LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thorplie Bank
The ship Thomlie- banlc, of Glasgow—a large vessel of nearly 2,000 tons register—whilst bound from Pisagua to Palmouth with a cargo of nitrate, ran on to the Grim Rocks during foggy weather on the 28th November, The vessel commenced to...
The Line-Throwing Gun: Use In Japan
THE Line-throwing Gun, which was designed for the Institution in 1922 by the B.S.A., and which is now installed on all Motor Life-boats, except those of the lightest type, has been widely adopted in Japan. There it is being used not only by...
Category: Articles
Just One of the Many Naming Ceremonies for Inshore Lifeboats Held In Wales During September
Just one of the many naming ceremonies for inshore lifeboats held in Wales during September - the D class at Conwy. Miss Joan Bate names the station's new D class Arthur Bate after her brother who provided the legacy which funded the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Necessity of Life-Belts for Vessels' Crews
WE have from time to time advocated in the strongest terms the supply of efficient life-belts to the crews of all our merchantships, and have pointed out the duty that devolves on shipowners to provide'the same, although the law of the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat House at the Coronation
The. decorations were designed by a member of the Institution's staff, and at night the house was lit up with the floodlights used at its boathouses.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Oyster Smack Frederick George, of Maldon
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 9.43 a.m. on 15th January, 1968, the coastguard informed the brother of the acting honorary secretary of the Clactonon- Sea life-boat station that the oyster smack Frederick George of Maldon...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals
The S.S. Westcliffe Hall
FEBRUARY 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 3.5 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that German aeroplanes had dropped bombs and later that a vessel was reported to be firing red flares. At 3.50 the No. 1 motor life-boat...
The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
Eastbourne, Sussex.—The motor lifeboat Jane Holland was launched at 1.20 P.M. on the 1st December, 1938, as the coastguard had reported that the Royal Sovereign Light-vessel was flying the International Code Signal "U.S."—"May...
The American Oil-Tanker S.S. El Morro
10,000-TON STEAMER AGROUND Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 1.15 in the afternoon of the 14th of September, 1947, a vessel was reported apparently ashore on Sheringham Shoal, about six miles south-east of the town. She was kept under observation,...