LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
No One Can Escape
A scene in Trafalgar Square on London life-boat day.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Ex-Naval Motor Launch
LAUNCH BROKEN DOWN IN A HEAVY SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 4.0 in the afternoon of January 15th, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel, believed to be an ex-naval motor launch, was drifting five miles south of the coastguard...
An R.A.F. Mosquito Aeroplane (1)
OCTOBER 11TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 11.29 in the morning the coastguard reported that an R.A.F. Mosquito aeroplane had crashed into the sea three miles north-east of Porthdinllaen Point. A light east-north-east wind was...
Falmouth's Arun Elizabeth Ann Speeds Away from SS Canberra With Her 'Medivac' Casualty, Seen Being Transferred In the Inset Photo.
Falmouth's Arun Elizabeth Ann speeds away from SS Canberra with her 'medivac' casualty, seen being transferred in the inset photo.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Exploit of Sir William Hillary
The rescue of 62 lives from the City of Glasgow on the night of 19th October, 1825, when Hillary himself was washed overboard, and had his chest crushed and six ribs broken. This was one of three services for each of which he was awarded the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An American Shooting Star Trainer Aircraft
Margate, Kent.—At 3.26 on the after- noon of the 20th of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that two local fishermen reported seeing an American Shooting Star trainer air- craft crash about three miles north- east of Margate pier. At...
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and First Annual General Meeting of the Governors of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 20th March, at 2.45 P.M., the Right Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, K.B.E., M.C., M.P...
Category: Meetings
Rowland Hill's Painting In the Whilby Art Gallery of the Wreck of the Hospital Ship Rohilla on October 30 1914 When the Rnli Made Desperate Efforts to Rescue Patients
Rowland Hill's painting in the Whilby Art Gallery of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla on October 30, 1914, when the RNLI made desperate efforts to rescue patients and nurses..
Category: Drawings
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1795—1900. No. 2
AFTER the valuable work done by Lukin in 1807, in initiating the Norfolk and Suffolk type of Life-boat, there appears to have been a considerable period before any new type found a place on the coast. No doubt small variations from the...
Category: Articles
The Late George Lyall, Esq.
WE deeply lament to record the death of Mr. LYALL, the much-respected Deputy- Chairman of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which event took place on the 12th October.
Mr. LYALL was the son of the late Mr. GEOEGE LYALL,...
Category: Obituaries