LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 5.—The 35 Feet 6 Inches Liverpool Type
As described in the article in the last issue of The Life-boat on the 35 feet 6' inches self-righting type of motor life-boat, the Institution was engaged from 1921 to 1929 in experiments on a motor life-boat which should be suffi-...
Category: Articles
British and Foreign Rewards for Saving Life
ON the 6th of December last, the E. Z., of New York, fell in with the British vessel John Garrow, when in the act of sinking.
The master, his wife, child, and twenty-six members of the crew, were safely taken off at great...
Category: Articles
French Honour for a Coxswain
ON the 26th of November, 1948, at the Guildhall, St. Ives, Cornwall, the French consul at Southampton presented to Mr. William Peters, former coxswain of the St. Ives life-boat, the Brevet de Chevalier de 1'Ordre du Merite. The ...
Category: Awards
A Hundred Years Ago
An extract from The Life-boat or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution for May 1855 showing the Institution's income and expenditure from 1st April, 1854, to 3lst March, 1855.
To LIFE-BOATS, viz— £ s. d...
Category: Articles
Christmas Fayre
In November 1997, the Thurso branch again held their Christmas fayre in the Royal Hotel. The special guest of the event was Mr Santa Clause who arrived by car due to the lack of snow but did manage to bring his bag of goodies which went down... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of the fiscal year (30th June) 1899 the establishment of the Life-Saving Service of the United States embraced 265 stations. Of this number 193 were situated on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 56 on the coasts of the Great Lakes,...
Category: Articles
(Above Left) Exmoiith's Third Lifeboat Victoria a 32Ft Self-Righter Pulling Ten Oars Double-Hanked Was on Station from 1867 to 1884 During Which Time She Rescued 15 P
(Above, left) Exmoiith's third lifeboat, Victoria, a 32ft self-righter pulling ten oars double-hanked, was on station from 1867 to 1884, during which time she rescued 15 people.
In one gale she was hauled on her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Inaugural Ceremony of the Buckie Motor Life-Boat
THIS Motor Life-boat went from Cowes to her Station by sea in August, 1922, but it was found necessary to postpone the actual ceremony of inaugurating the boat until the spring of this year. The Boat is of the Watson type, 45 feet by 11 feet...
Category: Inaugurations
Major-General Ralph Farrant Chairman Rnli Accepts Cheque for £30000 to Provide An Atlantic 21 and Boathouse for Abersochfrom Malcolm Timmins Chairman
Major-General Ralph Farrant, chairman, RNLI, accepts cheque for £30,000 to provide an Atlantic 21 and boathouse for Abersochfrom Malcolm Timmins, chairman, Wolverhampton branch. Looking on: (I. to r.) Councillor Ted Mitchell, appeal... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lytham St.Anne's (Below Left): Dedication of the Ilb Funded By the North West Green Shield Stamp Appeal Atlantic 21 Wolverhampton (Below Right) Is Named By The
Lytham St Anne's (below, left): Dedication of the ILB funded by the North West Green Shield Stamp appeal.
Atlantic 21 Wolverhampton (below, right) is named by the Mayor.
photograph by courtesy of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs