LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Members of the Royal Artillery Band
Members of the Royal Artillery Band, with Peter Holness and Anthony Oliver at Headquarters, draw the winning tickets for the 55th National Lottery.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SEAHAM, DURHAM.—Towards midnight on the 31st Dec., 1898, signals of distress at sea were observed off this place, and when the New Year broke, the Life-boat SJcynner was on her way to render help to the vessel which had displayed them. The...
Category: Services
Notes on Building a Life-Boat
IN the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL an account was given of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and it may now be of interest to give a few notes as to the way she is built.
For many years, indeed since 1899,...
Category: Articles
Sir Owen Aisher,
SEPTEMBER 1993 Sir Owen Aisher, donor of the relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher..
Category: Obituaries
The Difficulties of the Land
Launching the Clovelly life-boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue from Steamer Aground on Rocks
At 10.17 on the morning of the llth of March, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Blyth, Northumberland, station, Captain H. Rowe, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was in difficulties a hundred yards east of Blyth east pier...
Category: Services
A Yacht Tender
Tender capsizes EIGHT PEOPLE set out in a yacht tender from Donaghadee in the early evening of Monday July 13, 1981, to return to a motor cruiser anchored just outside the harbour. As the tender, which had very little freeboard, left the...
New Life-Boathouse at Southend-On-Sea
IN 1928 the Institution stationed at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, a motor life- boat of the Ramsgate type. This life-boat, which had been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, was named Greater London in the following year by H.R...
Category: Inaugurations
Raymond Roddie High Chief Ranger of the Ancient Order of Foresters
Raymond Roddie, High Chief Ranger of the Ancient Order of Foresters, presents cheque for £60,000 to Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the RNLI. On Mr Roddie's left is Raymond McHale, High Sub-Chief Ranger, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Throughout the Summer of Maritime England Year the Marquess of Bath
Throughout the summer of Maritime England Year the Marquess of Bath displayed his collection of tiny Channel Is/and cowrie shells in two huge glass urns in the Great Hall at Longleat. Visitors making a voluntary contribution to the RNLI were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs