LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Weather Reports and Forecasts In the Daily Newspapers
By Rear-Admiral Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.
INFORMATION about the weather, or respecting instruments available for popular use, as indicators of changes in our ever-varying atmosphere, has been extensively diffused daring late years,...
Category: Articles
The German Fishing Boat Angela
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.8 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German fishing boat Angela had an injured man on board, who needed a doctor. The boat was due...
Four Months of Gales. 174 Launches; 194 Lives Rescued.
THE past winter has been remarkable for a succession of terrible westerly gales. In their frequency and intensity they have been unequalled during the present century. October opened with gales on eight successive days, from the 1st to the...
Category: Services
'Thank You for the Fantastic Day
'Thank you for the fantastic day . . . it was great to meet the lifeboatmen and go on a real lifeboat..." wrote John Fenwick after his visit to the Royal Festival Hall.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI’s Headquarters In Poole, Dorset
Open house The RNLI’s Headquarters in Poole, Dorset, is opening to the public on 21 and 22 July 2007.
This is a golden opportunity to see behind the scenes at The Lifeboat College, tour the different classes of lifeboat,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Flamma
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 9.18 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1951, the Gorleston coast- guard reported that the S.S. Flamma had sent a message asking for a doctor.
At 10.10 the...
Salcombe - Tyne Class the Baltic Exchange Ii
Champagne bathes the bows of The Baltic Exchange lias Mrs David Frame, wife of the chairman of the Baltic Exchange releases the bottle to name the lifeboat. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy South Hams Photography). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Demetrius, of Sunderland
On the 18th March, at 10.30 P.M., in answer to signals of distress from the Tongue Lightship, the Life-boat Qui- ver, No. I, after beiag transported for two miles by land, was launched, it blowing heavily at the time from N.E. She suc-...
Lifeboats from Some of the Participating Nations Rafted Up In the Oslo Fiord
Lifeboats from some of the participating nations rafted up in the Oslo fiord. The RNLI's Arun class Duke olAtholl is second from the left, and on the extreme right is one of the classic Norwegian Colin Archer-designed sailing lifeboats -... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(6)—The Walton-On-Naze Life-Boat, the 'Edian Courtauld', at Her Moorings Off Walton Pier Early One Winter's Morning.
(6)—The Walton-on-Naze life-boat, the 'Edian Courtauld', at her moorings off Walton pier early one winter's morning.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs