LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Wing Has Recently Been Added to the Institution's Depot at Boreham Wood, Herts., to Provide Extra Repair and Maintenance Facilities for Among Equipment Items, IRBs of the Growing Fleet
A new wing has recently been added to the Institution's depot at Boreham Wood, Herts., to provide extra repair and maintenance facilities for, among equipment items, IRBs of the growing fleet. This night scene shows IRBs in store and one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Michael Berry of St.Helier (I) Who Was Awarded the Silver Medal for Gallantry for the Service to the Yacht Bacchus In 1973 With the Late Coxswain Thomas J
Coxswain Michael Berry of St Helier (I.), who was awarded the silver medal for gallantry for the service to the yacht Bacchus in 1973, with the late Coxswain Thomas James King, who was awarded the gold medal for the service to the yacht... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bradford Editions,
e romance ...with the OFFICIAL Titanic music box Ptoys the Academy Awards-winning theme 'My Heart Will Co On' and features a hand-applied, faceted gem replica of the Heart of the Ocean" 'blue diamond', with platinum...
Category: Advertisement
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Alexander Nelson of Donaghadee. He has been a member of the Donaghadee life-boat crew since 1912. He was appointed bowman in 1929, second coxswain in 1949, and coxswain in 1954. During the period of a...
Category: Articles
Two Bronze Medal Services. Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex)
Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).
ON the morning of 26th September last a three-masted Danish auxiliary schooner, the-Doris, of Thuro, attempted to enter the harbour at Hartlepool. A strong N.N.E. gale...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats (1)
Fishermen saved after 20 hours in ferocious blizzard It took a joint effort by the Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboats, RAF and coastguard helicopters and local fishermen to locate two friends who got lost while out whelking on 27...
Past & Present
100 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, August, 1888 Issue.
Brighstone Grange and Brooke, Isle of Wight On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1891
Jan. 8.—Voted 31. to six men for putting off in a coble and bringing ashore the crew of two men from the collier Diamond, of Scarborough, which was dragging her anchors in a strong gale from the N., and a heavy sea, on the 18th...
Category: Articles
Our Inland Branches. Dublin
During the past summer the coasts of England, Scotland and Wales, have been crowded with visitors from all parts of the United Kingdom, in a great measure owing to the pestilential condition of some parts of the Continent. We heard on all...
Category: Articles
Familiarisation With the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat By Chris Rundle
AN ABILITY TO KEEP ONE'S HEAD, regardless, seems to be one of the basic qualifications lifeboatmen need.
Especially when they find their world suddenly turned upside down.
Capsizing is not an everyday...
Category: Articles