LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Steamers Mari, of Tallinn, and the Mrav, of Susak
Dover and Hythe, Kent.—29th April.
The steamers Mari, of Tallinn, Esthonia and the Mrav, of Susak, Yugoslavia, came into collision off Folkestone.
The Mrav foundered. Some of her crew were saved by the...
Sticky situation
Weston-super-Mare’s lifeboats were needed on 31 May when a family of nine, including six children, got stuck in mud at the mouth of the River Axe.
The crew of the D class lifeboat were forced to beach her alongside the...
Category: Articles
Services of Foreign Life-Boats to British Vessels In 1933
IN the last issue of The Life-boat particulars were given of services to British vessels during last year by the life-boat services of Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and...
Category: Services
St.Peter Port Lifeboatmen With Radiant Med Survivors
St Peter Port lifeboatmen with Radiant Med crew members rescued on January 24. Before the survivors left Guernsey the lifeboatmen took them on an island tour but a lifeboat alert towards the end of the afternoon meant a dash to St Peter Port... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scarborough Tragedy
ON the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the weather worsened while Scarborough fishing boats were at sea, and at 11.40 the Scarborough life-boat E.C.J.R., a 35-feet 6-inches selfrighting boat, was launched to escort them...
Category: Services
What if they don’t listen?
For the past 10 years, RNLI lifeguards have carried a ‘duty of care’ to provide a reasonable level of care to all beach users.
Our lifeguards interact with members of the public more than 2M times a year. Most of the time,...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
RIDLEY HOUSE, Felixstowe College, whose interest in the Life-boat Service is so great that it has formed a Ladies' Life-boat Guild within the House, has staged two competitions for the benefit of the Service. One is a general know- ledge...
Category: Donations
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-fourth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 26th April, 1918, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon.
H. H. Asquith, KG., M.P., presided, and...
Category: Meetings
First Aid
The third edition of First Aid, the authorised manual of the St John Ambulance Association, St Andrew's Ambulance Association and the British Red Cross Society, is available from the RNLI Headquarters, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1W...
Category: Articles
Mike Mcelhatton of AFC Bournemouth
Mike McElhatton of AFC Bournemouth prepares to draw the first prize ticket from the boot of the Volvo outside the RNLI's Poote HQ.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs