LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Straining Under the Weight of a Giant Bottle
Straining under the weight of a giant bottle full of money for the RNLI is Mike Fisher, landlord of The Wise Man, West Stafford, Dorset. When it was cracked open by Vic Pitman (/.), coxswain ofWeymouth lifeboat, it was found to contain £... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Liberty Ship T. A. Johnston, of Pensecola
DECEMBER 10TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
About ten at night the coastguard reported to the Swanage life-boat station that a steamer was ashore off Egmont Point, west of St. Albans Head. The motor life...
Mr. Punch In 1892. Mr Punch to the Life-Boatman
From Punch, February 13th, 1892, on the occasion of the wreck of the Eider Reproduced by kind permission of the proprietors of PUNCH.
Category: Drawings
Fireman Sam Deciphers the Name on a Winning
Fireman Sam deciphers the name on a winning ticket from the draw while Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, prepares the drum for another spin.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News of a Great Victory (From the Daily Telegraph)
NEWS of a great battle has reached the metropolis. The action was not fought on American soil; and, as far as we know, war has not broken out between Denmark and Germany; so that it cannot be of those incensed nations that we speak. The...
Category: Articles
In Support of the Nottingham Lifeboat Appeal the 37Ft Oakley Relief Lifeboat J G Graves
In support of the Nottingham lifeboat appeal, the 37ft Oakley relief lifeboat J. G. Graves of Sheffield last summer made a trip up the River Trent and other inland waterways to Nottingham, Newark and Lincoln. Lt Cdr Andrew Forbes, former... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Government Barges L.C.M. 1144 and L.C.M. 1229
JANUARY 6TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK.
At 1.5 in the afternoon, the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported two barges aground on Scroby Sands. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Jose'...
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
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
The Imperial War Museum at Duxford Near Cambridge
The Imperial War Museum at Duxford near Cambridge, a former Battle of Britain Air Station which now houses an impressive collection of military aircraft and vehicles, may not seem the most obvious place to find a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Reconstruction of Tenby Lifeboat House By Ian Haken
DURING A REGULAR inspection at Tenby in 1978 the RNLI's consulting engineers. Lewis and Duvivier. found that since their previous triennial upkeep and maintenance inspection many of the timber piles of the lifeboat house had deteriorated...
Category: Articles