LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies
Relief fleet - D ciass City of Peterborough A new D class lifeboat funded by money raised from a special appeal in the Peterborough area, and organised by the local Peterborough branch, was officially handed over and dedicated in a ceremony...
Category: Inaugurations
Introduces Crew Members and Helpers to Lieut- Commander P E C Pickles a Deputy Chairman of the Institution and the Mayor of Skegness Who Is Screened By Neville
Nine stations completed 150 years service in 1975 and were presented with anniversary vellums: Appledore, Courtmacsherry, Cromer, Dun Laoghaire, Hartlepool, Howth, Newcastle Co. Down, Padstow and Skegness.
(Right) At Dun... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CARNSORE, Co. WEXFORD.—The 30-feet 6-oared Life-boat placed here some years since was found to be not powerful enough for service to vessels on the dangerous outlying rocks off this coast known as the "Tuskar," and the NATIONAL...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
Let Not The Deep by Mike Lunnon-Wood published byHarper Collins at £4.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 00 647590 6 Novels which centre around the lifeboat service are rare enough, but one which is well constructed, gripping and also moving is a...
Category: Articles
June
June Launches 67. Lives rescued 178.
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. The life-boat helped in bringing wounded men ashore from a vessel.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force...
Category: Services
Friendship, Black Beauty and English Rose
Cromer, Norfolk. At 2.53 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, on the advice of the coxswain of the no. 1 life-boat, the no. 2 life-boat Harriot Dixon was launched on an ebbing tide to go to the help of the crab boats which were hauling...
Fraserburgh
FRASERBURGH, Saturday October 18, 1986: this photograph, taken by Motor Mechanic Thomas Summers aboard the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, City of Edinburgh, gives little impression of the 10ft swell, rough seas and gale force southerly wind which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Here and There
Lord Mayor visits Exmouth In 1970 the 48ft 6in Solent lifeboat City of Birmingham was named at Exmouth. Civic links forged then were renewed on April 11 when, at the invitation of Charles Tate, chairman of Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton...
Category: Articles
On July 12 at the Baltic Exchange London His Excellency the Greek Ambassador
On July 12, at the Baltic Exchange, London, His Excellency The Greek Ambassador presented nautical gallantry medals to the men who were coxswain and crew ofSt Peter Port lifeboat when, on January 4, 1979, she had, together with helicopters,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inside the Trent
Trent Lifeboat The Trent class is the smaller of the RNLI's new lifeboat designs which have been designed to replace the Waveney and Arun classes of lifeboat.
There are now 21 Trents in service and their coxswains and...
Category: Articles