LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ever Ready — Kent Ferry Exercise
The unexpected can often make an exercise more real than anyone intended. This is how Ramsgate lifeboatmen passed an extra test of skill with flying colours. Photographs are by courtesy of Jim Byrne, the story is told by Georgette...
Category: Articles
At Her Renaming Ceremony In Tallin Just a Week Later (Below).
at her renaming ceremony in Tallin just I a week later (below).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Birthday fundraiser is flush with donations
When Connie Richards, President of Redruth Ladies’ Lifeboat Guild, celebrated her 90th birthday, she requested donations to the RNLI instead of gifts. Together, they totalled £654 with Gift Aid. Pictured here is Connie’s birthday cake,...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
Pleasure-Boat on Fire. A Service at Skegness
A Service at Skegness.
SHORTLY before eleven on the morning of 19th August, 1935, the motor plea- sure cruiser, Elizabeth Allen, of Skegness, set out for a trip with over a hundred passengers on board. The weather was...
Category: Services
Dog Watch:
Dog watch: one of these two is Second Coxswain David Lemonius of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat. The other is an imposter named Willum.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Screw Steamship Ingerid
The service of the same Life-boat on the 20th January, is thus reported in The East Anglian Daily Times :— "Those who were on Harwich pier between nine and ten on the morning of the 21st January, will not readily forget the scene...
People and Places
Malcolm Grant, the winner of the Volvo 440 Li car which was first prize in the RNLI's 60th national lottery owes his thanks to comedian Billy Burden, who drew his winning ticket. The popular comedian, who was curently appearing as Mr...
Category: Articles