LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meet the Team
Some of the members of the Llandudno lifeboat team, pictured in the lifeboathouse. From left to right: Gordon Short (Tractor Driver), Ian McNeil, Meurig Davies (Coxswain), Glyn David Jones (Head Launcher), Hugh Hughes, Adrian Dunkley... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vacuum Reflex
Congratulations to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution on 150years of devoted and courageous service From the manufacturers of 'Lifemaster' Lifejackets and Protective Clothing VACUUM REFLEX LIMITED PRESTIGE HOUSE 50COOMBEROAD NEW...
Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Tractor Trials at Aberystwyth
TRIALS of the prototype of a new tractor for launching life-boats—a powerful Fowler tractor with a 95 h.p. diesel engine—were held at Aberystwyth in November. Members of the com- mittee of management and officials of the Institution were...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Vistula
OCT. 9TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. Information was received through the coastguard at 1.45 P.M. that the S.S. Vistula, of Gothenburg Sweden, had been sunk by enemy action on the previous day twenty-five miles off Unst, that nine of her crew had...
A Rowing Boat
LIFE-BOAT HIT BOTTOM Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.3 a.m.
on iyth January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat, 600 yards off the beach, was in apparent difficulty at Holland...
Early This Year the Failsworth Branch of the RNLI Held a Sponsored Knit Which Raised £122 People Were Asked to Knit Nine-Inch Squares to Make Into Blankets Altogeth
Early this year the Failsworth branch of the R.N.L.I.
held a sponsored knit which raised £122. People were asked to knit nine-inch squares to make into blankets.
Altogether 500 squares were knitted... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WELLS, NORFOLK.—The new Life-boat placed on this Station by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the cost of which has been defrayed from the legacy left to the Institution by the late Miss CHARLOTTE NICHOLLS of Finsbury Park, was...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain GEORGE PERRIN, of Skegness.
He joined the life-boat crew in 1913.
For three years during the war of 1914 to 1918, he served as mate on drifters engaged in...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Victoria
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 12th December, at 7.45 A.M., during a fresh gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea, signals of distress were observed flying on board a vessel in the ofling. The Lifeboat Herbert Ingram put off to her, and found...