LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
One hot August weekend lifeboats launched around 200 times. With the average launch cost for an all weather boat being £5,800 and £2,200 for an inflatable, the two days cost the RNLi almost £700,000 for launches alone
One hot August weekend lifeboats launched around 200 times. With the average launch cost for an all weather boat being £5,800 and £2,200 for an inflatable, the two days cost the RNLi almost £700,000 for launches... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Series of Unusual Photographs Taken on the Goodwin Sands In January, 1948. Geologists Have Found That the Goodwins Consist of An 80 Foot Depth of Sand, Coal, Shells and Coral Resting on a B
A series of unusual photographs taken on the Goodwin Sands in January, 1948. Geologists have found that the Goodwins consist of an 80 foot depth of sand, coal, shells and coral resting on a bed of soft chalk. This mixture is in constant... - 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...
Communication By Electric Telegraph and Signals on the Coast
BY the wreck of the Deutschland, the question of better means of communica- tion between outlying stations on the coasts of the United Kingdom and internal bases of supply, has received one more little jog forward into its inevitable ulti-...
Category: Articles
The American Liberty Vessel No.572
SEPTEMBER 13TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
The American liberty vessel No.
572 had stranded, but a fishing boat stood by her and she refloated. - Rewards : Dunbar, £4 7s. 6d...
Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for the Purchase of the following Life-boats
Special Gifts for the Pwehase of the following Life-boats ;- Hornsea, Yorkshire.
Skerries, Co. .Dublin .
Aberystwyth. .
Walmer Seaton Carew . . .
Jfraserburgh . . . .<...
Category: Donations
Illustration from the Lifeboat February 1881 of the Wreck of Indian Chief: Ramsgate Lifeboat Bradford In Tow of the Tug Vulcan
Illustration from THE LIFEBOAT, February 1881, of the wreck of Indian Chief: Ramsgate lifeboat, Bradford, in tow of the tug Vulcan..
Category: Drawings
The New IRB Boat House at Worthing
The New Irb Boat House at Worthing It Is of Cedarwood and Replaces A Concrete Structure. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Woods of Which a Life-Boat Is Made
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 45 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1935 - ... 64,350 The Woods of which a Life-boat is...
Category: Articles
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 3. Mr. J. A. Gardiner, Honorary Secretary of the Campbeltown, Southend, and Machrihanish Branch
BEFORE Mr. Gardiner became Honorary Secretary of the Campbeltown Branch, he had had an adventurous career in many parts of the world. He was the second son of Sheriff Gardiner, and began his career in the office of a big Glasgow...
Category: Articles