LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal Summer
'THE PLEASURE of your company' is a phrase so often used that we rarely listen to the words themselves; but when members of the royal family honour the lifeboat service with their company everyone knows the days will not only be...
Category: Inaugurations
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life Governor The following have been appointed honorary life-governors of the Institution and presented with a copy of the vote in- scribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the...
Category: Awards
Centenary Celebration
Japanese Lifeboat centenary commemorated at conference By Lt Cdr Brian Miles Director of the RNLI In July 1924, representatives from eight overseas lifeboat societies met in London at the invitation of the RNLI for a conference which was...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (68)
APRIL 29TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A Spitfire aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but only a large patch of oil was found. - Rewards, £7 15s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (34)
MARCH 13TH. - THURSO, AND WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. A British aeroplane was expected to come down, probably at sea, but it reached land before crashing.- Rewards : Thurso, £21 9s. ; Wick, £8 13s..
An Aeroplane (48)
JULY 19TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A R.A.F. aeroplane had come down off Littlehampton, but the life-boat was recalled as the pilot had got ashore without help. - Rewards, £7 15s. 6d..
News from the Branches
Eastbourne.
AFTER the very successful Life-boat Day held at Eastbourne on the 31st July, by which the sum of over £550 was raised, the following letter appeared in the Eastbourne papers from...
Category: Branches
Selsey: Coxswain Michael J Grant (R) Awarded the Silver Medal for the Service to the Panamanian Cargo Vessel Cape Coast on January 10 and the Thanks of the Insti
Selsey: Coxswain Michael J. Grant (r.), awarded the silver medal for the service to the Panamanian cargo vessel Cape Coast on January 10 and the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the service to the fishing vessel New Venture... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
• Roving Commissions (R.C.C. Press, price 42s.) is a limited annual edition of the Journal of the Royal Cruising Club, edited by Alasdair Garrett. If every reader gets as much pleasure and profit from these brisk, refreshing yacht journals...
Category: Articles
An Inflatable Rescue Craft
JF.RSKY, Channel Islands, November 17, 1987: Helmsman Tony Able, on board St Catharine's C class inflatable lifeboat, towing home the States Fire Service Zodiac inflatable rescue craft which had become swamped and suffered engine failure...