LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Sailboards, a Dinghy, two Yachts, a Catamaran and a Trimaran
An afternoon's work A SOUTH-EASTERLY NEAR GALE, force 7.
deteriorating to gale force 8 with heavy rain squalls was blowing at Hayling Island during the afternoon of Saturday September 19, 1981. The tide was ebbing so...
Feature: 'Gallant Rescue By Ladies'
Romantic fiction often portrays Victorian women as weak, passive creatures, but the list of RNLI Gallantry Medal awardees shows another side. Nineteen women have been awarded Medals for Gallantry in the RNLi's history.
Category: Articles
Great Little Railway
For the past 16 years the Tal-y-Llyn Railway Company, one of the famous Great Little Railways of Wales, has allowed the Tywyn branch to run a special summer evening train - which is pictured here at Abergynolwyn station last... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Henry Brenton
John Henry Brenton, aged 81 years.
Mr Brenton served at the Padstow lifeboat station for over 40 years as crew member, shore signalman and as box officer..
Category: Obituaries
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
The Institution's Income at a Glance
The Institution's Income at a Glance.
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1932.
£ s. d.
38 6 0 —••••— — -—H ——«* Subscriptions,...
Category: Accounts
The Annual Meeting
THE Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall,- Westminster, on the 27th of June, 1949, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Three Skin-Divers Who Went Into the Sea at Thornwick Bay, Flamborough Were Soon In Trouble on 18th September, 1966, and Had to Be Rescued
Three skin-divers who went into the sea at Thornwick Bay, Flamborough, were soon in trouble on 18th September, 1966, and had to be rescued. Here one of them is being hauled from rocks to the Flamborough life-boat. Assistance was also given... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. Philip Nicholls
Mr. Philip NichoIIs, ex-Coxswain of the Penzance Life-boat, died on January 30th at the age of 75. He was con- nected with the Penzance Life-boat for over 30 years, becoming a member of the Crew in 1871. He was appointed Second Coxswain in...
Category: Obituaries
Notes of the Quarter
WITH this number we greet a new readership. This consists of members of the newly formed Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association to be known as the Y.L.A. The new Association was formally brought into being by Sir Alec Rose at...
Category: Articles