LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Membership News
1993 and all that! The London Boat Show at Earls Court this January marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Yachtsmen's Lifeboat Supporters Association - the organisation which evolved and expanded into the membership scheme as...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Sveti-Duze, of Susak
Ramsgate, Kent.—25th April. The s.s. Sveti-Duze, of Susak, Yugoslavia, had collided with another steamer off the East Goodwin Sands, but both steamers were able to go on their way.
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The Prince of Wales and Mrs. Patton
On the other side of Mrs. Patton, Coxswain Henry Blogg and Second-Coxswain Balls, of Cromer. (Photograph taken after the Annual Meeting, in London, on 20th April.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
C.H.S.
LlTTLEHAMPTON. At 1.50 A.M. OU the llth January, the Life-boat James, Mercer and Elizabeth was launched, signals of distress having been shown close to the West Pier, in a moderate S.W. gale and a heavy sea. It was found that the brigantine...
Princess Marina Duchess of Kent at the Naming Ceremony In 1966 of the Life-Boat Charles H Barrett
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, at the naming ceremony in 1966 of the life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35). Here, smiling, she is shown presenting a box of chocolates to 4-year-old Alison Catherine Gibb who had just... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late M. Albert, Inspector of Life-Boats to the French Life-Boat Society
IT is a calamity, and a cause of deep re- gret, when a man engaged in, and pecu- liarly fitted for, the development and con- solidation of a national work is torn from his labours by death, while still much of his undertaking remains to be...
Category: Obituaries
Other Life-Boat Launches
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 86, 88,91, the following launches for service were made during the months December, 1967 to February, 1968, inclusive: Aldeburgh...
Category: Services
H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G.
Chairman at the Annual Meeting held at the Mansion House, April, 1917, and President of Life-boat Day, 1917. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
'Big Sister' Is World Leader
BY the end of the 1960s it was obvious that a larger lifeboat, which could operate at night was needed. After testing various rigid hull boats, the RNLI chose one pioneered by Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare at Atlantic College, South Wales. The...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Ship Hamburg, of Hamburg
ON the afternoon of 29th October, a steamer arriving at Kingstown, on the south side of Dublin Bay, reported that a ship had gone ashore. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea.
The Motor Life-boat was launched...