LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bronze Medal Service By the Spurn Motor Life-Boat
AT ten o'clock on the night of 18th October two vessels were seen to be aground and showing signals of distress on the sandbanks, in the mouth of the Humber, known as The Binks, and the Spurn Motor Life-boat was launched. A strong wind...
Category: Medals
Successful Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
IN the year 1857 the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, as will be remembered by its supporters, appealed to the medical profession in this country and, through foreign ambassadors, to the public medical authorities of several other countries,...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service In Ireland
SINCE 1924 Mr. Timothy Healy, the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, has been the Patron of the Irish Free State District of the Institution, and when he accepted the Patronship he issued an earnest appeal to the people of the Free...
Category: Articles
Take Me to Your Lifeboat...
Take me to your lifeboat...
Hunstanton lifeboatmen examine what at first they thought was a UFO. The huge 'floating spaceship', fitted with sophisticated equipment and electronics, was recovered during a call-out in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service In 1935. The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years
The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years.
THE year 1935 was for the life-boat service the busiest for nineteen years.
There were 378 launches of life-boats to vessels in distress. To find a larger number one...
Category: Articles
Other Life-Boat Launches
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 229, 235 and 242, the following launches on service were made during the months March, April and May, 1970, inclusive: Aberdeen ...
Category: Services
The Rev. The Earl of Devon and Commander Sir Harry Mainwaring, Bt., R.N.V.R.
THE committee of management deeply regret the loss of two of their col- leagues, The Rev. the Earl of Devon and Commander Sir Harry Mainwaring, Bt., R.N.V.R.
The Earl of Devon, who died suddenly on 8th February, at the age...
Category: Obituaries
The American Steamer Kyle V. Johnson
DECEMBER 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. The master of the American steamer Kyle V.
Johnson was seriously ill with a heart attack, and in need of medical help. A northeasterly wind was blowing, with snow squalls.
The...
Top of the Form: Alton Branch
Top of the form: Alton branch present an annual trophy to the pub in their area which raises the most money for the Institution. Since 1982, the trophy has, each year, gone to the Railway Hotel whose landlord, Max Reitzler, has collected... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dr. E. H. Sears, of Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, Is Well Known to the R.N.L.I, for His Life-Boat Paintings. He Has Exhibited and Sold Pictures at Exhibitions Run By the Royal Society of Marine Arti
Dr. E. H. Sears, of Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, is well known to the R.N.L.I, for his life-boat paintings. He has exhibited and sold pictures at exhibitions run by the Royal Society of Marine Artists, Royal Institute of Oil Painters,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs