LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Second International Life-Boat Conference
By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
IN February, 1823, Colonel Sir William Hillary, soldier, author, philanthropist and greatest of Life-boat men, issued his appeal to the nation, advocating the formation...
Category: Meetings
Silver Medal Service at Cromer
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 109 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 67 LIVES RESCUED - 63,058 from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 26th, 1932 Silver Medal Service at Cromer.
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Category: Services
Main Attraction on the R.N.L.I. Stand at This Year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London
Main attraction on the R.N.L.I. stand at this year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, on 3-13 January was the new McLachlan boat (18-02) which is foreseen as a high speed rescue craft and also for taking crews from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) City of London
(Below) City of London returning from a demonstration run on the River Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress and other principal guests on board.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mina
LIFE-BOAT AND TUG IN HARD TOW THE Falmouth, Cornwall, life-boat on 8th August, 1972, following the sighting of a redflare at about 3.40 a.m., saved a schooner and 10 people.
The wind was south westerly, force 6-7, with a...
December
Launches 34. Lives rescued 34.
DECEMBER 1 ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
Shortly before mid-day the naval authorities telephoned that the ten-year-old daughter of the lightkeeper at South Lighthouse, Fair...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Lottery
Regular players of the Lifeboat Lottery will know Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines as a kind sponsor, frequently donating cruises as prizes. But there is a lot more to the RNLI’s partnership with Fred. Olsen than holiday...
Category: Articles
Temple Insurance Brokers Ltd
Boat Insurance for Shoreline Members (and other lifeboat' readers) Temple Insurance Brokers Ltd., specialist Marine Craft Insurance Brokers, Members of the British Insurance Brokers Association, are pleased to offer Shoreline Members and...
Category: Advertisement
Sand Dredger Sir Cedric Making Water Fast Was Towed from Three Miles West of trevose Light Back to Harbour on October 11/1975 By padstow's 48' 6" Oakley Lifeboat Ja
Sand dredger Sir Cedric, making water fast, was towed from three miles west ofTrevose Light back to harbour on October 11,1975, byPadstow's 48' 6" Oakley lifeboat James and Catherine Macfarlane under the command of Coxswain A.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Breadwinner
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 13th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary at Hastings telephoned the coxswain of the Dungeness life-boat to ask if any of the local boats had seen the fishing boat...