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The Service to the Carmania II

Date: February 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 297

The Stromness Lifeboat is lying off the steamer, and the rope by which the crew were rescued can just be seen over the steamer's stern. - View image in PDF

(Seepage 211.). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cover Picture

Date: Autumn 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 518

by Frank Austin Penlee's Arun class Mabel Alice at speed during an exercise off the Cornish coast. The Tater-Dhu lighthouse is visible in the background.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Two Belgian Motor Life-Boats, Built from the Plans of the Watson Cabin Type

Date: November 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 288

The Two Belgian Motor Life-Boats Built From The Plans of the Watson Cabin Type. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, for Elementary Schools, 1938

Date: June 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 334

" Imagine that You are the Coxswain of a Life-boat. A Vessel is sending up Rockets of Distress. Describe the Rescue by Your Life-boat." THE essay competition in 1937, in which the writers were asked to imagine that they had...

Category: Articles

The Queen With (Left) the Chairman of the RNLI Commander F H R Swann OBE RNVR and the Chief Inspector of Life-Boats Lieut-Commander W L G D

Date: October 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 441

Above: The Queen with (left) the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Commander F. H. R. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., and the Chief Inspector of Life-boats, Lieut.-Commander W. L. G. Dutton, R.D., R.N.R., aboard The Royal British Jubilee during the naming... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Choice, of Hull

Date: October 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 70

Early on the morning of the 21st May, the smack Choice, of Hull, drove from her anchor at the entrance of the harbour, and fired a gun.

as a signal of distress. The Scarborough life-boat was immediately launched, and took...

Portrait on the Cover

Date: June 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 368

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Harry Burgess, who has been coxswain of the Lowestoft life-boat since 1947. He served as second cox- swain for nearly a year, and as bowman from 1931 to 1936"and 1937 to 1946..

Category: Articles

The S.S. Idlewild

Date: February 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 167

On the 7th October, at about 1 A.M., a steamer, which proved to be the s.s. Idlewild, of Sunderland, coal-laden from the Tyne for London, appeared to have run aground on the north part of the Barber Sand. The coxswain of the Life-boat...

Members of the Mumbles Ladies' Guild With Their President Mrs Herbert Morgan Mayoress of Swansea

Date: Autumn 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 454

Members of The Mumbles ladies' guild with their president, Mrs Herbert Morgan, Mayoress of Swansea.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Colonel T. H. Cornish, of Penzance

Date: June 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 306

By the death on 22nd December, 1930, at the age of sixty-seven, of Colonel T. H. Cornish, the Town Clerk of Penzance, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Station Honorary Secretaries. Colonel Cornish was a great lover of the sea. He...

Category: Obituaries