LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launching the Motor Life-Boat By Crane at Granville, Manche
Launching The Motor Life-Boat By Crane at Granville Manche. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Last of the "Malvoisin."
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave an account of the Life-boat services to the British ketch, Malvoisin, which, built in 1883, was wrecked last May off Calais and broke up on the rocks.
To the three services to this...
Category: Services
The Use of the Lead
THE great necessity of constantly using the lead or sounding has been recognised from the earliest period in the history of navigation.
In the present day, when so many thousand vessels are engaged in carrying on the...
Category: Articles
Salvage for Rescuing the Crews of Wrecked Ships
REPRESENTATIONS having been made to the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION regarding the crews of its life-boats making claims on owners for rescuing the crews of their wrecked vessels in cases where property of trifling...
Category: Committee
Below: the Image of the Lifeboat Service That Was Most Commonly Chosen By the School Children Who Were Interviewed.
Below: The image of the lifeboat service that was most commonly chosen by the school children who were interviewed. The school children were given a number of different pictures representing ideas of the RNLI and the reality.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The End of Steam. Record of the Six Steam Life-Boats and the "Helen Peele" of Padstow
LAST spring, when the Motor Life-boat Princess Mary was sent to Padstow, the larger of the two Pulling and Sailing Life-boats at that station, and the Steam Tug, Helen Peele, were withdrawn from service, while the smaller Life-boat will,...
Category: Articles
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in July were Carried out by the Following Stations
SOUTH WEST St. Ives, Cornwall - At 6.25 p.m. on 3rd July, 1967, news was received that a skin diver was missing near the Stones reef. The IRB was launched at 6.30 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1892
Jan. 2.—Three men s-aved a man who had fallen overboard from the hrigantine Thomas, of Lowestoft, which was lying at anchor oS Lowestoft Harbour.—Reward, 15s.
Jan. 5.—Six men saved four fishermen whose boat hnd been...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats During the Storms of November and December, 1867
The following is a list of the services of the boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION during the recent heavy gales:— - ' NO. of Lives saved.
Nov. 16-17,1867.—The Manky Wood life-boat at Poole rescued the crew of...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BRIDLINGTON QUAY, YORKSHIRE. —On 3rd January the Life-boat George and Jane Walker was called out to the assistance of two sailing vessels which had been towed into the bay and left at anchor. During the night the wind changed into the E.S.E....
Category: Services