returning from a service. The crew are Mr. D. Abbs (helmsman) Mr. D. West (port side) and Mr. 6. Morris (starboard side).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution Presents to Mrs V M Johnson
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, presents to Mrs V. M. Johnson, honorary secretary of Bognor Regis branch, her honorary life governorship vellum.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs