LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in the minutes before the rescues described in this magazine? Here’s the answer
Just imagine – it’s night. The wind is howling outside but you are...
Category: Articles
Ageroen
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.—A flare was observed by a fisherman at about 4.30 A.M. on the llth January, apparently caused by burning tar-barrels on board a vessel on the rocks at Nabb Point. The weather at the time was foggy, the windwas...
An Aeroplane (5)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Launching on Exercise
This life-boat is one of the light self-righting type, 35 feet 6 inches by 8 feet 10 inches.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Richard Payne, of Newhaven
By the death, on 3rd June last, of Coxswain Richard Payne, of Newhaven, at the age of fifty-seven, the Institution loses one of its most distinguished Coxswains. He was appointed Bowman in 1911. A year later he became Second Coxswain, and...
Category: Obituaries
Cecilia
At 3.30 P.M.
information was received that a vessel was flying signals of distress, and the crew of the Life-boat Charles Whiiton were assembled and the boat proceeded to sea in a heavy W.N.W. gale. When two miles S. by E....
Hauling Up: Coxswain Davies Is Holding One of the Ropes Which Have Taken the Lifeboat's Weight While the Winch Wire Was Attached Photograph By Courtesy of Peter Da
Hauling up: Coxswain Davies is holding one of the ropes which have taken the lifeboat's weight while the winch wire was attached. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Peter Davies. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI Exhibition at Southend's New Library
At the kind invitation of Leslie Helliwell, chief librarian of Southendon- Sea, the local RNLI branch arranged a most successful '150 years of lifeboat history' exhibition in the borough's magnificent new central library. It was...
Category: Articles
"Prudential." Naming Ceremony of the New Ramsgate Motor Life-Boat
Naming Ceremony of the new Ramggate Motor Life-boat.
THE naming ceremony of this, the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat, took place on 14th April last in the Inner Harbour at Ramsgate. The full cost of the Boat,...
Category: Articles
Gulf of St. Vincent (1)
CEMAES, HOLYHEAD AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—Intelligence having been received at these Life-boat stations on the morning of the 19th July that a steamer was stranded near the West Mouse, the crews of the Life-boats were summoned, and the boats...