LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Organisers of Hartlepool Harbour Day
The organisers of Hartlepool Harbour Day really know how to pull a crowd. This was the start last summer of the raft race as the numerous strangely clad contestants paddled past Teesmouth lifeboat. Also taking place that day was the now... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Bridlington, Yorkshire, Irb Assisting a Small Motor Boat In the Surf Off the South Beach on 21st June, 1970.
The Bridlington, Yorkshire, IRB assisting a small motor boat in the surf off the south beach on 21st June, 1970. The boat's engine had broken down.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In Memoriam
AN interesting ceremony took place at Horstead Church, Norfolk, on the 18th July, when a memorial window to the memory of the late Sir Edward Birk- beck, for twenty-five years Chairman of the Institution, was unveiled in the presence of Lady...
Category: Articles
Rosyth
Early on the morn- ing of the 26th April the steamer Rosyth, of Dundee, bound from Goole to Bou- logne with a cargo of coal, ran on to the Goodwin Sands E. by N. of the Brake light-vessel. The coastguard reported her, and the motor life-boat...
Naming Ceremonies
Dover PRINCESS MARINA, Duchess of Kent, the president of the R.N.L.I., named the new Dover life-boat, Faithful Forester, at Dover on 26th July, 1967. The 44-foot steel boat was a gift from the Ancient Order of Foresters - the eighth to be...
Category: Inaugurations
Ross
On the 9th December the barque Ross, of Arendal, Norway, bound from Christiania to Santander with a cargo of wood, having encountered the full fury of a gale in the North Sea for a whole week, during which period her crew had suffered great...
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Category: Advertisement
In with the new
A sense of new beginnings makes Spring a good season for the naming ceremonies of new lifeboats and this year was no exception.
Namings included D class lifeboats for Fowey, Redcar, Clifden, Aldeburgh and the relief fl eet...
Category: Articles
How the Money Comes: How the Money Goes
IT comes daily from all parts of the British Isles, and not a week passes without bringing some gift from over- seas. It comes in all forms, from cheques and postal orders, to boxes of coins and packets of foreign stamps for the Institution...
Category: Donations
Lifeboatman Honoured In Holiday Tragedy
Skegness crew member Andrew Parker has been awarded a Royal Humane Society Vellum for the rescue of two boys at Ingoldmells Point, near Skegness, on 31 July.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs